In new take on “Midsummer Night’s Dream, “You’re going to hear everything from straight-up classical operatic music to jazz to rock and roll.”
Older theatergoers might do a double-take when they see that Berkeley Shakespeare Company is performing a musical version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
It’s a new “Midsummer,” too. It’s the world premiere of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Musical!,” adapted and directed by writer Sonya Baehr and composer Thomas W. Jones. “I played Lucentio, Jen was Bianca, and Emily was Kate,” Leyva recalls. “There were a lot of positives, a lot of bonding, and at the same time, we were thinking to ourselves, if we were to put up a show ourselves, how would we do it? And that was the genesis of Berkeley Shakespeare Company. We didn’t have a name for the company at the time. We just knew that we wanted to do a show. And that show happened to be ‘Macbeth.’ Jen and I wanted to play the leads, and Emily was interested in directing.
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