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3 days ago · 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.
2 days ago · Bernstein gained prominence for the Original Broadway production of West Side Story in 1957. The other musical Bernstein was writing simultaneously with Candide was West Side Story. Bernstein collaborated with director and choreographer Jerome Robbins, book writer Arthur Laurents, and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
Jul 11, 2024 · Stephen Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist whose brilliance in matching words and music in dramatic situations broke new ground for Broadway musical theater. His credits included West Side Story, Gypsy, Into the Woods, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Steet.
3 days ago · 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.
5 days ago · Stephen Sondheim was born in New York on 22 March 1930, and is widely acknowledged as the most innovative, most influential and most important composer and lyricist in modern Broadway history. For more than 50 years, Stephen Sondheim set an unsurpassed standard of brilliance and artistic integrity in the musical theatre.
Jul 1, 2024 · Eliot Feld, American dancer, choreographer, and director. Feld performed in the original stage and film versions of West Side Story, choreographed a number of successful dances while in the corps of American Ballet Theatre, and later cofounded Ballet Tech.
5 days ago · Taking it all together, then, it seems safe to say that Bernstein, whose larger compositional legacy was unsettled at the time of his death, is, by his centennial, far more than just the composer of West Side Story (as he, himself, once lamented!).
