Is this West Side Story revival worth seeing?
To be sure, you can't look at West Side Story totally removed from the era that produced it.
Oliver, West Side Story and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang rounded off the top ten "Greatest Musicals of All Time".
"Stick to your own kind," goes the "West Side Story" refrain, a phenomenon that sociologists call homophily: love of the same.
West Side Story is one of the greatest trAgedies in U. s Broadway musicals. Its value is mainly from perfect integration of the tragic and dramatic music.
The great creative output of the late '40s and '50s- the musicals "Candide", "Wonderful Town" and "West Side Story", the film score for " On the Waterfront," the ballet "The Age of Anxiety"- came, with good reason, before Bernstein acquired an orchestra.
