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| | UMass Amherst Spotlight Magazine |
 | | The dialogue that emerged out of that controversy is the basis for an original theater piece titled, West Side Stories, written by Harley Erdman, Roberta Uno and students from the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts High School (PVPA) and Amherst Regional High School. |
 | | Erdman and Uno wove the information from those elements together to produce the script for West Side Stories, a unique community theater piece that is just as groundbreaking for audiences of this milieu as its Bernstein-Sondheim-Laurents counterpart was when it premiered. |
 | | West Side Stories, a multi-dimensional exploration of race and place through music, dance, sketch comedy, satire, and drama, will take place on Saturday, February 21, 2004 at 8 PM and on Sunday, February 22 at 2 PM at the University of Massachusetts Bowker Auditorium. |
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