By Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard 25.07.08 More reviews by Nicholas de Jongh A girl like Maria: the revival of West Side Story at Sadler's Wells is emotionally power-packed with Lana Gordon as the vivacious Anita and Sophia Escobar as the Shark girl who tragically falls in love with a Jet Dynamic: the production by Joey McKneely never loses its tense momentum and conveys just the right atmosphere of aggression What a stinging, contemporary resonance there is to Leonard Bernstein's classic Fifties musical in which the knife and gun do their fatal damage to Jets and the Sharks, young, rival gangsters in New York. West Side Story speaks and sings its alarming story of gangland love and feuding to a London in the grip of its knife epidemic far more urgently than it did in 1958. Joey McKneely's fine, 50th anniversary...
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