Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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West Side Story. This big, slick cinemusical, like the Broadway show that it is based on, decorates its hoods with halos and its cops with badges of dishonor, but its dances still seem (mostly) fresh and its Romeo and Juliet story still seems (mostly) sweet...
Varsity Soccer, Captain; Undergraduate Athletic' Council; Hasty Pudding Show; Romeo and Juliet; Delphic Club; Varsity Club...
West Side Story. This big, slick cinemusical, like the Broadway show it is based on, decorates its hoods with haloes and its cops with badges of dishonor, but its dances still seem (mostly) fresh and its Romeo and Juliet story still seems (mostly) sweet...
...dramatic community is aware of the problem. I, myself, made an attempt to effect some co-ordination in the production schedule last spring when I was producing Romeo & Juliet. The results are not worth the effort. Plays must be put on when students are free to participate and students are free to participate at only certain well recognized times during the year...
West Side Story is a resetting of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in the race-riotous slums of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Romeo (Richard Beymer) is a white boy, idol of a teen tong called The Jets. Juliet (Natalie Wood) is a Puerto Rican girl whose brother (George Chakiris) is the leader of a rival street gang called The Sharks. As in Shakespeare's poem, the star-crossed lovers meet and love and find their fate in the ugly shadow of suspicion that divides their kindred. Unhappily, the literary parallel, though it lends the piece...