· Laurents maintains that Robbins’s credit for the conception of West Side Story was a case of overreaching. The gang element, he says, was his own idea, arising from news reports he’d been Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Arthur Laurents. Arthur Laurents was born in New York City on J. He is one of the most successful authors and created musical plays such as West Side Story (), Gypsy (), Anyone Can Whistle (), Do I Hear a Waltz? (), Hallelujah Baby! ( Tony Award for Best Musical), and NickNora (); and the screenplays The Snake Pit (), Rope (), Caught (), . Arthur Laurents was an American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter. His credits included the stage musicals West Side Story and Gypsy and the film The Way We Were/5.
As "West Side Story" celebrates its 60th anniversary, it stands as more than art: It was an artistic confrontation of social issues from immigration and bigotry to economic inequality and gang. Arthur Laurents, Writer: Rope. Arthur Laurents was born on J in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA as Arthur Levine. He was a writer and producer, known for Rope (), The Turning Point () and West Side Story (). He died on May 5, in Manhattan, New York City. The late writer and director Arthur Laurents returned to Theater Talk to discuss directing the Bilingual Broadway revival of the musical classic, W.
Five decades after West Side Story debuted at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., it's back this December. "It's not a revival," says Arthur Laurents, 90, its original librettist and the man behind the latest production. It was Robbins who dominated the production of West Side Story, which had been written in the mid-'50s by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and a young Stephen Sondheim. " West Side Story is West Side Story: Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise. With Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno. Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
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