West Side Story

WEST SIDE STORY Book by Arthur Laurents |
Music by Leonard Bernstein  | Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
 | Based on a Conception of Jerome Robbins | Based on
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet


Episode Segments:


3:55 – Speed Test

6:06 – Why God Why

15:10 – Back to Before

23:18 – Putting It Together

33:46 – What's Inside

54:28 – How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?

1:12:29 – Our Favorite Things

1:24:50 – Corner of the Sky

1:30:10 – What Comes Next?



Works Consulted & Reference :


West Side Story (Original Libretto) by Arthur Laurents &
Stephen Sondheim

Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim

West Side Story: Cultural Perspectives of an American Musical
by Elizabeth A. Wells

Something's Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the
American Imagination by Misha Berson

The Making of West Side Story by Keith Garebian

Sondheim  & Co by Craig Zadan

Sondheim by Martin Gottfried 

Mainly on Directing by Arthur Laurents

Sense of Occasion by Hal Prince

Broadway: The American Musical (PBS Documentary)



Music Credits:


"Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast
Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by
Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin

"The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie
 (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by
Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc
Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble

"Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live
Recording  (Original Cast Recording  /
Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics
by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by
Alistair Brammer

"Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original
Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen
Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie

"Chromolume #7 / Putting It Together" from Sunday in
the Park with George (Original Broadway Cast
Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Stephen
Sondheim | Performed by Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Judith
Moore, Cris Groenendaal, Charles Kimbrough, William Parry, Nancy
Opel, Robert Westenberg, Dana Ivey, Kurt Knudson, Barbara Bryne

"What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast
Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles |
Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble

"Something's Coming” from West Side Story (Original
Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Leonard Bernstein,
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Performed by Larry Kert

"Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack
Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by
Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee,
Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon

"My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music
(Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard
Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie
Andrews

"Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast
Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz |
Performed by Matthew James Thomas

“What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway
Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel
Miranda | Performed by Jonathan Groff