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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.
Tamblyn's best-known musical role came as Riff, the leader of the Jets street gang in West Side Story (1961). [3] He then appeared in two MGM Cinerama movies, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, again for Pal, and How the West Was Won (both 1962). Tamblyn played Luke Sannerson in The Haunting for Robert Wise, who had made West Side Story ...
George Chakiris (born September 16, 1932) is an American actor and dancer. He is best known for his appearance in the 1961 film version of West Side Story as Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks gang, for which he won both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
In the aftermath of #OscarSoWhite, there has been a shift, with actors of color including Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya, Mahershali Ali and Steven Yuen earning nominations. But the parts these ...
José De Vega Jr. (January 4, 1934 – April 8, 1990) was an American actor, choreographer, and advocate for eliminating ethnic stereotypes in the entertainment industry. . He was known for his role as Chino in both the Broadway and 1961 film versions of West Side Story and for his work with Great Leap, a Los Angeles-based group of Asian-American artis
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 ...
Robert Joseph Banas (September 22, 1933 – July 29, 2024) was an American dancer and actor who worked in films such as West Side Story (1961), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) and Always (1989). He was also a choreographer and dance coach.
The new film version of "West Side Story" firmly establishes that one of the classic musical's characters is transgender — a move that has led to the film's ban in several Middle Eastern countries.