Title: A place for us
Description: 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.
Subjects: In motion pictures, Urban renewal, Musicals, Production and direction, Popular culture, History and criticism, West Side story (Motion picture), History, Motion picture music, history and criticism, Music, american, Motion pictures, West Side story (Bernstein, Leonard)
Places: United States, New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York
People: Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Time periods: 20th century