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Shakespeare gets a more radical shakeup in R&J, adapted and directed by Joe Calarco. The setting is a regimented boys' school, where four students march onstage, recite their Latin and math lessons and then embark on an impromptu performance of Romeo and Juliet. They play all the parts, provide the sound effects (pounding fists, stomping feet, a slow hiss when a character dies), and manipulate the show's single prop: a red silken fabric that serves as, among other things, a shawl, a sword and a vial of poison...
...proprietor of the store, a likable young man named Dominic ("Mickey") Calarco, didn't notice the pistol at first. He looked up, smiled, and asked, "May I help you?" Said Tommy: "Yeah, gimme your money. This is a holdup...
...Calarco opened the cash register, took out a $20 bill, two tens and a five, and then said: "What do you want to do this for? I got two kids. I need the money...
...when Calarco started around the counter with the money the boy suddenly fired the .22. The bullet missed the proprietor, noisily smashed a bottle of Corby's whisky on a corner shelf. The girl in the doorway ran, and the young gunman bolted after her. Calarco gave chase, caught the boy out on the street and tried to grab the pistol. It went off three times as they wrestled, and the third shot hit Calarco in the throat. Tommy Cook galloped, panting, to the car and was driven off with a screech of tires. Calarco died...
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