Word: juliet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Patti took him to see The Nutcracker ballet, which "made a deep impression on him, though he says he had been fascinated by ballet ever since he was a child and saw Rudolf Nureyev in a filmed version of Romeo and Juliet. "His grace impressed me so much that I came to think of that as a sort of physical ideal." After just a few weeks at Yale, Ron began to take dance classes, then decided he wanted to make dancing his career. He called his father to tell him the news. "I was a little frightened," he recalls. "What...
Since then, however, his work has begun to seem monotonous and eccentric. Two years ago, in an unusual article in Pravda, the much beloved Liepa accused Grigorovich of showing a "disrespectful attitude" in his sweeping revisions of traditional productions like Romeo and Juliet...
...Mauser slug in the chest. In real life, and most fiction, he would be cheaply expendable. Here he is not, because the rise of Luis from Franco's Most Wanted list to nouveau millionaire is too good to end abruptly, not least because his life is joined by Juliet Francis Conroy, a Los Angelena of equally dubious creditability. The American is beautiful and wry, a one-woman survival kit who leads him on to yet another plot...
...much so that one cannot experience a thoroughly enchanting evening in the theater. The current production of West Side Story at Broadway's Minskoff Theater surely qualifies as that. The story, if anyone needs to be told, closely parallels Romeo and Juliet. The warring feudal factions of the Montagues and the Capulets become turf gangs, the Jets (whites) and the Sharks (Puerto Ricans...