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16.04.2024 - 13:11 / variety.com
Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter “West Side Story” star Rachel Zegler and “Heartstopper” breakout Kit Connor will make their Broadway debuts in “Romeo+ Juliet,” a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic that will open in the fall. The two young actors, who will play star-crossed lovers, teased the news Monday on Instagram with matching posts of their character’s initials and the caption of a heart and dagger emoji.
They also tagged the location as Verona, the Italian city where the Montagues and Capulets reside. A post shared by rachel zegler (@rachelzegler) Sam Gold is directing the show with music by Jack Antonoff, the Grammy-winning producer best known to Gen Z for working with Taylor Swift.
Gold directed this season’s buzzy play “An Enemy of the People” with Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli and has previously tackled the Bard with “Macbeth” starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga and “King Lear” led by Glenda Jackson. Sonya Tayeh, the Tony-winning choreographer of “Moulin Rouge,” will conceive the movement in the show.
This version of “Romeo+Juliet” promises to cater to the TikTok generation, with the edgy tagline that declares “the youth are fucked” and a press release that pledges “Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy now belongs to a new generation on the edge.” More information, including a theater, dates and additional casting, will be announced at a later date. Here’s the official logline, “The youth are fucked.
Left to their own devices in their parents’ world of violent ends, an impulsive pair of star-crossed lovers hurtle towards their inescapable fate. The intoxicating high of passion quickly descends into a brutal chaos that can only end one way.” “With the presidential election coming up in
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Jack Antonoff is writing music for a new reimagined Romeo and Juliet play that will arrive on Broadway this autumn.Rachel Zelger (West Side Story) and Kit Connor (Heartstopper) will star in the new musical version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which is directed by Sam Gold.Music for the play has been written by Antonoff while Sonya Tayeh is writing the movement. Tickets for the show go on sale in May here.According to the musical’s synopsis, “The youth are fucked”.
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West Side Story‘s Rachel Zegler and Heartstopper‘s Kit Connor are set to make their Broadway debuts in a new production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet with original music by Jack Antonoff!
Heartstopper‘s Kit Connor and West Side Story‘s Rachel Zegler will star in the new Broadway production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet this fall, directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold, with music by Grammy Award winner Jack Antonoff and movement by Tony winner Sonya Tayeh.
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