Melanie La Barrie and David Bedella supply broad, outrageously accented comic turns.
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. A modern day version of Romeo and Juliet with a twist. Shaftesbury Theatre. 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. If anyone can sell it, this cast can. It sounds incomprehensibly crazy, which is probably the whole point. Lee leads the ensemble in killer moves and is only briefly challenged by Janson in the lung-busting ballad stakes. Juliet picks up the dagger and…gets a life. 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.
Knockout vocals drive a camp revamp of “Romeo and Juliet," featuring the songs of Max Martin.
At the weekend I created these babies, because com, My latest paper cuts are just my favourite ever.
As if terrified we’re going to be bored by one number after another, director Luke Sheppard marshals an all-over-the-shop production for the ADHD generation. & 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. From “Wicked” to “Waitress,” female empowerment has been a boon for musical theater. . Martin’s songs are statements, not stories, and their prime function isn’t drama but a single emotion belted in major vocal workouts.
150 minutes. Shakespeare’s never sounded quite like this before. Theatre. At a nightclub, May falls for Francois but the latter is under the thumb of his father (a very arch David Bedella). 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. Your email address will not be published. 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. It was he who gave Perry her “Teenage Dream” and that’s the tenor of the entire teen-friendly show, which opens with the question: What if Juliet didn’t die after all? & Juliet – West End. 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.
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. 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. 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. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC.
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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. Yet for all its crowd-pleasing grafting of 21st century takes on love and identity onto a 16th century story, there’s a problem. 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? Each number is staged with frantic energy and laser precision by director Luke Sheppard and choreographer Jennifer Weber. Images literal and metaphorical, historical and timeless, flood the giant video screens across the back of Soutra Gilmour’s set, one-part Elizabethan strolling player to two-parts glitz. He follows suit, with a dramatist’s urge to sow discord. Age Restrictions. Singing the hell out of Britney’s “Roar” convinces the entire auditorium to do just that back to her. But, and it’s a very big but, the passion in the voices throughout, especially in the stronger second half, saves the day. But where those shows veered between sincerely earnest and earnestly sincere, “& Juliet” gleefully goes for broke putting gender on the agenda as it yokes pop milestones from the likes of Britney Spears, Katy Perry and Celine Dion to a girl-power revamp of “Romeo and Juliet.” The hyperactive production is sometimes more enervating than exciting, but doubts are blown out of the water by the lead performances, especially spectacular newcomer Miriam-Teak Lee as Juliet, who doesn’t so much star as set the theater alight. With both warmth and whipsmart attitude, she glides and gleams through the show knocking out number after number without appearing to break a sweat. Teenage anxieties have powered many a musical, not least the mother-of-all-jukeboxes, “Mamma Mia!,” but “& Juliet” is not in the same league. The concept is meta. Duration. & Juliet, built around the music of songwriting savant Max Martin, takes this wry premise, douses it in glitter and runs with it. This show is camp, overblown and absurd but fills a particular West End niche particularly well. © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. 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. Silly and serious, “& Juliet” wants to have its cake and to eat it too. All of this, couched in contemporary language with the odd slip into quotation and rhyme, is a framework to carry the songs. The costumes look like a clubland fever dream. West End Review: ‘& Juliet’ Knockout vocals drive a camp revamp of “Romeo and Juliet," featuring the songs of Max Martin. 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. & Juliet review: Camp and unsubtle but this glittery fever dream of a musical shines. 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. C. & Juliet is previewing at the Opera House in Manchester until the 12th October and tickets are a bargain.
Which, to be fair, is part of the fun. Every moment of the Luke Sheppard-directed production is soundtracked by one of Martin's power-pop hits – songs made famous by Katy Perry, Ellie Goulding, Kelly Clarkson, Robyn et al. & Juliet is the irreverent and fun-loving new West End musical that asks: what if Juliet’s famous ending was really just …
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