Why remake West Side Story? Well, why not? Sure, the Tony-winning 1957 stage musical already begat an Oscar-winning film adaptation in 1961, still regarded as one of the best movie musicals of all time. But the production was also produced under socially acceptable conditions of the time, with a mostly white cast of characters portraying […]

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