NewsPHOTO EXCLUSIVE: West Side Story National Tour Cast in RehearsalThe national tour of the new Broadway production of West Side Story, starring Ali Ewoldt and Kyle Harris, launches in Detroit on Sept. 30.
By
Krissie Fullerton
September 02, 2010
Tony Award-winning librettist Arthur Laurents' Broadway direction will be recreated for the tour by David Saint, the associate director on Broadway. The original Jerome Robbins choreography is reproduced by Tony Award-nominee Joey McKneely (The Boy from Oz, The Life).
Here is a look at the cast in rehearsal, photographed at New 42nd Street Studios:
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PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: West Side Story National Tour Cast in Rehearsal
PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: West Side Story National Tour Cast in Rehearsal
The national tour of the new Broadway production of West Side Story, starring Ali Ewoldt and Kyle Harris, launches in Detroit on Sept. 30. Read the Playbill.com story.
In addition to Ewoldt and Harris, the cast also includes Michelle Aravena as Anita, Joseph J. Simeone as Riff and German Santiago as Bernardo. Also featured are Mike Boland as Krupke, Ryan Christopher Chotto as A-rab, Stephen DeRosa as Glad Hand, Drew Foster as Action, Alexandra Frohlinger as Anybodys, Jay Garcia as Chino, Grant Gustin as Baby John, Nathan Keen as Big Deal, Christopher Patrick Mullen as Schrank, John O'Creagh as Doc, Kyle Robinson as Diesel, Cary Tedder as Snowboy, along with Lauren Boyd, Alicia Charles, Beth Crandall, Dean Andre de Luna, Ted Ely, Lori Ann Ferreri, Ryan Ghysels, Tim Hausmann, Dea Julien, Daniel Kermidas, Kristen Paulicelli, Christie Portera, Erika Santillana, Kevin Santos, Michael Scirrotto, Jeffrey C. Sousa, Jessica Swesey, Kathryn Lin Terza and Kirstin Tucker.
Thom Yorke has joined forces with co-directors Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones on the new production for Royal Shakespeare Company and Factory International.