Show Plot The Boys From Syracuse

Please note that the style of this show is very broad comedy historic styles; regions and looks criss-cross at will. There is no attempt at realism. For example, in the earliest broadway version, if an actor wore glasses in real life, then he wore them in the show as well. Have fun!!!!

Authors: Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart & George Abbott, based on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors

Time Period & Setting: Ancient Greece in the city of Ephesus (in modern-day Turkey), though the libretto infuses the story with playful 1930s Broadway humor and rhythms.

Summary: The Boys from Syracuse is a 1938 musical comedy set in ancient Ephesus. The story follows two sets of identical twins separated at birth who end up in the same city, sparking a hilarious, madcap whirlwind of mistaken identities.