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West Side Story

American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
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West Side Story

Summary

West Side Story is a dramatico-musical work[1]. It ranks in the top 0.59% of dramatico_musical_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,330 views/month, #17 of 2,893).[2]

Key Facts

  • West Side Story's instance of is recorded as dramatico-musical work[3].
  • West Side Story's composer is recorded as Leonard Bernstein[4].
  • West Side Story's librettist is recorded as Arthur Laurents[5].
  • West Side Story's based on is recorded as Romeo and Juliet[6].
  • West Side Story's Commons category is recorded as West Side Story[7].
  • West Side Story's soundtrack release is recorded as West Side Story – Original Broadway Cast[8].
  • West Side Story's soundtrack release is recorded as West Side Story – Original English Cast[9].
  • West Side Story's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • West Side Story's country of origin is recorded as United States[11].
  • West Side Story comprises I Have a Love[12].
  • West Side Story comprises One Hand, One Heart[13].
  • West Side Story comprises Something's Coming[14].
  • West Side Story comprises Maria[15].
  • West Side Story comprises Tonight[16].
  • West Side Story comprises America[17].
  • West Side Story comprises Cool[18].
  • West Side Story comprises Tonight Quintet[19].
  • West Side Story comprises I Feel Pretty[20].
  • West Side Story comprises Somewhere[21].
  • West Side Story comprises Gee, Officer Krupke[22].
  • West Side Story comprises A Boy Like That[23].
  • West Side Story's lyricist is recorded as Stephen Sondheim[24].
  • West Side Story's official website is recorded as https://westsidestory.com[25].
  • West Side Story's topic's main category is recorded as Category:West Side Story[26].
  • West Side Story's date of first performance is recorded as September 26, 1957[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Musical[28]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 549c1a89-8fe6-4c08-a8a0-4f2344c14fcb[29]

Why It Matters

West Side Story ranks in the top 0.59% of dramatico_musical_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,330 views/month, #17 of 2,893).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

Jerome Robbins Leonard Bernstein Stephen Sondheim United States West Side Story West Side Story

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . westsidestory.com. westsidestory.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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