{"id":118417,"date":"2024-10-26T02:22:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T19:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118417"},"modified":"2024-10-26T02:22:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T19:22:05","slug":"kit-connor-and-rachel-zegler-in-romeo-juliet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118417","title":{"rendered":"Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler in Romeo + Juliet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" data-component=\"annotation\" data-testid=\"annotation_testID\">\n<p><strong><span>Broadway review by Adam Feldman\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>There\u2019s a comic-relief scene at the end of Act IV in <\/span><em><span>Romeo and Juliet<\/span><\/em><span> that is nearly always cut. Juliet\u2019s family has just discovered what they believe to be her dead body; as the musicians hired for her wedding prepare to leave, a household servant asks them for a paradoxically happy dirge: \u201cO play me some merry dump to comfort me.&#8221; Sam Gold\u2019s new Broadway production of the play not only keeps this scene but makes it a kind of thesis statement. Breaking temporarily for a moment, the servant demands to hear \u201cWe Are Young,\u201d a melancholic 2011 party anthem by the band Fun. \u201cIf you don\u2019t play it,\u201d he warns, \u201cI will fuckin\u2019 fight you.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That last line is one of the\u00a0show&#8217;s rare departures from\u00a0its 16th-century text, but it captures the spirit of Gold\u2019s aggressively Gen Z conception of Shakespeare\u2019s family-feud tragedy. It\u2019s not just that \u201cWe Are Young\u201d is modern (like this production\u2019s costumes, sets and attitudes), or that the choice of this particular song\u2014which was co-written by pop hitmaker Jack Antonoff, who has also composed three new songs for this production\u2014is emblematic of the show\u2019s referential postmodernity: As in the 1996 Baz Luhrmann film, the title is styled as <\/span><em><span>Romeo + Juliet<\/span><\/em><span>, like graffiti on a bathroom stall; its Juliet, Rachel Zegler, is best known for playing a character\u00a0inspired\u00a0by Juliet in Steven Spielberg\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/west-side-story-2021\"><em><span>West Side Story<\/span><\/em><\/a><span>; its Romeo, Kit Connor, has navigated a forbidden-love\u00a0narrative\u00a0in his Netflix series <\/span><em><span>Heartstopper<\/span><\/em><span>. It\u2019s not even that the song\u2019s lyrics evoke both the sense of possibility and the sense of burnout that are baked into notions of setting the world on fire and burning brighter than the sun. (\u201cTake him and cut him out in little stars,\u201d says Juliet. \u201cAnd he will make the face of heaven so fine \/ That all the world will be in love with night \/ And pay no worship to the garish sun.\u201d)<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-component=\"lazy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/media.timeout.com\/images\/106194002\/image.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Romeo + Juliet | Photograph: Courtesy Matthew Murphy<\/p>\n<p><span>What makes \u201cWe Are Young\u201d feel so right is more literal than all that: This <\/span><em><span>Romeo and Juliet <\/span><\/em><span>is very much about being young. The nightclubby set, by the design collective dots, includes inflatable furniture and a shopping cart full of teddy bears; costumer Enver Chakartash puts the cast in track pants, crop tops and jeans. You don\u2019t forget, in this version, that Juliet is only 13; Zegler, who is beautiful and tiny, is believably adolescent in her excitement and impatience. (She has the romantic rebellion of someone who has been sheltered all her life.) Connor\u2019s Romeo has a sensitive-jock wholesomeness\u2014with his short-cropped hair, peaches-and-cream complexion and muscular biceps in sleeveless tops, he looks like a Russian gymnast\u2014that also makes him seem less than fully formed. (When he philosophizes that \u201cLove goes toward love as schoolboys from their books \/ But love from love toward school with heavy looks,\u201d you\u2019re reminded that he\u2019s not far from school himself.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This version of Verona, in fact, seems to have hardly any grown-ups at all: just vaping, dancing, posturing, borg-toting, casually queer-fluid kids. In Gold\u2019s adaptation\u2014Michael Sexton and Ayanna Thompson are credited as dramaturgs and text consultants\u2014the warring Montague and Capulet families are nearly all teens. Romeo\u2019s parents have been excised from the play completely, with some of their lines assigned to younger characters; so, for the most part, has the Prince, whose failure to stop his city\u2019s interfamily warfare earns him a share of the blame for the story\u2019s piteous end. Juliet\u2019s parents are played by the same actor, Sola Fadiran, and most of the other actors also play multiple roles, with varying success. Gabby Beans, persuasive as the well-meaning Friar Lawrence, doubles less effectively as\u00a0a strutting Mercutio; G\u00edan P\u00e9rez efficiently sketches Romeo\u2019s rival Paris as a nice guy with a creepy underside, but it\u2019s not always clear which of his three characters is which. Tommy Dorfman is enjoyable as the saucy Nurse\u2014 \u201cI am so vexed that every part about me quivers,\u201d she says as she fans her fanny\u2014but insufficiently menacing as Tybalt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-component=\"lazy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/media.timeout.com\/images\/106193997\/image.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Romeo + Juliet | Photograph: Courtesy Matthew Murphy<\/p>\n<p><span>If Romeo and Juliet stand out in this production, it\u2019s partly because what surrounds them is often a blur. Aside from\u00a0some besotted verse\u00a0from the star-crossed stars, what you\u2019re likely to take away are Antonoff\u2019s songs\u2014it makes sense that Romeo would fall for Juliet when he sees her singing onstage, with the allure of a pop idol\u2014and a few moments of scenic beauty: a bed that floats from the ceiling, on which Connor does a pull-up; a floor that folds up into a bed of flowers; a giant teddy bear in which the methed-out Apothecary hides his deadliest toxins.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gold\u2019s in-the-round staging makes dynamic use of side areas, including the aisles and the catwalk above the stage, but the environment it creates is hermetic. There\u2019s little sense of a Verona beyond this Instagrammable party space\u2014or of its rules. And ultimately, I think, that undermines the play; it accentuates the role of simple bad luck in Romeo and Juliet\u2019s fate, and detracts from the larger point. This production seems intent on appealing to TikTok audiences who don\u2019t know much about the play going in, which is a laudable goal, and I think it will succeed. But those\u00a0newcomers may be surprised to find that what they thought was a tragedy about young people crushed by societal constraints is actually the sad tale of two nice kids who die from a lack of adult supervision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Romeo + Juliet<\/em><\/strong><strong>. Circle in the Square Theatre (<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/theater\/broadway-shows-and-tickets-listings-a-z-broadway\"><strong>Broadway<\/strong><\/a><strong>). By William Shakespeare. Directed by Sam Gold. With Kit Connor, Rachel Zegler, Gabby Beans, Tommy Dorfman, Sola Fadiran, G\u00edan P\u00e9rez. Running time: 2hr 30mins. One intermission.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Follow Adam Feldman on X: <\/span><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/x.com\/FeldmanAdam\"><em><span>@FeldmanAdam<\/span><\/em><em><span><br \/><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>Follow Time Out Theater on X: <\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimeOutTheater\"><em><span>@TimeOutTheater<\/span><\/em><em><span><br \/><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>Keep up with the latest news and reviews on our <\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/timeouttheater\/\"><em><span>Time Out Theater Facebook page<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-component=\"lazy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/media.timeout.com\/images\/106193995\/image.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Romeo + Juliet | Photograph: Courtesy Matthew Murphy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/theater\/romeo-juliet-broadway-review-kit-connor-rachel-zegler\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadway review by Adam Feldman\u00a0 There\u2019s a comic-relief scene at the end of Act IV in Romeo and Juliet that is nearly always cut. 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