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The song is a love duet between the protagonists Tony and Maria, sung while Tony visits Maria on the fire escape outside her apartment. West Side Story is a modernized adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set in 20th-century New York; the scene in which "Tonight" appears is the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet's famous "balcony scene".
Watercolor by John Masey Wright of Act II, Scene ii (the balcony scene). In the later balcony scene, Shakespeare has Romeo overhear Juliet's soliloquy, but in Brooke's version of the story, her declaration is done alone. By bringing Romeo into the scene to eavesdrop, Shakespeare breaks from the normal sequence of courtship.
An 1870 oil painting by Ford Madox Brown depicting Romeo and Juliet's famous balcony scene. Although styled an 'Overture-Fantasy' by the composer, the overall design is a symphonic poem in sonata form with an introduction and an epilogue. The work is based on three main strands of the Shakespeare story.
“Romeo + Juliet,” which opened Oct. 24 at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre, is an in-your-face, relentlessly Gen Z spin on the most famous love story ever told.
A 13-year-old girl, Juliet is the only daughter of the patriarch of the House of Capulet. She falls in love with the male protagonist Romeo, a member of the House of Montague, with which the Capulets have a blood feud. The story has a long history that precedes Shakespeare himself. Juliet by Philip H. Calderon (1888)
Related: See first look at Rachel Zegler as Snow White and Disney's new 7 dwarfs Zegler, who previously played Maria in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, is equally as impressive as Juliet.She ...
The music video for "Kissing You" features scenes of Romeo + Juliet, mainly those when Romeo and Juliet first meet at the Capulets' ball.Interspersed are clips of Des'ree singing the song in an empty building, with water on the floor.
The zombie-romantic comedy film Warm Bodies (2013) and Isaac Marion's 2010 novel on which it is based draw numerous parallels to Romeo and Juliet, from the characters' names, relationships, and professions [R(omeo), Julie(ette), M(arcus/Mercutio), Perry (Paris), and Nora (the nurse)], to the balcony scene, to the to-the-death feud that is ...