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CASSIDy JANSON, who will play Anne hathaway — with Oliver Tompsett as her husband William Shakespeare — in the new musical & Juliet, featuring hit songs written by Max Martin. The show stars Miriam-Teak Lee in the title part. Ms Janson (pictured), who played Carole King in Beautiful, said that in & Juliet, hathaway starts writing Juliet’s story as if she hadn’t died. ‘There are little twists and turns in the re-telling, and it’s very comedy based,’ she said. hathaway sets Juliet off on adventures that take her to Paris. Janson gets to sing the big Max Martin ballad That’s The Way It Is (which was a hit for Celine Dion) and a couple of duets. She and the rest of the company — Melanie La Barrie, Arun Blair-Mangat, Jordan Luke Gage and Tim Mahendran — are rehearsing with director Luke Sheppard. &Juliet will play at the Manchester Opera house from September 10 before moving to the Shaftesbury in London from November 2.