A place for us : "West Side story" and New York

A place for us : "West Side story" and New York / Julia L. Foulkes.

From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an American touchstone--an updating of Shakespeare located in a vividly realized, rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of postwar New York is at the heart of Julia L. Fo...

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Main Author: Foulkes, Julia L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Bernstein, Leonard, > 1918-1990. > West Side story.
Robbins, Jerome.
New York (N.Y.) > In motion pictures.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue. "There's a place for us"
  • "Have you heard the voice of my city," 1949-55
  • "Make alive the daily life," 1955-57
  • "Comes from life itself," 1957
  • "Get cool, boy," 1958-59
  • "Camera and choreography," 1960-61
  • "New York rhapsody," 1962-70
  • "Somewhere."

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