Westside Story has been done and redone from movies to high school musicals.
Time for some fresh material.
“Romeo and Juliet” was seen as a little old-fashioned for the 20th century audience, so they moved it into mid-20th century NYC and had street gangs face off with knives. Not a bad idea.
But now “West Side Story” is seen as a little old-fashioned for the 21th century audience, so they just remade it all over again.
Sigh.
Once upon a time, their equipment truck broke down, so we (Spirit of Atlanta) loaned them our horns and drums, and they beat ut with our own equipment.