West Side Story was entertaining and touching
by Mike42 on 2012-03-19National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts - OttawaAlthough this production veered a little too much into teenaged sex jokes and away from real emotion, it still managed to capture the audience's attention with energetic dancing and signing and that great music. The set design was outstanding. The heavy use of Spanish by the Puerto Rican characters added verisimilitude, but made those characters harder to relate to because we couldn't understand the details of their experiences.