El Somnambulo insisted I feature this tune today. I have no idea why, but when a man in a luchador mask tells you to do something, you do it.
Though Richard Beymer portrayed Tony in the film, his singing was dubbed by Jim Bryant. The music is by Leonard Bernstein, lately portrayed by Bradley Cooper in a prosthetic nose, with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It was Sondheim’s first Broadway show, and he later expressed his dissatisfaction with the lyrics – he thought he made the characters sound too erudite for street kids.
A new production was filmed in 2021 with Spielberg as director, and Ansel Elgort singing his own songs as Tony. Sondheim didn’t change any of the lyrics.
