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Keep Cool Boy - The Jets Aloft in West Side Story

In a rare moment, before a Franz Kline-inspired setting, the Jets achieve a perfectly synchronized lift-off in this production of West Side Story mounted in celebration of Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday. After forty-six seasons at the Weston Playhouse in Vermont, this production also represented my 60th (and final) happy entanglement directing mostly musical theatre works on the playhouse's historical stage. Twenty-seven performers – from newly minted conservatory graduates to Broadway veterans – enabled this epic work to fly.
Submission Year: 
2018-19
Photographer's affiliation: 
Faculty
Academic areas: 
Arts and Science
Art of Research categories: 
Art in action
Photo: 
Keep Cool Boy - The Jets Aloft in West Side Story
Categories: 
Faculty / Researcher
Faculty of Arts and Science
Dan School of Drama and Music
Mobilizing Creativity and Enabling Cultures
Creative Production and Expression
Location of photograph: 
Weston Playhouse, Vermont
Photographer's name: 
Tim Fort
Display Photographers Affiltion + Faculty or Department: 
Faculty, Dan School of Drama and Music