Royal City Musical Theatre's artistic director Lloyd Nicholson is pleased to announce that the company's 2008 production will be the most celebrated re-telling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story.
Royal City Musical Theatre's choreographer Valerie Easton will recreate the original choreography by Mr. Robbins, as our musical director, James Bryson, leads our orchestra in Leonard Bernstein's stirring music and the cast in Stephen Sondheim's memorable lyrics.
The story is an American musical theatre classic. Two feuding street gangs -- the Jets and the Sharks -- are on a collision course in the gritty slums of New York City. Out of the chaos, a passionate romance blooms between Tony and Maria, teenagers caught on opposite sides of the turf war.
But can they find a place for their love amid the prejudice and turmoil that surrounds them? Winner of ten Academy Awards and two Tony Awards, Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story is one of the all-time great American musicals, with explosive dancing and some of the most electrifying music ever written for the Broadway stage, including “Maria”, “Tonight”, “America” and “Somewhere”.