![]() ![]() ![]() Now, after more than a year of preparation and no shortage of complications-two injured stars, one of whom had to drop out a delayed opening a nightly rally, held in front of the theatre, to protest the casting, as Bernardo, of Amar Ramasar (a New York City Ballet principal who was fired from and then reinstated to that company after sharing nude photos of a colleague), a foreseeable controversy that the producers have responded to in stiff, baffled fashion-van Hove’s “West Side Story” has at last opened (at the Broadway). When it was announced that he would be taking on “ West Side Story,” among the most beloved and fraught of American musicals, the buzz began. Van Hove is celebrated for his austere, violent, video-heavy stagings, which attempt to reveal the hidden layers of classic texts. The avant period is over he is simply part of the garde, influential and much imitated, not least by himself. ![]() The Belgian director Ivo van Hove is invariably referred to as “avant-garde,” but, considering that he has spent more than two decades making theatre in this country, including three recent productions on Broadway, that thorny honorific no longer really fits. ![]()
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