"and """". The lyrics of the song describe the experience of the two lovers of the title, hinting at a situation that saw the ""Juliet"" figure abandon her ""Romeo"" after finding fame and moving on from the rough neighborhood where they first encountered each other. In addition to the reference to William Shakespeare's play of the same title, the song makes playful allusion to other works involving young love, including the songs ""Somewhere"" – from ""West Side Story"", which is itself based on the Shakespeare play – and ""My Boyfriend's Back"". The original recording of the song has been featured"
"On the Twentieth Century On the Twentieth Century is a musical with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Cy Coleman. Based partly on the 1930s film and play of the same name, the musical is part operetta, part farce and part screwball comedy. The story involves the behind-the-scenes relationship between Lily, a temperamental actress and Oscar, a bankrupt theatre producer. On a luxury train traveling from Chicago to New York in the 1920s, Oscar tries to cajole the glamorous Hollywood star into playing the lead in his new, but not-yet-written drama, and perhaps to"
"Roméo et Juliette (musical) Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour is a French musical based on William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"", with music and lyrics by Gérard Presgurvic. It premiered in Paris on January 19, 2001. The production was directed and choreographed by Redha, with costumes by Dominique Borg and settings by Petrika Ionesco. The producers were Gérard Louvin, GLEM, and Universal Music. Since then, the musical has been performed in Verona, Rome, Canada, Antwerp, London, Amsterdam, Budapest, Szeged, Moscow, Vienna, Bucharest, Seoul, Pusan (South Korea), Taipei, Monterrey, Japan and Shanghai and has been translated into several"
"Giulietta e Romeo (musical) Giulietta e Romeo is an Italian-language musical with music by Riccardo Cocciante and lyrics by Pasquale Panella, based on William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Since its world premiere in Verona on June 1, 2007, directed by Sergio Carrubba, the musical has toured throughout Italy, playing in various Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Naples and others. There are plans to stage it in other European nations in the Italian language. The cast is composed mostly of boys and girls between the ages of 15 and 18. Each actor has at least two roles. Giulietta and Romeo's"
"Romeo.Juliet Romeo.Juliet is the title of a 1990 film version of William Shakespeare's classic play ""Romeo and Juliet"". It was made by American producer, director and cinematographer, Armando Acosta (also credited as Armondo Linus Acosta and Armand Acosta) in conjunction with Moonseed Productions using the feral cats of Venice, New York City, and Ghent as actors, with the voices dubbed by some of the greats of the English theatre including Ben Kingsley, Maggie Smith, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Powell, Francesca Annis, Victor Spinetti, Quentin Crisp, and John Hurt. The score of the film features Serge Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet Ballet' as"
"Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"". ""Shakespeare's R&J"", by Joe Calarco, spins the classic in a modern tale of gay teenage awakening. A recent comedic musical adaptation was The Second City's ""The Second City's Romeo and Juliet Musical: The People vs. Friar Laurence, the Man Who Killed Romeo and Juliet"", set in modern times. In the 19th and 20th century, ""Romeo and Juliet"" has often been the choice of Shakespeare plays to open a classical theatre company, beginning with Edwin Booth's inaugural production of that play in his theatre in 1869, the newly re-formed company of the Old Vic in"
"rewritten as ""Because of Her"", using Coleman's original music but new lyrics by Amanda Green about Oscar's acknowledgement of Lily's importance in his life. On the Twentieth Century On the Twentieth Century is a musical with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Cy Coleman. Based partly on the 1930s film and play of the same name, the musical is part operetta, part farce and part screwball comedy. The story involves the behind-the-scenes relationship between Lily, a temperamental actress and Oscar, a bankrupt theatre producer. On a luxury train traveling from Chicago to New York"
"based loosely on ""West Side Story"" and adapting parts of the musical's music and lyrics, was performed a total of more than 500 times in Miami Beach, Florida, Stockholm, Gran Canaria and Los Angeles. The show lampoons the musical's tragic love story, and also lip-synching and drag shows. West Side Story West Side Story is a musical with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". The story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid 1950s, an"
"Romeo and Juliet (Pastor) Romeo and Juliet is a 2008 ballet choreographed by Krzysztof Pastor based on William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Pastor's three-act version is set to the same score used in the Prokofiev version of the ballet. The libretto is by Pastor and Willem Bruls. The ballet is recast as a contemporary political statement set in three Italian political eras of the 20th century. Act I is set in Italy in the 1930s, during the reign of Benito Mussolini and the emergence of Fascism. (1935 was the year in which Prokofiev composed the original score.) Act II"
"omitted much of the action and added a happy ending. Performances in the 19th century, including Charlotte Cushman's, restored the original text and focused on greater realism. John Gielgud's 1935 version kept very close to Shakespeare's text and used Elizabethan costumes and staging to enhance the drama. In the 20th and into the 21st century, the play has been adapted in versions as diverse as George Cukor's 1936 film ""Romeo and Juliet"", Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version ""Romeo and Juliet"", and Baz Luhrmann's 1996 MTV-inspired ""Romeo + Juliet"". The play, set in Verona, Italy, begins with a street brawl between Montague"
"Romeo and Juliet (1900 film) Roméo et Juliette is a 1900 French film adaptation of the classic and famous William Shakespeare play, ""Romeo and Juliet"". This film version was directed by Clément Maurice and featured Emilio Cossira singing a tenor aria from Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. It is believed to be the earliest film adaptation of the Shakespeare classic. The film was produced by ""Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre"", which premiered one of the first synchronized sound film systems at the Paris exhibition of 1900, with this film being one of the earliest to use the sound technique. The sound was recorded first"
"Maurice. Romeo and Juliet (1900 film) Roméo et Juliette is a 1900 French film adaptation of the classic and famous William Shakespeare play, ""Romeo and Juliet"". This film version was directed by Clément Maurice and featured Emilio Cossira singing a tenor aria from Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. It is believed to be the earliest film adaptation of the Shakespeare classic. The film was produced by ""Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre"", which premiered one of the first synchronized sound film systems at the Paris exhibition of 1900, with this film being one of the earliest to use the sound technique. The sound was recorded"
"Romeo and Juliet. Leveen suggested that during the 18th century, David Garrick chose to use a balcony in his adaptation and revival of ""Romeo and Juliet"" and modern adaptations have continued this tradition. ""Romeo and Juliet"" ranks with ""Hamlet"" as one of Shakespeare's most performed plays. Its many adaptations have made it one of his most enduring and famous stories. Even in Shakespeare's lifetime, it was extremely popular. Scholar Gary Taylor measures it as the sixth most popular of Shakespeare's plays, in the period after the death of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd but before the ascendancy of Ben Jonson"
"that the film breathes life into the socioeconomic consideration it hopes to fight. Rome & Jewel Rome & Jewel is a 2006 hip-hop musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"" set in Los Angeles that deals with interracial love. The film stars Nate Parker as Rome and Lindsey Haun as Jewel. The 2008 re-release had modest box office results and mostly negative critical commentary. Compton-native Rome (Nate Parker) is the son of Reverend Q (Cleavant Derricks) and yearns for Jewel (Lindsey Haun), the daughter of Los Angeles Mayor Capps (John Rubinstein) who lives in Beverly Hills. Using reworked dialogue"
"Peter Ustinov's cold-war stage parody, ""Romanoff and Juliet"" was filmed. The 1961 film of ""West Side Story""—set among New York gangs–featured the Jets as white youths, equivalent to Shakespeare's Montagues, while the Sharks, equivalent to the Capulets, are Puerto Rican. In 2006, Disney's ""High School Musical"" made use of ""Romeo and Juliet"" plot, placing the two young lovers in different high school cliques instead of feuding families. Film-makers have frequently featured characters performing scenes from ""Romeo and Juliet"". The conceit of dramatising Shakespeare writing ""Romeo and Juliet"" has been used several times, including John Madden's 1998 ""Shakespeare in Love"", in"
"Rome & Jewel Rome & Jewel is a 2006 hip-hop musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"" set in Los Angeles that deals with interracial love. The film stars Nate Parker as Rome and Lindsey Haun as Jewel. The 2008 re-release had modest box office results and mostly negative critical commentary. Compton-native Rome (Nate Parker) is the son of Reverend Q (Cleavant Derricks) and yearns for Jewel (Lindsey Haun), the daughter of Los Angeles Mayor Capps (John Rubinstein) who lives in Beverly Hills. Using reworked dialogue from the play such as ""deep inside I’m tender/sweeter than Splenda/and if you"
"Harold Prince and played for 11 previews and 449 performances. Twentieth Century (play) Twentieth Century is a play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur based on the unproduced play ""Napoleon of Broadway"" by Charles B. Millholland, inspired by his experience working for the eccentric Broadway impresario David Belasco. The Hecht-MacArthur comedy is set in the observation car of the ""20th Century Limited"", travelling from Chicago to New York's Grand Central Terminal. Aboard the luxury train are egomaniacal theatre producer Oscar Jaffe, desperately in need of a hit, and his former paramour and protégé, temperamental actress Lily Garland (born Mildred Plotka),"
"Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra in 2014. The Joffrey had previously performed Cranko's adaptation of Prokofiev multiple times as early as 1984, when it gave the Prokofiev score its United States debut. In 2014, there was also an encore UK touring production that visited Inverness, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, London and Glasgow. Romeo and Juliet (Pastor) Romeo and Juliet is a 2008 ballet choreographed by Krzysztof Pastor based on William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Pastor's three-act version is set to the same score used in the Prokofiev version of the ballet. The libretto is by Pastor and Willem Bruls. The ballet is recast"
"the problems having to get hearing members of the audience to understand the Sharks’ signing in their scenes. Rigney follows Brewer on how it all started and the challenges they all faced. Deaf Side Story Deaf Side Story is a musical based on ""West Side Story"", itself an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Takes place in New York City during the mid-1950s, the musical based on West Side Story explores the rivalry between the two gangs Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different cultural backgrounds (Deaf and Hearing). The members of the Sharks from"
"set in present-day Manhattan and featuring Lemmy (of Motörhead) as its chorus. Sporting the tagline ""Body piercing. Kinky sex. Dismemberment. The things that made Shakespeare great."", ""Tromeo and Juliet"" premiered at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and won several awards at independent horror and fantasy film festivals. Despite positive reviews from ""The New York Times"", ""USA Today"", ""Entertainment Weekly"" and ""Variety"", Shakespeare scholar Daniel Rosenthal described ""Tromeo"" as ""the nadir of screen Shakespeare"", calling it a ""tedious, appallingly acted feast of mutilation and softcore sex"". Cheah Chee-Kong's 2000 Singaporean film ""Chicken Rice War"" (""Jiyuan Qiaohe"") adapts ""Romeo and Juliet"" as"
"Deaf Side Story Deaf Side Story is a musical based on ""West Side Story"", itself an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Takes place in New York City during the mid-1950s, the musical based on West Side Story explores the rivalry between the two gangs Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different cultural backgrounds (Deaf and Hearing). The members of the Sharks from Puerto Rico are taunted by the Jets, a white working-class group. The young protagonist, Tony, one of the Jets, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the"
"sometimes been judged unfavourably because of its perceived liberties with Shakespeare; however, Bellini and his librettist, Felice Romani, worked from Italian sources—principally Romani's libretto for ""Giulietta e Romeo"" by Nicola Vaccai—rather than directly adapting Shakespeare's play. Among later operas, there is Heinrich Sutermeister's 1940 work ""Romeo und Julia"". ""Roméo et Juliette"" by Berlioz is a ""symphonie dramatique"", a large-scale work in three parts for mixed voices, chorus, and orchestra, which premiered in 1839. Tchaikovsky's ""Romeo and Juliet"" Fantasy-Overture (1869, revised 1870 and 1880) is a 15-minute symphonic poem, containing the famous melody known as the ""love theme"". Tchaikovsky's device of"
"Romeo and Juliet on screen William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet may be one of the most-screened plays of all time. The most notable theatrical releases were George Cukor's multi-Oscar-nominated 1936 production ""Romeo and Juliet"", Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film ""Romeo and Juliet"", and Baz Luhrmann's 1996 MTV-inspired ""Romeo + Juliet"". The latter two were both, at the time, the highest-grossing Shakespeare films. Cukor featured the mature actors Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard as the teenage lovers while Zeffirelli populated his film with beautiful young people, and Baz Luhrmann produced a heavily cut fast-paced version aimed at teenage audiences. Several reworkings of"
"that later historians writing about important moments in twentieth-century theatre would begin to identify eras according to their relationship to 'Oklahoma.'"" After ""Oklahoma!"", Rodgers and Hammerstein were the most important contributors to the musical-play form – with such masterworks as ""Carousel"", ""The King and I"" and ""South Pacific"". The examples they set in creating vital plays, often rich with social thought, provided the necessary encouragement for other gifted writers to create musical plays of their own"". The partnership went on to produce these and other Broadway musicals such as ""Allegro"", ""Me and Juliet"", ""Pipe Dream"", ""Flower Drum Song"", and ""The"
"She introduced changes to the story, notably that of presenting the two families as multiracial. At least 24 operas have been based on Romeo and Juliet. The earliest, ""Romeo und Julie"" in 1776, a Singspiel by Georg Benda, omits much of the action of the play and most of its characters and has a happy ending. It is occasionally revived. The best-known is Gounod's 1867 ""Roméo et Juliette"" (libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré), a critical triumph when first performed and frequently revived today. Bellini's ""I Capuleti e i Montecchi"" is also revived from time to time, but has"
"Romeo & Julia Romeo & Julia is the official soundtrack for Terminaator's musical ""Romeo & Julia"" (Romeo and Juliet), made for Eesti Nuku- ja Noorsooteater (Estonian Puppet and Youth Theatre). Unlike the soundtrack for ""Risk"", this one wasn't released under the name of Terminaator. Later, a new song was written for Hele Kõre and Kristjan Kasearu, titled ""Romeo ja Julia"". It was written for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 and was also added in the play and released as a single, but it's absent from the earlier released soundtrack. Andres Dvinjaninov (1, 15)<br> Rasmus Erismaa (1, 3, 6, 8, 15)<br>"
"Romeo + Juliet William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (often shortened to Romeo + Juliet) is a 1996 American romantic crime film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann, co-produced by Gabriella Martinelli, and co-written by Craig Pearce. It is an adaptation and modernization of William Shakespeare's tragedy ""Romeo and Juliet"". The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the leading roles of Romeo and Juliet, who instantly fall in love when Romeo crashes a party and meets her, despite being members of feuding families. Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Sorvino, and Diane Venora star in supporting roles."
"reviewers at Rotten Tomatoes. Romeo and Juliet (2013 Broadway play) Romeo and Juliet is a filmed performance of the 2013 Broadway theatrical production of William Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"" starring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashād which was produced as a 2014 film by BroadwayHD and Fathom Events. It was the first Broadway production of the play ""Romeo and Juliet"" since 1977. The play ran on Broadway at Richard Rodgers Theatre from September 19 to December 8, 2013 for 93 regular performances after 27 previews starting on August 24 with Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashād in the starring roles. On November"
"It débuted on Broadway in 1957 and in the West End in 1958 and became a popular film in 1961. This version updated the setting to mid-20th-century New York City and the warring families to ethnic gangs. Other musical adaptations include Terrence Mann's 1999 rock musical ""William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet"", co-written with Jerome Korman, Gérard Presgurvic's 2001 ""Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour"" and Riccardo Cocciante's 2007 ""Giulietta & Romeo"". ""Romeo and Juliet"" had a profound influence on subsequent literature. Before then, romance had not even been viewed as a worthy topic for tragedy. In Harold Bloom's"
"Roméo et Juliette Roméo et Juliette (""Romeo and Juliet"") is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on ""Romeo and Juliet"" by William Shakespeare. It was first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique (Théâtre-Lyrique Impérial du Châtelet), Paris on 27 April 1867. This opera is notable for the series of four duets for the main characters and the waltz song """"Je veux vivre"""" for the soprano. Gounod's opera ""Faust"" had become popular at the Théâtre Lyrique since its premiere in 1859 (it was performed over 300 times between 1859"
"Twentieth Century (play) Twentieth Century is a play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur based on the unproduced play ""Napoleon of Broadway"" by Charles B. Millholland, inspired by his experience working for the eccentric Broadway impresario David Belasco. The Hecht-MacArthur comedy is set in the observation car of the ""20th Century Limited"", travelling from Chicago to New York's Grand Central Terminal. Aboard the luxury train are egomaniacal theatre producer Oscar Jaffe, desperately in need of a hit, and his former paramour and protégé, temperamental actress Lily Garland (born Mildred Plotka), who abandoned him for a Hollywood career. Oscar is determined"
"Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with ""Hamlet"", is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers. ""Romeo and Juliet"" belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as ""The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet"" by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and"
"of Radio and Juliet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwnDXZA3x9w Distributor 6primeagency Radio and Juliet Radio and Juliet is an hour long ballet setup in 2005 for the Slovenian company Ballet Maribor in Slovenia. It was directed by Romanian dancer and choreographer Edward Clug. The ballet is a rendition of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set to the music of Radiohead. Since 2005 ""Radio and Juliet"" has guested in the Netherlands, Italy, Singapore, Korea, Israel, Canada, United States, Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, Serbia and Croatia. It has also been set on the companies of Bucharest National Theater and Kiev National Opera. On 15 September 2012, the"