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A Place for Us - "West Side Story" and New York (Hardcover)
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A Place for Us - "West Side Story" and New York (Hardcover)
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From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless
amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an
American touchstone an updating of Shakespeare located in a vividly
realized, rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of postwar
New York is at the heart of Julia L. Foulkes's A Place for Us. A
lifelong fan of the show, Foulkes became interested in its history
when she made an unexpected discovery: parts of the iconic film
version were shot on the demolition site of what would ultimately
be part of the Lincoln Center redevelopment a crowning jewel of
postwar urban renewal. Foulkes interweaves the story of the
creation of the musical and film with the remaking of the Upper
West Side and the larger tale of New York's postwar aspirations.
Making unprecedented use of Jerome Robbins's revelatory papers, she
shows the crucial role played by the political commitments of
Robbins and his fellow gay, Jewish collaborators, Leonard Bernstein
and Arthur Laurents: their determination to evoke life in New York
as it was actually lived helped give West Side Story its unshakable
sense of place even as it put forward a vision of a new, vigorous,
determinedly multicultural American city. Beautifully written and
full of surprises for even the most dedicated West Side Story fan,
A Place for Us is a powerful new exploration of an American
classic.
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