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"Here I am/ Prayin' for this moment to last/ Livin' on this music so fine" "Swift as a Shadow, short as any dream; brief as the lightening in the collied night" What do these two quotes have in common?

They both epitomize Boston's disco dream, "The Donkey Show."

Every Saturday, the A.R.T.

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(American Repertory Theatre) at OBERON hosts the biggest 70's throwback party of the millennium with one twist: Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The play gets a totally far-out makeover in this fantastical show.

Rather than watching in theater seats, you're invited to get up and "shake your grove thing" to all the best known disco hits, while the drama unfolds around you. Mirrored moons, rollerskating divas, and of course, zany Saturday night fever ensues as you are immersed in this energetic night club atmosphere.

After the show, you're invited to revel in your own disco dream, but remember:

"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle