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The 24 pages that link to West Side Story, each with the reason it gives.

• Musical theatreBroader topic: It reworks Romeo and Juliet through urban conflict, dance, and symphonic music.

• Musical filmBroader topic: Its dance, location shooting, and tragic plot broadened the genre’s dramatic range.

• Leonard BernsteinBroader topic: Bernstein composed its score, one of his best-known works.

• LibrettoBroader topic: Its distinction between book and lyrics shows how musical theatre divides textual work.

• Stephen SondheimBroader topic: It was Sondheim's Broadway debut as a lyricist.

• Hollywood musicalBroader topic: Its choreography makes dance central to conflict, character, and urban space.

• Jerome RobbinsBroader topic: Robbins’s choreography makes gang identity, conflict, and emotion visible throughout the musical.

• Literary adaptationBroader topic: It relocates a tragedy while preserving its central conflict and doomed romance.

• Dance filmBroader topic: Jerome Robbins’s choreography carries conflict through bodies moving across urban space.

• Adaptation (arts)Broader topic: It transforms Shakespearean tragedy through music, dance, and a modern urban setting.

• Book musicalBroader topic: Its songs and choreography are integrated with a modern tragic plot.

• American musical theatreBroader topic: Its choreography, music, and urban setting show how dance can carry dramatic conflict.

• Latina representation in HollywoodBroader topic: Its Puerto Rican characters and casting make it a landmark case in Hollywood’s portrayal of Latinos.

• Robert WiseBroader topic: Wise co-directed this landmark musical, which won him an Academy Award for Best Director.

• Latino representation in HollywoodBroader topic: Its stage and screen versions made Puerto Rican characters central while drawing criticism for stereotypes and casting.

• Show tuneBroader topic: Songs such as “Tonight” combine character conflict with the musical’s dramatic action.

• VibraphoneBroader topic: Its score uses the vibraphone as part of a prominent percussion palette.