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Only you westside story lyrics6/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Standing in for Shakespeare’s Montagues and Capulets are the Jets, made up of white adolescents (Polish, Irish, Italian), and the Sharks, a Puerto Rican gang, respectively. Bernstein and Laurents chose to set their work on the Upper West Side of Manhattan amid conflicts between rival, ethnically-based teenage gangs. ![]() Like Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story is driven by the all-consuming passion of two young people for each other in the face of fierce social, familial and tribal opposition. In the works for a number of years, Spielberg’s film was shot and edited in 2019, but its opening was delayed a year by the pandemic. The appearance of the new version is a much-anticipated event. West Side Story is based on William Shakespeare’s tragic love story Romeo and Juliet and set in New York City in the 1950s. A 1961 film version, directed by Robert Wise, with Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris and Rita Moreno, was a critical and commercial success. The film is based on the 1957 Broadway musical, with a score by Leonard Bernstein, a book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and choreography by Jerome Robbins. West Side Story, directed by Steven Spielberg and scripted by Tony Kushner, opened December 10 in movie theaters.
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