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Shakespeare left us with many beautiful lyrics to songs, but no sheet music. He was many things, but unfortunately composer was not one of them.
But Theater is a collaborative art, and the lack of sheet music only opens up more opportunity for composers to enter the arena and take a crack at Shakespeare's timeless lyrics.
Our Much Ado is set in the 1980's, and so our composer Michael Bruce took the lyrics of songs from this play (as well as other plays) and created songs that sound like they were written back then.
Here are some of the songs you will hear in our show, only composed and performed by different people.
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Composed by: Thomas Morley
Composed by: Thomas Morley
Performed by: Christoph Genz
Performed by: Christoph Genz
From: As You Like It
From: As You Like It
Composed by: Roger Quilter
Composed by: Roger Quilter
Performed by: Alfred Deller
Performed by: Alfred Deller
From: Twelfth Night
From: Twelfth Night
Composed by: Patrick Doyle
Composed by: Patrick Doyle
Performed by: David Snell
Performed by: David Snell
From: Much Ado About Nothing
From: Much Ado About Nothing
Composed by: John Wilson
Composed by: John Wilson
Performed by: Anna Dennis
Performed by: Anna Dennis
From: Measure for Measure
From: Measure for Measure
I expect the audience to interact with this like how people do with buttons that make sounds at a museum. Maybe they don't hit every button one at a time and stand there for the full length of every song, but they get something in their head to compare the songs to later. Also, pushing buttons is just fun. If this were a real board and not a website I would make the buttons bigger to help fill up the white space.
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