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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. (1961 film) 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] it stars Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler in her film debut with Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Mike Faist, and Rita Moreno in supporting roles.
When you first see Maria on the stairs of her tenement building standing in a pool of light, it’s a beautiful theatrical image that has nothing to do with reality. But neither does people ...
One area where the new West Side Story pulls ahead of its predecessor is in the diversity of its ensemble.Spielberg made a point of casting Latinx performers as the movie's Puerto Rican characters ...
Steven Spielberg has wanted to make a movie musical since he was a child — specifically he wanted to do his own spin on the popular 1957 Broadway hit West Side Story after falling in love with ...
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 ...
Cool (. West Side Story. song) "Cool" is a song from the 1957 musical West Side Story. Leonard Bernstein composed the music and Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics. This was the first song they wrote together, and Sondheim later recollects that Bernstein must have written the opening line ("Boy, boy, crazy boy") since he himself was not prone to ...