Rita Moreno dancing in West Side Story, 1961 From 1971 to 1977, Moreno was a main cast member on the PBS children’s series The Electric Company while simultaneously appearing in films and other ...

Find out where the original cast of the iconic 1961 movie musical is now Their performance left us snapping (we mean, clapping). West Side Story hit the silver screen for the first time in 1961 ...

In 1961, Robbins and director Robert Wise adapted West Side Story for the big screen, with a cast led by Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. The movie made ...

The 1961 adaptation of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s work, which won 10 Academy Awards, is considered one of the all-time great movie musicals. The new West Side Story stars Ansel ...

From veterans of the Broadway stage, to performers just starting out, and an original cast member from the 1961 movie, the West Side Story cast is full of stars. Here is where you might have seen ...

He's one of two Tony winners in the movie's cast ... Rita Moreno for West Side Story and not have her sing! Moreno did some (but not all) of her own singing in the 1961 film, for which she ...

Perhaps what’s most notable about van Hove’s West Side Story cast is the possibly unprecedented number of youthful newcomers, with 23 actors making their Broadway debuts. “I couldn’t be ...

Niko Tavernise/20th Century Studios Elsewhere in the cast Ariana DeBose is Anita, David Alvarez is Bernardo and Mike Faist is Riff. Rita Moreno, who played Anita in the 1961 West Side Story movie ...

But the cast of West Side Story seems to have really hit it off. And because the film was shot before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, they were able to physically connect without any kind of ...

The festivities will open with a screening of "West Side Story," which premiered in 1961. The cast reunion will also feature new interviews about the film. "We’re thrilled to expand this year ...

From Rachel Zegler to Ansel Elgort, meet the 2021 'West Side Story' cast compared to their 1961 counterparts West Side Story first graced the big screen in 1961. In 2021, Steven Spielberg became ...