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A Place for Us: “West Side Story” and New York
Julia L. Foulkes
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| #600547 in eBooks | 2016-10-24 | 2016-10-24 | File type: PDF||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Perfectly Positioned|By ejg|This book, like the play itself, comes at the perfect moment in history. Make no mistake: without West Side Story, there might not be a Hamilton. WWS broke ground on Broadway and around the world, bringing critical social issues to audiences through its own unique lens. A Place for Us makes it clear that this production was no walk on the beach. Thr||
"Foulkes's approach is chronological, but this is no pedantic march through time. Rather it is a fascinating read focusing equally on the show and the world into which it was born. . . . . Essential."
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 vividly realized in a 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:...
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