One of the best perks about living in New York is that you get to see things happening before they get to mainstream America. For example, you get to try new food before it becomes trendy; you can watch an actor perform before she becomes famous and you can see an Off-Broadway show before it becomes a mega-hit. This is what I felt when I saw Desperate Measures, an award-winning musical comedy currently playing at New World Stages in Times Square. Desperate Measures: A Musical Comedy of Errors You'll Love! (+Giveaway) The plot is loosely based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Very, very loosely. So loosely, in fact, that Peter Kellogg, the book, and lyric writer, has added his own Shakespearean plot lines which he has freely borrowed from other Shakespeare plays, such as Much ...
