& Juliet shows how Canadian musicals can succeed without Broadway 'brand name'

Everyone knows the story: Romeo meets Juliet, Juliet falls for Romeo, and their doomed love pits family against family. Seeing no other choice, Romeo drinks a vial of poison and Juliet … runs off to a nightclub in Paris. 

That may not be the story you’re used to, but it’s the one being told at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre. 

& Juliet, on now through Aug. 14, is a new musical that looks at an alternate story for Shakespeare’s Juliet character, as she goes on to live an independent life — set to the songs of Swedish pop hitmaker Max Martin. 

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