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 b...
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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 fi...
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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 nu...
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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 somewher...
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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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“You can say that today is the beginning of a new West Side Story,” Governor Sptizer said at a news conference this morning on West 33rd Street. But, it turned out the allusion was not ...
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Nov 22 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on November 29 since 1900: 1924 - Giacomo Puccini, who wrote the operas "La Boheme" and
"Tosca", died. 1929 - The America...
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Question 1 of 10:
Dirk is a musician as well as an actor
. He once set up a Dixieland jazz band and can play which instrument?a) Double bass (0)b) Trombone (1)c) Saxophone (0)d) Drums (0)Question ...
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The American Film Institute's original 1998 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "Casablanca," 1942.3. "The Godfather," 1972.4. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.5. "Lawrence of ...
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The American Film Institute's 2007 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "The Godfather," 1972.3. "Casablanca," 1942.4. "Raging Bull," 1980.5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952.6...
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Hector Berlioz was devastated when his "Benvenuto Cellini" was booed off the stage 169 years ago. On Friday, he would have been vindicated.The finicky Salzburg Festival audience couldn't get enough...
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As twin beams of light pierced the sky above 9/11's ground zero a few miles away, New York City Opera opened its 64th season with the local premiere of a work depicting another American tragedy _ t...
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Hey, ho, let's go ... to court. A drummer who spent four years in one of the greatest punk bands of all time, the Ramones, filed a federal lawsuit Friday claiming he is owed nearly $1 million in ro...
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It looked a collision between the Grammys and the Oscars — Jennifer Lopez, Tony Bennett, Charlize Theron, Quentin Tarantino, Beyonce, Usher and dozens of other stars at the Kodak Theatre.The ...
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West Side Story
West Side Story
Critical Essay by Robert Coleman
West Side Story Essay
Spitzer Unveils New West Side Development Scheme
