You'll need a toothbrush with all of that candy.

Generally the tone of this site is one of playful ridicule, but yesterday, because we were running on no sleep and because one of our Colombian interns likes to turn the a/c to 90 when she gets to work even though it's 3,000 degrees and humid outside, we were a bit cranky. That said...

Tonight begins the run of the second free Shakespeare in the Park offering from NYC's Public Theater. The show is a revival of the 1971 musical version of Two Gentlemen of Verona, which won the Tony Award for best musical of that year after it transfered from Central Park to a Broadway house. We're telling you this because, though we know nothing of the quality of this production (Kathleen Marshall directed and choreographed it, and, after 2003's Wonderful Town revival, our expectations are not high), Galt Macdermot and John Guare's funky, Latiny, rocky, poppy score is criminally underheard and underappreciated. And now you have a FREE chance to hear it and see it performed live. Ticket information is available here. Go.