"And what a masterpiece!"

From "First-class 'West Side Story' sounds an authentic note" (Chicago Tribune, June 20):

The 2009 revival has closed in New York. This tour — which features Laurents' direction, re-created by his longtime associate David Saint — dances on for a little while longer, including for these four summer weeks in Chicago. So I think it's fair to say that this is your last chance to take an impressionable young person to the theater and say, "Look, this is 'West Side Story' as I remember it," and as it was intended to be realized by those who were there when the masterpiece was forged.

We have tickets for a performance date at about the run's midpoint. We'll let you know what we thought.