West Side story [videorecording] / United Artists ; directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins ; screenplay by Ernest Lehman ; music by Leonard Bernstein ; lyrics by Stephen Sondheim ; presented by Mirisch Pictures, Inc. in association with Seven Arts Productions, Inc. ; a Robert Wise production.
Based upon the stage play produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince by arrangement with Roger L. Stevens ; book by Arthur Laurents ; music by Leonard Bernstein ; lyrics by Stephen Sondheim ; play conceived, directed, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins. Natalie Wood (Maria), Richard Beymer (Tony), Russ Tamblyn (Riff), Rita Moreno (Anita), George Chakiris (Bernardo), Simon Oakland (Schrank), Ned Glass (Doc), William Bramley (Krupke). Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1961.
Contents:
Overture/Main title -- Prologue -- Snowing the coppers -- How to hold turf/Jet Song -- Something's Coming -- Not giving an inch -- Dance at the Gym -- Love across the lines -- Riff's challenge -- Maria -- America -- "I don't wait" -- Tonight -- Gee, Officer Krupke! -- War council -- Sweet land of liberty -- I Feel Pretty -- What Anita can't see -- One Hand, One Heart -- Tonight (ensemble) -- Rumble -- Breaking the news -- Somewhere -- "I'm scared" -- Cool -- Gotta find Tony -- Boy Like That/I Have a Love -- Detaining Maria -- Anita's message -- No cure from Doc -- Finale -- End credits.
Summary:
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
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