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- West Side Story. We have to begin with the quintessential Shakespeare musical: West Side Story, a re-telling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It was director-choreographer Jerome Robbins who first had the idea to update Shakespeare’s tragic tale of star-crossed lovers doomed by their feuding families in 14th-century Italy to a then-modern day scenario of two rival gangs on New York City’s Upper West Side.
- All Shook Up. Book writer Joe DiPietro looked to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night when selecting a plot that could link together songs made famous by Elvis Presley in this jukebox musical, which premiered on Broadway in 2005.
- Kiss Me, Kate. This Shakespeare musical adaptation gets meta. Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew’s tempestuous lovers Petruchio and Katherina become Fred and Lilli, two actors leading the company of a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew—and play Petruchio and Katharine in it—but also share an offstage relationship similar to that of their Shrew characters.
- Rockabye Hamlet. Shakespeare’s classic story of the Danish prince avenging his father’s death got the rock-musical treatment with Cliff Jones’ Rockabye Hamlet.
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- The Boys From Syracuse. The Boys From Syracuse was the show that started the Shakespeare plunder process: the first Broadway musical based on a Shakespeare play.
- Kiss Me, Kate. When approached to provide the score for a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew, the great Cole Porter wasn't interested, at least not at first, since writing a period show would mean restricting his musical style.
- West Side Story. The original idea for updating Romeo and Juliet was to pit the Irish against the Jews in mid-century New York and call it East Side Story.
- Two Gentlemen of Verona. Two Gentlemen of Verona is based on the Shakespeare play of the same name, and although it was reasonably well-received when it appeared, it is now virtually forgotten except with Stephen Sondheim fans.
Pages in category "Plays and musicals based on Romeo and Juliet ". The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet music. While the ‘Dance of the Knights’ may be more widely known as the theme from The Apprentice these days, there’s significantly more to Prokofiev ’s 1936 Romeo and Juliet ballet than Alan Sugar.
Oct 25, 2024 · Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, directed by Sam Gold, at Circle in the Square. (© Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) “Cute” isn’t a word we usually use to describe Romeo and Juliet. No matter how you slice it, Shakespeare’s play is about violent gangs, angry parents, and two teens in a doomed ...
Jan 25, 2022 · & Juliet is a musical that rewrites the end of Shakespeare's tragedy to the sounds of contemporary pop songs. Yes, those chart-topping hits you spent hours singing to in front of the mirror are now certified West End hits.
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