West Side Story West Side Story West Side Story is a musical with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet". The story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid 1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood (in the early 1960s, much of the neighborhood was cleared in an urban renewal project for Lincoln Center, which changed the neighborhood's character). The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The members of
Music from West Side Story Music from West Side Story Music from West Side Story is a 1986 compilation album by Dave Brubeck and his quartet of music from Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim musical "West Side Story", with other tracks taken from Brubeck's albums "Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein" (1960) and "" (1966) and "My Favorite Things" (1965). The album was reviewed by Bruce Eder at Allmusic who wrote that it was "one of the more often overlooked albums" in Brubeck's Columbia and described it as "a lot of fun and well worth hearing...[the whole record] swings in some unexpected directions that still delight