CW 14 Star Maria interviews the stars of West Side Story

West Side Story will play at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center April 24-29

The tour of the smash-hit Broadway revival of West Side Story is coming to the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center. West Side Story will open at the Center on April 24. Tony Award®-winning librettist Arthur Laurents’ Broadway direction will be recreated for the tour by David Saint, the associate director on Broadway. The original Jerome Robbins choreography is reproduced by Tony Award-nominee Joey McKneely (The Boy from
Oz, The Life).

Ticket prices for West Side Story start at $53. Tickets can be purchased in person at the Fox
Cities Performing Arts Center’s ticket office and online at foxcitiespac.com. To charge tickets by
phone, call Ticketmaster at (800) 982-2787. Orders for groups of ten or more may be placed by
calling (920) 730-3786.

The new Broadway cast album of West Side Story won the 2010 Grammy Award® for Best
Musical Show Album on January 31, 2010. The Bernstein and Sondheim score is considered to
be one of Broadway’s finest and features such classics of the American musical theater as
“Something’s Coming,” “Tonight,” “America,” “I Feel Pretty” and “Somewhere.”

The new Broadway production began previews at the Palace Theatre on Broadway Monday,
February 23, 2009, opened to critical acclaim breaking box office records at the Palace Theatre
on Thursday, March 19, 2009, and recouped its $14 million investment after running only 30
weeks. The Broadway production played its final performance January 2, 2011. The musical
played 27 previews and 748 regular performances, making it the longest-running production of
the groundbreaking musical in Broadway history. The original production, which had held the
record, played 732 performances on Broadway.

West Side Story features scenic designs by James Youmans (Gypsy), costumes by Tony Award
nominee David C. Woolard (The Farnsworth Invention, The Who’s Tommy), lighting by Tony
Award winner Howell Binkley (Gypsy, Jersey Boys), sound design by Tony Award nominee Dan
Moses Schreier (Gypsy, A Catered Affair) and hair by Mark Adam Rampmeyer (The Farnsworth
Invention).

West Side Story is written by three theatrical luminaries: two-time Tony Award winner Arthur
Laurents (book) and multiple Tony and Grammy Award winners Leonard Bernstein (music) and
Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) in his Broadway debut.
West Side Story is produced by Kevin McCollum, James L. Nederlander, Jeffrey Seller with
Terry Allen Kramer, Sander Jacobs, Roy Furman / Jill Furman Willis, Robyn Goodman / Walt
Grossman, Hal Luftig, Roy Miller and Broadway Across America.



 

foxcitiespac.com or call (920) 730-3781 for more information.

Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
400 West College Avenue, Appleton WI 54911