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.

Inspired by the timeless story of Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story takes Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, and places them in the vibrant battleground of New York City’s West Side in the 1950s.

2025年2月15日 · The chance to experience this Broadway musical masterpiece in the opera house—its show-stopping tunes driven to ever-greater heights by HGO’s acclaimed orchestra and chorus—is not to be missed.

It is widely known that West Side Story (WSS) is based directly on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (R&J). Jerome Robbins had at first envisioned Juliet as a Jewish girl and Romeo as an Italian Catholic. The action, set during the Easter-Passover season, was to have occurred on the Lower East Side of New York City.

2024年12月16日 · 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.

You can "go backstage" at the original Broadway production in 1957. And you can search through a calendar of West Side Story performances worldwide -- among which is another Broadway revival, directed by the cutting-edge director, Ivo van Hove, which opened February of 2020.

2018年9月26日 · The 1957 Musical groundbreaker West Side Story is a crucial milestone in the history of music and musical theatre. Brought to fruition by a sea of names including (in no particular order!)

2018年8月23日 · Here's a closer look at West Side Story and some of the surprising elements that make it one of the most memorable works of musical theater. A dancer came up with the idea. Director Jerome Robbins, who first proposed the idea for West Side Story, was at the same time choreographer of New York City Ballet.

These are the lyrics of the song 'Somewhere’ from the hit Broadway musical, West Side Story, which opened 60 years ago this month. This message of hope and forgiveness—as well as the show’s...

Explore West Side Story, the quintessential Leonard Bernstein musical through Bernstein, collaborators, and more. Start with the introduction or the guided audio tour , or dig right into the current equivalent, interviews, the context of the time, and more.