Reruns of the musical 'West Side Story' extended at Teatro Sistina

In 2021, Stephen Spielberg made a film out of it - after another film had already won an Oscar in 1961: it is the musical 'West Side Story', which is being repeated at the Teatro Sistina in Rome. The original idea came from the great choreographer Jerome Robbins - and dance is very important here. Around this idea came guys in their thirties who answered to the names of Bernstein(!), Laurents(!), Sondheim(!). In New York, we end the year on a high note with the Rockettes.

Reruns of the musical 'West Side Story' have been increased at the Sistina Theatre, and will therefore continue from 3 to 12 January. The masterpiece with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, choreography by Jerome Robbins (which inspired the one created here by Mitchell). New production, in Italian, directed by Massimo Romeo Piparo. Here are two gangs battling for control of the dishevelled (remember: we are in the 1950s) territory of Manhattan's Upper West End, Puerto Ricans against Americans (and in between, Romeo and Juliet revived). The curtain opens, the gangs face each other - dancing, not a word. Dance as a dramaturgical element. The movements are darting, acrobatic, never before seen on Broadway. The music is polytonal, the accents are all shifted away from the 'norm', the tritone interval recurs (diabolus in music), the extreme importance of rhythm, the vehicle of the entire expressive range.