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- Sondheim was at a party with theatre writer Burt Shevelove, who was later to write and direct Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and they happened to meet Laurents who informed them they he was preparing a musical version of Romeo and Juliet with composer Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins.
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Dec 13, 2021 · Before Leonard Bernstein composed any music, before Jerome Robbins choreographed a step, before Arthur Laurents completed a single draft of a full book, before Stephen Sondheim would even join...
West Side Story. 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 ...
Mar 2, 2009 · One humid midsummer afternoon in 1957, lyricist Stephen Sondheim, composer Leonard Bernstein, choreographer Jerome Robbins and writer Arthur Laurents stood dejected at 44th Street and Sixth...
Oct 20, 2021 · There may be other examples, but this one comes to mind: In 1990, Sondheim, who was teaching at Oxford, invited Arthur Laurents and John Weidman to speak to a group of students. Laurents says...
Laurents had wanted Barbra Streisand for the role of Fay, but she turned it down to star in Funny Girl. Following rehearsals in New York City, the company started pre-Broadway tryouts in Philadelphia from March 2 to 21, 1964.
My wife and I and Steve [Sondheim] dropped by for a visit where he and Tom Hatcher were racing down the slopes of St. Anton. That was in 1956 — 55 years ago. Fast forward to 2009: We skied ...
Together they created an innovative musical transposing the framework and action of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to 1950s New York City. Instead of feuding families, West Side Story’s star-crossed lovers, Tony and Maria, are connected to warring street gangs — the Jets (white teens) and the Sharks (Puerto Ricans).
