Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Ballet, Richard Cragun and Liliana Cosi in "Les Sylphides". "Romeo and Juliet" pas de deux: world premiere of "Kurkjian's Leopardi Fragments." Aquarius Theatre, Washington St., Boston, March 23-25 at 8 p.m. March...
...finally adolescent--petulant, introverted, guilt-ridden. Similarly, Francesca Annis's Lady Macbeth is pale and lovely sentimental; not cold-blooded, hardly monstrous. In an early central scene, her persuasion of Macbeth to the regicide--the sexual taunts of the Shakespeare are replaced with tears. The two are here more Romeo and Juliet than Macbeth and his Lady, and FrancescaAnnis more a product of the Hefnerian, than the Shakespearean, imagination...
Tchaikowsky is gentle even in his fierce moments, and it is his Romeo and Juliet suite that is better know than Prokofiev's. When the Prokofiev version (second suite, opus 64) begins, it comes as quite a shock. The very extremes of range and timbre are called for, and once again the orchestra responded well. All the solo playing was very good, particularly from flute, harp, piano, and saxophone. Pitch was excellent, including the bizarre but effective ending with contrabassoon and piccoio...
...play is apprentice work of the Bard's, but it does contain premonitory inklings of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night. However, the theme of young love is scarcely served by this dryly mocking adaptation. The musical resembles an animated jukebox and comes alive only in one sultry number, delivered by a one-woman heat wave named Jonelle Allen. The excuse for ventures of this sort is that they render the classics accessible. Actually, such shows are merely masked in the accessories of modernity - rock music, randy deshabille, silly props and lofty panfraternal sentimentality. The resulting trivia are perfectly...
...small cafe next to the school of political science in UNAM. They try to reach agreement on how to organize the students, how to raise money, and what to do once students and money are available. At the end of one such meeting a student turned to Romeo Gonzalez, one of the most radical of the 1968 student leaders, and asked him his prediction for the future. "Nothing has changed and nothing will change," Gonzalez said. "When the Mexican sees this the government will need the tanks again--but it won't be for a long time...