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4 days ago · 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-collar neighborhood.
Jun 15, 2024 · West Side Story, American musical film, released in 1961, that was inspired by Shakespeare ’s Romeo and Juliet. The movie, filled with exhilarating dance sequences choreographed by Jerome Robbins and memorable songs—including “Tonight,” “Maria,” and “Somewhere”—by Leonard Bernstein (music) and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), won 10 ...
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2 days ago · Bernstein collaborated with director and choreographer Jerome Robbins, book writer Arthur Laurents, and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. The story is an updated retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , set in the mid-1950s in the slums of New York City's Upper West Side .
21 hours ago · “Tuesday,” the final part of the triptych, portrays themes from the author's 1931 book The Waves, and ends with Woolf’s death; ... including Jerome Robbins, ...
May 31, 2024 · Published scores and librettos constitute a major portion of the Music Division's general collections. This page describes how to search for published Bernstein scores, as well as librettos significant to Bernstein's theatrical collaborations.
4 days ago · After Sondheim finished Evening Primrose, Jerome Robbins asked him to adapt Bertolt Brecht's The Measures Taken despite the composer's general dislike of Brecht's work. Robbins wanted to adapt another Brecht play, The Exception and the Rule, and asked John Guare to adapt the book.
Jun 18, 2024 · One of Photography’s Most Enigmatic Love Triangles Finally Gets Its Due. In their book “Body Language,” Nick Mauss and Angela Miller show how a group of artists shaped a network of queer image culture decades before Stonewall. Nick Mauss and Angela Miller’s book Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and ...
