Ballet West Will Present BROADWAY & BEYOND With Guest Artists Fairchild & Pazcoguin
The program, featuring company premieres by Jerome Robbins and Christopher Wheeldon, will run April 10 through 18 at the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City, with tickets starting at $29.
Ballet West will present West Side Story Suite: Broadway & Beyond, a landmark program featuring company premieres by two of the most celebrated choreographers in dance history, running April 10 through 18 at the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City. Tickets start at $29.
"This production is unlike any other I have brought to Ballet West throughout my tenure," says Artistic Director Adam Sklute. "With our artists singing and dancing, this program bridges the world of classical ballet and Broadway musical theater, offering something truly extraordinary."
Broadway & Beyond brings together four company premieres by Jerome Robbins and Christopher Wheeldon, two choreographers who each transformed both ballet and Broadway. Robbins, a five-time Tony Award winner, revolutionized musical theater with the original 1957 West Side Story, while also creating landmark works for New York City Ballet. Wheeldon, NYCB's first-ever resident artist and himself a Tony Award winner, continues that legacy with work spanning the concert stage and Broadway.
The featured presentation of the program, Robbins' West Side Story Suite, is a feat unlike anything Ballet West has attempted before, requiring dancers to sing, speak, and perform with the energy of Broadway performers while executing the demands of classical ballet.
Performing alongside the company are two celebrated guest artists, along with a notable connection to Utah: Robbie Fairchild, a Ballet West Academy alumnus who went on to become a Principal Artist at NYCB and earn a Tony nomination for his Broadway role in Wheeldon's An American in Paris; and Georgina Pazcoguin, former NYCB Soloist, Broadway performer, and one of the last artists personally coached by Broadway legend Chita Rivera, the original Anita, in that very role.
Included in the evening are Wheeldon's Carousel (A Dance), a romantic and uplifting work inspired by the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic; his hauntingly intimate and pure dance pas de deux from After the Rain, set to the meditative music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt; and Robbins' Antique Epigraphs, a mysterious and mesmerizing work for eight dancers based on Greek antiquity and set to the impressionist music of Claude Debussy.
PERFORMANCE DETAILS
Dates: April 10 - 18
Where: Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City
Tickets: Starting at $29 | balletwest.org or 801-869-6800
Ballet West, led by Artistic Director Adam Sklute, has been celebrated for innovation and excellence since 1963. Based in Salt Lake City, it presents classical masterpieces, historic works like America's first, and longest-running Nutcracker, and bold new creations that push the art form forward. Through the Frederick Q. Lawson Ballet West Academy, Ballet West trains the next generation of ballet artists and audiences in classical technique. The company also extends its reach to the broader community through one of the largest outreach and education programs in the country.
The 2025-26 Season is generously sponsored by Salt Lake Zoo, Arts & Parks, George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, and Intermountain Health.
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