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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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Jun 20, 2024 · Jean-Pierre Frohlich is the Repertory Director of the New York City Ballet and was previously a member of the corps de ballet. He later transitioned to roles involving staging and coaching ballets, especially those of Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine.
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 5, 2024 · Take advantage of this spectacular performance that brings Broadway’s finest to life in a way only Sondheim and Bernstein can. Book by Arthur Laurents | Music by Leonard Bernstein | Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Based on a Conception of Jerome Robbins | Based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Jun 3, 2024 · Jerome Robbins’ Interplay and Glass Pieces; He also had a role created on him in Garner’s Underneath, There Is Light. Since joining NYCB, he has performed featured roles in works by Balanchine, Justin Peck, and Robbins, and has originated roles in works by Wheeldon, Peck, and Tiler Peck.
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Jun 20, 2024 · "... there are also nostalgic pleasures galore: Catherine Zuber’s fabulous 1940s fashions, Anthony Van Laast’s Jerome Robbins-esque choreography in Too Darn Hot (led by an explosively exciting Jack Butterworth), and Nigel Lindsay and Hammed Animashaun’s hilarious Runyonesque theatre-enthusiast gangsters."
