West Side Story

I also went with the Circle Arts Intensive to a performance of West Side Story at Playhouse Square.  To prepare for the show, we learned about the history of the musical, it's composer Leonard Bernstein, and it's connection to Romeo and Juliet.  We watched a film version of Romeo and Juliet, and scenes from several other versions of it (different film adaptations, a ballet version, an opera, etc.), so that we could analyze the way that West Side Story transforms Shakespeare's work.  It was very interesting to compare all of these variations on one story, and it was a very fun show to watch.