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Can you provide some infomation on references of West Side Story in popular culture?
The television show Curb Your Enthusiasm extensively referenced West Side Story in the season seven episode Officer Krupke.
Was West Side Story a popular show?
West Side Story was nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1957, but the award for Best Musical went to Meredith Willson's The Music Man.
Can you tell me a little about the West Side Story?
West Side Story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid 1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood.
Is there anything else important about the references in popular culture concerning West Side Story besides the Curb Your Enthusiasm reference?
In the third season of the series Glee, three episodes feature characters auditioning, rehearsing and performing a school production of West Side Story.

Question: Did that become popular as well?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Glee become popular as well?