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West Side Story, 2020

West Side Story, 2020

Shows · West Side Story · Broadway Theatre, 2020

Revival BroadwayBroadway Theatre 24 performances

The run closed March 11, 2020

Opened
2020
Closed
March 11, 2020
Performances
24
Previews
Theatre
Broadway Theatre

Of the 175 productions we hold that opened in the 2020s and record a performance count, this is the 170th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of West Side Story 4 more that season

1957 Winter Garden Theatre Original · Jerome Robbins 732 perf.
1960 Winter Garden Theatre Return-Engagement · Jerome Robbins 249 perf.
1980 Minskoff Theatre Revival · Jerome Robbins 333 perf.
2009 Palace Theatre Revival · Joey McKneely 748 perf.

Who was in it16 named

Lorna Courtney
Carlos E Gonzalez
Jacob Guzman
Pippa Pearthree
Danny Wolohan

11 of these 16 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 5 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director
Ivo van Hove
Choreographer
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Around this production

West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The Sharks, who are recent migrants from Puerto Rico, and the Jets, who are white, vie for dominance of the neighborhood, and the police try to keep order. The young protagonist, Tony, a former member of the Jets and best friend of the…

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

  • No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
  • No recording is held for West Side Story at all.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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