West Side Story

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West Side Story book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and set in Manhattan's West Side/Hell's Kitchen in the mid-1950s. First produced on Broadway in 1957, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins. In 1961 Robert Wise’s film version captured world attention. First produced and choreographed in South Africa by Kip Andrews for the Hymie Udwin's Academy at the Alexander Theatre in 1970. It starred Michael Harrison, Patricia Arnell, Lynton Burns and Richard Loring, Delia Sainsbury and Keith Galloway while Anthony Farmer did the set design and Paul Jannsen was the stage director. It eventually moved to the Empire Theatre and then to Cape Town.


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