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Stephen Sondheim
- Composer Stephen Sondheim was known for the remarkable range of musicals he wrote and composed, from ‘West Side Story’ to ‘Sweeney Todd’ to ‘Into the Woods.’
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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.
Dec 20, 2023 · Leonard Bernstein was one of the most celebrated and acclaimed composers of the 20 th century. Best known for composing the Broadway musical West Side Story, his inspired and voracious...
Aug 23, 2018 · Composer Leonard Bernstein and his co-creators, Jerome Robbins (director, choreographer and original idea-man) Arthur Laurents (who wrote the book) and Stephen Sondheim (lyricist) aimed for lofty ideals in the show’s themes and every detail of its production.
- Debra Lew Harder
Apr 17, 2023 · On January 6, 1949, Bernstein wrote that Robbins had called him with "a noble idea": a contemporary Romeo and Juliet, refashioned as a conflict between Jews and Irish Catholics, "set in slums at the coincidence of Easter-Passover celebrations" on New York's Lower East Side (the title, in fact, was originally East Side Story). Robbins proposed ...
Apr 19, 2024 · West Side Story, theatre music by American composer Leonard Bernstein that premiered August 19, 1957, in Washington, D.C., before moving to Broadway for a second opening on September 26, 1957. The musical is a 20th-century American adaptation of the Shakespearean tale of Romeo and Juliet.
- Betsy Schwarm
West Side Story continues to be mounted regularly in high schools, universities, community and regional theaters, and in first-class revivals around the world. There are more than 250 domestic productions every year and the libretto has been translated in over 26 languages, including Chinese, Hebrew, Dutch, and six separate Spanish translations ...
Jun 22, 2023 · West Side Story. We know the tale, the intractable link with Romeo, Juliet and the tragic confusion precipitated by the tension between two rival factions. Tony is American, from America. Maria is from Puerto Rico, and like her friends and family, desperate to make a new home. In America.
