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West Side Story opened on Broadway in September 1957 to a somewhat baffled critical reception. What to make of a musical that was a tragedy, though with harshly comic moments; that told its tale largely through dance; that featured a backdrop of fire escapes instead of a stairway to paradise? Audiences had no such confusion, and the show has been running-in one place or another-practically ever since. The movie came out in 1961, and in 1989 most of the dances were gathered into Jerome Robbins' Broadway, where they were the strongest and least dated element in the show...
...September, 1992. I'm a first-year. I'm walking along the path that cuts diagonally across the New Yard, from Thayer South to the stairway leading up to the Union. The four people whom I know from high school are scattered somewhere behind me in the Old Yard, in dorms whose names all sound the same to me. I can't keep all the things I have to do straight in my head. There are placement tests and mandatory meetings, extracurricular open-houses and social events highlighted in the little first-year booklet I've been given...
Page and Plant didn't play "Stairway to Heaven," but they charmed the audience with a string of classic Zeppelin hits, including "When the Levee Breaks," "Ramble On," and "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do," to which the audience sang along in maudlin harmony...
...Wilson who was brought in when Lloyd Richards, who has directed the premiere of every other Wilson play, had to bow out because of a health problem. Scott Bradley's soaring set--the backyard of a ramshackle tenement building, complete with earnest little garden and the tallest, steepest stairway since Jacob's ladder--is abundant in telling detail. Along with Constanza Romero's flamboyant costumes, it brings to vivid life the 1948 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that is the locale of the play...
...high official attached to the dam. There, an apologetic aide informed her that due to one of the city's increasingly frequent power shortages, the elevator was out -- and she would have to climb six flights of stairs. Leaning on her interpreter, Burton made it up the steep candlelit stairway. "When I arrived, wilted and breathless," she recounts, her interview subject chuckled, gestured to a mural of the dam and said, " 'Now you can see for yourself how badly we will need the energy this dam will supply...