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West Side Story

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West Side Story
love of Puerto Rican girl and young New York street-gang leader is destroyed by his murder. [Am. Musical: West Side Story]

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A confession: I've never liked Jerome Robbins' West Side Story Suite for New York City Ballet as much as I think I should.
For instance, the Romeo and Juliet screen adaptations mentioned here include not only the famed Olivia Hussey Juliet or worshipped West Side Story forms, but a 1920 silent film, some soft-porn, Mexican (Romeo y Julieta), and Arabic (Shuhaddaa el-gharam) versions, all the way up to the popular 1996 Di Caprio-Danes in gangland California film.
Consequently, Jowitt is capable of honing in with equal fervor on Robbins's most famous popular work, West Side Story, and most admired serious one, Dancers at a Gathering.
 
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