"It's an old cliché to cite New York as a character, yet it's undeniably a cinematic city with a unique screen presence all its own. With its well-known boroughs, modern architecture, landmarks, multi-ethnic communities and street food (pizza! pretzels! hot dogs! bagels!), the iconography of New York is bountiful. But from the dawn of the talkies onwards, musicals have also grappled with the dark underbelly of a city rich in complexities and conflict; the flipside to the glitz and shine of skyscraper escapism.
As West Side Story, Stephen Spielberg's remake of perhaps the greatest New York musical of them all, arrives on the big screen, we take a musical stroll from Yonkers down on to the bay…"
