Go inside West Side Story’s opening night.
opened on Broadway in 1957, it made history by digging its heels into the gritty asphalt of New York’s mean streets. Confronting teenage gang violence and racial prejudice—topics that dominated the daily news but remained foreign to the world of musical theater—the production subverted the traditional saccharine musical story line with choreographed back-alley turf brawls and switchblade ballets.
Half a century, one Oscar-winning Hollywood adaptation, two New York revivals, plus another in London, and countless high school productions later,is taking a turn with a radical restaging of the cult classic.
Fittingly, several celebrity guests took sartorial cues from the musical and reimagined them for the red carpet of today. Always one to deliver showstopping style, Broadway producer extraordinaire Jordan Roth turned out in a Norma Kamali houndstooth number, replete with a trumpet hem inspired by the famously flouncy frock that Anita wears during the Mambo dance sequence. “If this production were a look, it would be this,” Roth said, showing off the ruffled details.
The stars of the show also demonstrated a flair for opening-night fashion. Shereen Pimentel, the 21-year-old starlet who plays Maria, actually had a hand in designing the gown that she originally planned to wear to the soirée, before a shipping-related snag meant it wouldn’t arrive in time. “The good thing is, I was able to find something else at the last-minute that I loved equally,” Pimentel said. Indeed, she made quite the entrance in a glittering gown with a slit cut up to there.
Isaac Powell, who plays Maria’s beloved Tony, also looked rather dapper in Celine . “Celine was first on my wish list,” Powell said, revealing he’d been a fan of the brand ever since creative director Hedi Slimane started showing menswear. “I knew I wanted to wear something classic and timeless,” he added.
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