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Steven Spielberg has pulled off the impossible, remaking, and improving, "West Side Story," starring Rita Moreno, Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, David Alvarez, Ariana DeBose and Mike Faist. In ...
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.
West Side Story is a 2021 American musical romantic drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Tony Kushner.The second feature-length adaptation of the 1957 stage musical, [9] [10] which was itself inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, it stars Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler, the latter making her film debut, with Ariana DeBose, David ...
The first reactions to 20th Century Studios’ “West Side Story” are beginning to pour in following the film’s premiere in New York City on Monday evening. Those who attended the screening ...
With their latest movie, a remake of the 1961 musical “West Side Story,” Kaminski and Spielberg took on a genre that they sought to both honor and take in new directions, merging old Hollywood ...
Smith was one of several cast members from the Broadway production that were chosen to appear in the movie version of West Side Story. He was contracted to play Ice, a role newly created for the movie. In the film, Smith was the singer and central performer of the pivotal song "Cool‚" originally sung by the character of Riff in the Broadway ...
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.
In bringing West Side Story back to the big screen, Steven Spielberg has already made some big changes to the beloved 1961 movie version.The earlier film — co-directed by Robert Wise and Jerome ...