Muisc By: Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics By: Stephen Sondheim
Directed By: Jerome Robbins
Choreography By: Jerome Robbins & & Peter Gennaro
Show Status: Closed
Based on: Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
Movie: 1961
The stage is set in New York�s Upper West Side in the 1950s, where the area�s slums are plagued by racial tensions acted on by two rival gangs: the Puerto Rican Sharks and the Caucasian Jets. In the middle of this mess is young, innocent Maria, a Puerto Rican seamstress whose brother, Bernardo, is the leader of the Sharks. Despite the warnings of Anita, Bernardo's fiery girlfriend, Maria falls in love with a young, hopeful Polish boy, Tony, who used to belong to the Jets, now headed by Riff. When Tony, on Maria�s urging, tries to stop a rumble between the gangs, tragedy ensues, marking their dedicated love affair with violence and desperation.
Carol Lawrence
Larry Kert
Chita Rivera
Art Smith
Mickey Calin
Ken LeRoy
Lee Becker Theodore
David Winter
Tony Mordente
Eddie Roll
Martin Charnin
1. Prologue
2. Jet Song
3. Something's Coming
4. Dance at the Gym
5. Maria
6. Tonight
7. America
8. Cool
9. One Hand, One Heart
10. Tonight [Quintet and Chorus]
11. Rumble
12. Entr'acte
13. I Feel Pretty
13. Somewhere
15. Gee, Officer Krupke!
16. Boy Like That
17. I Have a Love
18. Finale
West Side Story (Original 1957 Broadway Cast)
West Side Story (1961 Film Soundtrack)
West Side Story (1997 Studio Cast)
Leonard Bernstein Conducts West Side Story