The Lyric's faithful revival addresses immigration, discrimination, and changing neighborhoods, but it's the women who are the stars. Sometime in the 1940s, it occurred to choreographer Jerome Robbins that an updated musical version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet could be a good idea. He pitched it to composer Leonard Bernstein and librettist Arthur Laurents, and when they actually got…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PM on May 8, 2019