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Audience involvement is a recurring theme in this production. Director Eric Ronis invites the audience to dance with the players during the Capulet's party, to take marriage vows with the young couple, and to follow Romeo into the Capulet tomb at the end of the play...
Juliet (Kristen Gasser) does fine when alone, but tends to pale when appearing on stage with the Nurse (Caroline Bicks) or with her father, Lord Capulet (Christian Kanuth...
...distribution of certain other parts, however, leaves something to be desired: Becker also plays Paris, friend of the house of Capulet, and favored by Lord Capulet for the hand of Juliet. There simply is no need for this. The problem is that Becker is too good as Mercutio; no sooner does Paris appear on stage than the audience wishes he were Mercutio once again...
...double-duty casting doesn't stop here. Lord Capulet and Tybalt are both played by Kanuth. At least these two are on the same side of the feud. Kanuth is excellent as "the fiery Tybalt," but Lord Capulet comes across as perhaps just a bit too fiery in this production...
...strut and pose, the ladies arch their backs so radically that they look poised for a back flip. An exception is Gerel Hilding, whose Tybalt has genuine authority. Perhaps unwittingly, Stuttgart Choreologist Georgette Tsinguirides, who set the ballet on the Joffrey, made the Montagues the good guys and the Capulets the swine: for instance, at the end of the first-act ball, Lord Capulet's decision to spare the gate-crashing Romeo from Tybalt's outrage is scarcely indicated. As Juliet and her Romeo, Patricia Miller and James Canfield both lack spirit and flair, but let the music carry them...