A long way from the West Side

By Ron Cerabona
Updated April 19 2018 - 12:05am, first published January 30 2013 - 3:35pm

Nouveau Riche Bridal and Evening Wear in Queanbeyan is a long way from New York City's West Side. But it provided an appropriate setting for a performance of I Feel Pretty yesterday. The exuberant number from West Side Story is set in a bridal shop and depicts the joy of the lovestruck Puerto Rican girl Maria (played by Nicola Hall) as her friends Conseula (Tamina Koehne-Drube), Francisca (Kate Graham) and Rosalia (Beth Deer) fondly mock her.

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