West Side Story!

Hi everybody!

So, I am freaking out right now! Tonight is the opening night of our school’s production, “West Side Story.” I am so excited!

I am sure many of you have heard of this great musical before, but you really don’t know what it is about, right? Well, here is a basic overview of it: West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and conception and choreography by Jerome Robbins. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

Set in New York City in the mid-1950s, the musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The members of the Sharks from Puerto Rico are taunted by the Jets, a white working-class group. The young protagonist, Tony, one of the Jets, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks. The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended dance scenes, and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theatre. Bernstein's score for the musical has become extremely popular; it includes "Something's Coming", "Maria", "America", "Somewhere", "Tonight", "Jet Song", "I Feel Pretty", "A Boy Like That", "One Hand, One Heart", "Gee, Officer Krupke", and "Cool".

I absolutely love this play and everyone in it. We have the best cast, orchestra pit, stage crew, and backdrop artists around. I am so proud of everyone and the great work they have done to make our performances great.

This is one of those plays that you have the music in it stuck in your head twenty four seven! It is kind of ridiculous! At least I love the music!

This play has a great message. Pretty much what it is saying is that everybody should love everybody else, no matter what or who you are, no matter what race or color or background that you may have.
If you live anywhere near Paris, I highly suggest you go to see this wonderful musical and everybody in it!

Tonight’s performance is at 7 o clock. Tomorrow we have performances at 1 ( this is our childrens matinee, it is highly shortened and has no dirty or raunchy content in it, where as our normal content does have these things) and at night again at 7. Last but not least, we have our performance on Sunday at 1 o clock also. I highly recommend this performance, because we tend to somewhat ad lib most of the time, and try to make things more humorous, but without taking away the main plot and story line that this great play has.

Like I said before, it would mean the world for anybody to come watch us! I promise, it will be really good! The tickets are 7 dollars for adults and 3 for children. I really hope to see some of you there! By the way, have a really great spring break everyone! Bye Bye for now!