Rita Moreno dancing in West Side Story, 1961 From 1971 to 1977, Moreno was a main cast member on the PBS children’s series The Electric Company while simultaneously appearing in films and other ...

Find out where the original cast of the iconic 1961 movie musical is now Their performance left us snapping (we mean, clapping). West Side Story hit the silver screen for the first time in 1961 ...

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The 1961 adaptation of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s work, which won 10 Academy Awards, is considered one of the all-time great movie musicals. The new West Side Story stars Ansel ...

From veterans of the Broadway stage, to performers just starting out, and an original cast member from the 1961 movie, the West Side Story cast is full of stars. Here is where you might have seen ...

He's one of two Tony winners in the movie's cast ... Rita Moreno for West Side Story and not have her sing! Moreno did some (but not all) of her own singing in the 1961 film, for which she ...

The 1961 film starring Richard ... iconic role of Maria alongside this amazing cast,' she told the Hollywood Reporter in January. 'West Side Story was the first musical I encountered with ...

Perhaps what’s most notable about van Hove’s West Side Story cast is the possibly unprecedented number of youthful newcomers, with 23 actors making their Broadway debuts. “I couldn’t be ...

Niko Tavernise/20th Century Studios Elsewhere in the cast Ariana DeBose is Anita, David Alvarez is Bernardo and Mike Faist is Riff. Rita Moreno, who played Anita in the 1961 West Side Story movie ...

Such is the case with “West Side Story,” Steven Spielberg’s vibrant, urgent, utterly beautiful revival of the 1961 adaptation ... Story,” Spielberg has cast Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler ...

From Rachel Zegler to Ansel Elgort, meet the 2021 'West Side Story' cast compared to their 1961 counterparts West Side Story first graced the big screen in 1961. In 2021, Steven Spielberg became ...