West Side Story Books Broadway's Palace Theatre

The previously announced Broadway revival of West Side Story has booked the Palace Theatre for a production that will begin previews on February 23, 2009. Directed by its Tony Award-winning librettest Arthur Laurents, West Side Story will open on March 19 following a pre-Broadway engagement December 15 through January 17, 2009, at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., where the musical made its world premiere in 1957.

The original Jerome Robbins choreography will be restaged by Joey McKneely The Boy from Oz, The Life. West Side Story features music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Full casting and creative team will be announced shortly.

West Side Story is produced by Kevin McCollum, James L. Nederlander, Jeffrey Seller with Terry Allen Kramer, Freddy DeMann, Roy Furman, Robyn Goodman/Walter Grossman, Sandy Jacobs, Hal Luftig, Roy Miller and Broadway Across America.