Me and Juliet is a musical comedy by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar
Hammerstein II (lyrics and book), their sixth stage collaboration. The
work tells a story of romance backstage at a long-running musical:
assistant stage manager Larry woos chorus girl Jeanie behind the back
of her electrician boyfriend, Bob. Me and Juliet premiered in 1953 and
was not a success, closing after a year on Broadway. The show received
no Tony Award nominations. When Me and Juliet began tryout performances
in Cleveland, the duo realized that the show had problems with the plot
and staging. Extensive revisions during the remaining Cleveland and
Boston tryouts failed to cure the difficulties with the plot, which the
critics considered weak and uninteresting. The show was met with
less-than-favorable reviews, though Jo Mielziner's staging won praise
from audience and critics. The show closed once it had exhausted its
advance sales. With the exception of a short run in Chicago, there was
no national tour, and the show is almost never seen—a small-scale
production was presented by London's Finborough Theatre in 2010.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1818:
The United States Senate ratified the Rush–Bagot Treaty, which laid the
basis for demilitarized boundary between the U.S. and British North
America.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush%E2%80%93Bagot_Treaty>
1919:
Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensive to
capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilna_offensive>
1947:
American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first
described the post-World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and
the United States as a "cold war".
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War>
2001:
India and Bangladesh began a five-day conflict over their disputed
border, which ended in stalemate.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Indian%E2%80%93Bangladeshi_border_conflict>
2007:
In one of the deadliest shooting incidents in United States history, a
gunman killed 32 people and wounded over 20 more before committing
suicide at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in
Blacksburg, Virginia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
moliminous (adj):
Requiring a lot of effort; laborious
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moliminous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take
seriously.
--Peter Ustinov
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