West Side StoryArthur Laurents (Book); Leonard Bernstein (Music); Stephen Sondheim (Lyrics)Hillbarn TheatreJeffrey Brian Adams & Ana Paula Malagón With a cast of thirty and an orchestra of fourteen, Hillbarn Theatre kicks off its seventy-eighth consecutive season with a West Side Story that proves that the sixty-plus-year-old musical is as current, relevant, … [Read more...] about “West Side Story”
Leonard Bernstein
“At the Statue of Venus” and “Trouble in Tahiti”
At the Statue of VenusJake Heggie (Music); Terrence McNally (Libretto)&Trouble in TahitiLeonard Bernstein (Music & Libretto)Opera ParallèleSteffi CheongThe familiar opening notes of West Side Story rise in a percussion-piano duet, jazzier and with more edge than the Broadway version. The evening’s prelude transitions into a probing, vibrating, and emotional … [Read more...] about “At the Statue of Venus” and “Trouble in Tahiti”
