The images are iconic: bearded Jewish men dancing with bottles on their heads; a boy who "won't grow up" flying around the room; New York gangs dancing out their differences. Those are the creations of legendary choreographer Jerome Robbins.
West Side Story" went 30 years, from 1980 to 2009, without a Broadway revival. What took so long? I think it took 30 years for Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins and then finally the Jerome Robbins foundation in his absence, together with the [Leonard] Bernstein family and [Stephen] Sondheim, to come up with a plan of action that everybody could agree with. These artists and their heirs have a duty to one of the greatest musicals ever written, and I just think it took a long time to reach a consensus. Thirty years is a really long time.
Emotions soar high, as do the dancers in the production of "West Side Story" at the Benedum Center this week. It's been more than 50 years since Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim helped William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" emigrate from fair Verona circa 1600 to the 1950s neighborhoods of Manhattan's Upper West Side.
ATHENS, Ga., March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thirty-six recipients of the 69h Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for 2009, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the University of Georgia Campus. The latest Peabody winners reflect great diversity in genre, sources of origination and content. The recipients included "Modern Family," ABC's droll, perceptive comedy about a multicultural extended family; HBO's "Thrilla in Manila," a documentary that probes the hype, mythology and meaning of the politically charged Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fights in the early 1970s; and "The Great Textbook War," a fair, balanced ra...
Since "West Side Story" debuted on Broadway in 1957, it has become a major part of the pop-culture landscape, inserting itself into the repertoires of symphony orchestras, jazz musicians and pop singers alike. Thanks to the popularity of that 1961 movie adaptation, and because of its ubiquitous presence on high school drama club schedules from Boise to Buffalo, it's also made its way into countless television commercials, cartoons, film and even other musicals. Here's a sampling of where "West Side Story" has shown up in popular culture over the past half-century: *Jerome Robbins' choreography and Leonard Bernstein's music for at least three famous "West Side Story" numbers showed up in a big way in a series of 2000 television commercials for The Gap. Those wildly popular spot...
Tonight, the Milwaukee Ballet will revive Jerome Robbins' "Fancy Free. The 1943 ballet, about three sailors and the girls they encounter on leave in New York, transformed Robbins' career. Until "Fancy Free," he was an intriguing, ambitious young soloist in Ballet Theatre (now American Ballet Theatre). After "Fancy Free," he was a New York sensation and on his way to Broadway.
Block clubs and other community groups stand ready with hoes, rakes and scythes to transform 37 city-owned vacant lots all over the Queen City, but as a Page One story in Sunday's Buffalo News notes, official restrictions are standing in their way. Many garden activists plan to show up today at a meeting of the Common Council's Legislative Committee, which is scheduled to make a recommendation on the matter. If something isn't done, some of the gardeners say they're ready to go ahead and plant without official approval. In one of his final projects before he died last month at age 93, writer and director Arthur Laurents was determined to bring back the grit and immediacy of one of his biggest hits, "West Side Story," which had lost a lot of its street savvy over the yea...
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