Mairi Babb & John Ullyatt in West Side Story. Photo by David Cooper

March 8 - April 3, 2005

Theatre Calgary presents the Theatre Calgary/Citadel Theatre (Edmonton) co-production of:

West Side Story

Based on a conception of Jerome Robbins, Book by Arthur Laurents, Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Entire original production directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, Originally produced on Broadway by Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince, By arrangement with Roger L. Stevens

Past Production

Overview

Lovers Maria and Tony find themselves entangled in the bitter battle between their gangster families. Knowing this feud will lead to disastrous consequences, Maria sends Tony to end the fight.

Cast and Creative Team

Don Horsburgh

For Theatre Calgary: The Secret Garden, Crazy for You (Citadel co-pro), Mary Poppins (Citadel co-pro), Next to Normal (Citadel co-pro), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Citadel co-pro), Guys and Dolls (Citadel/MTC co-pro), West Side Story (Citadel co-pro), Into the Woods, Anne of Green Gables (1994), Fire (1989), Pal Joey. Elsewhere: Mamma Mia, West Side Story, Evangeline, Avenue Q, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Penelopiad, The Sound of Music, The Rocky Horror Show, Little Women, Hunchback, Citadel; The Threepenny Opera, Stratford; Hairspray, White Christmas, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, MTC; Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Once On This Island, Canadian Stage; The Sound of Music and Aspects of Love, North American tours. Don has also provided original music for Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Penelopiad, August: Osage County, Pride and Prejudice, Blithe Spirit, and The Constant Wife. Awards: Recipient of five Dora Awards, two Betty Mitchell Awards, and three Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards.

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