West Side Story: The Jets, the Sharks, and the Making of a Classic

by Richard Barrios

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A captivating full account of a vital, exciting, and turbulent cultural moment: the making of ground-breaking classic West Side Story (1961).A major hit on Broadway, on film West Side Story became immortal. Unforgettable songs, an urgent love story, audacious choreography in real New York locations: West Side Story was a movie different from anything that had come before, but this cinematic victory came at a price.The film's enormous budget and complicated logistics made it a difficult production, and massive overruns in both cost and schedule led to tension between co-directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The result was Robbins...Read more
  • ISBN10 076246948X
  • ISBN13 9780762469482
  • Publish Date 2 July 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Running Press Adult
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 232
  • Language English