My West Side Story: A Memoir

by George Chakiris

Lindsay Harrison (Secondary Author) and Rita Moreno (Foreword)

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Natalie Wood and "lovely" Richard Beymer, to the mercurial Jerome Robbins and "passionate" Rita Moreno, with whom Chakiris remains friends. "I know exactly where my gratitude belongs," Chakiris writes, "and I still marvel at how, unbeknownst to me at the time, the joyful path of my life was paved one night in 1949 when Jerome Robbins sat Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents down in his apartment and announced, 'I have an idea.'"
  • ISBN10 1493055488
  • ISBN13 9781493055487
  • Publish Date 1 March 2021
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Lyons Press
  • Format eBook
  • Language English