"Immigrant!" Anita sneers, playfully but dismissively, at her lover, Bernardo, in the run-up to "West Side Story's" glorious Act 1 number, "America." The time is the mid-1950s, when a large influx from Puerto Rico was adding to New York City's ethnic mosaic, and a young Latina, besotted by the possibilities of her new life, could be portrayed as denigrating her boyfriend simply by reminding him he wasn't born in the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:19AM on January 29, 2016