West Side Story Book Author. Arthur laurents is the author of musical plays such as west side story, gypsy, anyone can whistle, do i hear a waltz?, hallelujah baby! The novel was later adapted into a nickelodeon television series, wayside.
And even at the illustrious la scala opera house in milan, italy, where the blue jeans and fire escapes. Arthur laurents’s most popular book is romeo and juliet and west side story. When they first conceived the show in 1949, robbins, bernstein and laurents set their story on the east side of manhattan, and gave it the working title east side story.
In movie houses, concert halls, and on video;
In movie houses, concert halls, and on video; West side story was originally east side story. By now, i've seen and heard west side story more times and more ways than i can count: They planned to stage the conflict between rival catholic and jewish groups.