"West Side Story" is the safe musical, the one grasped easily enough by young (but not too young) audiences that it's become one of the de facto introductions to theater. Of course, it helps when your source material is Shakespeare, your music is Bernstein/Sondheim and your legacy is ten Oscars. Now that the mega-successful 1961 [...]
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AM on December 8, 2011