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West Side story : a musical

Title
West Side story : a musical / (based on a conception of Jerome Robbins) ; book by Arthur Laurents ; music by Leonard Bernstein ; lyrics by Stephen Sondheim ; entire production directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins.
Author
Laurents, Arthur
Publication
  • New York : Random House, [1958]
  • ©1958

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TextUse in library ML50.B48 W5Off-site

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Additional Authors
  • Robbins, Jerome
  • Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.
  • Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990
  • Sondheim, Stephen
  • Random House (Firm), issuing body.
Description
143 pages, 2 unnumbered plates : illustrations; 21 cm.
Summary
The feud between two New York teenage gangs abruptly ends the brief happiness shared by Maria, a Puerto Rican girl, and Tony, a member of the Jets. In his attempt to defend a fellow Jet, Tony kills Maria's brother and shortly thereafter is killed by Maria's rejected fiancé.
Uniform Title
West Side story (Libretto)
Alternative Title
West Side story (Libretto)
Subject
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. > Parodies, imitations, etc
  • Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, William)
  • Gangs > New York (State) > Drama
  • First loves > Drama
  • Gangs
  • First loves
  • Musicals > Librettos
  • New York (State)
Genre/Form
  • librettos (documents for music)
  • Musicals.
  • Drama.
  • Librettos.
  • Parodies, imitations, etc.
  • Livrets (Musique)
  • Comédies musicales.
Note
  • "A Random House Play."
Contents
Darwinism in morals -- Hereditary piety -- The religion of childhood -- An English Broad churchman -- A French theist -- The devil -- A pre-historic religion -- The religions of the world -- The religions of the East -- The religion and literature of India -- Unconscious cerebration -- Dreams, as illustrations of involuntary cerebration -- Auricular confession in the Church of England -- The evolution of morals and religion.
LCCN
58006982
OCLC
  • ocm00597774
  • 597774
  • SCSB-110564
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library