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- WEST SIDE STORY
- Author
- anonymous
- Date reviewed
- 2005-10-26 11:18:14
- Provider
- MRIB
- DVD Review
Based on a Broadway play updating Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to the 1950s era of juvenile delinquency, West Side Story is widely considered one of the best movie musicals ever made. It's a claim that's backed by the 10 Academy Awards it won.
Directed by Robert Wise (The Sound of Music), the 1961 film stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers from different ethnic backgrounds whose youth often clash violently on the streets. Both the romance and the fighting are set to ballads and highly charged song-and-dance numbers composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
The colourful and moody along with Bernstein's Gerswhin-like jazz-tinged classical score make for an absorbing atmosphere.
Copyright © MRIB 2005.
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