Shows · West Side Story · Winter Garden Theatre, 1957
West Side Story, 1957
Opened September 26, 1957
Closed June 27, 1959
732 performances
Original
Broadway
2 Tony Awards
Of the productions that opened in the 1950s, this had the 21st longest run.
Other stagings of West Side Story 4 more
Who was in it95 named
Lee Becker
Arch Johnson
Tommy Abbott
William Bramley
Erne Castaldo
Wilma Curley
Carole D Andrea
Al de Sio
Marilyn D Honau
Frank Green
Reri Grist
Carmen Gutierrez
John Harkins
Lowell Harris
Ronnie Lee
George Marcy
Jack Murray
Jay Norman
Julie Oser
Liane Plane
Nanette Rosen
Lynn Ross
Jamie Sanchez
Noel Schwartz
Elizabeth Taylor
Sonya Wilde
Lenny Dale
Eliot Field
Vince Baggetta
Barry Burns
Richard Corrigan
Ethelyne Dunfee
Eliot Feld
Julius Fields
Roger Franklin
Bill Guske
Ross Hertz
Harvey Hohnecker
Bob Kole
Ed Kresley
Ed Kressley
Sandy Leeds
Ann Marisse
Eddie Miller
Carmen Morales
Albert M Ottenheimer
Genii Prior
Bea Salten
Tucker Smith
Gus Trikonis
Gina Trikonos
Gus Tritchonis
Myrna White
Don Zema
Devra Korwin
Lynn Bowin
Jose de Vega
Barbara Doherty
Ed Dutton
Tracy Everitt
Audrey Hays
Gloria Lambert
Lee Lewis
Leila Martin
Anna Marie Moylan
Jerry Norman
Sue Ostrowsky
Stan Papich
Danii Prior
Barbara Richman
Gary Scharff
Susan Silo
Carmine Terra
Kent Thomas
Ella Thompson
Camille Valle
Ben Vargas
Creative team
- Director
- Jerome Robbins
- Choreographer
- Jerome Robbins
- Producer
- Robert Griffith & Harold Prince
Tony Awards 2 from 6 nominations
Recordings 3 released while this run was on
91 more exist for other runs of this show: see West Side Story for all of them.
Around this production
The original concept was "East Side Story" about Jewish and Catholic families on the Lower East Side. Laurents and Bernstein shelved it for years until the headlines about gang violence gave it new urgency.
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