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    WEST SIDE STORY

    Aug 02, 2020 2 minutes
    WORDS IAN FREER

    is the culmination of a career ambition: Steven Spielberg is finally directing a musical. There have been abandoned attempts (musical-about-a-musical ), false starts ( started life as a songfest) and tiny tasters (the jitterbug contest of , the showstopper that opens ), but this is the first time he has gotten to showcase that old razzle-dazzle for an entire feature.

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