It seems that taking an outstanding script or story and using it to create a piece of popular culture will inevitably throw up some strange oddities if one seeks to compare it with the original. When the life of Jesus was famously set to a rock-opera musical in "Jesus Christ Superstar", we were treated to such 'great' lyrics as 'What's the buzz, tell me what's a happening'. I suspect that this will make them unpopular with many in the professional theatre world, however, I was delighted - a rock-opera musical based around Shakespeare's exquisite wording would sound incongruous. The book written by David Freeman and Don Black, for all intents and purposes ignores Shakespeare's text, and has merely borrowed the plot and characters. Turning Shakespeare's script into a romantic musical with mass appeal seems an impossible task, and indeed it apparently is, which is why this musical does not attempt to do so.
A love affair that is doomed to end in tragedy due to the hostilities between the lover's families. 'Romeo and Juliet' is one of the most famous and tragic of the Bard's plays.
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