Twentieth Century Fox + Disney Are Co-Producing “West Side Story”! Cast Announcement!


The Award-winning Broadway Musical ” West Side Story” will debut on December 18, 2021

according to Director/ Producer Steven Spielberg

 

Here’s a photo of Ariana DeBose who will play Anita! 

 

An adaptation of the original Broadway musical, WEST SIDE STORY </strong>explores young love and tensions between rival gangs the Jets and the Sharks on the streets of 1957 New York. The cast also includes
Ansel Elgort (Tony);
Rachel Zegler (Maria);
Ariana DeBose (Anita)
Ana Isabelle (Rosalia);
Corey Stoll (Lieutenant Schrank);
Brian d’Arcy James (Officer Krupke);
Curtiss Cook (Abe)
and
Academy Award®-winner Rita Moreno, who plays Valentina and also serves as one of the film’s Executive Producers.
The film is now in production for Twentieth Century Fox and The Walt Disney Studios.

 

WEST SIDE STORY is produced and directed by Steven Spielberg from a script by Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner. The film has been adapted for the screen from the original 1957 Broadway musical, which was written by Arthur Laurents with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and concept, direction, and choreography by Jerome Robbins. Tony Award®-winner Justin Peck will choreograph the musical numbers in the film. Also leading the production are Tony Award®-winning producer Kevin McCollum and Academy Award®-nominated producer Kristie Macosko Krieger.

The film’s music team includes
renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who will helm the recording of Bernstein’s iconic score;
Academy Award®-nominated composer and conductor David Newman (Anastasia) who will be arranging the score for the new adaptation;
Tony Award®-winning composer Jeanine Tesori (Broadway’s Fun Home and Thoroughly Modern Millie), who will be working with the cast on vocals; and
Grammy®-nominated music supervisor Matt Sullivan (Beauty and the Beast, Chicago), who will serve as executive music producer for the film.

I can’t wait to see West Side Story in theaters!

Stevie Wilson
LA-Story.com

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