HERE TO BE STAGED ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’ MUSICAL

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A musical based on William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet will be staged on Wednesday in UB Palace. The musical has been nominated for the Saint Muse festival awards in its musical category, together with Mongolian musicals roughly translated such as ‘Goolingoo’, ‘Child of King’, ‘Legend of Mongolian Chess’. In the main two roles of lovers will be Ts.Monk-Od from ‘A Capella’ musical band (Romeo), and B.Otgonchimeg from Classic Gem (Juliet). The musical will be a Mongolian staging of Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour, a French musical, with music and lyrics by Gerard Presgurvic. It premiered in Paris on January 19, 2001. Since then, the musical has been performed in Verona, Rome, Canada, Antwerp, London, Amsterdam, Budapest, Szeged, Moscow, Vienna, Bucharest, Seoul, Pusan (South Korea), Taipei, Monterrey, Japan and Shanghai. 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, 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.