West Side Story Suite

West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. The premiere took place at New York State Theater on Thursday, May 18, 1995. Nikolaj Hübbe and Jock Soto, both members of the original cast, as well as Peter Boal all chose to include West Side Story Suite in their farewell performances at City Ballet.

Cast

original

Nancy Ticotin
Elena Diner
Natalie Toro

NYCB revivals

2008 Winter

first cast

second cast

2008 Spring — Jerome Robbins celebration

2008 Summer tour to Paris

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2008 Summer tour

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2009 Winter

second cast

2009 Fall tour to Japan

first cast

second cast

2010 Winter

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Footnotes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e first time in rôle
^ NYC rôle debut

References

Playbill, NYCB, Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Repertory Week, NYCB, Spring season, 2008 repertory, week 1

Articles

NY Times, Anna Kisselgoff, July 2nd, 1995

NY Times, Avery Corman, May 14th, 1995

Reviews

NY Times by Alastair Macaulay, February 12, 2008
NY Times by Jennifer Dunning, February 11, 2008

NY Times by Jack Anderson, June 21, 2005
NY Times by Gia Kourlas, June 7, 2005
NY Times by Anna Kisselgoff, May 20, 1995

External links

NYCB website

Robbins Foundation and Trust website

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Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story (1957)

Inspiration

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Adaptations

Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (1961)
West Side Story (1961 film)
West Side Story Suite (1995 ballet)
West Side Story (2021 film)
- accolades

Variations

Swango (2002 musical)
West Bank Story (2005 parody film)

Songs

Act 1	"Something's Coming" "Maria" "Tonight" "America" "Cool" "One Hand, One Heart" "Tonight (Quintet & Chorus)"
Act 2	"I Feel Pretty" "Somewhere" "Gee, Officer Krupke" "A Boy like That"

Albums

West Side Story (1957 original cast)
West Side Story (1959 Previn)
West Side Story (1961 soundtrack)
West Side Story (1961 Tjader)
Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein (1961 Brubeck Quartet)
West Side Story (1962 Peterson Trio)
Kenton's West Side Story (1962 Kenton)
Toshiko–Mariano Quartet (in West Side) (1963 Akiyoshi)
West Side Story (1974 Earl Hines)
West Side Story (2021 soundtrack)

v t e Leonard Bernstein
List of compositions Awards
Opera and operetta	Trouble in Tahiti (1951) Candide (1956) A Quiet Place (1983)
Musicals	On the Town (1944) "New York, New York" "Lonely Town" Peter Pan (1950) Wonderful Town (1953) "Ohio" West Side Story (1957) "A Boy Like That" "America" "Cool" "Gee, Officer Krupke" "I Feel Pretty" "Maria" "One Hand, One Heart" "Something's Coming" "Somewhere" Tonight" "Tonight Quintet" A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green (1958, collaboration) The Race to Urga (1968) 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976) The Madwoman of Central Park West (1979, contribution)
Ballet	Fancy Free (1944) Dybbuk (1974)
Orchestral music	Symphony No. 1 (Jeremiah) (1942) Symphony No. 2 (The Age of Anxiety) (1948–49, revised 1965) Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish) (1963) Fanfare for the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy (1961) CBS Music (1976) Slava! A Political Overture (1977) Divertimento (1980) Concerto for Orchestra (1986, 1988, 1989, originally Jubilee Games)
Concertante	Prelude, Fugue and Riffs (1948) Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" (1954) Ḥalil (1981)
Chamber music	Piano Trio (1937) Clarinet Sonata (1942) Dance Suite (1989)
Choral	Hashkiveinu (1945) Chichester Psalms (1965) "Olympic Hymn" (1981) Missa Brevis (1988)
Vocal	Psalm 148 (art song, 1935) I Hate Music (song cycle, 1943) La Bonne Cuisine (song cycle, 1947) "So Pretty" (1968) Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra (1977) "My Twelve Tone Melody" (1988)
Piano music	Non troppo presto (Music for the Dance No. 1) (1937) Music for the Dance No. 2 (1938) Sonata for the Piano (1938) Anniversaries (1942—1988) Seven Ann. (1942–43) Four Ann. (1948) Five Ann. (1949–51) Thirteen Ann. (1988) Four Sabras (ca. 1950) Bridal Suite (1960) Touches (1980)
Other compositions	The Lark (incidental music) (1955) Mass (1971) Opening Prayer (1986)
Film adaptations	On the Town (1949 film) West Side Story (1961 film) West Side Story (2021 film)
Books	The Joy of Music
Related articles	Academy for the Love of Learning Artful Learning Bernstein–Mahler cycle Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts New York Philharmonic concert of April 6, 1962 Pacific Music Festival The Unanswered Question (lecture series) Young People's Concerts Maestro (2023 film)
Category

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Ballets	2 and 3 Part Inventions Afternoon of a Faun Andantino Antique Epigraphs Brahms/Handel Brandenburg The Cage Circus Polka The Concert Dances at a Gathering Dybbuk Fancy Free Fanfare The Firebird Four Bagatelles The Four Seasons Gershwin Piano Concerto Glass Pieces The Goldberg Variations I'm Old Fashioned In G Major In Memory of ... In the Night Interplay Ives, Songs Mother Goose Moves Les Noces N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz Opus 19/The Dreamer Other Dances Piano Pieces Requiem Canticles Suite of Dances A Suite of Dances Tricolore Watermill West Side Story Suite
Musicals	Peter Pan (1954) West Side Story (1957), concept
Films	On the Town (1949), "based on an idea by Jerome Robbins" West Side Story (1961)