Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time he was 24 he had become principal choreographer of the Sadler's Wells Ballet. In 1961 he took over the mediocre Stuttgart Ballet. With his strong sense of theater and his ability to marry dance and plot, Cranko scored dramatic successes with such works as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake and Eugene Onegin. The Stuttgart, under his direction, became one of the best companies in the world...
...strips himself before the bishop and the townfolk, and hands back to his father his clothes, his earthly possessions and his name. Striding to the city gates, he stands outlined against the sky outside, his naked body reminiscent of the last human nudity Zeffirelli celebrated, the joyous body of Romeo. But his Romeo arose from a bed of love to face a world of tragedy; his Francis rushes off in a return to nature that is too starry-eyed to be believed...
...GAVE AWAY the ending!" a high school classmate of mine -- the same one who brightened physics classes by inquiring whether electrons were alive -- shrieked indignantly at an English teacher who mentioned that Romeo dies at the end of the play. So I will limit myself to saying that the ending of the Loeb's West Side Story is much better than its beginning...
Worst of all, the show seems to be dating badly. Maybe the idea of rewriting Romeo and Juliet as a plea for ethnic tolerance seemed more startling in the '50s than it does now. Maybe putting a gang of Puerto Ricans and a gang of non-Puerto Ricans on the stage and letting them slug it out in a ballet had more impact then. (Maybe Jerome Robbins's choreography was better than this production's, I suppose.) In any event, as a showstopping obscenity, "mother-loving" just doesn't make it any more...
...dream of stepping in at the Met often remained a fantasy, since half a dozen transatlantic phone calls would be made to get another singer with a big reputation. This season, however, when the celebrated tenor Franco Corelli canceled, Singer William Lewis was given a chance to sing Romeo -and filled the gap admirably...