West Side Story
This play was seen on 11/21/10 in the Palace Theater Midtown NYC: I went to a Leonard Bernstein tribute concert at the NYC Opera house in Lincoln center. They performed several of his songs from this production and I was interested enough to want to go see it. I should say that this was my first time ever seeing any production of this musical. The dancing was amazing the songs were very good and the ending had the whole audience filled with the emotional intended emotional impact. Drawbacks would definitely be 1 in act 2 when Anita goes to Doc?s Drug Store to tell the Jets that Maria would be late, what was supposed to be a ?near rape? absolutely seemed instead to be a rape scene 2 It was widely broadcast that this production was special because it performed several songs in Spanish. This took away from the piece for me. I don?t know Spanish, the play was not originally written with Spanish, and I wasn?t able to put enough words together to fully understand what was being said although I did get the gist of it through the scene & emotions portrayed. That being said, it was still a fun filled night of music and amazing dancing. For these aspects along I probably would have given the play 4 stars but with all the Spanish language used I can only give it three

Reviewed by OV26492745 on Wednesday, Jan 12th, 2011

Not Great
Tony and Maria were mis-cast, they were not believable, and to be frank, their vocals were not all that spectacular. However, the ensemble numbers were amazing!!!

Reviewed by jaybear1234 on Tuesday, Aug 3rd, 2010