GLOW Lyric Theatre presents performances of Roméo et Juliette, showing July 31st, and West Side Story, showing July 29th and 30th.
West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and conception and choreography by Jerome Robbins. It was inspired by William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. The story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid-1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood. In the early 1960s much of the neighborhood would be cleared in an urban renewal project for the Lincoln Center, changing the neighborhood’s character.
Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l’Amour is a French musical based on William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, with music and lyrics by Gérard Presgurvic. Differences from Shakespeare’s plot include that the nature of the lovers’ deaths is different, depending on the production. New characters such as Death (French, Belgian, Japanese, Netherlands, and Moscow productions only) and the Poet (French production only) appear for dramatic effect. Lady Capulet has a greatly increased role and in the case of the Hungarian version, has an affair with her servant. The role of Tybalt has changed slightly from being purely dark to a more pitiful character because of his growing up with the hate and a dark childhood, as well as an unrequited attraction to Juliet.
Please visit www.glowlyric.com for additional information and to purchase tickets.
Perfectly situated to be the Southeast’s premier professional lyric opera company, GLOW Lyric Theatre brings vibrant, invigorating performances to Greenville, SC, attracting thousands of opera enthusiasts from zip codes in many different states.
Founded in 2010 by Christian Elser and Jenna Tamisiea, GLOW Lyric Theatre is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Originally Greenville Light Opera Works, the company changed its name to GLOW Lyric Theatre to reflect more closely to its regional opera, operetta and musical theatre mission. As a summer music festival in August, GLOW Lyric Theatre Main Stage season consists of two different shows over a two-week span.