Both digital versions are set for release on December 3. The West Side Story Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features 21 songs from the film and will be released in both standard digital and physical (CD and vinyl) configurations, as well as a digital release in Dolby Atmos Music – a new technology placing the listener inside the song in a spatial way, revealing every detail of the music with unparalleled clarity and depth. My sincere hope is that young people out there find this album and fall in love with it as hard as I did.” The score feels like it’s always been part of me, and I believe that this is the greatest music ever written for musical theater. As a kid, I could sing every one of its songs by heart – and I did sing them until I wore out the patience of my entire family.

I loved the West Side Story cast album from the first time I listened to it. Spielberg said, “I dedicated this movie to my father, but it was my mother’s love of music, combined with my insatiable appetite to understand everything about movie-making, that led me to start collecting motion picture soundtrack albums when I was young. West Side Story has been adapted for the screen from the original 1957 Broadway show which featured a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and direction and choreography by Jerome Robbins. The film’s soundtrack will be released on December 3, a week ahead of the film’s debut.ĭirected by Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner, West Side Story tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City.

Something’s coming December 10 when the Spielberg-directed film adaptation of West Side Story hits movie theaters, but something else will come right before.

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