Me and Juliet is a musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II. The story deals with romance between the cast and crew backstage at a long-running musical, a show- within-the-show (also named Me and Juliet). The musical premiered in 1953 and ran for almost a year on Broadway, closing after it exhausted its advance sales. It received no Tony Award nominations. The play required complex machinery, designed by Jo Mielziner, so that the audience could view action not only on the stage but also in the wings and high above the stage near the spotlights. The show garnered less than favorable reviews, though Mielziner's staging won praise from audiences and critics. With the exception of a short run in Chicago, there was no national tour, and the show is rarely seen—although a small-scale production was presented by London's Finborough Theatre in 2010. "No Other Love" from the show became a hit record in 1953 for Perry Como and in 1956 for Ronnie Hilton.
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769:
The Lateran Council concluded proceedings intended to rectify abuses in the papal electoral process that had led to the elevation of the antipopes Constantine II and Philip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateran_Council_(769)
1802:
English poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy encountered a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring him to pen his most famous work, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wandered_Lonely_as_a_Cloud
1927:
Torrential rains caused the Mississippi River to break out of its levee system in at least 145 places, resulting in the worst flooding in the history of the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mississippi_Flood_of_1927
1947:
Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break the baseball color line, played his first game in Major League Baseball. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson
1989:
A human crush during an FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, caused 96 deaths, making it the worst disaster in British sporting history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster
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necrocracy: A government that still operates under the rules of a former, dead leader. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/necrocracy
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Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest. --Leonardo da Vinci https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci