Talk:West Side Story

West Side Story (1979 film) was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 7 July 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into West Side Story. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Musical Theatre

West Side Story is part of WikiProject Musical Theatre, organized to improve and complete musical theatre articles and coverage on Wikipedia. You can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.Musical TheatreWikipedia:WikiProject Musical TheatreTemplate:WikiProject Musical TheatreMusical Theatre articles

Shakespeare Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Shakespeare, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of William Shakespeare on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ShakespeareWikipedia:WikiProject ShakespeareTemplate:WikiProject ShakespeareShakespeare articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Dance: Ballet

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Dance, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Dance and Dance-related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.DanceWikipedia:WikiProject DanceTemplate:WikiProject DanceDance articles

This article is supported by WikiProject Ballet.

WikiProject Ballet To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : See the Image requests page. Articles: Choo Chiat Goh, Vladimir Bourmeister, Columbia City Ballet, Michael Cook (ballet), Peter Schaufuss, Cyril Atanassoff, Post-structuralist ballet
Cleanup : Ballet Fantastique, NYCB/cast lists, re-write the whole Russian ballet article
Copyedit : Rasta Thomas, Ballet (marked as in need of immediate attention)
Disambiguation : Moscow Ballet
Expand : French ballet, Balanchine method, Cecchetti method, Original Ballet Russe, Royal Swedish Ballet, Bloch (dancewear), Turnout (ballet), Opera ballet, English ballet, Italian ballet
NPOV : Capezio
Stubs : Pas de deux, ballet tutu, Nicolai Legat, John Neumeier, Miami City Ballet, more
Unreferenced : Miami City Ballet, Oklahoma City Ballet
Wikify : Moscow Ballet (United States), Oklahoma City Ballet (in need of sections and references)
Other : Review recent changes to ballet articles.

New York City Low‑importance

	New York City portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject New York City, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of New York City-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.New York CityWikipedia:WikiProject New York CityTemplate:WikiProject New York CityNew York City articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Romance Low‑importance

	Literature portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Romance, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to fictional romance in literature and romantic fiction writers. If you would like to participate, you can edit one of the articles mentioned below, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and contribute to the general Project discussion to talk over new ideas and suggestions.RomanceWikipedia:WikiProject RomanceTemplate:WikiProject Romanceromance articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on September 26, 2004, September 26, 2005, September 26, 2006, September 26, 2007, September 26, 2008, and September 26, 2011.

Archives

Archive 1

Archive 2

This page has archives. Sections older than 90 days may be automatically archived by when more than 3 sections are present.

Well, that's one way to avoid a role you don't want

"Laurents wanted James Dean for the lead role of Tony, but the actor soon died."

Seriously, the wording there is a bit awkward; could be improved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.253 (talk) 01:57, 18 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Some possible articles about the text's treatment of Puerto Rican culture

"A Puerto Rican Reading of the America of West Side Story" (PDF). pp. 62–82.
Negron-Muntaner, Frances (Summer 2000). "restricted access Feeling Pretty: West Side Story and Puerto Rican Identity Discourses". Duke University Press. pp. 83–106.

These sources could be useful in developing the article. WhisperToMe (talk) 23:41, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Egyptian 1979 film

Is this material WP:NOTEWORTHY with respect to the article about the musical? Or is it just an adaptation that does not pass WP:DUE or ought to be described elsewhere? -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:49, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]