WEST SIDE STORY Book by Arthur Laurents | Music by Leonard Bernstein  | Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim  | Based on a Conception of Jerome Robbins | Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Episode Segments:

• 3:55 – Speed Test
• 6:06 – Why God Why
• 15:10 – Back to Before
• 23:18 – Putting It Together
• 33:46 – What's Inside
• 54:28 – How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
• 1:12:29 – Our Favorite Things
• 1:24:50 – Corner of the Sky
• 1:30:10 – What Comes Next?

Works Consulted & Reference :

• West Side Story (Original Libretto) by Arthur Laurents & Stephen Sondheim
• Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim
• West Side Story: Cultural Perspectives of an American Musical by Elizabeth A. Wells
• Something's Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagination by Misha Berson
• The Making of West Side Story by Keith Garebian
• Sondheim  & Co by Craig Zadan
• Sondheim by Martin Gottfried 
• Mainly on Directing by Arthur Laurents
• Sense of Occasion by Hal Prince
• Broadway: The American Musical (PBS Documentary)

Music Credits:

• "Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin
• "The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie  (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble
• "Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  (Original Cast Recording  / Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by Alistair Brammer
• "Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie
• "Chromolume #7 / Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Performed by Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Judith Moore, Cris Groenendaal, Charles Kimbrough, William Parry, Nancy Opel, Robert Westenberg, Dana Ivey, Kurt Knudson, Barbara Bryne
• "What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble
• "Something's Coming” from West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Performed by Larry Kert
• "Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon
• "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews
• "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Performed by Matthew James Thomas
• “What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Performed by Jonathan Groff