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Why you should see it: It’s Mozart. Well okay, if that’s not enough, there is the fabulous music (by Mozart), outrageous characters, chauvinists, coquettes, Albanians (that’s right, Albanians) and many, many laughs. What it’s about: Loosely translated the title means “Thus do all women” or (even more loosely) “Women are fickle.” However, it is the MEN in this story, ALL (tut-TI) of them, who cause all the trouble. Sick of hearing two love-drunk young officers wax poetic about how fair, loving, virtuous and (this is important) faithful are their lady loves, grumpy old chauvinist Don Alfonso bets them that their fiancées will each be unfaithful, with the opposite officer(!) within 24 hours. The boys just have to do whatever Alfonso tells them to (you know, pretend to be called off to war, return disguised as “Albanian” princes, pretend to die, return again, etc., etc.). Then Alfonso himself waxes, not so poetically about how fickle and shameless all women are. The irony is lost on no one. And, as all good comedies must, everything works out in the end . . . or does it? |
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May 9, 2008 at 8 p.m. Subscribe and Get the Best Seats!
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