These Paper Bullets
I like Shakespeare. Since high school, I've read the Bard's plays for fun, and I look forward to Shakespeare in the Park every summer. I appreciate productions of his work that try to approximate how the show might have originally been staged (like the recent Twelfth Night/Richard III productions), and I also thrill over productions that re-imagine the text, adding layers and making it relevant and accessible (like Alan Cumming's Macbeth , or the Public's Mobile Shakespeare Unit's production of Comedy of Errors ). I also like Green Day, and so I was particularly excited to see These Paper Bullets , a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, Much Ado About Nothing , with a book by Rolin Jones and a score by Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong . Oof. Was I disappointed. First, there was a technical issue. The sound mix rendered me unable to hear all the lyrics, an obvious disappointment. Best as I could tell, Armstong's ( American Idiot ) song...