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The Broadway musical “& Juliet” is playing Miami’s Arsht Center through Jan. 4, 2026 and then will play Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Center Jan.13-25, 2026. (Evan Zimmerman\/Courtesy)<\/p>\nThe Broadway musical \u201c& Juliet\u201d earns that ampersand.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a legit hit on the Great White Way AND in the West End.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s set in the Elizabethan Period AND it\u2019s also sooooo firmly in our time.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Shakespeare AND it\u2019s jukebox musical with chart-toppers from the likes of Britney Spears, Bon Jovi, *NSYNC, C\u00e9line Dion, Justin Timberlake, Ariana Grande, Pink, The Weeknd, Demi Lovato and more.<\/p>\n
Those hits are the work of Swedish pop music composer Max Martin and include irresistible earworms such as \u201cOops!\u2026I Did It Again,\u201d \u201cI Kissed a Girl,\u201d \u201cSince U Been Gone,\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s the Way It Is,\u201d \u201cCan\u2019t Feel My Face,\u201d \u201cAs Long as You Love Me,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s My Life\u201d and more. Much more.<\/p>\n
The national tour is currently playing Miami\u2019s Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts through Jan. 4, 2026.\u00a0Then there will be a run at Fort Lauderdale\u2019s Broward Center for the Performing Arts Jan. 13-25, 2026.<\/p>\n
The Broadway musical “& Juliet” is playing Miami’s Arsht Center through Jan. 4, 2026 and then will play Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Center Jan.13-25, 2026. (Evan Zimmerman\/Courtesy)<\/p>\n
Martin\u2019s songbook is deftly deployed to reimagine the whole \u201cRomeo & Juliet\u201d saga. William Shakespeare finds himself in a write-off with his wife, Anne Hathaway. The two creatively joust as the story changes: Juliet does not kill herself, but rather runs off to Paris with her nurse and a bestie.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has her whole life ahead of her,\u201d says Anne Hathaway. \u201cShe\u2019s only had one boyfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n
To go into more detail would be an unforgivable spoiler, but what can be said is that while initially you get the feeling that the production is a grand retelling of the Disney Channel\u2019s \u201cHigh School Musical,\u201d that will quickly give way to something that hits a little harder.<\/p>\n
If Shakespeare had written a sitcom for a streaming network, this seems pretty close to what it would be. That\u2019s not throwing Shakes-shade \u2014 quite the opposite, the jokes and comedy bits land perfectly with Gen Z, Gen Alpha and maybe even some \u201cmad lit\u201d Millennials.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s super silly (in the best way) as opposed to supercilious (in that highfalutin \u201ctheatuh\u201d way).<\/p>\n
\u201c& Juliet\u201d is a crowd pleaser with lots of seat-dancing, head rocking, toe-tapping and lip-syncing in the audience. Even the choreography has bop-till-you-drop Tik Tok energy. As for the music, the sound is seemingly set on 11; You\u2019ll feel the boom. And if hearing a harpsichord with a Katy Perry or Backstreet Boys tune doesn\u2019t bring a smile to your face, then you\u2019re dead inside.<\/p>\n
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Fabiola Caraballo Quijada and the company of the North American Tour of the Broadway musical “& Juliet.” (Evan Zimmerman\/Courtesy)<\/p>\n
In that same vein the visuals are amusingly anachronistic, carrying a vibe of bubblegum, neon pops of color, fizzy drinks and \u201cwhat are those\u201d sneakers \u2014 as if the whole show has been shot back and forth through a wormhole \u2026 a few times.<\/p>\n
And that is where \u201c& Juliet\u201d lets its feminist fabulousness shine. Juliet and the other women (as well as a gender-bending supporting character) wind their way toward triumphant independence in the narrative. The journey feels right for our zappy zeitgeist.<\/p>\n
But it also must be said, while you won\u2019t exactly get Bard-bored, the musical is allllllmost epic long with a performance time a little over two-and-a-half hours.<\/p>\n
\u201c& Juliet\u201d could shave a few minutes off here and there throughout the two acts \u2026 and still keep its and-ness.<\/p>\n
IF YOU GO<\/p>\n
WHERE:<\/p>\n
COST:\u00a0<\/p>\n
The ticket price range at the Arsht Center is $58.50-$193.05
\nThe ticket price range at the Broward Center is $60.48-$184.38<\/p>\n
INFO: arshtcenter.org<\/a>, browardcenter.org<\/a><\/p>\n Evan Zimmerman<\/p>\n The company of the North American Tour of the Broadway musical “& Juliet,” which is playing both Miami and Fort Lauderdale. (Evan Zimmerman\/Courtesy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Broadway musical \u201c& Juliet\u201d earns that ampersand. It\u2019s a legit hit on the Great White Way AND…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,109,3478,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-102278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","11":"tag-social","12":"tag-theater","13":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TFL-L-JULIET-MUSICAL-The-Company-A.jpg\")
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