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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mark Kennedy

Broadway writer of '& Juliet' builds show with huge pop hits

ASSOCIATED PRESS

We first see Juliet in the Capulet tomb, devastated. She's wakes up to see her Romeo dead. But before she plunges a dagger into her heart, she starts ... singing. What comes out is, improbably, a Britney Spears hit.

“Oh, baby, baby. How was I supposed to know? That something wasn't right here? Oh, baby, baby. I shouldn't have let you go,” she sings, the opening lines of “...Baby One More Time."

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