The City Opera is billing its production as the first professional staging by an American company.

Most Western educational systems required the textual study of two or more of Shakespeare's plays, and both amateur and professional stagings of Shakespeare were commonplace.

If you expect a thoroughly professional staging of a familiar favorite, you won't be shortchanged at the Helen Hayes.

This production will be produced by AlmostNormalltd and will be the first full professional staging of the musical in the United Kingdom.

"With a view to professional staging", various revisions were undertaken between 1826 and 1828, but they were never performed professionally.

There was a professional staging in 1973 by Jonathan Miller.

The first known professional staging of the play was 22-29 June 1954 at the London Theatre Centre for the Advance Players Association.

Their first performance, The Merchant of Venice, is generally considered to be the first professional staging of Shakespeare in America.

In 1980 the Roundabout Theater Company, then Off Broadway, produced the last such professional staging in New York.

As an added filip, this is the musical's first professional staging in the New York City area.