The handsome Cody Green plays Riff, the leader of the Jets.
Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda contributed additional Spanish lyrics to some of the songs in this production.
Opening night guests included Broadway veteran and Mad Men star Bryan Batt, who will appear in the March 23 benefit reading of Legends.
Supermodel Christie Brinkley was also on hand for the opening night festivities.
Keith Carradine will soon star in George Street Playhouse’s New Year’s Eve, written by West Side Story‘s librettist and this revival’s director, Arthur Laurents.
Talk show host Phil Donahue attended with his wife, the actress Marlo Thomas, who will co-star with Carradine in New Year’s Eve.
Broadway veteran and Private Practice star Taye Diggs was in attendance.
Here’s Carol Lawrence, who received a Tony nomination for playing Maria in the original Broadway cast of West Side Story.
Sarah Paulson will soon star in the Off-Broadway show, The Gingerbread House, at Rattlestick Theatre, and the ABC-TV series Cupid, which debuts this month.
Ballet great Ethan Stiefel has previously performed Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story Suite.
Finally, here’s the lovely Vanessa Williams, who stars on TV’s Ugly Betty, and last appeared on Broadway in Into the Woods, which was written by West Side Story‘s lyricist, Stephen Sondheim.
For TheaterMania’s review of West Side Story, click here.
