DPO offers ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in words, music

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DAYTON — Neal Gittleman says he would gladly sit and listen “if Bruce Cromer just read the phone book.”

Bruce Cromer says it’s “the most amazing feeling” to be performing with an entire orchestra behind you.

Put the two together, along the dual masterpieces of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” and Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” orchestral suite and you will have the next concert in the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra’s Miami Valley & Good Samaritan Hospitals Classical Series, Thursday and Saturday, Oct. 13 and 15 at the Schuster Performing Arts Center.

The orchestra, under music director Gittleman’s baton, will perform Prokofiev’s music.

Cromer, resident actor with The Human Race Theatre Company and associate professor of theater at Wright State University, will perform selected scenes from the play.

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