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| Shakespeare's Macbeth Debuts On Broadway |
Hover through the fog and filthy air"
Andrew Lloyd Webber announced a new blockbuster Broadway musical based on Shakespeare's play Macbeth coming to the Majestic Theater when the 25 year run of The Phantom Of the Opera comes to a close in January.
The Three Witches, or "Weird Sisters" get a modern sexy makeover but still maintain their sinister and supernatural origins.
Shakespeare's witches were prophets tempting Macbeth with power and glory predicting his rise to King. Macbeth follows the advice of the sisters and assumes the throne.
Webber will adopt a modern political climate based in London, England as the sisters appear to the royal heir second son, currently third in line to the throne behind his older brother and his father. The sisters foretell his future in two fold, one where he never reaches the throne and an alternative future shows him as King of England. The sisters claim all this comes to pass in less than three years and starts with the Queen's burial.
Double, double, toil and trouble...
Happy Halloween
LURKING, IN THE SHADOWS, ON THE GRASSY KNOLL
