Tonight, Tonight, It's West Side Story Night - Series One - From West Side to Worldwide

...Story Night From West Side to Worldwide In the second of two documentaries marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Broadway opening of a new show that would change the face of musical theatre forever, musical star John Barrowman tells the story of how West Side Story has continued to touch people across the world. After its opening on Broadway, West Side Story took on a whole new life as a multi award-winning movie classic that still resonates with audiences today. Since then, the concept has been taken into opera houses, used to help community relations, performed in prisons and drawn on by performers as diverse as Cher and Alice Cooper. Contibutors include George Chakiris, who played Bernardo; Rita Moreno, who played Anita in the film; Marni Nixon, who dubbed the singing voice of Natalie Wood; Sid Ramin, who won an Oscar for his orchestrations; Humphrey Burton, Bernstein's biographer; book writer Arthur Laurents; and Freddie Gershon who is in charge of licensing productions of West Side Story around the world. Voices from the archive include the film's co-director Robert Wise and Leonard Bernstein.