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US variety show. In this episode Danny Kaye and Joanie Sommers perform a song about Romeo and Juliet as contemporary teenagers. The extract is 2 mins 45 secs.
US variety show. This episode parodies Romeo and Juliet featuring feuding Romany families - the Shishkebabs and Baklavas. The piece is performed by the ‘Kinderspiel Light Opera’.
US variety show. An item features Kaye and Jose Ferrer in a musical revue entitled ‘To be or not to be’ that might have resulted had Shakespeare written Hamlet for television. Ferrer is Hamlet and Kaye...
US variety series. This episode includes a sketch in which Kaye, the Earl Brown Singers and the Tony Charmoli Dancers deliver a musical version of the ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech from As You Like It...
US variety series. This episode includes a sketch on what commercials might look like if they were written by some of the great authors: William Shakespeare (`Macbath’), William Faulkner (`A detergent...
US variety series. Includes an item in which the Kinderspiel Light Opera Company’s production of ‘Naughty Gypsy Yetta’, the story of star-crossed gypsy lovers from warring families, parodies Romeo and...
Radio comedy/variety series. This spisode includes a sketch around ‘Romeo and Juliet’ including some Shakespeare paraphrases to sell the sponsor’s product - beer. Jensen (op cit) writes ‘The...
Us television variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. This special broadcast covering the annual Festival of Two Worlds from Spoleto includes John Gielgud speaking a soliloquy from Richard II and Nora Kaye and...
Narrative ballet in one act, based on Shakespeare’s play. It is a blend of three versions of three different arts all dealing with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: as ballet with Nora Kaye and Hugh Laing...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare is brought to life by the actors and actresses who speak his lines. Professor Stanley Wells considers the most outstanding Shakespeare performers,...