Five Nights of Free and Freewheeling Shakespeare - How Shaina Taub turned 'As You Like It' into a 200-person musical
How Shaina Taub turned As You Like It into a 200-person musical---It all started two years ago when composer and performer Shaina Taub got a text message from a number she didn't recognize. It was Lear deBessonet, the founder of the Public Theater's Public Works program, which produces large-scale, musicalized mountings of classic plays starring showbiz pros alongside civilians. DeBessonet wanted to see about working…