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West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) is the 1957 recording of a Broadway production of the musical West Side Story. Recorded 3 days after the show opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, the recording was released in October 1957 in both mono and stereo formats. In 1962, the album reached #5 on Billboard's Pop Album chart.
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.
There may be a rumble among movie musical fans when Steven Spielberg's West Side Story remake premieres in theaters on Dec. 10 — 60 years after the beloved 1961 version, co-directed by Robert ...
His big break came in early 1957 when auditions for West Side Story were announced. Director-choreographer Jerome Robbins chose Norman from the hundreds of actors and dancers who attended a “cattle call” audition. He was cast as Juano. He was the youngest cast member in the original production. [3]
For Kaminski, it was important to pay tribute not only to the filmed musicals of the Hollywood studio era but to the original, 1957 Broadway stage production of “West Side Story.” “I came ...
After the film, Smith continued his association with West Side Story. He played Riff in both the 1962 Los Angeles [5] and 1963 Sacramento productions of the musical, the latter with Sylvia Lewis in the role of Anita. [6] He reprised the role again in 1964, when West Side Story went on tour in Tokyo, Japan. [7]
In bringing West Side Story back to the big screen, Steven Spielberg has already made some big changes to the beloved 1961 movie version.The earlier film — co-directed by Robert Wise and Jerome ...