Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler Host a Star-Studded Stage Door Party for ‘Romeo + Juliet’ on Broadway | Entertainment

The streets of Broadway erupted in celebration as Gen-Z icons Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler took their first bows within the starry revival of Romeo + Juliet.

Director Sam Gold presents a daring new take on William Shakespeare's traditional within the manufacturing, which kicked off its preview performances on Thursday, Sept. 26, on the Circle within the Square Theatre forward of a gap on Thursday, Oct. 24.

Not solely is the play led by two of Hollywood's greatest rising stars, however Gold additionally enlisted the assistance of Grammy winner (and longtime Taylor Swift collaborator) Jack Antonoff to introduce unique music to the piece.

With a lot recent vitality across the Bard's beloved romantic tragedy, it is no surprise the present's producer Seaview tried one thing totally different with one other tried-and-true Broadway custom: the stage door autographs.

Rather than provide the same old line, Romeo + Juliet threw a get together exterior the theater, with DJ Amber Valentine actually placing a new spin on the expertise and turning their nook of West fiftieth Street into a huge bash.

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Nearly 1,000 keen followers from the offered out, standing room solely viewers caught round for the sudden soirée, greeting the forged’s arrival with absolute pandemonium.

PEOPLE has unique images from the occasion, snapped by photographer to the celebs Emilio Madrid.

According to supply on the present, the cheers for the forged “nearly drowned out Elphaba’s legendary ‘Defying Gravity' war cry next door” at Wicked.

“One fan even passed out from the sheer excitement of seeing Kit Connor in person,” the insider mentioned.

Zegler received the offered out crowd doing full-out “Hot To Go” choreography, adopted by half the group chanting “Capulet” and different half chanting “Montague” — a name again to the tragic star-crossed lovers on the middle of the play.

Festivities continued at an unique underground get together within the subway station at eatery See No Evil Pizza and cocktail bar Nothing Really Matters. There, Gold toasted the forged on the success of the night.

Romeo + Juliet‘s forged is essentially made up of newcomers making their Broadway debuts, together with Connor, 20, and Zegler, 23.

The play's full firm consists of Gabby Beans (as Mercutio/The Friar), Tommy Dorfman (as The Nurse/Tybalt), Nihar Duvvuri (as Balthazar), Sola Fadiran (as Capulet/Lady Capulet), Daniel Bravo Hernández (as Abraham), Taheen Modak (as Benvolio), Jasai Chase-Owens (as Gregory) and Gían Pérez (as Samson/Paris/Peter).

Understudies Missy Malek, Timothy Oh, Susannah Perkins and Daniel Velez spherical out the forged.

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Romeo + Juliet, which additionally options motion from Tony winner Sonya Tayeh, is at the moment scheduled for a strictly restricted engagement via Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025.

The work, first revealed in 1597, follows the tragic romance of two Italian teenagers from feuding households. It's a story that has been instructed on Broadway in almost 40 earlier productions, together with its most up-to-date revival in 2013 that starred Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad.

It was additionally the inspiration for West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical that was most not too long ago tailored into a 2021 Steven Spielberg movie — coincidentally starring Zegler.

“I’m so thrilled to get to go back to my roots and the thing that I love so much,” the actress instructed Vogue  final month, including, “I can’t believe this is my life.”

Tickets for Romeo + Juliet at the moment are on sale.