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How West Side Story Then and Now Uses Music, Dance and Politics to Portray 'An Anthology of America' by Diep Tran

The West Side Story revival is about to open on Broadway and it promises to be entirely different from the versions that have come before it. For one, the show is no longer set in 1957. It's been fast forwarded to today, with smartphones and mini dresses. And for the first time ever on Broadway, the show is not using director Jerome Robbins' original choreography. Gone are the finger snaps, and in its place …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PM on February 19, 2020

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