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Box office. $44.1 million [4] West Side Story is a 1961 American musical romantic drama film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, written by Ernest Lehman, and produced by Wise. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same title, which in turn was inspired by Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet.
Dec 11, 2021 · A sweeping and majestic reimagining of Romeo and Juliet, the original West Side Story musical, with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, was a staple of Spielberg’s...
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.
May 3, 2013 · Stephen Sondheim. BENEFITS OF THE MOVIE West Side Story can be of benefit to students studying Romeo and Juliet as it helps them understand the timeless and universal nature of Shakespeare’s themes.
It was Robbins who dominated the production of West Side Story, which had been written in the mid-'50s by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and a young Stephen Sondheim.
As the gangs vie for control of a neighborhood on New York City’s Upper West Side, they are warned by police to stop fighting. Law enforcement has racist contempt for the Sharks but also sees the Jets as slum “trash” and warns them to settle down.
West Side Story: Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise. With Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno. Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
