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Rachel Zegler has already performed a Juliet-inspired determine, starring as Maria within the 2021 movie adaptation of “West Side Story.” And Kit Connor has performed a Romeo of kinds, starring as a craving adolescent within the boy-meets-boy tv collection “Heartstopper.”
Now the 2 actors are bringing a brand new manufacturing of “Romeo and Juliet” to Broadway. Their model, which appears to be leaning into the alienation of youth in a world of violent adults, is to start performances Sept. 26 and to open Oct. 24 at Circle within the Square Theater.
The manufacturing, which introduced its timing and site on Wednesday, has mentioned little about its idea, however there are indications will probably be influenced by modern concepts: The present is to characteristic music by Jack Antonoff, the Grammy-winning producer greatest identified for his profitable collaborations with Taylor Swift, and it’s being marketed with a vulgarity concerning the plight of younger folks. On Wednesday, the present launched a video of Zegler and Connor, in modern clothes and setting, flirting and dancing to a music from Bleachers, which is Antonoff’s band.
“Romeo and Juliet” is considered one of Shakespeare’s hottest performs, and this can be its thirty seventh manufacturing on Broadway, in response to the Internet Broadway Database. This manufacturing is to be directed by Sam Gold, a Tony winner for “Fun Home” who has beforehand directed Broadway productions of “Macbeth” and “King Lear” and who’s directing this season’s revival of “An Enemy of the People.” Sonya Tayeh, the Tony-winning choreographer of “Moulin Rouge!”, will add a dancer’s sensibility to the manufacturing; she is being credited with “motion.”
This revival, first introduced final month, is being produced by Seaview, an more and more prolific manufacturing firm based by Greg Nobile and Jana Shea and partially owned by Sony Music Masterworks.
