Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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Streep 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

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Streep 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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#3

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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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#4

Streep 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?

#5

Streep 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.

#6

Streep 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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Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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

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

#8

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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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#9

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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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#10

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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

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

#11

Streep 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.

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#12

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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

Can they get Jamie Lee Curtis to play the balcony?

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#13

Streep 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.

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#14

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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...

#15

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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?

#16

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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

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

#17

Streep 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.

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#18

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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

Nick Jonas for Montague!

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#19

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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

Liza as the Nurse!!

#20

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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

Patti's Juliet would have been interesting.

#21

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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

There would be so much subtext with Kev.

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#22

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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

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

#23

Streep 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.

#24

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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

Namo- Kevin Kline can "subtext" me anytime!

#25

Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet

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

He once confused Corine for his wife.

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