Top cast:Anthony O'Sullivan,Grace Henderson,Kate Bruce
Director:James Bamford
Genre:History
Region:Israel
Year:2005
Storyline:Aubrey Smith), who took her up to the offices of a major Broadway management casting office, Lewis Easton Productions, where while waiting in the lobby, she met her competition - a more experienced actress Miss Gwendolyn Hall (Geneva Mitchell) swathed in a fur wrap, who complained about the number of auditioners:"Evidently everyone else has heard it too.To help these children prepare themselves for a new mother.And I pray that this will become a happy family in thy sight.God bless the captain.God bless Liesl and Friedrich.God bless Louisa, Brigitta, Marta, and little Gretl.And, oh, I forgot the other boy.What's his name? Well, God bless what's-his-name.God bless he Reverend Mother and Sister Margaretta and everybody at Nonnberg Abbey.And now, dear God, about Liesl, help her know that I'm her friend.And help her to tell me what she's been up to...Shh, help me to be understanding so that I may guide her footsteps.In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen.A rain-drenched, love-sick Liesl enters through her window from her dis-allowed rendezvous with Rolf.Without taking time out for mourning, he asserts that death must be calmly and professionally accepted ("Joe just wasn't good enough.Bushman as RomeoGeorge Cukor'sRomeo and Juliet (1936)with elderly 'teen' lovers Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer, John Barrymore as Mercutio, Edna May Oliver as the Nurse, and Basil Rathbone as TybaltRenato Castellani'sRomeo and Juliet (1954)with Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall in the leadsPaul Czinner'sRomeo and Juliet (1966), with ballet dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Margot FonteynFranco Zeffirelli'sRomeo and Juliet (1968), with appropriately-aged star-crossed lovers Leonard Whiting and Olivia HusseyBaz Luhrmann's hip and updatedWilliam Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danessixty years since the 1961 production, director Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the original 1957 Broadway musical production (it was his first musical),West Side Story (2021), with Ansel Elgort (as Tony) and Rachel Zegler (as Maria)The ground-breaking, dynamic film of 1961 was based on the successful Broadway hit - a staged musical play (opening in 1957) by writer Arthur Laurents and directed/choreographed by Jerome Robbins.