Into the West once again with Leonard Bernstein’s classic
West Side Story was the ultimate triumph for Bernstein, who aspired to the first rank but never reached it
Oh yes, I remember it well – but who, if there, could possibly forget the film premiere of the musical West Side Story in Dublin’s Savoy cinema back in the early 1960s?
It exploded onto our screens like nothing of its kind had before. Decades earlier, the likes of South Pacific, Carousel and Show Boat had explored dark underlying social themes, but here was a musical that was operatic at its core while ...
