Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
#1Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 1:08pm
"Academy Award winners Kevin Kline and Meryl Steep — both veterans of New York Shakespeare Festival — will play the famous balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet as the Shakespeare classic's title characters in a gala benefit staged reading June 18 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
Daniel Sullivan will direct the performance that celebrates to the day The Public Theater's 50-year anniversary of producing Shakespeare in the outdoor venue."
Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline Will Be Romeo and Juliet in Gala Marking 50 Years of Shakespeare at Delacorte
#2Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 1:25pm$1,500..... if I sell my body for $50 on the street for the next 30 days maybe I can afford to see Meryl Streep!
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#2Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 1:32pmThey're both way too old. The producers should definitely go age appropriate, or at least closer to it. I'd cast Lea Michele and Corey Monteith.
#3Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 1:41pm^ But but but.... you want the ending to seem tragic, right?
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#4Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 1:57pm^hilarious! As this is a one night only lark of an event, not production casting, I think it's great fun, and not at all objectionable, to see Streep and Kline as Juliet and Romeo.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#5Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 2:07pm
For how long can you legally pitch a tent at 79th and CPW?
Mostly joking.
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#6Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:11pm
Updated On: 4/17/12 at 04:11 PM
#7Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:13pmWow, this sounds amazing, Streep and Kline have so much chemistry, I'd love to see this
#8Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:23pmAnd for the price of admission you get gauze contact lenses with vaseline eye solution! Then you STILL have to squint!
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#9Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:32pmDang. If only I had $1,500 to spare.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#10Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:35pm
I'd kinda rather see Patti and Kev.
Either way, the sex with an underage minor thing has always been troubling about R&J, kudos to The Public for dispensing with that.
#11Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:36pmCan they get Jamie Lee Curtis to play the balcony?
#12Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:43pm
I'd kinda rather see Patti and Kev.
A friend and I were just discussing this, and laughing at how hilarious Patti's Juliet would've been at any point in her life.
#13Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:44pmThe starting price of $1,500 makes this whole event sound something like a cruel evening of forcing two elderly Chihuahuas to jump through fiery hoops for a degenerate aristocracy...
#14Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:50pmAnd really...wouldn't it have been faaaaar more fun to have them take on Beatrice and Benedict?
#15Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:52pmObviously, Mandy would have to be Patti's Romeo.
#16Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:58pm
Kline's already done Benedict (and very well).
For a one-night staged reading, I think this is divine and an excellent way to celebrate Shakespeare in the Park. No doubt they'll have a roster of other big names for this reading.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#17Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 5:00pmNick Jonas for Montague!
#19Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 5:20pmPatti's Juliet would have been interesting.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#20Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 5:28pmThere would be so much subtext with Kev.
#21Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 5:54pmI'd pay $1500 to see ROMEO & JULIET with Patti and Bill Smitrovich.
#22Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 8:05pm
Christine Pedi as Liza as the Nurse would be divine.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#23Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 9:54pmNamo- Kevin Kline can "subtext" me anytime!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#24Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 10:08pm
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