July 07, 2000 • Page Image 101
…** * * * * * * * * * * STAR DELI the most important and influential American musicals of all time: West Side Story and Gypsy. Laurents explained that West Side Story was supposed to be about the conflict between Jews and Christians, but that since there were few Jewish gangs around in the late 1950s it was more realistic to spotlight the Italian and Puerto Rican communities. Another one of Laurents' accomplish- ments is jump-starting Barbra ...…

















































