Something's Coming Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagination takes a critical comprehensive look at one of the most inventive influential and internationally beloved Broadway musicals of all time - from its inception by a brilliant quartet of creators (Robbins Bernstein Sondheim and Laurents) to its smashing success on film to its ongoing popularity on stages around the world and its potent impact on the Great American Musical. Featuring intriguing chapters on West Side Story in relation to Romeo and Juliet as a recording phenomenon as a film rated the second-best movie musical of all time by the American Film Institute as part of a wave of juvenile delinquency dramas as the first great choreographer-auteur musical and as the granddaddy of "youth musicals" such as Hair and Rent Something's Coming Something Good is a revealing guide for those who have seen the show for those who wish to study it for pleasure or inspiration and for actors designers and directors planning on producing it.
Misha Berson is the award-winning theater critic for the Seattle Times and the author of the books Between Worlds: Contemporary Asian-American Plays and The San Francisco Stage. She writes regularly for American Theatre Magazine and other publications appears as a commentator on KUOW-FM radio has taught at the University of Washington and San Francisco State University and is the former executive director of Theatre Bay Area.
