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Rachel Zegler, Kit Connor to Make Broadway Debuts in ‘Romeo + Juliet’ With Music by Jack Antonoff
Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor will star in Broadway's "Romeo+Juliet."
“West Side Story” star Rachel Zegler and “Heartstopper” breakout Kit Connor will make their Broadway debuts in “Romeo+ Juliet,” a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic that will open in the fall. Gold directed this season’s buzzy play “An Enemy of the People” with Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli and has previously tackled the Bard with “Macbeth” starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga and “King Lear” led by Glenda Jackson. “With the presidential election coming up in November, I felt like making a show this fall that celebrates youth and hope, and unleashes the anger young people feel about the world they are inheriting,” Gold said in a statement.
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