Romeo and Juliet ballet by Sergei Prokofiev
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The performance attended was a ballet, Romeo and Juliet, written by the twentieth-century Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. The ballet was presented at 8:00 pm on Friday, April 24, 1998 at the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse. The ballet is based on the tragic play by William Shakespeare in which two lovers are separated by their fighting families. In their attempt to escape from their families Juliet pretends to be dead by taking a drug. Romeo, believing she is really dead, kills himself. Juliet, who wakes up and finds him dead, also kills herself. The highlights of the ballet, in addition to the relationship of Romeo and Juliet, are the fights between the members of their families and their friends. The most striking thing about the music of this ballet is that, in many places, it is not typical dance music. There did not seem to be as much use of really emphat
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