"Romeo and Juliet" was the lead single released from Sylk-E. Fyne's debut album, Raw Sylk. The song was released on January 27, 1998, with production from Gerald Baillergeau and Victor Merritt and a guest appearance from William "Chill" Warner. The song was a massive hit on Mainstream Urban radio stations in February 1998. The music video was released in January 1998 and had heavy rotation on the B.E.T. network. It contains an interpolation of "You Don't Have To Cry" by Rene & Angela.
The song quickly became a success, rising to #6 on the Billboard 100 and #1 on the rap charts. However, her album failed to match the single's success as Raw Sylk struggled sales-wise, and she was dropped from her label, RCA Records. Though her next single, 2000's "Ya Style" found some success on the rap charts (peaking at #17), "Romeo and Juliet" remains both Sylk-E. Fyne and Chill's only top 40 hit on the Billboard 200.
"Romeo and Juliet" was certified gold by the RIAA on March 30, 1998 for sales of over 500,000 copies.
Kenneth MacMillan had previously choreographed the balcony scene for Lynn Seymour and Christopher Gable to dance in September 1964 for Canadian Television. This experience made him seem a good candidate to choreograph the entire ballet for Covent Garden, when the Soviet Union refused to allow Leonid Lavrovsky's classic production to tour to London. MacMillan prepared his version with the blessing of Frederick Ashton.
Premiere performance
Kenneth MacMillan's Royal Ballet production of Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet premiered at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 9 February 1965. Though MacMillan had conceived the ballet for Lynn Seymour and Christopher Gable, for "bureaucratic reasons" Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev danced the opening night, to MacMillan's disappointment. Fonteyn and Nureyev brought new life to the characters, as did the set and costume designs by Nicholas Georgiadis; Fonteyn, considered to be near retirement, embarked upon a rejuvenated career with a partnership with Nureyev.
The song is a moderately up-tempo number, with Stokkan addressing the object of his desires. He sings about his elaborate preparations to "seduce you" - going to the lengths of borrowing clothes to look better. Unfortunately for him, his advances appear to have been over-eager, as he sings "My greatest pleasure was to touch you/My biggest stupidity was to feel you up". His paramour compares him unfavourably to Romeo, telling him that "the Gods shall know that you will never become a/Romeo, Romeo, try to take it easy", even as he is begging on his knees for the relationship to work.
Despite the somewhat unconventional lyrics - Eurovision entries tending to be about requited love - the song is more significant for the appearance onstage of a drag queen, a member of the Norwegian drag troupe "Great Garlic Girls", dressed in stylised clothing reminiscent of the 18th century.
Marvin Dawkins (born 23 October 1980), better known by his stage name Romeo or MC Romeo, is an English rapper and MC.
Biography
Romeo first found fame in the garage group So Solid Crew, having grown up on and around the notorious Surrey Lane, Winstanley and Badric Court estates of Battersea. He subsequently had a solo career. He got his name Romeo due to his smoothness with the ladies.
Romeo released his solo album Solid Love in November 2002, through Relentless records, the label that No Solid had just left for Independiente.
He enjoyed two top 10 singles, "Romeo Dunn'em" which reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 2002, and secondly a duet with Christina Milian, "It's All Gravy Baby", which reached No. 9 in the UK Singles Chart in the same year.
However, only a disappointing 40,000 copies sold of his album, peaking at No. 46 in the UK Albums Chart. In March 2003, Relentless filed for bankruptcy with debts of £3m.
In 2004, Romeo appeared in the reality show The Games, and returned to the series to compete in the Champion of Champions contest in 2006. Romeo also featured in a gameshow called Fool Around With... Romeo on Channel 4 in 2005, in which he had to guess which girl out of four was single.
Juliet (/ˈdʒuːliət/JEW-lee-ət or /ˌdʒuːliˈɛt/JEW-lee-ET) is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 3 January 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986U2. It is named after the heroine of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It is also designated UranusXI.
Juliet belongs to Portia Group of satellites, which also includes Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda and Perdita. These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties. Unfortunately, other than its orbit, radius of 53km and geometric albedo of 0.08 virtually nothing is known about Juliet.
At the Voyager 2 images Juliet appears as an elongated object, the major axis pointing towards Uranus. The ratio of axes of Juliet's prolate spheroid is 0.5 ± 0.3, which is rather an extreme value. Its surface is grey in color.
Juliet may collide with Desdemona within the next 100 million years.
That evening, resting up after the cookout (A Real Nice Clambake), everyone Prepares for the annual treasure hunt. Jigger, pretending to show Carrie self-defense maneuvers, gets her into a compromising position just as Mister Snow appears. Now the gender scuffling turns serius, as Snow walks out on Carrie, Billy heads off with Jigger for their robbery despite Julie's protests, and the women lament their lack of power (Geraniums In The Winter/Stonecutters Cut It On Stone/What's The Use Of Wond'rin'). Back to the mainland, Billy and Jigger await the arrival of their intended victim by playing twenty-one. Jigger, dealing, cheats Billy out of virtually all his share of the coming boodle. But the robbery is foiled, Jigger escapes, and Billy, seeing his whole life as a failure, kills himself crying, "Julie!" The clambakers arrive, Julie only just in time to trade a few words with Billy Before he dies. "I love you," she tells him, for the first time in her life, After he has died. Nettie comforts her (You'll Never Walk Alone). It's not over yet. A heavenly Friend shows up to take Billy "Up There," where In a scene suggestive of some advanced Protestant sect's open-air meeting house, An austere Starkeeper allows Billy to go back and resolve problems he left "Down Here" - for instance, his daughter, Louise, who is now fifteen and as wild and resentful as Billy was. The Starkeeper gives Billy a star to take to her as a present. A ballet reveals Louise to us: as a tomboy cut-up, then as a young woman tasting love with a boy she meets in the ruins of her father's carousel (Ballet: Pas de Deux). She is, in effect, recreating her mother's experience, breaking out of a Drab life in a dangerous yet wonderful relationship. But the boy wanders off, Leaving Louise heartbroken and destructively defiant. Back on earth with the Heavenly Friend, Billy tries to give Louise the star, she suspiciously resists, and he slaps her face - once again, in his inarticulate rage, failing to express his true feelings to those he loves (If I Loved You reprise). "Common sense may tell you that the endin' will be sad" - but, at Louise's high-school graduation, Billy heartens his daughter and tells julie "I loved you." As the congregation clusters in socio-religious community, Billy, in a distance, Climbs a great stairway to heaven (You'll Nevr Walk Alone reprise).
Love is in the air this spring, and what better way to celebrate than by experiencing the timeless tale of Romeo and Juliet? “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet.” – 🌹 Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2) 🌹.
“I thought acting was doing voices when I was here,” Vance said. “I had to shift something in my mind about what acting was.”. Vance also discussed a time he finally had a breakthrough, during the famous Romeo and Juliet balcony scene.
So it’s no wonder they call their latest performance “LIMITLESS.” ... The scene of the lovers playing under the sheet from the movie “Romeo and Juliet” acted as early inspiration for the work, full of youth and openness ... .
After a street fight between the Montagues and the Capulet clans is broken up in Act 1, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” a lovesick Romeo, on suddenly coming upon blood in the street, remarks.
In Act II Scene II of Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" the dramaturgist has his heroine Juliet state. ... So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, ... Romeo, doff thy name,.
In Act II Scene II of Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” the dramaturgist has his heroine Juliet state. ... So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, ... Romeo, doff thy name,.
Memories of that commercial would make anyone wonder if Shakespeare was not, indeed, right when he put into his soliloquy in Act 2, Scene 2 of “Romeo & Juliet” the question “What’s in a name? That ...
Act II alternated between more intimate scenes and dazzling group displays as Romeo and Juliet married in secret, Romeo’s friend Mercutio (Esteban Hernández) died in a duel with Tybalt (LukeIngham) ...
Unless you are fluent in Morse code, however, you probably won’t clock that they are performing Act II, Scene II of Romeo and Juliet...Inside, attendees lounge around a digital fire, browsing books of love poetry.
Unless you are fluent in Morse code, however, you probably won’t clock that they are performing Act II, Scene II of Romeo and Juliet... One – The Game ... Another game, Point of Mew, casts you as a cat trying to cheer up your human with small acts of care ... .
Romeo & Juliet (Ages 9-14), Musical TheaterCamp... Romeo and Juliet-Our acting camp will provide students with a fun-filled opportunity to explore the world of theater using the popular Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet.
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