WEST SIDE STORY Single Tickets On Sale Now!

GRAMMY AWARD® WINNING BROADWAY SMASH HIT WEST SIDE STORY IS COMING TO CHARLOTTE
TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW
Charlotte, NC - Blumenthal Performing Arts announced single tickets for the national tour of the smash hit Broadway revival of WEST SIDE STORY are on sale now.  WEST SIDE STORY plays Tuesday, Nov. 1-Sunday, Nov. 6, in the Belk Theater at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center.  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).
Tickets are available at BlumenthalArts.org, 704-372-1000 or from the box office in the Belk Theater lobby, 130 N. Tryon St.  Group orders of 15 or more may be placed by calling 704-379-1380.
The new Broadway cast album of WEST SIDE STORY won the 2010 Grammy Award® for Best Musical Show Album on January 31, 2010. The Bernstein and Sondheim score is considered to be one of Broadway’s finest and features such classics of the American musical theatre as “Something’s Coming,” “Tonight,” “America,” “I Feel Pretty” and “Somewhere.”
The new Broadway production began previews at the Palace Theatre on Broadway Monday, February 23, 2009, opened to critical acclaim breaking box office records at the Palace Theatre on Thursday, March 19, 2009, and recouped its $14 million investment after running only 30 weeks. The Broadway production played its final performance January 2, 2011. The musical played 27 previews and 748 regular performances, making it the longest-running production of the groundbreaking musical in Broadway history. The original production, which had held the record, played 732 performances on Broadway.  
WEST SIDE STORY features scenic designs by James Youmans (Gypsy), costumes by Tony Award nominee David C. Woolard (The Farnsworth Invention, The Who’s Tommy), lighting by Tony Award winner Howell Binkley (Gypsy, Jersey Boys), sound design by Tony Award nominee Dan Moses Schreier (Gypsy, A Catered Affair) and hair by Mark Adam Rampmeyer (The Farnsworth Invention). 
WEST SIDE STORY is written by three theatrical luminaries: two-time Tony Award winner Arthur Laurents (book) and multiple Tony and Grammy Award winners Leonard Bernstein (music) and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) in his Broadway debut. 
WEST SIDE STORY is produced by Kevin McCollum, James L. Nederlander, Jeffrey Seller with Terry Allen Kramer, Sander Jacobs, Roy Furman / Jill Furman Willis, Robyn Goodman / Walt Grossman, Hal Luftig, Roy Miller and Broadway Across America.
WEST SIDE STORY will play Tuesday, Nov. 1 through Sunday, Nov. 6 at the Belk Theater at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center.  Performances are Tuesday through Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m., Sunday at 7:00 p.m., with matinees Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and Sunday at 1:30 p.m.