‘& Juliet’ review: Fun Britney and Katy Perry songs, but silly story is Bard to love

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This sporadically fun musical is an empty-headed good time.

, has one of William Shakespeare’s ingenues, Juliet Capulet, reclaim her tragic story from her BF Romeo.2 hours, 30 minutes, with one intermission. Stephen Sondheim Theatre, 124 W. 43rd St.

“Maybe she doesn’t kill herself just because he killed himself,” she insists before singing “I Want It That Way” by the Backstreet Boys and making her husband, played by Stark Sands, redo his tragedy. Stark Sands and Betsy Wolfe play William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway going through a marital spat in “& Juliet” on Broadway.This sporadically fun musical from — where else! — Great Britain with a loony book by David West Read suggests this idea is somehow very feminist; that taking a dagger for your poisoned man is the ultimate failure of the Bechdel test.

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