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‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’: Harman Hall musical, if not trippy, is worth the trip

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‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’: Harman Hall musical, if not trippy, is worth the trip

( Shakespeare Theatre Company / ) - Eleasha Gamble and Terence Archie in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Broadway production of “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” a rock opera.

( Shakespeare Theatre Company / ) - Eleasha Gamble and Terence Archie in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Broadway production of “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” a rock opera.( Shakespeare Theatre Company / ) - Javier Munoz, Robin De Jesus and Danny Rutigliano in the rock opera, which ended Sunday.CAPTIONFULLSCREEN Smaller TextLarger TextText SizePrintE-mailReprints By Nelson Pressley,

It’s fair to think of the 1971 Tony-winning musical “Two Gentlemen of Verona” as “Hair II”: same composer (Galt MacDermot), same gestalt (antiwar, pro-sex, whirling hippies, whoo!).

Glow sticks were being handed out at the door over the weekend for the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s giggly concert version of the show, although that seems about as close to trippy as director Amanda Dehnert wanted to get. The performance, which closed Sunday, was not especially Day-Glo vibrant or free-love lusty — and from “Night Letter” to “Hot Lover,” the quick-hitting rock tunes percolated with pheromones. But it was a flip, frisky evening and often wonderfully sung.

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