Published: March 22, 2019
Why is Opera Australia staging two different productions of the same show? Can we handle this much Maria and Tony, the contemporary Romeo and Juliet?
This is the year of West Side Story, in which two different, big-time productions will dominate Australian stages.
Two American directors will be giving their takes on the deeply American but universally admired musical. Both directors have worked on the show before and bring a rich understanding of the material with them, and they have both cast their Australian productions with local talent. Both, in honour of Jerome Robbins, are recreating the original, now-iconic lines of his choreography.
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