Cowan Presents West Side Story
January 15, 2013
UT Tyler Office of Marketing and Communications
Broadway Musical West Side Story to Perform at UT Tyler Cowan Center
January 15, 2013
Media Contact: Hannah Buchanan
Editor/Writer–Strategic Communications & Media Relations
Marketing and Communications
The University of Texas at Tyler
903.539.7196 (cell)
January 15, 2013
Media Contact: Beverley Golden
Director
Marketing and Communications
The University of Texas at Tyler
903.566.7303 or 903.330.0495 (cell)
The University of Texas at Tyler R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center will feature the hit Broadway musical “West Side Story” as its first performance of the Broadway Series, Susan Thomae-Morphew, executive director, announced.
Sponsored by Jenny King, the musical will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22 in the Cowan Center Vaughn Auditorium. Communications and media sponsors are AT&T, East Texas Radio Group, KLTV and Lamar Advertising.
The performance includes adult situations.
Tickets still available are $52 and $37 and can be purchased online at www.cowancenter.org, by phone at 903.566.7424 or at the box office. Box office hours are 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and one hour prior to the performance.
“This musical changed the theatre when it debuted more than 50 years ago, and we’re thrilled to be a part of the revival tour. This love story, based on Romeo and Juliet, is filled with amazing singing and dancing,” Thomae-Morphew said.
“West Side Story” tells the story of star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria as they struggle to rise above the hatred and intolerance that surrounds them.
The musical soars as the greatest love story of all time and remains as powerful, poignant and timely as ever. The Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim score is considered to be one of Broadway’s finest and features such classics of the American musical theatre as “Something’s Coming,” “Tonight,” “America,” “I Feel Pretty”, “Maria” and “Somewhere.”
According to TheAssociated Press, West Side Story is the “best dance-driven musical. Five decades have not dimmed the extraordinary choreography or the score that pulsates throughout.”
Variety says, “The true stars of ‘West Side Story’ are Jerome Robbins' graceful, endlessly expressive choreography and Leonard Bernstein's score, which still sounds bracingly modern a half-century after it was first heard. The music is a primal force.”
This tour, based on Arthur Laurents’ groundbreaking 2009 Broadway direction, offers a bold new design that builds on the show’s raw power and emotion to create a fresh experience unlike any that came before it.
One of the 15 campuses of the UT System, UT Tyler offers excellence in teaching, research, artistic performance and community service. More than 80 undergraduate and graduate degrees are available at UT Tyler, which has an enrollment of almost 7,000 high-ability students at its campuses in Tyler, Longview and Palestine.