West side story somewhere

West side story somewhere (1957) was created by a group of artists who were brash and combative, who didn’t readily reveal their vulnerabilities. The lyricist, Stephen Sondheim, distils the story of this Romeo and Juliet reboot, set amid New York’s gang wars: “It’s about a young man who grows up by falling in love, and it kills him.” Yet, nestled at the heart of this bristling, often confrontational work, is a quiet place. A place where gang antagonism, suspicious relationships and the unfeeling indifference of the official culture can melt away, and love and trust can briefly hold. That place is Somewhere – the yearning ballad accompanied by a fantasy ballet, in which the lovers and their warring friends imagine a place of peace and quiet, of “time together with time to spare”.

Somewhere from West side story 

"Somewhere", sometimes referred to as "Somewhere" or simply "There's a Place for Us", is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story that was made into a film in 1961. 

Artist: Barbra Streisand 
Album: The Broadway 
Album Released: 1985 
Awards: Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instruments And Vocals 
Genre: Musicals

One benefit of being incarcerated at home is you get to watch some of those obscure cable channels you pay for. While mindlessly browsing through channels I found “West Side Story” on Amazon Prime. I think I know my readership pretty well, and I’m pretty confident that most of us know some of the words from every major song in “West Side Story.” “West side story somewhere” was the class song for a lot of high school graduations in the Sixties.

The story is set in New York in the Fifties. The Broadway play came out in the late Fifties, and the movie debuted in 1961. It is a view of urban America before Camelot. The story centers on conflict between the Sharks and the Jets. The Jets are the white kids, the Sharks the Puerto Rican immigrant kids. One of the jarring things about the movie is the Fifties gangstas dress better than most white collar office workers today. West Side Story is an Americanized and modernized version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Of course, nobody much under 40 knows what Romeo and Juliet is because it was written by a dead white guy.