'Romeo and Juliet' meets Jeff Buckley in 'The Long Goodbye'
Playwright Michael Kimmel was inspired by the symmetry between Shakespeare's text and the late musician Jeff Buckley's lyrics. SAN DIEGO — At the end of a rehearsal last month in a room near the Old Globe, actor Brandon Gill as Benvolio presided over the death of Romeo and Juliet and sang in a keening wail, "It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah."