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With just about two months left on the (https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/upcoming-movies-in-2024-new-movie-release-dates) 2024 movie schedule, it's clear that (https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/wicked-movie-release-date-cast-and-other-things-we-know-about-the-adaptation-of-the-broadway-musical) the Wicked release date will be bringing a lot of audiences to movie theaters [...]

The article reviews two opera performances including "Candide" by Leonard Bernstein at the Musiktheater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria on January 17, 2024 and "West Side Story" at the Volksoper in Vienna on January 27, 2024.

TOM HOLLAND AND FRANCESCA Amewudah-Rivers aren't the only big names taking on 'Romeo & Juliet' this year. Rachel Zegler ('West Side Story') and Kit Connor ('Heartstopper') will make their Broadway [...]

The article offers information on the author's experience playing the role of Chino, Tony's killer, in a production of "West Side Story" during his ninth-grade year at Sudlow Junior High in Davenport, Iowa. Topics include the racial and class divisions within the school, the diverse student population, and the author's identification with the Sharks, the underdog gang in the musical.

Bradley Cooper's 'Maestro' depicts the life of famed composer, Leonard Bernstein. Cooper plays the titular musician, and wore a prosthetic nose for the role. Here's how Carey Mulligan, Maya Hawke, [...]

WHAT IF STEPHEN Sondheim had never written a word, or a note of music, after his 30th birthday? What if, grief-stricken at the death of his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II, [...]

An interview is presented with actress Chita Rivera in which she discusses working with choreographer Jerome Robbins and musician Leonard Bernstein on the play "West Side Story," actress Shirley MacLaine on the film "Sweet Charity," and her first ballet teacher, Mrs. Doris.

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The cast of ‘Hairspray’: Jacobsson is far right (in glasses). (PHOTO: JEFF BUSBY) SCORING a role in a long-running musical is a dream for many “triple threat” commercial dancers. But [...]

The article recounts the evolution of the musical "West Side Story," initially conceived as "East Side Story" but later transformed into a narrative set on New York's West Side, exploring the conflict between white and Puerto Rican gangs, offering a take on the tragic theme of Romeo and Juliet.

In the summer of 1957, before the new musical West Side Story headed to Washington, D.C., for a pre-Broadway tryout, it was given a run-though in New York City for [...]

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, A SUMMER STOCK theatre in central Pennsylvania hired me to choreograph a production of West Side Story, then promptly fired me when it became clear that I [...]

'An that everybody seems to think about is sex. Sex, sex, sex. And if it's on your mind all the time, it can't be a very good thing, can it?,' [...]

By Hilton Dresden Ariana DeBose as Anita (Oscar nominee for best supporting actress) and David Alvarez as Bernardo. OTHER OSCAR NOMINATIONS SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHY, PRODUCTION DESIGN, COSTUME DESIGN, SOUND [...]

Although Steven Sapp was supposed to have graduated from Bard College the year before, in 1988 he realized he was eligible to stay in school longer by joining the theatre [...]

The article focuses on life and success of soprano Reri Grist. Topics discussed include her role of Phyllis in Shinbone Alley on Broadway; information on "West Side Story," in which Grist introduced a song that has become an international anthem of comfort and hope; and information on her European opera career.

By REBECCA SUN Photographed by JOY WONG From left: Rachel Zegler, Rita Moreno and Ariana DeBose were photographed Jan. 8 at Lux-SF in San Francisco. There’s a saying that you [...]

Director Robert Wise and choreographer Jerome Robbins were the first joint winners of the Best Director Oscar for their 1961 take on West Side Story. That was just one of [...]

The article offers information on broadway musicals opened between Oklahoma in 1943 and Fiddler on the Roof in 1964. Topics include focuses on the West Side Story that is in certain crucial ways uncharacteristic of the theatrical genre to which it belongs; and reports that growing belief in theatrical circles that West Side Story is in need of renovation for reasons other than its politics.

The article focuses on a Broadway production of "West Side Story," staged by the Belgian director Ivo van Hove, that would open in February 2020. Topics discussed include background of the choreographer, avant-garde formalist Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and background on members of the Sharks who star in the production.

This is part of a season preview package. Back in April, Washington Post theatre critic Peter Marks (he/him) tweeted something critical about the trailer for the upcoming West Side Story [...]

Managing a traditional team seems pretty straightforward: Gather up whoever's available, give them time and space to do their jobs, and make sure they all play nicely together. But these teams produce results that are often as unremarkable as the teams themselves. When big change and high performance are required, a virtuoso team is far more likely to deliver outstanding and innovative results. Virtuoso teams are fundamentally different from the garden-variety workgroups that most organizations form to pursue more modest goals. They comprise the top experts in their particular fields, are specially convened for ambitious projects, work with frenetic rhythm, and emanate a discernible energy. Not surprisingly, however, the superstars who make up these teams are renowned for being elitist, temperamental, egocentric, and difficult to work with. As a result, many managers fear that if they force such people to interact on a high-stakes project, the group just might implode. In this article. Bill Fischer and Andy Boynton put the inner workings of highly successful virtuoso teams on full display through three examples: the creative group behind West Side Story, the team of writers for Sid Caesar's I950s-era television hit Your Show of Shows, and the high-powered technologists who averted an investor relations crisis for Norsk Hydro, the Norwegian energy giant. Each of these teams accomplished enormous goals and changed their businesses, their customers, even their industries. And they did so by breaking all the conventional rules of collaboration--from the way they recruited the best members to the way they enforced their unusual processes, and from the high expectations they held to the exceptional results they produced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]