(With apologies to the Bard), the unforgettable
classic musical reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet…
Two households,
both alike in dignity,
In fair NYC, where
we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge
break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood
makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the
fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of
star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured
piteous overthrows
Do with their death
bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage
of their death-mark’d love,
And the continuance
of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their
children’s end, nought could remove,
Is now the two
hours’ traffic of our film;
The which if you
with patient ears attend,
What here shall
miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
The British Institute
Lungarno
Guicciardini, 9
tel 055267781
January 26
