Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour: Difference between revisions

''Romeo[[Roméo et Juliette:, Dede Lala Haine aà l'Amour]]'' ("Romeo and Juliet: From Hate to Love", though the subtitle is usually dropped in translations and the 2010 Paris revival was in fact known as ''Romeo et Juliette: Les Enfants de Verone'', which translates as "Romeo and Juliet: The Children of Verona") is a musical adaptation of ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' ([[Captain Obvious|obviously]]) by Gerard Presgurvic that premiered in Paris, France in 2001. It has since played in Canada, Belgium, Hungary, Russia, Austria, Mexico, Italy, South Korea, Romania and Japan (as well as the UK, but, well... the best that can be said for that production is that it did quite a bit better than ''Dance of the Vampires'').

* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Notably, that Romeo ''isn't'' the broody, [[Wangst|wangsting]] [[Emo Teen]] he is in Shakespeare, but just a sensitive young guy who dreams of one day finding someone to love and share his life with, and Tybalt is [[Squick|in love with his cousin]].

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: The costumes in this show tend to look like [[Lady Gaga]] multiplied the fourteenth century by the late nineties. Mercutio in the Viennese production was dressed a bit like a ''[[Gangs of New York]]''-style street brawler.

* [[Cry for Thethe Devil]]: "C'est pas ma faute" ("It's Not My Fault") is, er, ''supposed'' to be this for Tybalt, though it comes off rather shallow and whiny in most versions. The Russian translation made it less a shallow play for sympathy and more of a [[Villainous Lament]], the Belgian is a bitter, self-loathing rant, and the Hungarian version made it... well, see below in the Hungarian section.

** The Austrian production is loaded with this. Romeo and Juliet are Sarah and Alfred in the Vienna revival of ''[[Tanz Derder Vampire]]'', and Tybalt was the original German-language Fiyero in ''[[Wicked (Theatretheatre)|Wicked]]''. Mercutio created the role of Melchior in the Austrian musical premiere of ''[[Spring Awakening]]''. The Nurse was [[Rebecca|Mrs. Van Hopper]].

* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Tybalt loves Juliet.

* [[Parents Asas People]]: Lord Capulet really just wants what's best for Juliet and deeply loves her, if "Avoir une fille" ("To Have A Daughter") is any indication. He's just hapless at knowing what would really make her happy.

* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: People familiar with real-life couple Lukas Perman and Marjan Shaki from the Vienna revival of ''[[Tanz Derder Vampire]]'', in which they play Alfred and Sarah, are likely to have this reaction to seeing them in the Austrian video as Romeo and Juliet.

* [[Self-Backing Vocalist]]: Shows up in the French and Russian cast albums in a few places.

* [[Spared Byby the Adaptation]]: Lady Montague in all productions (in Shakespeare, she's reported to have died offstage of grief when Romeo was exiled) and Paris in all but the Hungarian (in Shakespeare and the Hungarian adaptation, Paris is killed by Romeo at the Capulet tomb).

* [[This Is My Name Onon Foreign]]: Juliet's name varies from production to production (Juliet, Juliette, Julia, Djulya, Julieta, Giulietta...). Tybalt's name was translated as Teobaldo in the Italian version. The family names vary too (Capulette and Montaigu in French, Capuletto and Montecchi in the Belgian, Italian and Russian productions, Capuleto and Montesco in the Mexican...).

* [[Death Byby Adaptation]]: Paris, though this does bring his subplot back to the Shakespeare original.

* [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation]]: Romeo's reaction to discovering Juliet is [[Faking the Dead|"dead"]] is played as a full mental break that makes Juliet herself crossing the [[Despair Event Horizon]] a few minutes later seem sedate in comparison.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: On the DVD cast, Romeo is [[Elisabeth|Rudolf]] and [[A Midsummer NightsNight's Dream|Lysander]]; Juliet is [[Beauty and The Beast|Belle]], [[A Midsummer NightsNight's Dream|Hermia]], and [[Rebecca|the second Mrs. de Winter]]; Tybalt is [[Elisabeth|Death]], [[Beauty and The Beast|the Beast]], [[A Midsummer NightsNight's Dream|Oberon]], [[Spring Awakening|the Adult Man]] and [[Rebecca|Maxim de Winter]]; Lady Capulet is [[Elisabeth]], [[A Midsummer NightsNight's Dream|Titania]], [[Jekyll And Hyde The Musical|Lucy Harris]], [[Rebecca|Mrs. Danvers]] and the Hungarian dub of [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Princess Jasmine]]; Mercutio is [[A Midsummer NightsNight's Dream|Bottom]], [[Elisabeth|Franz Josef]] and (confusingly) ''also'' [[Rebecca|Maxim de Winter]].

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Not the usual sort of pragmatism involved in adaptation, but still a key part of the differences between versions. It seems like the translator essentially took the basic point of each song- "the people who run the world don't have time to enjoy it", "love is the greatest thing in the world", etc.- and just wrote whatever fit that theme and the characters rather than actually providing full equivalents to the French ones. He also reordered songs-Tybalt's two solos swapped places, for example, and "C'est le jour" turned from a [[Villain Song]] to the [[Sanity Slippage Song]] "Ez a kez utoler" ("This is the hand that will strike") while "C'est pas ma faute" became the bitter, reflective "Belem egett" ("Burned into me")- and created new ones out of [[Cut Song|cut songs]] from the French (the [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatretheatre)|"City on Fire"]]-esque "A teboly" shares a melody with Mercutio's onetime solo "La Folie").

* [[Romance Onon the Set]]: The actors who play Juliet and Mercutio on the DVD are married in real life.

* [["What Now?" Ending]]: This version is so damn ''bleak'' that it's hard to read the end as anything but.

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