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 characteristic music by Grammy Award winner Jack Antonoff, who can also be making his Broadway debut, motion by Sonya Tayeh (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) and path by Sam Gold. Actual dates and a theater have but to be introduced, however tickets are set to go on sale in Might.
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 developing in November, I felt like making a present this fall that celebrates youth and hope, and unleashes the anger younger individuals really feel in regards to the world they’re inheriting,” stated Gold, who’s helming this season’s An Enemy of the Individuals.
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 Might 23 by means of August.
Connor, greatest identified for his position as Nick Nelson within the sequence 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 steer the mystery-horror movie One in all 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 enjoying Maria in Steven Spielberg’s new adaptation of West Facet 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 look as Snow White in Disney’s live-action remake in 2025.
Antonoff not too long ago received his third consecutive Grammy Award for Producer of the 12 months and has collaborated with artists similar to Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, The 1975, Diana Ross, Lorde, St. Vincent, Florence + The Machine and extra. He additionally helms the pop rock band Bleachers.
Seaview, which is behind a number of reveals this season together with An Enemy of the Individuals, is the lead producer of the play.