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THE KHNER/SPIELBERG ADAPTATN OF ‘WT SI STORY’ IS SURE TO BE PRETTY, WTY AND GAY
Infed throughout Wt Si Story is a gay sensibily that’s exprsed subtextually the relatnship between the hero Tony and Riff, the lear of the Jets, and choreographilly through the homoeroticism of the all-male dance sequenc. Along wh Arthur Lrents, poser Leonard Bernste, director-choreographer Jerome Robbs, and lyricist Stephen Sondheim were all var stag of g to terms wh their homosexualy the opprsive atmosphere of 1950s Ameri.
Wh the exceptn of Sondheim, the creators of Wt Si Story had narrowly ped profsnal durg the anti-gay and anti-Communist wch hunts of the McCarthy era.