Are you a Jet or a Shark? Get ready to choose as the award-winning adaptation of history’s most famous star-crossed lovers, West Side Story, comes to Dubai.
Once considered an impossible project that was declined by every producer in town, shelved multiple times, and taking a decade to complete, it’s fair to say that West Side Story well and truly defied the naysayers. The Broadway musical arrives in Dubai this month, bringing Maria, Tony, and the rest of the Jets and Sharks along for the ride.
This story is from the February 2017 edition of What's On Abu Dhabi.
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