Kit Connor, Rachel Zegler to star in Sam Gold-directed ROMEO + JULIET on Broadway, Fall 2024
Kit Connor, Rachel Zegler to star in Sam Gold-directed ROMEO + JULIET on Broadway, Fall 2024
Kit Connor, Rachel Zegler to star in Sam Gold-directed ROMEO + JULIET on Broadway, Fall 2024#1
Posted: 4/15/24 at 2:03pm
Starting a new thread since this is likely not related to Diane Paulus’s A.R.T. production after all. Got a tip that this actually is a production coming directly to Broadway, and that it’s being directed by (yawn) Sam Gold.
Battle of the avant-garde deconstructed R&J’s, I guess.
EDIT - Confirmed. Previews starting September 26th, with an official opening of October 24th, at the Circle in the Square Theatre: https://romeoandjulietnyc.com/
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#2
Posted: 4/15/24 at 2:12pm
Does Sam Gold have some kind of lease at Circle in the square?
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Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#3
Posted: 4/15/24 at 2:15pm
Are we sure it isn't the ART production? Given the rumors of Zegler being attached to both Evita and Gatsby, both productions in their last seasons, and the (albeit stereotype) pink color palette of ART's initial Romeo & Juliet announcement: Experience Romeo and Juliet this September at A.R.T. when Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Diane Paulus reunite for the first time since Jagged L... | Instagram
But then it could eventually transfer...?
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#4
Posted: 4/15/24 at 2:17pm
This may be another instance of a production being sniped by another that is simply able to get to Broadway faster.
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#5
Posted: 4/15/24 at 2:22pm
You've seen Jaime Lloyd do Ibsen/Herzog. You've seen Sam Gold Ibsen/Herzog. Now get ready for them to fight to the death doing Shakespeare.
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#6
Posted: 4/15/24 at 2:22pm
A combination of factors lead me to believe Kit and Rachel aren’t connected to the A.R.T. production:
- Reps for A.R.T. told BWW that no announcement was forthcoming, which is a strange thing to say if your two leads just loosely announced it in tandem on their own social media pages; and
- I was told explicitly that they were coming to Broadway in a production directed by Sam Gold.
Now, my source could be lying or just misinformed, but crazier things have happened. I personally find it absurd that we now have (potentially) three fairly-to-very high profile productions of this extremely overdone Shakespeare play duking it out for space on Broadway, but these are weird times.
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#7
Posted: 4/15/24 at 2:26pm
It may be heresy to say but I think R&J onstage is… not super compelling. For me, it’s easily one of the weakest of the most commonly produced Shakespeare plays. I’ve yet to see a production that fully clicks the way I’ve seen Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Lear, Richard III, or Midsummer often do.
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#8
Posted: 4/15/24 at 2:30pm
I agree with Kad, on this.
If we’re choosing between Sam Gold and Jamie Lloyd, I’d choose Gold. At least with him you have the possibility of…anything. With Lloyd you know exactly what it’ll be. No sets, no shoes, tshirts/jeans and cameras for some reason. And at this point to quote Miranda Priestly… “Groundbreaking.”
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#9
Posted: 4/15/24 at 2:32pm
Jordan Catalano said: "
If we’re choosing between Sam Gold and Jamie Lloyd..."
(((shudder))) Talk about a no-win scenario.
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#10
Posted: 4/15/24 at 2:36pm
Sam Gold did give us Enemy of the People, Dolls House pt 2, Fun Home… all of which I loved. So he’s got some good stuff in his resume.
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#11
Posted: 4/15/24 at 2:43pm
True, yet his last (only) two Shakespearean productions on Broadway were so awful (admittedly IMO) the thought of him doing a third honestly made me groan when I saw ColorTheHours048's post.
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#12
Posted: 4/15/24 at 2:49pm
Oh, 100%. When he’s bad, he’s baaaaaaaaaaaad.
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#13
Posted: 4/15/24 at 2:50pm
Jordan Catalano said: "Sam Gold did give us Enemy of the People, Dolls House pt 2, Fun Home… all of which I loved. So he’s got some good stuff in his resume."
Didn’t Joe Mantello do most of the heavy lifting with Fun Home?
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#14
Posted: 4/15/24 at 2:56pm
Sam Gold is one of the most wildly inconsistent directors working today, so there’s no way to predict how this will go if it pans out. He doesn’t have a distinct directing style I’ve ever been able to decipher and his work with actors seems more related to their innate talent than his own ability to conjure a good performance.
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#15
Posted: 4/15/24 at 3:08pm
Gold's Othello at NYTW was stellar and his Hamlet at the Public was fine (but did give us Oscar Isaac in tighty whities).
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#16
Posted: 4/15/24 at 3:15pm
Call_me_jorge said: "Jordan Catalano said: "Sam Gold did give us Enemy of the People, Dolls House pt 2, Fun Home… all of which I loved. So he’s got some good stuff in his resume."
Didn’t Joe Mantello do most of the heavy lifting with Fun Home?"
Mantello was involved with the show very, very early on (he was announced for it back in 2009 right when Kron and Tesori started work) but at some point he departed and Gold was involved once it was entering on-its-feet workshop development in 2012. He was heavily involved in developing the show at that point, so it's definitely not fair to say Mantello did the heavy lifting. As far as I'm aware, Mantello never directed it even at a formal reading level.
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#17
Posted: 4/15/24 at 3:22pm
Oh, I was under the impression Mantello “ghost-directed” the show. Must be conflating the story it with another show.
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Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#18
Posted: 4/15/24 at 4:11pm
His work on Fun Home was spectacular especially given how different the Public version was to the in the round Broadway version to the totally different tour version.
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Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#19
Posted: 4/15/24 at 4:14pm
ColorTheHours048 said: "Sam Gold is one of the most wildly inconsistent directors working today, so there’s no way to predict how this will go if it pans out. He doesn’t have a distinct directing style I’ve ever been able to decipher and his work with actors seems more related to their innate talent than his own ability to conjure a good performance."
He's quite toned down on Enemy of the People. Maybe he just wanted to put the trust in his wife's adaptation and play it mostly straight.
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Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#20
Posted: 4/15/24 at 4:17pm
I'd argue that Jamie Lloyd did alter things a little with The Effect (and it seemed more dynamic than say a Doll's House, and I felt that way having only watched the streamed version)
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Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#21
Posted: 4/15/24 at 4:23pm
I would want to rush my production to stage too if I knew somebody else had one planned with a bigger star.
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#22
Posted: 4/15/24 at 9:56pm
I really don't care to see Rachel Zegler in anything.
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#23
Posted: 4/15/24 at 11:03pm
South Fl Marc said: "I really don't care to see Rachel Zegler in anything."
This was my biggest reason for yawning when I saw the rumor pop up. Nothing so far makes me want to pay what will undoubtedly be astronomical prices.
Total respect for anyone looking forward to it, but I just do *not* get her appeal.
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#24
Posted: 4/16/24 at 7:18am
Credit to TheaterBoard for finding this - https://www.instagram.com/romeojulietnyc?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Followed by both Zegler and Connor.
TikTok Oracle also says music will be by Jack Antonoff.
Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to star in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway?#25
Posted: 4/16/24 at 7:57am
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