Rachel Zegler has already performed a Juliet-inspired determine, starring as Maria within the 2021 movie adaptation of “West Facet Story.” And Equipment Connor has performed a Romeo of kinds, starring as a craving adolescent within the boy-meets-boy tv sequence “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 Sq. Theater.
The manufacturing, which introduced its timing and placement on Wednesday, has mentioned little about its idea, however there are indications it is going to be influenced by modern concepts: The present is to function music by Jack Antonoff, the Grammy-winning producer greatest recognized 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 one in every of Shakespeare’s hottest performs, and this shall be its thirty seventh manufacturing on Broadway, in accordance with the Web Broadway Database. This manufacturing is to be directed by Sam Gold, a Tony winner for “Enjoyable House” who has beforehand directed Broadway productions of “Macbeth” and “King Lear” and who’s directing this season’s revival of “An Enemy of the Individuals.” 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.
