In the Brooklyn heights (Images by Russ Rowland) You may think enough already with all the shows inspired by Romeo and Juliet, but that would mean you haven't seen Mark Saltzman's Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona & Brooklyn.
Let's make room for one more. Looking a bit Romeo & Romeo here This West 42nd Street story (just extended for five weeks at Theater 555 at 555 W.
42nd St.) is spun by a horny high schooler (Michael Notardonato) in 1960 who's trying to get the college girl he's talked into a date (Ari Raskin) out of the funk she's in after they take in a local production of Romeo & Juliet.
Thinking she'd find him cultchahed for taking her to a play, he winds up scrambling to make it after — spoiler alert — Romeo and Juliet (Nikita Burshteyn and Anna Kostakis) don't make it.