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I tend to anticipate anybody in the apple has apparent “West Side Story,” yet I admiration if bodies adolescent than 40 apperceive the story. After all, it’s been 58 years back it premiered on Broadway and about 55 back the accepted blur starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn rocked America’s cine houses.

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With music by the abundant Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreography by Jerome Robbins, it was a cinch hit. Yet it hardly plays bounded theaters. In the nine years I’ve been reviewing plays in the South Sound, I’ve not apparent it already until this anniversary at Tacoma Agreeable Playhouse.

I doubtable it’s too big for bounded theaters to handle. Robbins’ choreography, and the able-bodied ball moves as acclimatized locally by Jon Douglas Rake and co-choreographer Jimmy Shields, is apparently as boxy a claiming as that of any musical. At TMP, the dancing ability not be as aciculate or as bland as it was in the movie, but these are amateurs and they don’t accept assorted takes as in the movies. The set additionally is a challenge, but artist Bruce Haasl does a superb job of creating a 1950s Manhattan Upper West Side artery arena that calmly converts to the interiors of Doc’s Drugstore and Anita’s apartment.

What anybody should apperceive by now is that it is a call of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” set in an ethnic, blue-collar breadth of New York City with Puerto Rican and Italian artery gangs instead of Montagues and Capulets. Maria (Melissa Maricich) is the modern-day Juliet, and Tony (Ryan Anderson) is the avant-garde day Romeo.

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An absorbing point that says a lot about the time and abode is that the Italians were not alleged Italian, but artlessly American; admitting the Puerto Ricans were alleged Puerto Ricans. By the 1950s Italian immigrants had alloyed into the American culture, while the Puerto Ricans had not, and there was hot agitation amidst them as to whether or not they capital to assimilate, as humorously illustrated by the addictive tune “America,” a affiliation amidst Anita (Melanie Gladstone) who wants to be American and Rosalia (Brynne Geiszler) who longs to go home to Puerto Rico.

The artery gangs, the Jets (“American”) and the Sharks (Puerto Rican) are at war. Tony is a above baton of the Jets who has outgrown the gang. He meets Maria at a ball and they anon abatement in adulation and try tragically to able their affair amidst the advancing battling warfare. Tony tries to be a peacemaker, as does Doc (Joseph Woodland) and the cops, Lt. Schrank (Martin Goldsmith) and Officer Krupke (Chris Serface), who are stupid, amateur and racist.

The adventure is adventurous and tragic, but there are affably banana moments such as the above song “America” and the best absurd bit in the musical, “Gee, Officer Krumpke,” affably articulate by Action (Jake Atwood) and danced with abundant appearance by the Jets.

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The songs “Maria” by Tony, “Tonight” by Tony and Maria with the absolute cast, and “Somewhere” with solos by Tony and Maria additional Clarice (Maggie Barry) and Francisca (Francesca Guecia) are amidst the best admirable adulation songs anytime written.

There is a lot of angry and a abduction scene, all of which are accomplished with awful august yet tasteful ball moves. Bernstein’s music, which blends the operatic with accepted music, and Sondheim’s adroit lyrics go a continued way against authoritative this amidst the best of musicals.

While TMP’s assembly ability not abode this amidst the top two or three musicals of the year (I’d accord that account to TMP’s “Evita,” “Cabaret” at Tacoma Little Theatre, and Center Stage’s “For All That”), it is absolutely added than account the amount of admission.

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