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West Side Story Suite | |||
| Composer | Leonard Bernstein | ||
| Music | Prologue, Something′s Coming, Dance at the Gym, Cool, America, Rumble, Somwhere Ballet | ||
| Lyrics | Stephen Sondheim | ||
| Choreographer | with Peter Gennaro | ||
| Dancers | Robert LaFosse (Tony); Elena Diner (Maria); Jock Soto (Bernardo); Nancy Ticotin (Anita); Nikolaj Hubbe (Riff); Natalie Toro (Rosalia) | ||
| Scenery | Oliver Smith | ||
| Costumes | Irene Sharaff | ||
| Lighting | Jennifer Tipton | ||
| Genre | BALLET | ||
| Premiere | May 18, 1995, New York State Theater, New York City Ballet | ||
| Casting Reqs | 41 Dancers: Tony, Riff, Bernardo, Anita, Maria, Rosalia; 9 Jet boys, 10 Jet girls; 8 Shark boys, 8 Shark girls | ||
| Requirements | 5 Singers in pit (1 on stage for Something′s Coming, possibly 11 on stage for America and Cool if dancer can′t sing) | ||
| Running Time | 36′ | ||
| Notes | "West Side Story", set in 1957, is based on Shakespeare′s "Romeo & Juliet". The musical opened on September 26 of that year and the movie followed in 1960. Mr. Robbins extracted a sequence of dances from "West Side Story" to make this Suite. | ||