the dark theme, sophisticated music, & center on social problems marked a turning point inside English language musical theatre, which got antecedently (sustaining uncommon exceptions) tended toward weak & downlike themes. West Side Story is however produced ofttimes by local theatres & is from time to time by definitive opera corporations.

Bernstein's score for the musical theater has been pleasantly popular. A bit of of the songs include "Something's Coming," "Maria," "America," "Somewhere," "Tonight," "Gee, Officer Krupke," "I Feel Pretty," "One Hand, One Heart," and "Cool."

Within 1984, Bernstein decided to re-record the musical theater, conducting his have music first. Typically called a "operatic version" of West Side Story, it stars Kiri Te Kanawa as Maria, José Carreras as Tony, Tatiana Troyanos as Anita, Kurt Ollman as Riff, and Marilyn Horne who sings "Somewhere" as an anon. character. It won the Grammy award in 1985.

Film
Around 1961, it was made into the motiin picture & freed on October 18 by United Artists, directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise. A film won ten Motion Picture Academy Awards including Best Picture, a virtually all Oscars received by any flick musical theater.

A film was #41 in American Film Institute's C Years, C Flick & #3 in its Centred Years, 100 Passions, & has been deemed "culturally significant" per United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In AFI's C years, C songs, "Tonight" was #59, "America" was #35, & "Somewhere" was #20.

Credits
Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed & Choreographed by Jerome Robbins

Academy Award wins and nominations for the movie
Wins (X) Academy Award for Best Picture - Robert Wise, producer Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - George Chakiris Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Rita Moreno Academy Award for Best Art Direction- Set Decoration, Color - Victor A. Gangelin, and Boris Leven Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color - Daniel L. Fapp Academy Award for Costume Design, Color - Irene Sharaff Academy Award for Directing - Jerome Robbins, and Robert Wise Academy Award for Film Editing - Thomas Stanford Academy Award for Original Music Score, of a Musical Picture - Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Irwin Kostal, and Sid Ramin Academy Award for Sound - Fred Hynes (Todd-AO SSD), and Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)

Nominations (One) Best Writing, Screenplay According to Poop from either An additional Medium - Ernest Lehman

Dramatis Personae

Plot
A story line occurs as reworking of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, with minor variations, placed among white & Puerto Rican street gangs within New York City's Upper West Side. Tony & Maria fall dotty, despite a fact that it is associated by owning rival gangs - Tony using a Jets, & Puerto Rican-born Maria with a Sharks. A Sharks come led by Maria's brother, Bernardo, & a Jets by Tony's right friend, Riff. Whenever the gangs arrange a "rumble", Marithe pleads by using Tony to halt a scrap, however after Bernardo accidentally stabs Riff to dying, Tony, inside a rage, kills Bernardo. He & Maria project to process away together. Bernardo's girlfriend, Anita, agrees to help, however after she is taunted per Jets, she invents a story that Maria has been flushed by Chino, the human she was supposed to marry. Tony diarrhea out into a street, in which he is shot by Chino; in the aftermath of his demise, Maria is take a breath to eventually bring all the immature population together.