What if Juliet — yep, that one, half of the most tragic teen love story ever — didn’t die? And how would it be if Shakespeare’s wife argued him out of writing one of theater’s seminal plots?

Welcome to “& Juliet,” the implausible sounding, but oh-so-cleverly crafted — and thoroughly giddy — musical springboard into, among other topics, the bard and his playwrighting.

The pop-hit laden show, which opened Friday, Aug. 15 in downtown LA at the Ahmanson Theatre and transfers in early September to Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center, is a frothy call to get thee to this funnery.

Musicals are traditionally powered with a main romantic entanglement and a backup pairing, but “& Juliet” doubles down to stir up a merrily bubbling stew of four relationships.

Three of these lead to relatively enjoyab

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