The long-time Stratford Festival director and choreographer is back after a year’s absence with a production ofFeore elevates this silly Broadway musical comedy set in Shakespeare’s time into a proper summer blockbuster by filling it with dazzling dance and hilariously hammy performances. The show’s far from deep – but audiences seeking to banish the despair of our times for a few hours will happily revisit it all season long.
Amid an escalating series of personal and professional financial crises, Nick heads to see a soothsayer named Thomas Nostradamus and spends his life savings for a prediction about the future of theatre – and what will be Shakespeare’s biggest hit.In a number simply calledin which actors seamlessly segue from dialogue to song.
Nostradamus also foresees Shakespeare’s best play – but his vision returns slightly scrambled. This leads to the Bottom brothers mounting another big musical number that spoofs Shakespeare and the classic musical canon in a style that’s just as comically cracking.has some semblance of plot to link the jokes.