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There is a production that was done at the Pasadena Playhouse which used the concept of the Duke being Duke Ellington and added some of his music which was very enjoyable.  I saw it when it was filmed for PBS  Great Performances so it might be out there somewhere.  Malvolio showed up in a bright yellow zoot suit and a large fedora.  It was so much fun. 

There is a production that was done at the Pasadena Playhouse which used the concept of the Duke being Duke Ellington and added some of his music which was very enjoyable.  I saw it when it was filmed for PBS  Great Performances so it might be out there somewhere.  Malvolio showed up in a bright yellow zoot suit and a large fedora.  It was so much fun. 

Kathy, thanks! I will look it up. I thought about just doing a gangster movie take as well. There's a great production from The Globe with men playing the females. I think my greatest difficulty may be teaching the Hollywood types (Groucho Marx/Feste, WC Fields/Toby, Greta Garbo/Olivia...) Thanks for taking the ti.e to respond .

There is a production that was done at the Pasadena Playhouse which used the concept of the Duke being Duke Ellington and added some of his music which was very enjoyable.  I saw it when it was filmed for PBS  Great Performances so it might be out there somewhere.  Malvolio showed up in a bright yellow zoot suit and a large fedora.  It was so much fun. 

Groucho Marx and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night...what an awesome idea!

Highly recommend cutting it yourself, if you can find the time. I've used Newlin's 30 minute editions before, but have found them to be a bit too truncated. Other folks may have their own versions of Twelfth Night, but when you cut it yourself, you choose what lines you really want to keep and emphasize. Just completed my own adaptation of M'beth at a running time of about 37 minutes, for competition; what was really encouraging was finding that my students found the cut version easier to follow than when we watched the whole, unedited production available at digitaltheatre.com featuring David Morrisey and Julia Ford. Which was nice.  

Groucho Marx and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night...what an awesome idea!

Highly recommend cutting it yourself, if you can find the time. I've used Newlin's 30 minute editions before, but have found them to be a bit too truncated. Other folks may have their own versions of Twelfth Night, but when you cut it yourself, you choose what lines you really want to keep and emphasize. Just completed my own adaptation of M'beth at a running time of about 37 minutes, for competition; what was really encouraging was finding that my students found the cut version easier to follow than when we watched the whole, unedited production available at digitaltheatre.com featuring David Morrisey and Julia Ford. Which was nice.  

Kathy, thanks! I will look it up. I thought about just doing a gangster movie take as well. There's a great production from The Globe with men playing the females. I think my greatest difficulty may be teaching the Hollywood types (Groucho Marx/Feste, WC Fields/Toby, Greta Garbo/Olivia...) Thanks for taking the ti.e to respond .

There is a production that was done at the Pasadena Playhouse which used the concept of the Duke being Duke Ellington and added some of his music which was very enjoyable.  I saw it when it was filmed for PBS  Great Performances so it might be out there somewhere.  Malvolio showed up in a bright yellow zoot suit and a large fedora.  It was so much fun.