The original West Side Story, which was released in 1961, is a hard act to follow ... the past few years to remaking the hit musical movie, which was famously based on the Broadway show ...

The remake comes out 60 years after the original West Side Story movie was released. And fans are eager to see how the remake will differ from the original. But there’s one thing the 1961 West ...

Arrangements by David Newman (incorporating alterations originally made to Bernstein's Broadway score by Johnny Green for the 1961 film ... The Stories of West Side Story. Film to be released ...

Moreno played Anita in the 1961 West Side Story film Rita Moreno is to return to West Side Story almost 60 years after appearing in the original film version. The 86-year-old, who won an Oscar for ...

“West Side Story” became one of the biggest Broadway musicals of all time. And by 1961, the film, co-directed by Robbins and Robert Wise, cemented the show’s status as a classic of the ...

A high school student has been cast as Maria in Steven Spielberg's West Side Story remake ... including the 1961 film, have been accused of whitewashing its Puerto Rican characters.

The play West Side Story was first staged in New York in 1957, and the film was produced in 1961. In 1999, a production of the play at Amherst High School was cancelled after students and parents ...