West Side Story (Original Soundtrack) (Bonus Tracks, Expanded Version, Remastered) - Various Artists

Composer: Leonard Bernstein.Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim.Personnel: Tucker Smith, Jim Bryant (vocals); Marni Nixon, Betty Wand (vocals); George Chakiris, Russ Tamblyn.Audio Remixer: Charles Harbutt.Liner Note Author: Richard Ridge.Recording information: Hollywood, CA (08/09/1960-08/10/1960).Directors: Robert Wise; Jerome Robbins.Editor: Thomas Stanford.Photographer: Vernon Smith.Hollywood has a deservedly bad reputation for its adaptations of Broadway musicals, but, at least as of the mid-'50s, with Broadway powers like Rodgers & Hammerstein getting some control over the film versions of their works, some degree of greater fidelity has been achieved, in the sense that the movies tend to use much of the scores heard on-stage, without interpolating new, irrelevant material. One tendency Rodgers & Hammerstein pictures (notably South Pacific) have made heavy use of, however, is to have one cast acting on the screen and something close to an entirely different one singing in the recor