West Side Story Book Summary. Already eager to start his broadway career as a composer and a lyricist, he was convinced by his mentor oscar hammerstein to debut as the show’s lyricist, the junior member of a team comprised of three well known artists: The film is set in the rough neighborhood of lincoln square on the west side of manhattan during the summer of 1957.
Riff determines to challenge bernardo that night at a dance at the gym, and prevails on his. The movie west side story (1961) is an updated version of romeo & juliet as told through the lives of two upper west side street gangs in new york city: By their late teens the cousins, though close, have chosen different paths.
West side story shows how racism and xenophobia create a system that dooms the youths of working class families.
The rise and fall of manhattan's high line. But, the more they read the papers, the more they learned of young gangs on new york’s west side. The camera zooms in on a group of jets, the white gang, snapping their fingers on a basketball court. The movie west side story (1961) is an updated version of romeo & juliet as told through the lives of two upper west side street gangs in new york city: