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West Side Story
When the curtain rose for the Broadway opening of the musical West Side Story on September 26, 1957, audiences were stunned and shaken by something new in American theater. Using a dyn...
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West Side Story
by Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, and Leonard Bernstein
Four gifted New York artists collaborated to create the musical West Side Story. Conductor, pianist, and ...
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Critical Essay by Robert Coleman
"West Side Story" is a timely re-telling of the Romeo and Juliet legend against the raw violence of youthful gang wars. It has earthy humor and simple be...
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Critical Essay by John Chapman
["West Side Story"] is a bold new kind of musical theatre—a juke-box Manhattan opera. It is, to me, extraordinarily exciting. In it, the various fin...
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Critical Essay by John Mcclain
["West Side Story"] is a story with music, but I do not call it a musical because it strikes me as an entirely new form. There are arias, duets, choral num...
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Critical Essay by Brooks Atkinson
[It] is the impeccable taste of the music, the lyrics and the story that seems so astonishing in "West Side Story." Given two lots of hoodlums somewhere...
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Critical Essay by William K. Zinsser
There is an engaging song in West Side Story in which the young heroine, Maria, blurts out the joy of being in love:
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Chino did pull the trigger and killed Tony, but he is not the only person responsible for Tony's death. Chino was simply seeking revenge for the death of his good friend and gang leader Bernardo. ...
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West Side Story is one of the great contributors to musical theatre, in particular Broadway where it originally opened on September 26 1957 at the Winter garden Theatre. The production ran for 732 per...
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West Side Story came out in 1961 as a melodramatic musical that took place in New York. It takes the same theme as Shakespeare's, Romeo and Juliet, in that it is about two lovers whose relationship is...
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Critical Essay by Robert Coleman
West Side Story Essay
