Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor have announced that she will star in Romeo + Juliet on Broadway.
A new musical adaptation of Shakespeare's classic. Coincidentally, Tom Holland is also preparing another version of the English classic. Teen stars Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor, best known for West Side Story and Heartstopper respectively, will make their Broadway debut with Romeo + Juliet, another version of William Shakespeare's classic that will feature music by Jack Antonoff, one of Taylor's producers.
Swift. Curiously, Tom Holland is also preparing Romeo and Juliet, although in his house he will perform in London's West End. Both Rachel and Kit have announced through Instagram their participation in this work directed by Sam Gold (An Enemy of the People) using heart emoticons and tagging the location of Verona, the city in northern Italy where the story starring the Montagues and the Capulets.
Goldman previously starred in another work by the British playwright, Macbeth, directed by Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga that had a significant impact in New York, as well as the Shakespearean tragedy King Lear, with Glenda Jackson at the helm.
For her part, Sonya Tayeh, from Moulin Rouge and winner of a Tony Award, will be in charge of the choreographed part in this adaptation aimed particularly at generation Z and TikTok.
And it focuses on the youngest under the slogans "youth is screwed" and "Shakespeare's eternal tragedy now belongs to a generation on the edge."
"Abandoned to their fate in their parents' violent world, an impulsive pair of lovers rush towards their inescapable destiny. The intoxicating rush of passion quickly turns into brutal chaos that can only end in one way," completes the synopsis of a work that still has no official date or cast.
The version of Zegler, who recently starred in The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and Connor, who also played Elton John in Rocketman, joins the adaptation led by Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers and another of the revisionist musical & Juliet which has been triumphing on Broadway for two years.
