West Side Story is such a New York institution that the idea of a West Coast production overshadowing anything heard on Broadway sounds downright sacrilegious, yet that is precisely what the San Francisco Symphony did in 2013 when Leonard Bernstein-protege Michael Tilson Thomas conducted a series of concerts in which the 1957 score was performed in its entirety for the first time in decades. In the summer of 2014 a r…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:00AM on December 18, 2014