New Line Theatre's TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

With music from the composer of Hair, lyrics by the author of Six Degrees of Separation, and a book (more or less) by the guy who brought us Hamlet, here comes the rowdy, carnal, thoroughly subversive TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, as New Line Theatre's 20th Anniversary Season continues. Set in Renaissance Verona and Milan - or maybe it's New York City in 1971 - composer Galt MacDermot, playwright John Guare, and writer-director Mel Shapiro have taken one of Shakespeare's least produced plays and breathed outrageous, new, cross-dressing life into it. The New York Times said of the original production, "It has a surge of youth to it, at times an almost carnal intimation of sexuality, and a boisterous sense of love."