Lyrics By: Stephen Sondheim
Directed By: Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins
Prodcued By: Robert Wise
Screenwriter: Ernest Lehman
Choreography By: Jerome Robbins
Show Status: On DVD & VHS
Based on: Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet & the Broadway show
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 (Natalie Wood), a Puerto Rican seamstress whose brother, Bernardo (George Chakiris), is the leader of the Sharks. Despite the warnings of Anita (Rita Moreno), Bernardo's fiery girlfriend, Maria falls in love with a young, hopeful Polish boy, Tony (Richard Beymer), who used to belong to the Jets, now headed by Riff (Russ Tamblyn). 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.
Natalie Wood .... Maria
Richard Beymer .... Tony
Russ Tamblyn .... Riff
Rita Moreno .... Anita
George Chakiris .... Bernardo
Simon Oakland .... Lieutenant Schrank
Ned Glass .... Doc
William Bramley .... Officer Krupke
Tucker Smith .... Ice, Riff's Lieutenant
Tony Mordente .... Action
David Winters .... A-Rab
Eliot Feld .... Baby John
Bert Michaels .... Snowboy
David Bean .... Tiger
Robert Banas .... Joyboy
2. Prologue
3. Jet Song
4. Something's Coming
5. Dance at the Gym
6. Maria
7. America
8. Tonight
9. Gee, Officer Krupke!
10. I Feel Pretty
11. One Hand, One Heart
12. Tonight (Quintet)
13. Rumble
14. Somewhere
15. Cool
16. Boy Like That
17. I Have a Love
17. Finale
18. End Credits
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
West Side Story VHS
West Side Story (Widescreen Edition) VHS
West Side Story (Full Screen Edition) DVD
West Side Story (Special Limited Edition DVD Collector's Set)