Posted by Moreno Valley College on MVC website

performance Riverside launches its 2019-20 season with West Side Story, a classic musical masterpiece that explores themes of race, young love, tradition and the immigrant experience.
Filled with soaring vocals like Maria, Tonight, I Feel Pretty, America, and dynamic and explosive dance numbers,West Side Story is considered one of the most groundbreaking musicals ever written. It takes the most famous romantic drama of all time, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and sets it loose in epic fashion on the streets of 1950s New York, finding two idealistic young lovers, Tony and Maria caught between warring street gangs — the Jets and the Sharks.