December 2003

BB-Promotion brings to life the original West Side Story.

-European Premiere, December 18, 2003 at the Old Opera House (Alte Oper) in Frankfurt (performances run until January 4, 2004).
- January 6 until January 18, 2004 at the Theater Baden-Baden (Festspielhaus).

The fascination of West Side Story

The story is as old as time itself: two young people meet and fall in love, promising to be eternally faithful. But their different backgrounds make it impossible for them to spend their lives together…

The original - a “first-class production”

West Side Story is not so much a novel set to incomparable music, as a unique production resulting from a grandiose show of esprit de corps by highly idiosyncratic artists…

Tedious preparations, gigantic investments

West Side Story is a huge, complex production with 36 actors and 25 musicians…

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