id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2281 West Side Story - Wikipedia .html text/html 13623 1416 77 West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.[1] It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. Bernstein's score for the musical includes "Jet Song", "Something's Coming", "Maria", "Tonight", "America", "Cool", "One Hand, One Heart", "I Feel Pretty", "Somewhere", "Gee, Officer Krupke" and "A Boy Like That". Robbins then announced he did not want to choreograph the show, but changed his mind when Prince agreed to an eight-week dance rehearsal period (instead of the customary four), since there was to be more dancing in West Side Story than in any previous Broadway show,[16] and allowed Robbins to hire Peter Gennaro as his assistant.[21] Originally, when considering the cast, Laurents wanted James Dean for the lead role of Tony, but the actor soon died. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2281.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2281.txt