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** Julia (as she's called in this version) overhears her father's soliloquy about how he only wants her to marry Paris to secure her future and safety in the Austrian version, and she runs to him and hugs him tightly when he finishes the song. Doubles as a [[Tear Jerker]], since while she doesn't know she'll end up ''really'' dying, she still plans on faking dead and running away with Romeo, and thus it's secretly a farewell hug to the father she loves and will never see again.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: A huge part of the score, but special mention must go to "Verone" ("Verona") and "Les Rois du Monde" ("Kings of the World").
* [[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.
* [[Dark Reprise]]: There's one of "Verone" in Act II.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: One of the biggest flaws in the French and German lyrics is how many of them consist largely of repetition, particularly within the choruses of the songs. The Belgian, Russian and Hungarian translations fare better.
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: The original French Romeo and Juliet dubbed Christine and Raoul's French voices in the 2004 film of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]''.
** Tybalt in the Asian tour was the French voice of [[The Lion King|Simba]].
** 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]].
** The original Belgian Juliet played Jemima in the video version of ''[[Cats]]''.
* [[Hollywood Homely]]: Almost all of the actresses who've played the supposedly unattractive Nurse [http://www.flickr.com/photos/12962947@N07/1456132601/in/set-72157602332070752/ are] [http://www.flickr.com/photos/12962947@N07/1523982473/in/set-72157602337441783/ really] [http://www.flickr.com/photos/12962947@N07/1523907351/in/set-72157602337434507/ quite] [http://www.flickr.com/photos/12962947@N07/1523957883/in/set-72157602332069800/ pretty].
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* [[No Accounting for Taste]]: Lord and Lady Capulet, according to the song "Grosse" that was added for the Asian tour.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Benvolio is a little less this than in the original stage play, though it's easy to interpret his portrayal in this as just wanting to belong somewhere and fighting alongside Mercutio is where he feels the most appreciated. However, he and Romeo take up this mantle together during Mercutio and Tybalt's duel.
* [[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.
* [[Playing Gertrude]]: One of the actresses who played the Nurse in Russia was only nineteen years old at the time- three years older than the actress playing Juliet.
* [[Prince Charmless]]: Paris is ''definitely'' not the man for Juliet in this version.
* [[Promoted to Love Interest]]: Tybalt, sort of. While the subplot of Juliet's parents trying to marry her off to Paris remains intact, Tybalt is presented far more strongly as Romeo's romantic rival, and dislikes Paris about as much as he dislikes Romeo. (In the Hungarian adaptation, this is upgraded to outright aggression at the ball.) Of course, considering he's her cousin, Tybalt's love for Juliet is every bit as forbidden as Romeo's.
* [[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).
* [[Takarazuka]]: The company that performed the Japanese production.
* [[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...).
* [[Villain Song]]: "C'est le jour".
 
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* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Ye gods.
* [[Dark Reprise]]: One of "Miert faj?" (the adaptation of "J'ai peur") replaces Romeo's original suicide song.
* [[Death Byby Adaptation]]: Paris, though this does bring his subplot back to the Shakespeare original.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Tybalt's justification for wanting to kill Romeo in the French one is for marrying Juliet. In here, his [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] is started by Romeo ''touching'' her.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Mercutio on the DVD.
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* [[Guttural Growler]]: Tybalt on the DVD. (Though that's kind of just what that actor sounds like ''anyway''.)
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: Huge swathes of the ensemble. Also, Tybalt.
* [[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]].
* [[Holy Shit Quotient]]: The Capulet ball has fan dancers. The fans are ''on fire''.
** Romeo doesn't poison himself, he hangs himself. With Juliet tied to his body.
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* [[Of Corsets Sexy]]: Invoked with some of the ensemble ladies and both Lady Capulet and Lady Montague.
* [[Pettanko]]: Lady Capulet in the [[YouTube]] videos. Not that the costumes don't try to make up for this fact.
* [[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.
* [[Screaming Warrior]]: Tybalt on the DVD.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Paris.
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