West Side Story
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West Side Story is a 1957 Broadway musical written by Arthur Laurents, with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, about a gang war between a group of Puerto Rican immigrants (the Sharks) and working class white kids (the Jets) in 1950s New York City. The musical, which was conceived and directed by Jerome Robbins, is based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, went on to win the Academy Award for best picture when it was released as a motion picture in 1961.
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Songs Performed in Muppet Productions
- -The Electric Mayhem perform the song on epidsode 317 of The Muppet Show
- -Miss Piggy and a chorus of Whatnots perform the song in episode 305 of The Muppet Show
- -The Ed Sullivan Show, April 30, 1967
- -Performed by an Anything Muppet woman on Julie on Sesame Street
- -episode 109 of The Muppet Show
- "Tonight"
- -Excerpted in Julie on Sesame Street
References
- "Inside/Outside Story" on "Monsterpiece Theater", which featured Anything Muppet parodies of the two main characters, Tony and Maria.
- A 2007 "Ready To Learn" commercial, which parodied "The Jet Song." Instead of the two gangs preparing to brawl, however, Ernie and Theo (from Between the Lions) illustrate to the Kids how rhyming can enhance reading abilities.
- The show was parodied as "Veg Side Story" in a "Dinner Theatre" sketch on Sesame Street.
- "Somewhere" was parodied with the song "There's a Grouchy Place" on Sesame Street
- "Maria" was parodied on the video Big Bird Gets Lost.
Connections
- Debbie Allen played Anita in the 1980 Broadway revival
- Rita Moreno played Anita in the film version
