West Side Story arrives in theaters for the rest of us to see December 10. CinemaBlend’s resident theme park junkie and amateur Disney historian, Dirk began writing for CinemaBlend as a ...

But the music in “West Side Story” in no way lacks imagination. Let’s take a stroll on over to the piano. To play just the introduction to “A Boy Like That” (the admonition-indictment su ...

“West Side Story” was the first piece of popular music allowed into his home and how he fell in love with it. But there’s no question that the musical’s theme of white vs. Latin racial ...

“West Side Story” is a beautifully-mounted ... The Romeo and Juliet theme, propounded against the seething background of rival and bitterly-hating youthful Puerto Rican and American gangs ...

and/or the main storyline theme or narrative of the film is centered on underrepresented groups. In West Side Story, Spielberg brings the 1957 stage musical of the same name to the big screen.

“West Side Story” remains, after “The Sound of Music ... But even though the ethnic identities were changed, this specifically Jewish theme, dating from the original scenario, remained ...

West Side Story, a musical inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, first opened on Broadway in 1957 and hardly needs an introduction but just in case: the show is set in the 1950s ...

Gang warfare – the collective – is a key theme of West Side Story, and as such the uniform excellence of Price’s assembled ensemble is crucial. But it is perhaps worth singling out Melanie ...

The Lyric Opera in Chicago brought a fresh and vibrant production of West Side Story to its stage, and it’s a must-see for theater fans. This iconic musical, with music by Leonard Bernstein and ...

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 ...

As the director of WEST SIDE STORY, which runs Feb. 13-16 at the ... very family-based and they are all working towards a common theme. With this production, we're bringing together the world ...

One day in mid-October, he was rehearsing the scene that is the audience’s first introduction to Tony, the show’s Romeo, just after we’ve met the Jet clan. The “West Side Story” book is ...