I feel like Comedy of Errors and Taming of the Shrew are the only side-splitting comedies that could be characterized as "delicious" and haven't been done all that recently in the park. I think Hathaway could make a very funny Kate.
There's also the possibility it isn't Shakespeare...
Love's Labor's Lost would be interesting but didn't the Public just do that recently downtown? Agree that I wouldn't characterize that as a "delicious comedy."
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth!
Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming
You'll live forever here on earth.
The Public did just do LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST downtown, but the version being talked about for the park this coming summer is a musical adaptation by Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman, directed by Timbers.
I'd heard previously that it was being eyed as the second of the two shows in the season, so it would make sense that this clue is referring to something else for the opening slot.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
The Cherry Orchard, if you consider that a comedy. Tartuffe in 1999. The Skin of Our Teeth in 1998.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Maybe Kevin Kline (a beloved Delacorte alum if there ever was one) in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (although he has already played Falstaff at LCT in Henry IV and may not want to return to the role). On the other other hand, he did HAMLET twice at The Public (the first production was loathsome and misdirected so a few years later Mr. Papp let him come back and do it again --this time Kline directed himself-- and that production was well-received and they filmed it for PBS).
Anne Hathaway is definitely not the actor in question. While I'd love to see her back in the park, she's filming the new Steven Spielberg movie in London next year, which will occupy most of her time through 2013 (including when she'd have to be available to do a summer show.)
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
I would love, love, love to see David Tennant and Catherine Tate together in another Shakespeare after their "Much Ado About Nothing." How about "Taming of the Shrew," or should I say "Taming of the Who?"