What if Juliet just…moved on?

What if, in William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Juliet doesn’t kill herself but instead wakes up from her poison slumber, realizes that she’s got her whole life ahead of her, leaves Romeo behind and achieves self-actualization? That’s the clever conceit of & Juliet , the jukebox musical on the Keller Auditorium stage through Aug. 10. And the show is a very, very good time. Long on big Broadway spectacle and pop hits spanning the late ‘90s through about 2013, it’s summertime escapism at its best. Two and a half hours flew by, the only challenge was to follow theater etiquette and not sing or dance along. I’m sorry, but if someone asks “Am I original?” in the tone of the 1997 hit “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” the only proper human response is to say “Yeah” in A

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