The show has been regularly revived, most recently on Broadway last year in a short-lived radical rethinking by the Belgian director Ivo van Hove. The 1961 movie won best picture and nine other Oscars. The score, featuring such Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim classics as “Somewhere” and “Maria,” is considered one of the best in Broadway history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since its Broadway premiere in 1957, “West Side Story” - a musical based on “Romeo and Juliet” and created by four white men - has been at once beloved and vexing.
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