West Side Story
Sadler’s Wells
Tête à Tête
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
West Side Story is just over half a century old, and unlike most famous musicals of its period, or any other, it doesn’t just get ‘revived’ every now and then, it is very much in the repertory — but of what? There’s hardly such a thing as a repertory of musicals, or if there is then this is almost the only plausible member.
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