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Juliet’s balcony in Verona, Italy, has been reopened to the public, but Romeo won’t be allowed to climb around on it. The balcony, open to tourists and used in a summer production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” was closed briefly out of fear that heavy rains and cracks would cause it to collapse. The 13th-Century balcony has been reopened after temporary repairs, but since a collapsing balcony would be too tragic an ending for Shakespeare, the production’s Romeo must now flee from an adjacent third-story window instead of the balcony. Legend has it that the balcony is the one from which the two star-crossed teen-age lovers of rival families secretly professed their love for each other. It is scheduled to be fully restored at the end of the season.