Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

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Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 3/14/07 at 8:54pm

Six Feet Under/Awake and Sing's Lauren Ambrose and Two Gentlemen of Verona star Oscar Isaac will play, Juliet and Romeo, in the upcoming Shakespeare in the Park staging of ROMEO and JULIET, to be directed by Michael Grief.

The 2nd show of the season will be A Midsummer Night's Dream, to be directed by Daniel Sullivan.

It is in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/theater/15public.html?ref=theater

Updated On: 3/14/07 at 08:54 PM

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re: Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 3/14/07 at 9:16pm

I was hoping with Romeo and Juliet they would have cast younger. Too bad they couldn't get Daniel Radcliffe. I think Oscar Isaac is the wrong choice for Romeo. He's too mature looking.

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re: Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 3/14/07 at 9:38pm

Oscar Isaac is wrong not just because he's too mature looking, but also because he's really not that good of an actor.

The second production was supposed to feature Brian Dennehy. Who would he play in Midsummer? Bottom?

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re: Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 3/14/07 at 9:40pm

Unless he backed out....he has had a busy year thus far.

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re: Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 3/14/07 at 9:42pm

It wouldn't surprise me if he did. He was supposed to do Lear (from what I heard) and was quite bummed because Eustis decided to go with the Kline version downtown.

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re: Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 3/14/07 at 9:47pm

What about Loves Labours Lost...semi unknown but it has the word Love in it.

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re: Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 3/14/07 at 9:49pm

Love's Labours Lost is one of Shakespeare's poorest plays. That's why it's rarely produced.

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"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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re: Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 3/14/07 at 9:51pm

I also heard that he was supposed to do Lear, but Eustis opted for Kline.

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re: Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 3/14/07 at 9:55pm

He made the wrong decision. Dennehy would've owned that s*it.

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"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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re: Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 3/14/07 at 9:59pm

hmm...that is probably why my school choose it for their spirng show...haha.

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re: Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 3/14/07 at 10:00pm

Kline would have, as well, under any other circumstance.

After seeing Talk Radio today, I'd love to see Liev Schreiber do Lear....of course, in 40 years. When I told him that at the stage door following the show, he laughed and said "I'm not ready for the old guy parts yet!"

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re: Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 3/14/07 at 10:05pm

Liev will be a great Lear in due time.

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"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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re: Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 5/1/07 at 8:19am

Hasanyone heard anything about Midsummer casting yet?

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re: Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 5/1/07 at 8:37am

No, but add Camryn Manheim and Christopher Evan Welch to the R&J list.

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re: Shakespeare in the Park to Celebrate Summer of Love

Posted: 5/1/07 at 8:46am

I'm quite excited about seeing ROMEO & JULIET, from what I hear Lauren Ambrose's audition was fantastic. It'll be my first time seeing her on stage...can't wait.

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