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"The title, Eat the Music, is meant to be a playful nod to 'If music be the food of love, play on,' from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night," Bush explained in a statement.

The words were a riff on the play’s opening line, “If music be the food of love, play on.”

He begins, appropriately enough, with Orsino’s “If music be the food of love, play on” speech from “Twelfth Night” — a giddy if somewhat moody take on romance — which flows into the youthful elation of the Stephen Sondheim song “Love, I Hear” from “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” and the dizzy waltz of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s “Falling in Love With Love” from “The Boys From Syracuse.”

“Twelfth Night’s” famous invocation — “If music be the food of love, play on!” — is fulfilled with elegant relish in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s deeply satisfying new production in Sidney Harman Hall.

If music be the food of love, play on!