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Weekend Update
Jan. 6th, 2007 11:33 amI subscribe to the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and attended a show there last night. This is the good and the bad of subscriptions - since you've already bought a non-refundable ticket, you might as well go.
The past few years, the winter play in the series has been a musical, albeit more of an "intellectual" one then typical Broadway. Well, this year's musical was a new reworking of The Three Musketeers.
Now, my previous exposure to Dumas' work had been via the 1973 movie starring Michael York as D'Artagnan. What I didn't know, until the play, was that the movie was only about half of the book! For various reasons, Hollywood split the book into two movies (there was a 1974 "The Four Musketeers").
At any rate, the Chicago Shakespeare production was ambitious, with 20+ actors, swordfights, and some quite impressive singing. I also was quite impressed with the biography of Alexandre Dumas who was quite a character. He was also 1/4 black, which was a problem in racially unenlightened 19th century France. In short, I'm glad I went.
The past few years, the winter play in the series has been a musical, albeit more of an "intellectual" one then typical Broadway. Well, this year's musical was a new reworking of The Three Musketeers.
Now, my previous exposure to Dumas' work had been via the 1973 movie starring Michael York as D'Artagnan. What I didn't know, until the play, was that the movie was only about half of the book! For various reasons, Hollywood split the book into two movies (there was a 1974 "The Four Musketeers").
At any rate, the Chicago Shakespeare production was ambitious, with 20+ actors, swordfights, and some quite impressive singing. I also was quite impressed with the biography of Alexandre Dumas who was quite a character. He was also 1/4 black, which was a problem in racially unenlightened 19th century France. In short, I'm glad I went.
