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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 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 original Bernardo and Riff look back on the 60th anniversary of "West Side Story" and look ahead to Steven Spielberg's new version.
From the very start of Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, this superb filmmaker distinguishes his spectacular remake from its classic predecessor, and he does it with dirt. The familiar whistle ...
The screenplay for Spielberg’s rendition of “West Side Story,” which was written by Tony Kushner (“Lincoln,” “Fences”), is said to stick closer to the original Broadway script than ...
It tells the story of an aspiring composer named Jon, who lives in New York City in 1990. Jon is worried he has made the wrong career choice to be part of the performing arts . The story is semi-autobiographical , as stated by Larson's father in the liner notes of the cast recording – Larson had been trying to establish himself in theater ...
Three criminologists say the 1961 film 'West Side Story' popularized fictions about gangs — and wrongly influenced public opinion and public policy.