The run closed November 30, 1980
- Opened
- February 14, 1980
- Closed
- November 30, 1980
- Performances
- 333
- Previews
- 8
- Theatre
- Minskoff Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 66th 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. |
| 1960 | Winter Garden Theatre Return-Engagement · Jerome Robbins | 249 perf. |
| 2009 | Palace Theatre Revival · Joey McKneely | 748 perf. |
| 2020 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Ivo van Hove | 24 perf. |
Who was in it45 named
Jossie de Guzman
Ken Marshall
Ray Contreras
Arch Johnson
James J Mellon
H Ctor Jaime Mercado
Hector Jaime Mercado
Jake Turner
Cleve Asbury
John Bentley
Harolyn Blackwell
Yamil Borges
Mark Bove
Nancy Louise Chismar
Marlene Danielle
Gary Michael Davies
Michael de Lorenzo
Mark Fotopoulos
Michael Franks
Charlene Gehm
Heather Lea Gerdes
Brian Kaman
Amy Lester
Todd Lester
Georganna Mills
Mark Morales
Michael Rivera
Willie Rosario
Nancy Ticotin
Darryl Tribble
Frankie Wade
G Russell Weilandich
Missy Whitchurch
Stephanie E Williams
Jerry Colker
Tony Constantine
Jeffrey Reynolds
Herman W Sebek
John Sloman
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
- Gladys Rackmil
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.