Beth Cooper Professor Barrett Introduction to Drama West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents‚ music by Leonard Bernstein‚ and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical’s plot is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Set in New York in the mid-1950s‚ the musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks‚ two teenage street gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The members of the Sharks are first-generation
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Caucasian gang called The Jets. The rivalry between the gangs is in place from the beginning‚ but it reaches a fever pitch when Maria falls for Tony‚ the founder of the Jets‚ at a local dance. West Side Story is the classic tragedy of Romeo & Juliet set in a modern setting. The setting is the Upper West Side of New York City in the late 1950s with conflict between rival street gangs rather than families. In the opening of the film‚ during which nearly 15 minutes pass before a real line of dialogue
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The play‚ West Side Story‚ was written by Arthur Laurents. West Side Story‚ the movie‚ was produced in 1961‚ featured Natalie Wood as Maria‚ and was directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. There are some major differences between the two works. For example‚ some of the musical numbers switched places in the movie. Also‚ the song “America‚” is different in the movie than in the play. In the movie many of the characters were different‚ and some of the lines differed as well. In the movie‚ the
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fictional place but a real world place (London England). The setting is also credible because Dorian lives in the upper west side where he lives a life of wealth‚ lugguary and pleasure. The setting in the novel holds great importance‚ because of where Dorian lives he is freely able to moove between two major parts of London‚ the wealthy West End and the decrepit East End. In the West End‚ mostly in the super-ritzy Mayfair district‚ Dorian establishes his home‚ frequents various gentlemen’s clubs
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cheese or ham are kosher‚ but his mother Miriam had an non-Jewish background he did not know about until his Bar Mitzvah when he learned about her mother. He wasn’t very good at school and due to his flunk at a school in the New York’s Upper West Side he was shipped to a military academy. After graduating he went back to his hometown to attend to the New York University before traveling to Europe. On his trip to Vienna given by his to improve another language and learn about business
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The worst passenger It was just another day at work‚ before this lady ruined it for me. As I was turning onto west 75th street from Central Park West. When I came close to Columbus avenue there was an access a ride bus blocking the entire street‚ and unloading a wheelchair. There was no way for us to get out of there unless the bus moved‚ the street was very narrow since it was a residential block the right and the left lines were blocked by the parked cars‚ the cars probably belonged to the residents
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1. List the main character(s) the main characters in Case Study F is the artist Karen Finley (Oster 253). 2. Give a brief review? A brief overview of the classical Jazz at the Lincoln Center was the subject of discussion in fall 1990. (Oster251) The trustees and their staff debated of turning four-year-old jazz program into an independent performing arts organization like the Metropolitan Opera or the New York City Ballet. (Oster251) This new independent program would argue that this new independent
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I cannot quite describe what I was feeling the day that my mother loaded me onto a large ship on that cold‚ dark day. England was the only place that I had ever called home. After my father and two younger siblings died‚ my mother was determined that I would travel to America for a new life. A life that I could never have in England. My young‚ sixteen year old mind could not quite comprehend the entire reasoning of why my mother wanted to send me away to a place that either of us had ever been
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Laurent‚ A.‚ (2012) West Side Story. Anticipation and Remembrance‚ R.J.C. Rosthern. The musical‚ “West Side Story” by Arthur Laurent‚ has a lot of alienation in it. Alienation describes the ironic feeling of people who feel that they don’t fit in the place where they should feel comfortable. Alienation is portrayed through the gangs‚ song and dance‚ and relationships. Tony and Maria’s relationship was filled with alienation. Tony is from the Jets and Maria is from the Sharks‚ star crossed lovers
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West Side Story transfers Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to present-day New York. The love story of Romeo and Juliet becomes that of Maria and Tony. The feud between the houses of the Capulets and the Montagues is re-created in one involving two teen-age gangs‚ the Jets and the Sharks. The famous balcony scene of the Shakespeare drama transpires on a fire-escape of an ugly New York tenement. The curtain rises on a bleak scene representing a warehouse. For the next five minutes not a word is spoken
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