West Side Story hits London - archive, 13 December 1958
13 December 1958: High expectations fulfilled as the hit Broadway musical opens in the capital's West EndExpectation ran high at Her Majesty's Theatre when West Side Story hit London. Hit it it did, and expectation was fulfilled. Jerome Robbins's choreography, that which sets before us not isolated dances but a flowing movement in and out of dance throughout, Leonard Bernstein's music, and Arthur Laurents's and Steph…