A great American musical turns up in an unexpected place this week: Jerome Robbins' "West Side Story Suite," a half-hour mosaic of the 1957 Broadway hit, will be performed by Pacific Northwest Ballet as part of the company's Broadway Festival, opening Thursday. The frenetic mambo of "Dance at the Gym"; the finger-snapping rhythms of "Cool"; the whirling kicks of "America" — it's all here, along with something not usually part of the package for ballet dancers: singing.
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