West Side Story: Birth of a Classic
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Related Library Collections Online

  • The Leonard Bernstein Collection
  • Burton, Humphrey. Bernstein. New York: Doubleday, 1994
  • Conrad, Christine.  Jerome Robbins: That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man.  London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2000
  • Garebian, Keith. The Making of West Side Story. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1998
  • Greg, Lawrence.  Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins. New York: Putnam, 2001
  • Hirsch, Foster.  Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre.  Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989
  • Horowitz, Mark.  Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions.  Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press in association with Library of Congress, 2003
  • Ilson, Carol.  Harold Prince: A Director’s Journey. New York: Limelight Editions, 2000
  • Jowitt, Deborah.  Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004
  • Laurents, Arthur. Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood. New York:  Knopf, 2000
  • Laurents, Arthur, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen, Sondheim, et.al. West Side Story: A Musical.  New York, Random House [c. 1958]
  • Miller, Scott.  From Assassins to West Side Story: The Director’s Guide to Musical Theatre. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1996
  • Mordden, Ethan.  Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998
  • The Music Theatre International Study Guide for West Side Story. New York: Music Theatre International, 1993
  • Prince, Harold.  Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theatre. New York: Dodd, Mead,1974
  • Schlundt, Christena L. Dance in the Musical Theatre: Jerome Robbins and his Peers, 1934–1965: A Guide. New York: Garland Pub., 1989
  • Secrest, Meryle.  Leonard Bernstein: A Life. New York: Knopf, 1994
  • ———Stephen Sondheim: A Life. New York: Knopf, 1998
  • Vail, Amanda.  Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins. New York: Broadway Books, 2006
  • Williams, Mary E. Readings on West Side Story. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001
  • Zadan, Craig. Sondheim & Co. 2nd ed.. New York: Da Capo Press, 1994

Available on CD

  • Leonard Bernstein Conducts West Side Story. With Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, and Tatiana Troyanos. Polygram, 1990
  • Bernstein, Leonard, Stephen Sondhiem, Arthur Laurents, et al. West Side Story (Film soundtrack, 1961). With Marni Nixon and Rita Moreno. New York: Sony, 1992
  • Bernstein, Leonard, Stephen Sondhiem, Arthur Laurents, et. al. West Side Story (Original Broadway cast recording, 1957). With Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert, and Chita Rivera.   New York: Sony, 1998

Available on DVD

  • The Making of West Side Story: Leonard Bernstein. With Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, and Tatiana Troyanos. Hamburg: Deutsche Grammophon, 2005 (Originally Leonard Bernstein Conducts West Side Story, 2002)
  • Bernstein, Leonard, Stephen Sondhiem, Arthur Laurents, et al. West Side Story (Special Edition DVD Collector’s Set). Directed by Jerome Robinson and Robert Wise(1961). Los Angeles: MGM, 2003
  • The Best of Broadway Musicals: Original Cast Performances from The Ed Sullivan Show. Hollywood: SOFA, 2003.
  • Broadway: The American Musical. PBS/Paramount, 2004
  • Carol Lawrence: Bell Telephone Hour Appearances 1960–1967. Pleasantville, New York: Video Artists International, 2005

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