Conglomerations of talent don’t always guarantee success in show business, but it absolutely did in the case of “West Side Story.”
Four of the great creative minds of the 20th century — composer Leonard Bernstein, lyricist Stephen Sondheim, choreographer Jerome Robbins and playwright Arthur Laurents — came together to conceive a transformative, of-the-moment Broadway musical that opened in 1957 to enormous acclaim.
