West Side Story just turned 50 years old, and in my “Sightings” column in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal I hold forth on the virtues–and vices–of one of the most important and influential musicals of the postwar era. (This is not a puff piece.) Pick up a copy of tomorrow’s Journal to see what I have to say.
If you’re a subscriber to the Online Journal, you can read my column after midnight tonight by going here.