Doug Peruski says he has been sitting on a secret for the last couple
of months, but the time has come to let the cat out of the bag.
He is moving his theater troupe, the Square Peg Players, to New York in the near
future, although the exact date is not yet set. He has been very open about
that. What he has been keeping to himself, however, is that he is finally
realizing a long-held dream, and will be appearing in a new production of West
Side Story.
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Doug Peruski has loved the Jerome Robbins play of star-crossed lovers
for as long as he can remember. "I loved that movie as a kid growing up,
and I've seen five or six different live productions of it," he says.
"I was hoping to be cast as Tony – that's the role I auditioned for, and
that's the role I really want to play. Well, maybe someday. I didn't get the
part of Tony, but I did get a callback after the audition and they wanted me
for Diesel!"
Diesel, he explains, is one of the gang members of the Jets.
"It's mostly a supporting role," Doug Peruski says. "But I get a
song. You know that great song near the end, ‘Cool'? I can't wait!"
West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein, is based on William
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The play was an immediate hit when it first opened
on Broadway in 1957, and became an Academy Award winning film in 1961. Doug
Peruski says that the production he has been cast in is scheduled to open in an
off-off-Broadway theatre in the summer of 2015. Rehearsals begin in the spring
of that year.
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