Broadway’s Justin Peck To Choreograph Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’
Tony Award-winning choreographer Justin Peck has joined the production team of Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story film.
Peck, the resident choreographer and soloist dancer with the New York City Ballet, won a Tony this year for his choreography of Carousel, the Rodgers & Hammerstein Broadway revival directed by Jack O’Brien (the production closed Sept. 16).
“This is a total dream-come-true,” Peck said of his new gig. “Getting a chance to work alongside such an illustrious and inspiring team to present a West Side Story for today’s audience is something I never imagined I would experience. The original West Side Story was one of the guiding forces that led me to dance in the first place, so I feel very honored on a deeply personal level.”
The original West Side Story film (pictured above) was released in 1961.
Spielberg will direct from a script by Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner,...
Peck, the resident choreographer and soloist dancer with the New York City Ballet, won a Tony this year for his choreography of Carousel, the Rodgers & Hammerstein Broadway revival directed by Jack O’Brien (the production closed Sept. 16).
“This is a total dream-come-true,” Peck said of his new gig. “Getting a chance to work alongside such an illustrious and inspiring team to present a West Side Story for today’s audience is something I never imagined I would experience. The original West Side Story was one of the guiding forces that led me to dance in the first place, so I feel very honored on a deeply personal level.”
The original West Side Story film (pictured above) was released in 1961.
Spielberg will direct from a script by Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner,...
- 9/28/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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