William Shakespeare’s classic love story Romeo and Juliet gets an overhaul in the musical & Juliet which opened Tuesday by Broadway Dallas at the Music Hall at Fair Park.
Laced heavily with Max Martin pop hits, this Juliet moves on from her recently dead Romeo and overbearing parents with an empowered outlook, supportive friends and possibly a new beau.
The result was glorious pop-music bliss and a clever and funny script by David West Read. The meta-premise begins with the “Larger Than Life” introduction of William Shakespeare with his wife Anne Hathaway in tow as he sets to finish his latest play.
She convinces him to rewrite the ending giving Juliet a choice instead of killing herself over one guy. When he avers “I Want it That Way,” Anne takes the story into her own hands.