Fifty years ago, the film version of the acclaimed Broadway musical West Side Story premiered in theaters ... He wanted the big contrast between the Jets and the Sharks, and he actually had ...

"It's just really hard to believe that its 50 years," said Chita Rivera after the curtain went up on the West Side Story half a century ... born Americans, the Jets. The other are the Puerto ...

In the ’50s, that was the teenagers ... on which a close eye usually needed to be kept. “West Side Story” not only portrays Jets and Sharks as precisely equal, it suggests Tony and Maria ...

West Side Story explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks. The Jets are made up of working-class white teenage boys from broken homes and the Sharks consist mainly of Puerto Ricans.

At the beginning of Steven Spielberg’s brilliantly directed “West Side Story,” the Jets whistle ... But it’s also, of course, the ’50s. And the obvious care taken by Spielberg and ...

By Ben Brantley No one should be surprised to hear that Ivo van Hove has blown up “West Side Story ... those fatally rivalrous street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, have probably never ...

Their vision for West Side Story is decidedly contemporary ... accented with fiercely rhythmic Latino angularity, while the Jets, a gang now mixing black with white, are looser, with more swagger ...

Steven Spielberg is ready to rumble: The first on-set image from the director’s new big-screen adaptation of the Broadway classic “West Side Story ... aka the Jets and the Sharks ...

Robbins observed kids at high school dances in Spanish Harlem in the ’50s, borrowing steps ... just after we’ve met the Jet clan. The “West Side Story” book is famously lean — it ...

All you had was this pride in being bad …' New York in the Fifties was terrorised by real-life Jets and Sharks ... as Paul Kendall reports 50 years of West Side Story: rehearsals for the new ...