Come To Me, My Melancholy Dane
November, 1962
Based on a Play by Wm. ShakespeareHardly anybody writes original musicals anymore. With few exceptions, they are based on pre-existing material from other media. "Camelot," "How to Succeed in Business," "Gypsy," to name only a fraction, were based on, respectively, a novel, a satirical manual and a memoir. Nor is this a recent development, for such milestones of the genre as "Pal Joey," "Oklahoma," "South Pacific," "Guys and Dolls,...
