Word: romeo
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...general, writer's block is a blessing: it has saved readers reams of lousy literature that never got written. But when young Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) becomes pen-tied, the future of English literature is imperiled. For his new play he has a title--Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter--but not a clue. This is a man in search of a muse, which fate, in the form of screenwriters Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, brightly provides. Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) has it all: beauty, poise, a dowry and a titled suitor. But what she really wants...
Shakespeare in Love fancifully retells the creation and premiere of Romeo and Juliet. It peoples the London of 1593 with the usual suspects--Christopher Marlowe (crafty Rupert Everett), Queen Elizabeth (Judi Dench, a sly dominatrix)--and some ageless show-biz types: the poverty-pleading producer (Geoffrey Rush), the backer with a lust for limelight (Tom Wilkinson). Director John Madden works in jokes about profit sharing and credit hogging, and a climax in which the real star steps in for an indisposed leading lady...
...Jerome Robbins, whose masterpiece, Fancy Free, was featured at every performance. The performance included five short pieces revealing the classical and the modern strengths of ABT's repertoire and dancers; The Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, Fancy Free, and three pas de deux from Swan Lake, Le Corsaire and Romeo and Juliet. The dancers performed each number with a refreshing and youthful exuberance. The enthusiasm with which they danced, the consistently strong technique of the dancers from the corps de ballet to the principle dancers and the ease with which they performed both classical and modern pieces provided an evening...
...three pas de deux that followed--the grand pas de deux from Act III of Swan Lake, the pas de deux from Act II of Le Corsaire, and the pas de deux from Act I of Romeo and Juliet--showed off the technical prowess of ABT's dancers...
...Romeo and Juliet was danced by principal dancers Julie Kent and Guillaume Graffin. Julie Kent was, in a word, stunning. Kent's Juliet was extremely delicate and tender and her incredibly thin figure folded and melted around Graffin. Her shy and coy youthfulness came through in each lift and embrace. Kenneth MacMillan's choreography is one of the most passionate that I have seen for this pas de deux. While it included sweeping lifts and movements across the stage, the most moving moments came when the two dancers were kneeling together at center stage and Graffin lifted Juliet over...