Swingin' the Dream

• Movies
• 2021-01-09
• EN
• Released
• 0h 52m
• GB

• 0.0
• 0

Production

Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatre for a New Audience, Young Vic

Storyline

A concert of a work in progress including original music and songs from the 1939 production telling the story of an intriguing Broadway musical adaptation of Shakespeare. This jazz-infused version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream opened in 1939 with a heady mixture of talent, including Louis Armstrong and Maxine Sullivan, and musical contributions from Count Basie and Benny Goodman.