Audio-Visual Resources
Resources for further West Side Story viewing and listening.
Please note this list is not exhaustive.
Documentaries
Macfarlane, Ursula, dir. 2017. West Side Stories - The Making of a Classic. BBC Two and Reef Television.
Swann, Christopher, dir. 1985. The Making of West Side Story. BBC Television, Unitel, Video Music Productions Inc.
Movies
Robbins, Jerome and Robert Wise, dir. 1961. West Side Story. MGM.
Spielberg, Steven, dir. 2021. West Side Story. Twentieth Century Fox and Amblin Productions. *forthcoming Dec. 10th, 2021*
Recordings
Cast Recordings
Broadway Revival Cast. 2009. West Side Story: The New Broadway Cast Recording. Masterworks Broadway. Music conducted and supervised by Patrick Viccariello.
Original Broadway Cast. 1957. West Side Story Original Broadway Soundtrack. Columbia Records. Musical direction by Max Goberman.
Original London Cast. West Side Story: Original London Cast. Double Play.
Original Netherlands Cast. 1996. West Side Story. Endemol Entertainment. Musical supervision by Harry van Hoof.
Movie soundtracks
Original Soundtrack. 1961. West Side Story. Sony Masterworks. Conducted by Johnny Green.
symphonic recordings
Carreras, José with Kiri Te Kanawa and Studio Orchestra. 1985. Leonard Bernstein Conducts West Side Story. Deutsche Grammaphon.
Nashville Symphony Orchestra. 2002. West Side Story: The Original Score. Naxos. Conducted by Kenneth Schermerhorn.
National Symphony Orchestra with members of the Leicester Haymarket Theatre Production. 1993. West Side Story. Conducted by John Owen Edwards.