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The Greatest Love Story The World Has Ever Known

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"Did my heart love till now? Foreswear its sight. For I never saw true beauty 'til this night." "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?" "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" And so their love is sworn. No kisses crossed their lips last night, that would have been far too vivid to include into one of the greatest love stories of all time.  The evening was filled with song and dance and a few of Shakespeare's original lines thrown in, with the most dramatic scene playing out to the consternation of the kids in the audience. Death, that hath sucked the honey of they breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Romeo finds his beloved dead in the Capulet tomb, their love forsaken and without the Friar's message reaching him Romeo lifts the poison to his lips and drinks to lay down next to his Juliet and die. Heartbroken.  A gasp escapes the lips of the young audience (this is Romeo and Juliet 4 Kids) and a li...