Woah! Two seconds later Juliet wakes up! Woah! Sees Romeo dead, then stabs herself. Woah! Then their Mums and Dads turn up and agree to stop fighting. And never was a story of more woah ...

Peter Schaufuss was just five years old when Frederick Ashton came to Copenhagen in 1954 to begin choreographing the first “Romeo and Juliet ... came to his family’s home for dinner.

Melia Bensussen’s production of “Romeo and Juliet,” at Hartford Stage from April 17 through May 18, focuses on the theme of ...