The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story

Contents

• List of figures
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Part I . Before 'West Side Story':
• 1. Performing social relevance in the American Musical before 'West Side Story' William A. Everett
• 2. Bernstein on Broadway Helen Smith
• 3. In anticipation of 'West Side Story': the confluence of styles, genres, and influences in the early choreography of Jerome Robbins Phoebe Rumsey
• 4. Arthur Laurents before 'West Side Story' John M. Clum
• 5. Sondheim the kid Steve Swayne
• 6. For a small fee in America: producing 'West Side Story' Laura MacDonald
• Part II . The Work Itself and Its Context:
• 7. The score: creation, orchestration, unification, and analysis Paul R. Laird
• 8. Un-Gendering 'Somewhere': women's agency and redemption in 'West Side Story' Katherine Baber
• 9. Shakespeare in the city: adapting 'Romeo and Juliet' Jane Barnette
• 10. 'West Side Story' and the Hispanic problem Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz
• 11. 'West Side Story' and the intersections of class, colourism, and racism Erica K. Argyropoulos
• 12. The real gang history of New York Elizabeth A. Wells
• Part III . The Legacy:
• 13. 'West Side Story' and the voice Sylvia Stoner-Hawkins
• 14. 'West Side Story'/suite: Jerome Robbins's Choreo-Directing on Broadway, Hollywood, and ballet stages Dustyn Martincich
• 15. Exoticism, race, and the Broadway musical in the 'City of Waltzes': Marcel Prawy's 1968 'West Side Story' production at the Vienna Volksoper Martin Nedbal
• 16. 'West Side Story' abroad as an American icon Emily Abrams Ansari, Anne Searcy, Paul R. Laird, Gonzalo Fernández Monte, Elizabeth Wells, and Aino Kukkonen
• Bibliography
• Index.