It turns out that the dress is for the dance, which Maria is attending with Chino, whom she is expected to marry, despite the fact that she does not have any feelings for him.Īt the dance in the local gym, the group is divided: Jets and their girls on one side and Sharks and their girls on the othe. ![]() Maria complains that the dress is too young-looking, but Anita explains that Bernardo, her boyfriend and Maria’s brother, made her promise not to make the dress too short. Maria is excited, enthusiastic and childlike, but also growing into an adult. ![]() In a bridal shop, Anita remakes Maria’s communion dress into a party dress. Riff leaves Tony to wonder about this strange feeling that he’s been having (“Something’s Coming”). Nevertheless, Riff convinces Tony to come to the dance. He explains that, every night for a month, he’s had a strange feeling that something important is just around the corner. Riff presses him to come to the school dance for the war council, but Tony resists he’s lost the thrill of being a Jet. Riff goes to see Tony, who is now working at Doc’s drugstore. The other boys complain that Tony hasn’t been around for a month, but Riff doesn’t care once you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet for life (“Jet Song”). Action wants to be his second, but Riff says that Tony is always his second. Riff plans to have a war council with Bernardo to decide on weapons. They decide that they need to have one big rumble to settle the matter once and for all – even if winning requires fighting with knives and guns. When the police leave, the Jets bemoan the Sharks coming onto their turf. Frustrated, Schrank threatens to beat the crap out of the Jets unless they make nice. The Jets, however, are not stool pigeons and won’t tell him anything. ![]() Act Oneĭetective Schrank, the senior cop on the beat, tries to get the Jets to tell him which Puerto Ricans are starting trouble in the neighborhood, as he claims he is on their side. Officers Schrank and Krupke arrive to break up the fight. An incident between the Jets and Shark leader, Bernardo, escalates into an all out fight between the two gangs. It shows the growing tensions between the Sharks, a Puerto Rican gang, and the Jets, a gang made up of “American” boys. The opening is a carefully choreographed, half-danced/half-mimed ballet of sorts. Original production directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins
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