- West Side Story
- Highly stylized modern-day Romeo and Juliet tale. The
stage is set in New York’s Upper West Side in the 1950s,
where the area’s slums are plagued by racial tensions acted
on by two rival gangs: the Puerto Rican Sharks and the Caucasian
Jets. In the middle of this mess is young, innocent Maria, a
Puerto Rican seamstress whose brother, Bernardo, is the leader
of the Sharks. Despite the warnings of Anita, Bernardo's fiery
girlfriend, Maria falls in love with a young, hopeful Polish
boy, Tony, who used to belong to the Jets, now headed by Riff.
When Tony, on Maria’s urging, tries to stop a rumble between
the gangs, tragedy ensues, marking their dedicated love affair
with violence and desperation.
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