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2. West Side Story - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Leonard Bernstein - Wikipedia

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   Bernstein's works include the Broadway musical West Side Story, which continues to be regularly performed worldwide, and has been adapted into two (1961 and 2021) feature films, as well as three symphonies, Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" (1954), and Chichester Psalms (1965), the original score for the Elia Kazan drama film On the Waterfront ...

4. West Side Story (1961 soundtrack) - Wikipedia

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   West Side Story is the soundtrack album to the 1961 film West Side Story, featuring music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.Released in 1961, the soundtrack spent 54 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard ' s stereo albums charts, giving it the longest run at No. 1 of any album in history, [2] although some lists instead credit Michael Jackson's Thriller, on the grounds that this run ...

5. Stephen Sondheim, composer-lyricist whose hits included 'West ...

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   Composer Stephen Sondheim, famous for works like 'Sweeney Todd' and 'West Side Story,' died in his home in Connecticut at age 91.

6. Stephen Sondheim - Wikipedia

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   A musical-theater composer "must have a sense of what is theatrical, of how you use music to tell a story, as opposed to writing a song. Jonathan understood that instinctively." [139] Around 2008, Sondheim approached Lin-Manuel Miranda to work with him translating West Side Story lyrics into Spanish for an upcoming Broadway revival.

7. Tonight (West Side Story song) - Wikipedia

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   The song is a love duet between the protagonists Tony and Maria, sung while Tony visits Maria on the fire escape outside her apartment. West Side Story is a modernized adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set in 20th-century New York; the scene in which "Tonight" appears is the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet's famous "balcony scene".

8. List of compositions by Leonard Bernstein - Wikipedia

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   Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (1960) Fanfare for the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy, (for the inauguration of John F. Kennedy) for Orchestra (1961) Fanfare II, (for the 25th anniversary of the High School of Music and Art) for Orchestra (1961)

9. West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) - Wikipedia

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   West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) is the 1957 recording of a Broadway production of the musical West Side Story. Recorded 3 days after the show opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, the recording was released in October 1957 in both mono and stereo formats. In 1962, the album reached #5 on Billboard's Pop Album chart.