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Whereas Romeo + Juliet is one in every of William Shakespeare’s most well-known tragedies, Jack Antonoff forgot about that half whereas creating music for the Broadway revival.
“After I suppose Romeo + Juliet, and I used to be doing this in music, I take into consideration hope and love and discovering one thing and working with it in opposition to all odds,” Antonoff, 40, stated in the course of the Sunday, October 13, episode of CBS Sunday Morning. “I all the time neglect about all of the dying.”
He added, “So, I began going again and stitching that into the rating barely not realizing this, however trace that it’s gonna be horrible ‘trigger I neglect!”
The Bleachers musician created an all-new rating for Sam Gold’s Broadway manufacturing of Romeo + Juliet, which stars Package Connor and Rachel Zegler because the ill-fated, star-crossed lovers of their respective Nice White Means debuts. (For many who, like Antonoff, forgot — teenagers Romeo and Juliet find yourself dying by suicide following miscommunication and household feuds that barred them from being collectively.)
Gold’s manufacturing reimagined the traditional play by staging it within the spherical on the Circle within the Sq. theater in New York Metropolis. The solid members additionally costume in additional trendy garments (Connor’s sequined pants will all the time be well-known to Us) and even sing a couple of songs between monologues.
“[Sam Gold] got here to us and he stated, ‘It’s a Troye Sivan music video.’ That’s just about how he pitched it,” Zegler, 23, stated throughout a September look on the Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon. “He additionally stated very profound issues like, ‘It’s a gaggle of 20something-year-olds who broke into Circle within the Sq. on Broadway and must get one thing off their chest.”
She added, “The play actually offers with quite a bit that someway pertains to a contemporary viewers, despite the fact that it was written 500 years in the past.”
Connor, 20, additional famous in the course of the late-night present that performing Shakespeare is “one thing that I’ve needed to do for some time.”
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“I feel, as a British actor, numerous the time, you’re sort of inspired to do it if you happen to haven’t accomplished it,” the Heartstopper star gushed to host Jimmy Fallon.
It maybe is predicted that Antonoff primarily centered on the romanticism of the Shakespearean play since he’s residing a dream world himself. Not solely is Antonoff on the high of his recreation professionally — he produces for the likes of Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter outdoors of creating his personal Bleachers data — and he married actress Margaret Qualley final 12 months.
“It continues to be surreal as a result of one of many solely guarantees of the work I do is how fleeting — not the efficiency, not the viewers, however that sort of success is,” Antonoff stated on Sunday. “So, there’s by no means a second after I’m not, like, amazed by all of it.”
