From “Wicked” to “Waitress,” female empowerment has been a boon for musical theater.
Which, to be fair, is part of the fun. As Shakespearean re-imaginings go, we have, in theory, been here before, with everything from “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” to “Shakespeare in Love.” David West Read’s book, mixing feminist lessons and groan-worthy gags, is a (very) long way from Stoppard. This is the Bard meets Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys, as one of his most iconic characters, Juliet, gets her very own jukebox musical. All of this, couched in contemporary language with the odd slip into quotation and rhyme, is a framework to carry the songs. & Juliet is the irreverent and fun-loving new West End musical that asks: what if Juliet’s famous ending was really just …
That’s the suggestion of Anne Hathaway (Cassidy Janson) who, tired of being sidelined by her pleased-with-himself husband Will Shakespeare (Oliver Tompsett), kicks off a play-within-a-play. Juliet picks up the dagger and…gets a life. The concept is meta. & Juliet is a rethinking of the events of Shakespeare’s heartbreaking romance ‘Romeo and Juliet‘ in which Juliet selects not to end herself toward the end, and rather takes off to France on an excursion of self-revelation. Yet for all its many flaws, it’s hard not to cave in to its determination to add some thought to its undeniably feel-good factor. Supported by Gareth Owen’s first-rate sound design combining stomping power and real clarity, the cast consistently raise not just the temperature but the roof.
& Juliet – West End. Melanie La Barrie and David Bedella supply broad, outrageously accented comic turns. Theatre. Where “Mamma Mia” brings its feminist slant to the fore with slow cunning, here, everyone on stage can’t stop talking and singing about it. C. & Juliet is previewing at the Opera House in Manchester until the 12th October and tickets are a bargain. This new and exciting show must be seen. Age Restrictions. But, and it’s a very big but, the passion in the voices throughout, especially in the stronger second half, saves the day. There are high points with well-loved songs given unexpected new arrangements and tone — “I‘m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman” is given a completely fresh spin — but the production team knows, deep down, that there is no deep down. This show is camp, overblown and absurd but fills a particular West End niche particularly well. Lee leads the ensemble in killer moves and is only briefly challenged by Janson in the lung-busting ballad stakes. & Juliet review: Camp and unsubtle but this glittery fever dream of a musical shines. In that sense, it’s not a million miles from the runaway Brit hit “Six.” But where that show sells out a 353-seat off-West End house with young ticket buyers paying low prices, “& Juliet” will need major marketing to woo audiences beyond its youthful demographic.
© Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. With charisma and vocal power, the London-born actress owns the stage as a modern heroine, liberated from Shakespeare’s love story and its historical trappings, banging out power ballads that hit-maker Max Martin and various collaborators wrote for the likes of Britney, Backstreet Boys and Katy Perry. Knockout vocals drive a camp revamp of “Romeo and Juliet," featuring the songs of Max Martin. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. Silly and serious, “& Juliet” wants to have its cake and to eat it too. Shaftesbury Theatre
Within moments, Anne has whisked the newly liberated Juliet and her alternately bold and troubled non-binary best friend May (sweet-voiced Arun Blair-Magnat) plus her devoted nurse (Melanie La Barrie, whose comic timing is as strong as her voice) 600 miles to Paris. Read Next: Tony Nominations Will Be Announced Next Week (EXCLUSIVE), ‘The Last Five Years’ Review: Smart Revival in London Theater Cleverly Redesigned for Social Distance, ‘The Outside Dog’ & ‘The Hand of God’ Review: Kristin Scott Thomas Stars in Socially Distanced Staging, ‘Beat the Devil’ Review: Ralph Fiennes Stars in COVID-19 Monologue in Socially Distanced Staging, ‘Simpsons’ Lists 50 Reasons Why Re-Electing Trump Is Terrifying in Exclusive ‘Treehouse of Horror’ Clip, Ellen DeGeneres Seeks $40 Million for Bali-Esque Montecito Compound, Eddie Murphy’s ‘Coming 2 America’ Moves From Paramount to Amazon Studios, Pedro Pascal on Fame and ‘The Mandalorian’: ‘Can We Cut the S— and Talk About the Child?’, ‘Dexter’ Limited Series Revival Ordered at Showtime, ‘Hillbilly Elegy’: Amy Adams, Glenn Close Star in First Trailer for Ron Howard’s Oscars Contender, Conchata Ferrell, ‘Two and a Half Men’ Star, Dies at 77, Kim Kardashian West Donates $1 Million to Armenia Fund Amid Ongoing Conflict With Azerbaijan, ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Prequel ‘Kamp Koral’ Unveils First Look Image, Every Member of Margot Robbie and Christina Hodson’s All-Women Screenwriting Lab Has Sold a Feature Film, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep and Timothee Chalamet Join Adam McKay’s ‘Don’t Look Up’, Inside Clare Crawley's Unprecedented 'Bachelorette' Season, Joe Rogan Lists Fully Customized Bell Canyon Estate, Ice Cube Clarifies Role in Helping Trump Admin Develop ‘Platinum Plan’, Hublot’s New Watch Collection Brings More Than 300 Baguette-Cut Diamonds to Each Piece, Amazon to Stream NFL Playoff Game as Providers Position for Long-Term Deal, The 16 Best Earplugs for a Sound(less) Night’s Sleep. 6+ years. But then, Stoppard never set up storming finishes to almost all twenty-nine numbers from the mindbending back catalog of pop hit guru Max Martin. The costumes look like a clubland fever dream. The best plot device is sprung shortly before the first-act curtain, when a character no one was expecting shows up and throws a spanner in the works. 150 minutes. At the weekend I created these babies, because com, My latest paper cuts are just my favourite ever.
Duration. It’s not subtle and doesn’t make much sense but who cares when you’ve got glitter cannons, breakdancers and a belting version of Baby One More Time? At a nightclub, May falls for Francois but the latter is under the thumb of his father (a very arch David Bedella). There’s a lot of “yass kween” affirmation and knowing, terrible jokes. Singing the hell out of Britney’s “Roar” convinces the entire auditorium to do just that back to her. . Martin’s songs are statements, not stories, and their prime function isn’t drama but a single emotion belted in major vocal workouts. I’d never heard of Max Martin before but I recognised every hit that rolled over the audience like an unstoppable wave: I Want It That Way, I Kissed a Girl, Everybody. Wildly predictable love tangles immediately ensue, with snapshot scenes cueing a succession of “I want” songs from dreamy to defiant, plus much belting of ballads of self-reproach. The plot and message of female empowerment are pretty thin but this jukebox musical is an absolute blast and features a powerful turn from Miriam-Teak Lee.
The show belongs, however, to Lee, who strode out of drama school into Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre where she dazzled as a gazelle-like Claire De Loone in “On The Town.” A year in “Hamilton” immediately followed and now this. Janson, winning the audience over with deft, expertly knowing wit as well as deliciously dark-toned vocals, gets the possibly poisoned chalice of the Celine Dion number “It’s Gonna Be Me.” Slowed right down, and armed, at last, with nothing but a bare stage, Janson unleashes a vocal so triumphant you’re left stunned that she isn’t (yet) a star. Likewise, the superbly drilled ensemble never stop dancing but, like the overused hydraulics, their choreography all seems to express the same fierce defiance, so they hit diminishing returns. WC2H 8DP, We went behind the scenes of & Juliet with its star Miriam-Teak Lee, ★★★★ 'Magnetic Aimie Atkinson brings power and depth to musical rom-com revival', ★★★★ 'Roger Allam and Colin Morgan give fine performances in Caryl Churchill's nature-nurture debate', ★ 'Two men's internal struggles overshadow beefed-up musical', ★★★★★ 'Antoinette Nwandu's shattering study of racism's dream-stealing power', ★★★★ 'Lesley Manville is magnetic in Tony Kushner's superb, but very long, drama', ★★★★ 'Tom Stoppard's new masterwork is an early contender for play of the year', ★★★ 'Beguiling energy to a passionate debut about breaking down barriers', ★★★★ 'Stunning craft and sinister visions in spine-tingling Caryl Churchill revival', ★★★ 'Lucy Kirkwood's messy but significant work has a gutsy audacity', ★★★★ 'Daniel Radcliffe gives his best stage performance yet in Samuel Beckett double-bill', ★★★★ 'Rafe Spall rages through grief and fury in electrifying one-man play', ★★★★ 'Toby Jones is in his comic prime in a retooled Chekhov for our times', ★★★ 'An exhilarating feminist story but big ideas are unevenly executed', ★★ 'Apartheid battle reduced to an odd-couple double act', ★★★ 'Newcomer Jessica Rhodes is magnetic in Lucy Prebble's prescient play', ★★★★ 'Revamped musical opens at London's Sondheim Theatre with added grit', ★★★ 'Forget subtlety — it’s all about the bants', ★★★ 'Fine performances in intellectually strenuous play', ★★★★ 'Revival feels more nimble and resonant than ever', ★★★★★ 'Elena Ferrante's story makes a triumphant transition to stage', ★★★ 'A standout emotional and vocal performance from Sam Tutty', ★★★★ 'This jukebox musical is an absolute blast and features a powerful turn from Miriam-Teak Lee', ★★★★ 'This feel-good extravaganza defies both logic and pessimism', ★★★★ 'It’s not just a physical challenge that’s dramatised, but a moral one too', ★★★★ 'A sure hit that dares to be different', & Juliet review: Camp and unsubtle but this glittery fever dream of a musical shines. & Juliet Review the musical, The West End Preview At The Opera House Manchester. It sounds incomprehensibly crazy, which is probably the whole point. West End Review: ‘& Juliet’ Knockout vocals drive a camp revamp of “Romeo and Juliet," featuring the songs of Max Martin. Shaftesbury Theatre.
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Which, to be fair, is part of the fun. As Shakespearean re-imaginings go, we have, in theory, been here before, with everything from “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” to “Shakespeare in Love.” David West Read’s book, mixing feminist lessons and groan-worthy gags, is a (very) long way from Stoppard. This is the Bard meets Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys, as one of his most iconic characters, Juliet, gets her very own jukebox musical. All of this, couched in contemporary language with the odd slip into quotation and rhyme, is a framework to carry the songs. & Juliet is the irreverent and fun-loving new West End musical that asks: what if Juliet’s famous ending was really just …
That’s the suggestion of Anne Hathaway (Cassidy Janson) who, tired of being sidelined by her pleased-with-himself husband Will Shakespeare (Oliver Tompsett), kicks off a play-within-a-play. Juliet picks up the dagger and…gets a life. The concept is meta. & Juliet is a rethinking of the events of Shakespeare’s heartbreaking romance ‘Romeo and Juliet‘ in which Juliet selects not to end herself toward the end, and rather takes off to France on an excursion of self-revelation. Yet for all its many flaws, it’s hard not to cave in to its determination to add some thought to its undeniably feel-good factor. Supported by Gareth Owen’s first-rate sound design combining stomping power and real clarity, the cast consistently raise not just the temperature but the roof.
& Juliet – West End. Melanie La Barrie and David Bedella supply broad, outrageously accented comic turns. Theatre. Where “Mamma Mia” brings its feminist slant to the fore with slow cunning, here, everyone on stage can’t stop talking and singing about it. C. & Juliet is previewing at the Opera House in Manchester until the 12th October and tickets are a bargain. This new and exciting show must be seen. Age Restrictions. But, and it’s a very big but, the passion in the voices throughout, especially in the stronger second half, saves the day. There are high points with well-loved songs given unexpected new arrangements and tone — “I‘m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman” is given a completely fresh spin — but the production team knows, deep down, that there is no deep down. This show is camp, overblown and absurd but fills a particular West End niche particularly well. Lee leads the ensemble in killer moves and is only briefly challenged by Janson in the lung-busting ballad stakes. & Juliet review: Camp and unsubtle but this glittery fever dream of a musical shines. In that sense, it’s not a million miles from the runaway Brit hit “Six.” But where that show sells out a 353-seat off-West End house with young ticket buyers paying low prices, “& Juliet” will need major marketing to woo audiences beyond its youthful demographic.
© Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. With charisma and vocal power, the London-born actress owns the stage as a modern heroine, liberated from Shakespeare’s love story and its historical trappings, banging out power ballads that hit-maker Max Martin and various collaborators wrote for the likes of Britney, Backstreet Boys and Katy Perry. Knockout vocals drive a camp revamp of “Romeo and Juliet," featuring the songs of Max Martin. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. Silly and serious, “& Juliet” wants to have its cake and to eat it too. Shaftesbury Theatre
Within moments, Anne has whisked the newly liberated Juliet and her alternately bold and troubled non-binary best friend May (sweet-voiced Arun Blair-Magnat) plus her devoted nurse (Melanie La Barrie, whose comic timing is as strong as her voice) 600 miles to Paris. Read Next: Tony Nominations Will Be Announced Next Week (EXCLUSIVE), ‘The Last Five Years’ Review: Smart Revival in London Theater Cleverly Redesigned for Social Distance, ‘The Outside Dog’ & ‘The Hand of God’ Review: Kristin Scott Thomas Stars in Socially Distanced Staging, ‘Beat the Devil’ Review: Ralph Fiennes Stars in COVID-19 Monologue in Socially Distanced Staging, ‘Simpsons’ Lists 50 Reasons Why Re-Electing Trump Is Terrifying in Exclusive ‘Treehouse of Horror’ Clip, Ellen DeGeneres Seeks $40 Million for Bali-Esque Montecito Compound, Eddie Murphy’s ‘Coming 2 America’ Moves From Paramount to Amazon Studios, Pedro Pascal on Fame and ‘The Mandalorian’: ‘Can We Cut the S— and Talk About the Child?’, ‘Dexter’ Limited Series Revival Ordered at Showtime, ‘Hillbilly Elegy’: Amy Adams, Glenn Close Star in First Trailer for Ron Howard’s Oscars Contender, Conchata Ferrell, ‘Two and a Half Men’ Star, Dies at 77, Kim Kardashian West Donates $1 Million to Armenia Fund Amid Ongoing Conflict With Azerbaijan, ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Prequel ‘Kamp Koral’ Unveils First Look Image, Every Member of Margot Robbie and Christina Hodson’s All-Women Screenwriting Lab Has Sold a Feature Film, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep and Timothee Chalamet Join Adam McKay’s ‘Don’t Look Up’, Inside Clare Crawley's Unprecedented 'Bachelorette' Season, Joe Rogan Lists Fully Customized Bell Canyon Estate, Ice Cube Clarifies Role in Helping Trump Admin Develop ‘Platinum Plan’, Hublot’s New Watch Collection Brings More Than 300 Baguette-Cut Diamonds to Each Piece, Amazon to Stream NFL Playoff Game as Providers Position for Long-Term Deal, The 16 Best Earplugs for a Sound(less) Night’s Sleep. 6+ years. But then, Stoppard never set up storming finishes to almost all twenty-nine numbers from the mindbending back catalog of pop hit guru Max Martin. The costumes look like a clubland fever dream. The best plot device is sprung shortly before the first-act curtain, when a character no one was expecting shows up and throws a spanner in the works. 150 minutes. At the weekend I created these babies, because com, My latest paper cuts are just my favourite ever.
Duration. It’s not subtle and doesn’t make much sense but who cares when you’ve got glitter cannons, breakdancers and a belting version of Baby One More Time? At a nightclub, May falls for Francois but the latter is under the thumb of his father (a very arch David Bedella). There’s a lot of “yass kween” affirmation and knowing, terrible jokes. Singing the hell out of Britney’s “Roar” convinces the entire auditorium to do just that back to her. . Martin’s songs are statements, not stories, and their prime function isn’t drama but a single emotion belted in major vocal workouts. I’d never heard of Max Martin before but I recognised every hit that rolled over the audience like an unstoppable wave: I Want It That Way, I Kissed a Girl, Everybody. Wildly predictable love tangles immediately ensue, with snapshot scenes cueing a succession of “I want” songs from dreamy to defiant, plus much belting of ballads of self-reproach. The plot and message of female empowerment are pretty thin but this jukebox musical is an absolute blast and features a powerful turn from Miriam-Teak Lee.
The show belongs, however, to Lee, who strode out of drama school into Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre where she dazzled as a gazelle-like Claire De Loone in “On The Town.” A year in “Hamilton” immediately followed and now this. Janson, winning the audience over with deft, expertly knowing wit as well as deliciously dark-toned vocals, gets the possibly poisoned chalice of the Celine Dion number “It’s Gonna Be Me.” Slowed right down, and armed, at last, with nothing but a bare stage, Janson unleashes a vocal so triumphant you’re left stunned that she isn’t (yet) a star. Likewise, the superbly drilled ensemble never stop dancing but, like the overused hydraulics, their choreography all seems to express the same fierce defiance, so they hit diminishing returns. WC2H 8DP, We went behind the scenes of & Juliet with its star Miriam-Teak Lee, ★★★★ 'Magnetic Aimie Atkinson brings power and depth to musical rom-com revival', ★★★★ 'Roger Allam and Colin Morgan give fine performances in Caryl Churchill's nature-nurture debate', ★ 'Two men's internal struggles overshadow beefed-up musical', ★★★★★ 'Antoinette Nwandu's shattering study of racism's dream-stealing power', ★★★★ 'Lesley Manville is magnetic in Tony Kushner's superb, but very long, drama', ★★★★ 'Tom Stoppard's new masterwork is an early contender for play of the year', ★★★ 'Beguiling energy to a passionate debut about breaking down barriers', ★★★★ 'Stunning craft and sinister visions in spine-tingling Caryl Churchill revival', ★★★ 'Lucy Kirkwood's messy but significant work has a gutsy audacity', ★★★★ 'Daniel Radcliffe gives his best stage performance yet in Samuel Beckett double-bill', ★★★★ 'Rafe Spall rages through grief and fury in electrifying one-man play', ★★★★ 'Toby Jones is in his comic prime in a retooled Chekhov for our times', ★★★ 'An exhilarating feminist story but big ideas are unevenly executed', ★★ 'Apartheid battle reduced to an odd-couple double act', ★★★ 'Newcomer Jessica Rhodes is magnetic in Lucy Prebble's prescient play', ★★★★ 'Revamped musical opens at London's Sondheim Theatre with added grit', ★★★ 'Forget subtlety — it’s all about the bants', ★★★ 'Fine performances in intellectually strenuous play', ★★★★ 'Revival feels more nimble and resonant than ever', ★★★★★ 'Elena Ferrante's story makes a triumphant transition to stage', ★★★ 'A standout emotional and vocal performance from Sam Tutty', ★★★★ 'This jukebox musical is an absolute blast and features a powerful turn from Miriam-Teak Lee', ★★★★ 'This feel-good extravaganza defies both logic and pessimism', ★★★★ 'It’s not just a physical challenge that’s dramatised, but a moral one too', ★★★★ 'A sure hit that dares to be different', & Juliet review: Camp and unsubtle but this glittery fever dream of a musical shines. & Juliet Review the musical, The West End Preview At The Opera House Manchester. It sounds incomprehensibly crazy, which is probably the whole point. West End Review: ‘& Juliet’ Knockout vocals drive a camp revamp of “Romeo and Juliet," featuring the songs of Max Martin. Shaftesbury Theatre.
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