West Side Story " review by Luke Jennings

Sadler's Wells, LondonThis sharp-edged revival of the tale of New York gangs is a joyOn the opening night of West Side Story in 1957, US supreme court justice Felix Frankfurter collared the composer Leonard Bernstein. "The history of America is now changed," he told him, weeping with emotion. And if Frankfurter's reaction was exaggerated, Jerome Robbins's gangland take on Romeo and Juliet certainly changed the h…

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