51: West Side Story (2021) - The West and the Furious

It's the end of Merry Musicals May, and we're wrapping up Steven Spielberg's West Side Story from 2021!

We're here to celebrate Rita Moreno, our final musical survey, and we can't help but talk about how this compares to the 1961 and 1957 versions of the musical. Plus, we're diving into Leonard Bernstein's amazingly complex score to talk about what makes the musical storytelling so special.

Next week is the official beginning of Summer of Spielberg with the titanic blockbuster Jurassic Park (1993)!

Note for sound fidelity: there are some audio imperfections present in the first 20 minutes that subside. Apologies this was not up to our usual standard!