She dreamed of becoming an actress, and while studying at the University of Iowa, was cast in the lead of both West Side Story and Peter Pan.
The school has been known for its great musical and theatrical ability and has staged many productions, musicals and musical, from Hobson's Choice, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, and most recently in 2006 one of the first, if not the first, comprehensive school to perform the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Cher tells her mother that she will try to understand and explains that she got into the record albums so that she could learn the songs from West Side Story for school.
In 1996, the band teamed up with Steve Vai's Monsters to record a version of "Rumble" from West Side Story for the RCA Victor tribute album called The Songs of West Side Story.
In the 1980s, Rose sang and danced for the Latin music maestro Tito Puente and he also starred in a regional theatre production of West Side Story.
The book also has chapters on West Side Story, Ricky Martin, and Holly Woodlawn, with interesting insights about Puerto Rican homosexuality in the United States.
Fumbling as usual, during a West Side Story parody scene he manages to help capture a wanted criminal and is honoured by a newspaper article the following day.
Their second album, Big Cock, was produced by Phil Wainman and released on Polydor in 1986, which included their cover of Bernstein and Sondheim's "America" from West Side Story.
It made comparisons with "The Music and the Mirror" from A Chorus Line, "Tonight" from West Side Story, and "Walk Through the Fire" from the musical Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Once More, with Feeling".
After the 1972 release of Deep Throat, Linda Lovelace enjoyed a brief flurry of celebrity notoriety while dating David Winters of West Side Story fame, which included appearances at the Academy Awards ceremony with Winters and the opening day of the racing season at Ascot Racecourse plus author credit for two best-selling books that played up on her status as a pornographic icon.
He wrote several musical shows, including an adaptation of "West Side Story" set in Shakespeare's time, an all-Black "Finian's Rainbow," and the Book of Job in swingtime (considered for development by Cordova).
The group's repertoire is made up of classical and commercial music transcriptions, including selections from composers Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and George Gershwin to popular songs from jazz legend Dave Brubeck, the rock band Queen and the Broadway smash hit, West Side Story.
West Side Story, Rosalia Leicester Haymarket Theatre/Paul Kerrison
On one show, West Side Story star George Chakiris, then starring in 'Passion of Dracula' in a London production at the Queen's Theatre, opened the show by being driven, in a horse-drawn hearse, across Northam Bridge (by the studios), bringing startled drivers to a virtual halt.
The title was inspired by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's "Somewhere" from West Side Story, which contained the line: "There's a place for us."
Several selections from There's a Place for Us would remain a staple of the group's live act for several years to come, most notably "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You" and "Somewhere" from West Side Story.
In 1949, he became first trumpet with the MGM film studio orchestra, playing on all the major MGM soundtracks from the Golden Age of Hollywood including An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain, Gigi, West Side Story (at United Artists), My Fair Lady (at Warner Bros.), Two for the Seesaw and Bye Bye Birdie (at Columbia Pictures), along with many others.
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He trained at the Arts Educational School in London, where he appeared in Starting Here, Starting Now, The Lion King Dance Project, as Tony in West Side Story, and The Hot Mikado.
In 2008, Laurents directed a Broadway revival of Gypsy starring Patti LuPone, and in 2009, he tackled a bilingual revival of West Side Story, with Spanish translations of some dialogue and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Betty Wand is an American singer and author, best known as the singing voice dubbed in for various actresses in musical films, including Leslie Caron in Gigi and some of Rita Moreno's part in West Side Story.
Leigh began his career on the Broadway stage, playing the roles of "Riff" and "Action" in the musical West Side Story and "Tommy Djilas" in the The Music Man.
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Additionally, he has appeared on stage in the critically acclaimed Broadway musical West Side Story.
Dr. Hunt returned as a director for the 1967 production of West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.
His West End theatre credits include Mamma Mia!, The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, West Side Story, Saturday Night Fever and Starlight Express.
She has won acclaim for her performances in the 1995 U.S. tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Donny Osmond, Les Misérables on Broadway (1993), and as Maria in West Side Story in Vienna and Munich (1995).
He has performed professionally since 1974, backing national artists such as Steve Allen, Don Rickles, Bob Hope, and others, and Broadway shows such as West Side Story, Cats, A Chorus Line and many others.
Jeffrey has also produced and/or developed De La Guarda (1998), Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (2000), Baz Luhrmann's production of Puccini’s La Bohème (2002) and High Fidelity (2006), title of show (2008), and West Side Story (2009).
In Europe, Fuller has directed and choreographed productions of West Side Story in Vienna and Nuremberg, created Jazz and the Dancing Americans for the Opera House Ballet in Graz, and directed the European premieres of Leonard Bernstein's Candide and On the Town and George Gershwin's Girl Crazy.
Cooper can be heard on the original Broadway cast recordings of West Side Story, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Two by Two, and
Since 1992 Mikkel Rønnow has been Musical Director for more than 20 Danish musical productions, including Chess (Danish premiere), West Side Story, Les Misérables, My Fair Lady, Copacabana (Scandinavian premiere), Grease, Cabaret, Tell Me on a Sunday, The Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Early on she took on roles such as "Maria" in West Side Story, "Hodel" in Fiddler on the Roof and "Jemima" in Cats, but also straight acting roles such as "Poppy" in Noises Off.
NCS's Senior Musical Theatre has put on sold-out productions of: Les Misérables,2004 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 2005 Fiddler on the Roof, 2006 Annie 2006, West Side Story, 2007, 42nd street 2008,Wizard of Oz 2009, and Anne of Green Gables, the musical, in 2010.
In addition to operas and operettas, Cleveland Opera presented several musical theatre favorites, such as West Side Story, Man of La Mancha and My Fair Lady.
Clark is a graduate of St Peter's College, Adelaide, and was a keen participant in several high school theatre productions, including a main role in West Side Story.
He won Academy Awards for his work on the scores of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, An American in Paris and West Side Story as well as nominations for Kiss Me Kate and High Society.
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In film, he won four Oscars for collaborating on the scores and orchestrations of An American in Paris (1951), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and West Side Story (1961).
As part of her prize, Shuna performed Dich Teure Halle from Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser followed by Tonight from West Side Story with Dame Kiri and José Carreras at BBC Proms In The Park in Hyde Park, London on Saturday 11 September 2010 and was given the opportunity to attend a three-week residential course at the Solti Te Kanawa Accademia in Italy.
She came to fame when appearing on Broadway in the 1970s with parts in three Stephen Sondheim musicals: she had a small role in Follies as Young Heidi, a starring one in A Little Night Music as Anne Egerman (1973–1974), and starred as Maria in the first revival of West Side Story at Lincoln Center.
In recent years, White Bear Lake has featured such musicals as Grease, Oklahoma!, Beauty and the Beast, Urinetown, West Side Story, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.