Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington's Kennedy Center--where its no-star production of Hamlet just set a house record. Helen Hunt, fresh from her Oscar, will star as Viola in Twelfth Night, opening in mid-July at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. R&J, a quirky, all-male version of Romeo and Juliet, is creating buzz off-Broadway. And just arrived in New York, following a nationwide tour and a stint in London, is Love's Fire, an evening of seven short plays inspired by Shakespeare's sonnets...
Shakespeare gets a more radical shakeup in R&J, adapted and directed by Joe Calarco. The setting is a regimented boys' school, where four students march onstage, recite their Latin and math lessons and then embark on an impromptu performance of Romeo and Juliet. They play all the parts, provide the sound effects (pounding fists, stomping feet, a slow hiss when a character dies), and manipulate the show's single prop: a red silken fabric that serves as, among other things, a shawl, a sword and a vial of poison...
...time he went to Columbia University in the fall of 1919, he had already met his first collaborator, Lorenz Hart. That summer they had sold a song to producer Lew Fields for a show called A Lonely Romeo. (Extraordinarily, some of Rodgers' songs, to his own lyrics, appeared on Broadway even earlier, when...
...transformed upward. Mere sleaze may blossom into art. Greek tragedy told stories more lurid than afternoon television does. (Next Jerry Springer: "Guys who murdered their fathers and married their mothers.") The tale of Mary Letourneau and the boy Vili even begins to touch us now with a certain screwball Romeo-and-Juliet poignancy. There's an interesting humanity in the tale, an aberrance with something almost sweet about...
...MAGLIOZZI, hosts of Car Talk on National Public Radio: We'd vote to bring back the Peugeot. Because we love it? Non, non, non! Since it has been pulled out of the U.S. market--along with the Renault, the Fiat, the Alfa Romeo and the Yugo--there's just no one left to really make fun of on our show... [T]he arrogance of the French makes them such a delightful target...