In a new revival, West Side Story still takes daring leaps
When West Side Story opened on Broadway almost 23 years ago, it was greeted as a revolutionary show. Its subject, New York street gangs, was far more adventurous than the typical fluff of musicals; its language was tough and its ending downbeat. This month, when West Side returned in a hit revival, audiences and critics were not so much shocked as charmed; the show's story, language and sociological concerns now belong to a distant, tamer era. Yet one aspect of the production looks...
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