Leonard Bernstein dubbed into other languages. All of them were released on DVD by Kultur Video (half of them in 2013). Around the time he was appointed music director of the New York Philharmonic, and living opposite Carnegie Hall at The Osborne, Bernstein composed the music for two shows. The first was for the operetta "Candide", which was first performed in 1956 with a libretto by Lillian Hellman based on Voltaire's novella. The second was Bernstein's collaboration with the choreographer Jerome Robbins, the writer Arthur Laurents, and the lyricist Stephen Sondheim to produce the musical "West Side Story". The first three had
Samuel Byck musical written by Stephen Sondheim. The "9/11 Commission Report" also mentioned Byck's attempt to fly a plane into the White House. On page 561 in note 21, it says: Byck is one of the (failed) assassins portrayed in Stephen Sondheim's and John Weidman's 1991 musical "Assassins". His role in the musical is built largely around his tapes sent to Leonard Bernstein and other famous public figures, which he is depicted recording during two scene-length monologues, the first addressed to Bernstein and the second to Nixon himself. A movie based on his story, "The Assassination of Richard Nixon", was released in