The run closed December 10, 1960
- Opened
- April 27, 1960
- Closed
- December 10, 1960
- Performances
- 249
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 97th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of West Side Story 4 more that season
| 1957 | Winter Garden Theatre Original · Jerome Robbins | 732 perf. |
| 1980 | Minskoff Theatre Revival · Jerome Robbins | 333 perf. |
| 2009 | Palace Theatre Revival · Joey McKneely | 748 perf. |
| 2020 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Ivo van Hove | 24 perf. |
Who was in it45 named
Thomas Hasson
George Marcy
Judy Aldene
Robert Avian
Vince Baggetta
Sterling Clark
Doug Clarke
Donald Corby
Richard Corrigan
Miguel de Vega
Ed Dutton
Roger Franklin
Eddie Gasper
Glenn Gibson
Ted Gunther
Audrey Hays
Alan Johnson
Gloria Lambert
Sandy Leeds
Lee Lewis
George Liker
Eddie Miller
Barbara Monte
Anna Marie Moylan
Albert M Ottenheimer
Danii Prior
Genii Prior
Poligena Rogers
Marc Scott
Carmine Terra
Kent Thomas
Ben Vargas
Don Grilley
Al de Sio
Roberta Keith
Roger le Page
Barbara Richman
Douglas Spingler
Keith Stewart
6 of these 45 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 39 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Jerome Robbins
- Choreographer
- Jerome Robbins
- Producer
- Robert E. Griffith
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for West Side Story at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.