Carole D’Andrea, who portrayed Velma, the Jet girl, in the original 1957 Broadway production of West Side Story and the iconic 1961 film adaptation, has passed away at the age of 87. According ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For his new take on "West Side Story," director Steven Spielberg sort of splits the difference — he pulls from the beloved 1961 movie musical as well as the original Broadway stage show ...

The opening of “West Side Story,” both the 1961 and 2021 films, is not a song or a dialogue scene or even a traditional overture; it’s a dance. And it’s not just a dance — it’s a ...

In almost every West Side Story iteration, including the 1957 stage debut and 1961 film version ... and let your audience see how easy it is. Cast a trans actor, write a trans character, give ...

There’s the music, the dancing, the cast, the Shakespearean love story ... Upper West Side neighbourhood to make way for Robert Moses’s Lincoln Center. In the first scene of the 1961 version ...

West Side Story is the finger-snapping ... (despite its lackluster ticket sales). Out of the entire cast of the 1961 film, there were no actual Puerto Ricans besides Rita Moreno.