Advanced Topics in Theater Arts
21M.704 Musical Theater Workshop
Spring 2009
Thomas F. DeFrantz
defrantz@mit.edu

 

West Side Story CD information - Songs in THIS DIRECTORY


(1957 Version)
1. Prologue - The Jets/The Sharks
2. Jet Song - Mickey Calin/The Jets
3. Something's Coming - Larry Kert
4. Dance at the Gym, The - The Jets/The Sharks
5. Maria - Larry Kert
6. Tonight - Larry Kert/Carol Lawrence
7. America - Marilyn Cooper/Chita Rivera/Shark Girls
8. Cool - Mickey Calin/The Jets
9. One Hand, One Heart - Larry Kert/Carol Lawrence
10. Tonight - The Jets/The Sharks/Chita Rivera/Larry Kert/Mickey Calin/Carol Lawrence
11. Rumble, The - The Orchestra/The Jets/The Sharks
12. I Feel Pretty - Carol Lawrence/Marilyn Cooper/Reri Grist/Carmen Gutierrez/Elizabeth Taylor
13. Somewhere (Ballet) - Larry Kert/Reri Grist/Carol Lawrence
14. Gee, Officer Krupke! - Eddie Roll/Grover Dale/Hank Brunjes/Tony Mordente/David Winters/The Jets
15. A Boy Like That / I Have A Love - Chita Rivera/Carol Lawrence
16. Finale - Ensemble

Notes
Album Notes
Music composed by Leonard Bernstein. Lyrics written by Stephen Sondheim.
Principal cast: Carol Lawrence (Maria); Larry Kert (Tony); Chita Rivera (Anita); Mickey Calin (Riff); Ken Le Roy (Bernardo).
Original cast recorded at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, New York on September 29, 1957. Includes liner notes by Martin Charnin and Nicholas Deutsch.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
This is part of Columbia Records' Columbia Broadway Masterworks series.
Record buyers who had not seen the show that opened on Broadway in 1957, could hardly believe their ears when this dramatic, early stereo album reached the stores soon afterwards. Classical composer Leonard Bernstein and newcomer Stephen Sondheim's spellbinding score combined exquisite ballads such as "Maria" and "Tonight" with streetwise numbers such as "Gee, Officer Krupke" and the exhilarating "America." Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert and Chita Rivera led the superb young cast, and the album stayed for 120 weeks in the US chart but faired poorly on its UK release. In 1991 it was inducted into the NARAS Hall of Fame.