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Rachel Zegler and Package Connor will make their Broadway debuts in a brand new manufacturing of Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet this fall.
The manufacturing will function music by Grammy Award winner Jack Antonoff, who can be making his Broadway debut, motion by Sonya Tayeh (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) and route by Sam Gold. Precise dates and a theater have but to be introduced, however tickets are set to go on sale in Could.
Whereas few particulars have been launched about this model of the Shakespeare traditional, the manufacturing is utilizing the tagline “The Youth Are Fucked” and guarantees an angrier tackle the story.
“With the presidential election arising in November, I felt like making a present this fall that celebrates youth and hope, and unleashes the anger younger individuals really feel concerning the world they’re inheriting,” stated Gold, who’s helming this season’s An Enemy of the Folks.
In the meantime, in London, Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers are set to star in one other manufacturing of Romeo & Juliet, directed by Jamie Lloyd. That manufacturing runs Could 23 via August.
Connor, finest identified for his position as Nick Nelson within the collection Heartstopper, has additionally appeared as younger Elton John in Rocketman and had roles in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Mercy and Little Joe. Connor has a number of stage credit in London, together with starring in Fanny & Alexander on the Previous Vic. He’s set to guide the mystery-horror movie Certainly one of Us and star in Ace Leisure’s movie A Cuban Lady’s Information To Tea And Tomorrow reverse Maia Reffico.
Zegler got here to prominence taking part in Maria in Steven Spielberg’s new adaptation of West Aspect Story on the age of 17. She starred as Lucy Grey Baird in The Starvation Video games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes and in Shazam! Fury of the Gods. She is about to seem as Snow White in Disney’s live-action remake in 2025.
Antonoff just lately received his third consecutive Grammy Award for Producer of the Yr and has collaborated with artists resembling Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, The 1975, Diana Ross, Lorde, St. Vincent, Florence + The Machine and extra. He additionally leads the pop rock band Bleachers.
Seaview, which is behind a number of exhibits this season together with An Enemy of the Folks, is the lead producer of the play.
