From “Wicked” to “Waitress,” female empowerment has been a boon for musical theater. But where those shows veered between sincerely earnest and earnestly sincere, “& Juliet…
.” The hyperactive production is sometimes more enervating than exciting, but doubts are blown out of the water by the lead performances, especially spectacular newcomer Miriam-Teak Lee as Juliet, who doesn’t so much star as set the theater alight.
Teenage anxieties have powered many a musical, not least the mother-of-all-jukeboxes, “Mamma Mia!,” but “& Juliet” is not in the same league. Where “Mamma Mia” brings its feminist slant to the fore with slow cunning, here, everyone on stage can’t stop talking and singing about it. Which, to be fair, is part of the fun.
Outside of interpolated scenes between Anne and Shakespeare directing the action, the set is forever on the move. Likewise, the superbly drilled ensemble never stop dancing but, like the overused hydraulics, their choreography all seems to express the same fierce defiance, so they hit diminishing returns.
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