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
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#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.
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#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?
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#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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#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?
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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
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#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!
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#9Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 4:32pmDang. If only I had $1,500 to spare.
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#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.
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#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?
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#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.
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#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.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
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#17Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 5:00pmNick Jonas for Montague!
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#19Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 5:20pmPatti's Juliet would have been interesting.
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#20Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 5:28pmThere would be so much subtext with Kev.
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#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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#23Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 9:54pmNamo- Kevin Kline can "subtext" me anytime!
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#24Streep and Kline do one-night Romeo and Juliet
Posted: 4/17/12 at 10:08pm
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