In August 1957, West Side Story opened at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre. The musical was fashioned after Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and was set on New York's Upper West Side, a neighborhood polarized by Puerto Rican and working-class white families. The show received positive reviews, and four years later the hugely popular musical was adapted fo…
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