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Annelise Cepero (born August 31, 1995) [1] [2] is an American actress and model.. Raised in Yonkers, New York, [3] Cepero graduated from The Harvey School in 2013, where she decided to explore a career in the arts. [4]
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.
The new film version of "West Side Story" firmly establishes that one of the classic musical's characters is transgender — a move that has led to the film's ban in several Middle Eastern countries.
If the apartment scenes represented an intimate, character-driven style of filmmaking, the many elaborate musical set pieces in “West Side Story” placed different demands on Kaminski and his ...
Rita Moreno's night at the West Side Story premiere was nothing but "amazing."The 89-year-old actress reflected on her days as Anita in the original 1961 film, while at the premiere of Steven ...
On December 1, 1957, Rivera married fellow West Side Story dancer Tony Mordente. They were divorced in 1966. [10] Rivera's performance was so important for the success of the show that the London production of West Side Story was postponed until she gave birth to the couple's daughter Lisa in 1958. Despite the divorce, Rivera and Mordente ...
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 ...
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 .