"West Side Story," at the BJCC Concert Hall through ... The two leads are far from terrible, but as Tony and Maria, Addison Reid Coe and Mary Joanna Grisso are awkward. Not star-crossed-lovers ...

When Rachel Zegler was 16, she was cast as Maria in a local production of “West Side Story” in Englewood, New Jersey. It was four or five months before she auditioned for the same role in ...

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In 2019, the Clifton teen was chosen from more than 30,000 “West Side Story” hopefuls, setting in motion a number of opportunities. After Maria, she was cast opposite Zachary Levi, Helen ...

A first clip from Steven Spielberg's West Side Story remake reveals stars Rachel Zegler and Ansel Elgort dominating the screen as ill-fated lovers Maria and Tony. Zegler, 20, has a voice like a ...

As a little girl growing up in East Meadow, Katie Ferretti was a huge fan of the iconic American musical “West Side Story.” The heart-rending tale of Tony and Maria, an inner-city Romeo and ...

Steven Spielberg has cast 17-year-old high schooler Rachel Zegler as Maria in his remake of “West Side Story.” She will make her film debut opposite Ansel Elgort as Tony. Broadway veteran ...

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From the opening whistles and finger snaps to the soaring notes of composer Leonard Bernstein's "Maria," "West Side Story" is one of America's most recognized and beloved musicals. A half century ...

After mounting the Broadway production of "West Side Story," Robbins co-directed ... "I no longer looked like a Maria to him. And I really didn't. That would have been so wrong." ...

That results in such articles as one that ran in the Daily Beast the other day headlined “Why can’t ‘West Side Story’ just cast a Puerto Rican Maria?” Spielberg gives the answer in an ...

“I’m flying to Los Angeles because Lin-Manuel Miranda has written a song to the tune of “Maria” from West Side Story,” she said. “But he’s written new lyrics that mention every ...