A story with staying power

​Just a few months after San Diego Musical Theatre staged the perennial Broadway fave about the Jets and the Sharks and Tony and Maria, Lamb’s Players Theatre is presenting its own West Side Story, and it’s still irresistible. Even if Lamb’s’ Tony (Kevin Hafso-Koppman) seems too mild for a gang member – perhaps he’s too lovestruck? -- this West Side Story contains all the requisite ingredients: top-shelf choreography (by Colleen Kollar Smith); exciting fight scenes (choreographed by Jordan Miller), a crowd-wowing Anita (Michele Alves) and, of course, Leonard Bernstein’s music and Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics, which together ensure that this is a show with perpetual staying power.