Although I wish I could claim to have done a production of West Side Story in my career in music and musicals, I can't make such a boast. But what an amazing work for the theatre and for the world of music.
An online exhibition is up right now at the Library of Congress. You can see documents from the gestation of the show by all its creators -- Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurent, Jerome Robbins -- along with photographs of the production, audition notes prior to casting, and on and on.
Check out West Side Story -- Birth of a Classic
Friday, April 04, 2008
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