West Side Story

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title: West Side Story
text: West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The Sharks, who are recent migrants
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description: Musical by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents; premiered in 1957
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story
date created: 2001-11-29T15:59:23Z
date modified: 2024-08-29T06:22:07Z
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