Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

[Kad]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#1

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

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[bundy5000]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#2

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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[madbrian]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#2

Posted: 4/17/12 at 1:32pm

They'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.

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[Idiot]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#3

Posted: 4/17/12 at 1:41pm

^ But but but.... you want the ending to seem tragic, right?

[henrikegerman]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#4

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.

[broadwaybaby086]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#5

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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[Overkill]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#6

Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:11pm

Updated On: 4/17/12 at 04:11 PM

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#7

Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:13pm

Wow, this sounds amazing, Streep and Kline have so much chemistry, I'd love to see this

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[SNAFU]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#8

Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:23pm

And for the price of admission you get gauze contact lenses with vaseline eye solution! Then you STILL have to squint!

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[willep]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#9

Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:32pm

Dang. If only I had $1,500 to spare.

[FindingNamo]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#10

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.

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[Mister Matt]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#11

Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:36pm

Can they get Jamie Lee Curtis to play the balcony?

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[givesmevoice]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#12

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.

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[newintown]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#13

Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:44pm

The 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...

[SonofRobbieJ]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#14

Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:50pm

And really...wouldn't it have been faaaaar more fun to have them take on Beatrice and Benedict?

[Jordan Catalano]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#15

Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:52pm

Obviously, Mandy would have to be Patti's Romeo.

[Kad]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#16

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.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[FindingNamo]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#17

Posted: 4/17/12 at 5:00pm

Nick Jonas for Montague!

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[Jordan Catalano]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#18

Posted: 4/17/12 at 5:07pm

Liza as the Nurse!!

[broadwaybabytn]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#19

Posted: 4/17/12 at 5:20pm

Patti's Juliet would have been interesting.

[FindingNamo]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#20

Posted: 4/17/12 at 5:28pm

There would be so much subtext with Kev.

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[Jordan Catalano]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#21

Posted: 4/17/12 at 5:54pm

I'd pay $1500 to see ROMEO & JULIET with Patti and Bill Smitrovich.

[Matt2]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#22

Posted: 4/17/12 at 8:05pm

Christine Pedi as Liza as the Nurse would be divine.

[sabrelady]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#23

Posted: 4/17/12 at 9:54pm

Namo- Kevin Kline can "subtext" me anytime!

[FindingNamo]

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet#24

Posted: 4/17/12 at 10:08pm

He once confused Corine for his wife.

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