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Boy bands and Shakespeare at Oberon

Top (from left): Rob Brinkmann, Anthony Masters, and Troy Bar-boza in “Sexyback: or what you will” at Oberon Monday. Left: Daisy Winner (left) and Taylor Gilroy react to the performance. photos/Kayana Szymczak for The Globe

Touch Performance Art, a resident company at the American Repertory Theater's Oberon, performed “Sexyback: or what you will” in front of an audience for the first time Monday night. The show, which will have a workshop performance again in July to prep for a fall run, is a mashup between boy-band hits and Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” Colin Thurmond, music director and writer of the show, says he aims to have the production feel like a boy band concert. Based on what we saw of Monday’s audience, that’s exactly how it all went down.