West Side Story Girls: America! Lots of new housing with more space Boys: Girls: Lots of doors slamming in our Puerto Rico face My heart's devotion Girls: Let it sink back in the ocean I'll get a terrace apartment Always the hurricanes blowing Boys: Always the population growing Better get rid of your accent And the money owing Girls: And the sunlight streaming Life can be bright in America Boys: West Side Story is an And the natives steaming I like the island Manhattan If you can fight in America American musical with music by Girls: Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Life is all right in America Stephen Sondheim, and Boys: Boys: conception and choreography by I know you do! Jerome Robbins. It was inspired If you're a white in America by William Shakespeare's play Girls: Girls: Romeo and Juliet. Smoke on your pipe Here you are free and you And put that in! have pride The story is set in the Upper I like to be in America Boys: West Side neighborhood in New Okay by me in America Long as you stay on your own York City in the mid-1950s, an side ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood. Everything free in America Girls: The musical explores the rivalry Free to be anything you choose between the Jets and the Sharks, Boys: Boys: two teenage street gangs of For a small fee in America Free to wait tables and shine different ethnic backgrounds. The shoes members of the Sharks from Girls: Puerto Rico are taunted by the Buying on credit is so nice Everywhere grime in America Jets, a Polish-American working- Organized crime in America class group. The young Boys: Terrible time in America protagonist, Tony, one of the One look at us and they charge Girls: Jets, falls in love with Maria, the twice You forget I'm in America sister of Bernardo, the leader of Boys: the Sharks. The dark theme, Girls: I think I'll go back to San Juan sophisticated music, extended I have my own washing I know a boat you can get on dance scenes, and focus on machine (Bye Bye) social problems marked a turning Boys: point in American musical Boys: Everyone there will give big theatre. Bernstein's score for the What will you have though to cheer! musical includes "Something's keep clean? Girls: Coming", "Maria", "America", Everyone there will have "Somewhere", "Tonight", "Jet Girls: moved here Song", "I Feel Pretty", "A Boy Like Skyscrapers bloom in America That", "One Hand, One Heart", Cadillacs zoom in America West Side Story: "Gee, Officer Krupke", and Music by Leonard Bernstein "Cool". Industry boom in America Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Boys: (1965) Twelve in a room in America .