L. Bernstein — West Side Story

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Different from die musicals of the thirties and fourties with their happy‐ends Bernstein wanted to deal with social critical subjects. %u201CI want to create a musical, that shows a tragic love‐story.%u201D For him the West Side Story was a composition including all dramatical arts: music, speech, dance and scene band togehter the total theatre: The actor is comedian, singer and dancer in one person.