It may be about two rival teenage gangs, but students from four Armidale schools have spent months working together to bring to the stage this week the famous musical West Side Story. Since auditions in September, around 100 boys and girls from The Armidale School, PLC Armidale, New England Girls’ School and O’Connor Catholic College have been rehearsing for a sell-out season which opens at the TAS Hoskins Centre on 26 March. In addition to the student cast and crew is an orchestra of 19 musicians, including many well known in the New England region. Here’s the article that appeared in the Northern Daily Leader, 26 March.
