Carole D’Andrea, best known for her role as Velma in both the Broadway and film adaptations of "West Side Story," has passed ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Carole D’Andrea, who portrayed the Jet girl Velma in the original 1957 Broadway production of West Side Story and then in the classic 1961 film, has died.

A “West Side Story” where people from Puerto Rico actually ... Schrank (Corey Stoll) and Officer Krupke (Brian d’Arcy James). Another big difference in Spielberg’s film is the inclusion ...

West Side Story hit the silver screen for the first time ... Hollywood was a thing of the past for me because I'd found something that thrilled me," he told the Los Angeles Times in 1990.

I’d help her light the match if I could. Whew, that’s bleak! But the story’s ability to convey the harshness of this country is what allows West Side Story to endure. It was all right there ...

I’d love to see a “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”-style rethinking one day. DEL VALLE SCHORSKE I agree that any future engagement with “West Side Story” that actually deepens the ...

Carole D’Andrea, who portrayed Velma, the Jet girl, in the original 1957 Broadway production of West Side Story and the iconic 1961 film adaptation, has passed away at the age of 87. According ...

I’d add that the creators of “West Side Story” — Leonard Bernstein (music), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), Arthur Laurents (script), Jerome Robbins (choreography and direction) — made it at ...