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Ryan, a film which not only bore the imprimatur of Steven Spielberg-filmdom's analog to Broadway's Hal Prince-but Show that was written by the theater's anointed Golden Boy of music and lyrics, and produced and directed by HaroldĪ generation later, much the same thing happened in the film world, when inġ999 Shakespeare in Love wrested the Best Picture Academy Award from the vigorous fingers of Saving Glitzy, huge, and unabashedly glamorous (albeit decrepit-by design) Follies, and some of the Broadway rulingĮlite couldn't quite believe that this "bastard child," a rock-inflected musical no less, had taken the big prize away from a McDermot, and while it was well received, it as a Joseph Papp Public Theater production, in a way the polar opposite of Was the Broadway follow up to Hair for composer Galt To Two Gentlemen of Verona, a rock and pop version of Shakespeare's venerable classic. The "real" Twitter) when the critics' darling, seemingly overnight-legendary Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musicalįollies cleaned up in most of the major Tony Award categories, but ended up losing the "big" award, Best In 1971, Broadway cognoscenti were atwitter (this was Pursuit is being feted, into a frenzy of reactionary disbelief. Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, January 17, 2012Įvery so often, a major awards season decision will send the general public, or at least those keyed into whatever Love and a bit with a dog-that’s what they want. Producers: Marc Norman, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Julie Goldstein Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Judi Dench, Simon Callow, Colin Firth For even as the parchment begins to pile up, he's plagued by the fact that Lady Viola must marry the insufferable Lord Wessex.įor more about Shakespeare in Love and the Shakespeare in Love Blu-ray release, see Shakespeare in Love Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on Januwhere this Blu-ray release scored 4.5 out of 5. Now Will's quill again begins to flow, this time turning love into words, as Viola becomes his real-life Juliet and Romeo finds his reason to exist. But the guise slips away as their passion ignites. It all begins when Lady Viola, desperate to become an actor at a time when women were forbidden from such depravity, disguises herself as a man to audition for Will's play. What Will needs is a muse-and in an extraordinary moment in which life imitates art, he finds and falls for a woman who draws him into his own dramatic adventure of star-crossed love. While the great Elizabethan age of entertainment unfolds around him, Will is without inspiration on material. It is the summer of 1593, and the rising young star of London's theatre scene, Will Shakespeare, faces a scourge like no other: a paralyzing bout of writer's block. Shakespeare in Love Blu-ray delivers stunning video and audio in this exceptional Blu-ray release