Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers sure are getting a work out these days, what with Tom Holland’s recent stab in London, the enduringly popular girl power take of & Juliet and no doubt one or two others percolating somewhere even as I write.
But no matter – make room, plenty of room, for Sam Gold‘s Romeo + Juliet rave-up starring the compelling and well-matched Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, opening tonight on Broadway.
Pumped up by Jack Antonoff’s thumping music (the several songs he wrote includes the new “Man of the House,” performed by Zegler), the play, occasionally set in something akin to an Elizabethan dance club complete with DJ and some 21st Century moves, is perhaps the best use in ages of Circle in the Square’s often troublesome in-the-round staging.
Even when Connor’s Romeo and Zegler’s Juliet square off from opposite sides of the venue, their invisible chains – hormones, by another term – are magic.
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