WEST SIDE STORY
Birth of a Classic

Set Design for scene 'Somewhere'

|| CREDITS  ||Set Design for scene "Somewhere"

alt text goes here Carol Lawrence’s Ballet Slippers from the “Somewhere Ballet” Bernstein’s Annotated Copy of Romeo and Juliet Production Protograph: “Somewhere Ballet” Production Photograph: End scene of West Side Story

STAFF FOR THE EXHIBITION

Exhibition Team

Irene Chambers, Chief, Interpretive Programs Office
Cynthia Wayne, Exhibition Director, Interpretive Programs Office
Mark Eden Horowitz, Curator, Senior Music Specialist, Music Division

Interpretive Programs Office
Denise Agee, Debbie Durbeck, David Hayward, Martha Hopkins, Carroll Johnson-Welsh, Tambra Johnson, Antonio La Greca, Susan Mordan-White, Betsy Nahum-Miller,
Chris O’Connor, Cheryl Regan, Patrick Shepler, Rachel Waldron, Anna Costner, Intern

Media Research

Sam Serafy

Special thanks

Special thanks are due to the following members of the staff of the Library of Congress for their assistance with this exhibition

Deanna Marcum, Library Services; Elizabeth Auman, Susan Vita, Raymond White, and Walter Zvonchenko, Music Division; Kathryn Blackwell, Gay Colyer, Sara W. Duke, Kristi Finefield, Jan Grenci, Ellen Kays, Phil Michel, Helena Zinkham, and Lewis Wyman, Prints and Photographs; Kaare Chaffee, Dana Hemmenway, and Lisa Moberg, Conservation Office; Rosemary Hanes, L. Gerald Hatfield, Jr., and Mike Mashon, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division; Stanley Bandong, Graphic Service Unit; Jade Curtis, Glen Krankowski, and Domenic Sergi, Digital Scan Center; Dorothy Gholston, Printing Management Section; Dama Greenidge, Laura Keen, Lola Pyne, Fred Simonton, LaVette Sydnor, Laura Moiseev, Chun Yi, Robin Fanslow, and Qun Lai, Office of Strategic Initiatives; and Erin Allen and Audrey Fischer, Public Affairs Office.

The Library wishes to express gratitude to the following individuals for their assistance and expertise:

Arthur Laurents; Hal Prince; Carol Lawrence; Stephen Sondheim; Doug Wilson; Paul Fusco; Danielle Jackson and Karen Probasco, Magnum Photos; Harry Miller, Wisconsin Historical Society; Marie Carter, Garth Sunderland, Craig Urquhart, The Leonard Bernstein Office; Michael Kantor and Lylian Morcos, Thirteen/WNET; Jane Klain, and The Paley Center for Media; and Rosaria Sinisi, Copyright Holder, Oliver Smith’s Designs.

Exhibition and brochure design Dennis/Konetzka Design Group LLC

Acknowledgment

This exhibition is supported by the Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Trust for the benefit of the Library of Congress.