What Shakespeare classic is the NYC-based West Side Story an adaptation of? -
answer Romeo and Juliet
Who wrote the music for West Side Story? - answer Lenny Bernstein
Who wrote the lyrics for West Side Story? - answer Stephen Sondheim
Who wrote the book for West Side Story? - answer Arthur Laurents
Who choreographed West Side Story? - answer Jerome Robins
What two ethnic gangs were almost featured in the original version of West Side Story,
"East Side Story"? - answer Irish and Jewish rival gangs
What famous center now sits on the Upper West Side where the 1940s-50s ghetto
where West Side Story "took place" originally was? - answer Lincoln Center
What two ethnicities are the rival gangs in West Side Story? - answer Polish/Italian and
Puerto Rican
Which Jets character is supposed to portray Romeo? - answer Tony
Which Sharks member, who was set up to marry Chino, portrays Juliet in West Side
Story? - answer Maria
Which character from WSS most closely resembles Friar Lawrence and his apothecary
from Romeo and Juliet? – answer Doc and his drug store
Who is the WSS version of Prince Escalus from Romeo and Juliet - answer Officer
Krupke
Which two characters from WSS are the modern versions of Mercutio and Tybalt from
Romeo and Juliet? - answer Mercutio= Riff
Tibalt=Bernardo
What Star Wars composer did Oakes compare Leonard Bernstein to? - answer John
Williams
Which Ballet composed by Leonard Bernstein did Jerome Robins choreograph? -
answerFancy Free
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