Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins's film adapts the Broadway musical with its score and Robbins's choreography, shooting the opening dance on real New York streets that were about to be demolished for the Lincoln Center. It won ten Academy Awards.
Musical· 1957· Tragedy
West Side Story
by Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins
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Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim moved Shakespeare's play to the Upper West Side of New York: the Montagues and Capulets become the Jets and the Sharks, the balcony becomes a fire escape, and Tony and Maria's love ends in a killing, though Maria, unlike Juliet, is left alive.