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- 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.
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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.
West Side Story, theatre music by American composer Leonard Bernstein that premiered August 19, 1957, in Washington, D.C., before moving to Broadway for a second opening on September 26, 1957. The musical is a 20th-century American adaptation of the Shakespearean tale of Romeo and Juliet.
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Inspired by the timeless story of Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story takes Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, and places them in the vibrant battleground of New York City’s West Side in the 1950s.
- West Side Story: The Genesis
- West Side Story Eventually Opened on Broadway in 1957
- Oscar Hammerstein II Persuaded Sondheim to Write The Lyrics
- Sondheim Convinced His Friend Hal Prince to Produce The Show
- Sondheim Is The only Surviving Member of The Collaborators
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There can be few people who have never heard at least one of these songs at some point in their lives: ‘Maria’, ‘Tonight’, ‘America’, ‘One Hand, One Heart’, ‘I Feel Pretty’ and ‘Somewhere’. What a sequence of hits! And that’s without numbers like ‘Jet Song’, ‘The Rumble’ and ‘Gee, Officer Krupke’. “Oh yes,” you’d say, without a moment’s hesitation ...
In the end, the musical West Side Storyeventually opened on Broadway on 26 September 1957 and ran for 732 performances. It was nominated for six Tony Awards. The 1961 film adaptation was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won ten, including Best Picture. Robbins had first collaborated with the talented young composer and conductor Leonard Bernstei...
Theatre producer Martin Gabel had recently (1955) introduced Laurents to a young composer-lyricist named Stephen Sondheim who had just written his first professional musical, Saturday Night(aborted because of the death of its producer). With Comden and Green out of the picture, Laurents asked Sondheim if he would be interested in the new project. S...
With the show nearing completion by the autumn of 1956, it was time to get a producer in place. Roger L. Stevens was a constant, but as late as Spring 1957 his co-producer Cheryl Crawford pulled out with two months to go before the start of rehearsals. Every other producer had turned it down, deeming it too dark and depressing. It was Sondheim who ...
Bernstein was to write only one other musical: a disastrous 1976 collaboration with Alan Jay Lerner called 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Laurents, Robbins and Sondheim, on the other hand, followed West Side Story with Gypsy. The producer was again, Hal Prince, who would now become a key figure in the development of the modern musical both as producer a...
In 1984, 27 years after the premiere, Leonard Bernstein conducted the complete score of West Side Story for the first time. The all-star cast for Leonard Bernstein Conducts West Side Storyfeatures Kiri Te Kanawa as Maria and José Carreras as Tony. Leonard Bernstein Conducts West Side Story can be bought here.
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Jerome Robbins’ original premise for the show was an ill-fated romance between a Catholic boy and a Jewish girl on the Upper East Side. However, the project, a collaboration between Leonard...
Sep 25, 2012 · Fifty-five years ago this week, a new kind of stage musical opened in New York. West Side Story was based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet - but its depiction of violence between New York...
Aug 23, 2018 · West Side Story was originally East Side Story. When they first conceived the show in 1949, Robbins, Bernstein and Laurents set their story on the east side of Manhattan, and gave it the working title East Side Story. They planned to stage the conflict between rival Catholic and Jewish groups.
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