A Puerto Rican filmmaker on ‘West Side Story’: ‘It’s hard to think that this is still what we’re talking about’

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[Stephen] Sondheim [who wrote the show’s lyrics] in one of his interviews said that one of the great things about the theater, which he felt was different from film, is that every time you stage something, you can change it. And you do change it, because [each time] you’re changing the performer, changing the venue, changing the choreography, changing the costumes — it’s always changing.

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