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- In 1949 the performance was adapted for the big screen and saw Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra take the lead roles. Robbins career as a choreographer had taken off and for the remains of his working life he was to juggle big Broadway musicals such as Fiddler On The Roof, West Side Story and The King and I, with ‘serious’ ballet.
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In 1937 Robbins made the first of many appearances as a dancer at Camp Tamiment, a resort in the Poconos known for its weekly Broadway-style revues; and he began dancing in the choruses of Broadway shows, including Great Lady and Keep Off the Grass, both choreographed by George Balanchine.
Jerome Robbins' Broadway is an anthology comprising musical numbers from shows that were either directed or choreographed by Jerome Robbins. The shows represented include, for example, The King and I, On the Town and West Side Story. Robbins won his fifth Tony Award for direction.
Apr 2, 2014 · 'West Side Story' Fall 1957 saw the Broadway debut of West Side Story, with Robbins creating, directing and choreographing a modern New York update of William Shakespeare ’s Romeo and Juliet....
The Shuberts produce a Broadway show of Liebman’s Tamiment revues. It is called The Straw Hat Review, Robbins is the choreographer. It is his first Broadway show, though he receives no billing.
2020 Broadway revival. West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents . Inspired by William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue ...
In 1958 he formed his own company 'Ballets: USA which did tours of Europe and the Middle East, New York and a national tour. Several members of the company were in the film West Side Story which Jerome staged fir Broadway, the National Company and London.
Robbins, who has devoted most of his career to the ballet stage, returns to Broadway for the first time in 25 years with a retrospective culled from roughly half the shows to which he...
