Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert sing “Tonight” on The Ed Sullivan Show. The song, by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, is from the score of West Side Story. This performance, which documents Jerome Robbins’ staging of the number for the original Broadway production, was originally telecast by CBS on November 2, 1958:
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