

Her usual gig is playing Juliet on her mother’s production of Romeo and Juliet. Mimi Wallingford is a stage performer who’s family owns a theater in New York City. But if saving her new friend means changing the ending of the greatest love story of all time, will she and Troy ever make it back to Broadway? Now that she knows the real Juliet, Mimi doesn’t want to stand by and allow the play to reach it’s tragic end. She will do anything to avoid her betrothed, even if it requires faking a boil on her bottom-or something more dangerous.ĭuring the play’s final performance, Mimi’s wish to get away actually comes true when she and her heartthrob costar, Troy Summer, are magically transported into Shakespeare’s Verona. Thirteen-year-old Juliet Capulet of the Verona Capulets, has lived a lonely life-imprisoned by the fued that conumses her family and by her iron-fisted mother’s forcing her into an unwanted marriage.


but acting is not her dream, (there’s a shocker) and she’s fighting for the right to trade her script for a scalpel and become a doctor. Seventeen-year-old Mimi Wallingford of the Broadway Wallingfords, has a life most girls can only dream of-complete with the starring role in her family’s production of Romeo and Juliet. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story. In other words, a wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it happen. “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
