And then, of course, there's West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein's modern take on Romeo and Juliet.
Which brings us back to Romeo, and his American counterpart Tony in the 1960s musical West Side Story.
"West Side Story, " "The Blackboard Jungle, " Piri Thomas' book, "Down These Mean Streets, " all tried to capture this experience.
The actor beat five others including books by fellow actor Michael Pennington and the late West Side Story playwright Arthur Laurents.
Upon their return to Manhattan, they put the notion to Robbins, shifted back to team mode, and the West Side Story project was reignited.
With few Latino characters to identify with, she remembers Latin couple Luis and Maria from Sesame Street and West Side Story as early inspirations.
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It was the original concept for West Side Story, one of the most successful musical theater productions ever and an Academy Award-winning 1961 motion picture.
With a song like Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere" (from West Side Story), the melody is here, but it's unlike any version of the song I've heard recorded.
In West Side Story, the law is personified by the hapless Officer Krupke, a racist clown who is as disrespected by the Sharks as he is by the Jets.
Wood was, arguably, at the peak of her powers: 1961 also saw the release of hit musical West Side Story - with Wood in the leading female role of Maria.
Hollywood producers used to jump at the opportunity to turn a successful musical into the next blockbuster West Side Story and The Sound of Music were winning Tonys long before they won Academy Awards.
Jerome Robbins enrolled in night school, in the midst of creating West Side Story, simply so that he could have better conversations with composer Leonard Bernstein in order to make their project better.
Hollywood director and producer Robert Wise--who died last week in Los Angeles at age 91--is best remembered for two films, "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music, " that garnered him four Oscars.
Some highlights include an audio slideshow from NPR's Howard Berkes with stunning landscape images taken by an aerial photographer and an in-depth 50th anniversary look at the development and creation of West Side Story.
Anastasio, who was obsessed with "West Side Story" as a kid, joked that he used to love poring over old photos of Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein lounging on couches as they collaborated on last-minute songs.
We had always been fond of an unusual 10-story building on the Upper West Side.
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