{"id":535,"date":"2008-04-16T11:52:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T15:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/?p=535"},"modified":"2008-06-13T11:54:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T15:54:27","slug":"%e2%80%98west-side-story%e2%80%99-to-be-presented-at-tahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"\u2018West Side Story\u2019 to be presented at TAHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/11458_jets-tahsw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-536\" title=\"11458_jets-tahsw\" src=\"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/11458_jets-tahsw-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/11458_jets-tahsw-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/11458_jets-tahsw.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\">The world\u2019s greatest love story takes to the stage of the Tyrone Area High School in the landmark Broadway musical \u201cWest Side Story\u201d as presented April 25 and 26 at 7:30 p.m. each evening.<br \/>\nShakespeare\u2019s Romeo and Juliet is transported to modern-day New York City, as two young idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs, the \u201cAmerican\u201d Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks. Their struggle to survive in a world of hate, violence and prejudice is one of the most innovative, heart-wrenching and relevant musical dramas of our time.<br \/>\nTAHS seniors, Jonathan Harris and Sofia Revolorio will portray the star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria with Stevie Woodring and Derik Cruz, as Anita and Bernardo, their Puerto Rican rivals. Riff, the leader of the Jets, is Tyler Ayres.<br \/>\nMore than 44 students will bring this musical masterpiece to life on the TAHS stage each night along with the portrayal of the adults by teachers David Rutter, as the sarcastic Lt. Shrank, Cummins McNitt as Doc and TASD security officer \u201cBub\u201d Dick as Officer Krupke.<br \/>\nCatherine Young, musical director, will be conducting the 22-piece orchestra with Karen Volpe, Mishler Theatre Manager, handling the drama direction. Set design and construction is being created by Eric Feather and the TAHS arts studio students with the aid of Don Dietz of Huntingdon. Stage Manager is math teacher Stephanie Haid.<br \/>\nTickets are $8 for advanced and $6 for general admission and can be obtained by calling 684-4240 Ext. 3700 or at the TAHS main office.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The \u2018Jets\u2019 Sitting, from left: Chris Sipe, Elizabeth Romano, Tyler Ayres and Josh Bradley. Standing: RJ Beck, Robbie Marlett, Jared Shaffer, Ethan Nulton and Ty Wilson. Missing from photo: Garrett Ray. (Courtesy photo)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s greatest love story takes to the stage of the Tyrone Area High School in the landmark Broadway musical \u201cWest Side Story\u201d as presented April 25 and 26 at 7:30 p.m. each evening. Shakespeare\u2019s Romeo and Juliet is transported to modern-day New York City, as two young idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area","category-excerpts-from-the-tyrone-daily-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}