Aedín celebrates the release of Stephen Spielberg’s much anticipated screen version of West Side Story with a first listen to the soundtrack. The beloved Broadway musical about rival street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is an adaptation of the 1957 musical with an iconic score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim and a book by Arthur Laurents. The 1962 original screen version won 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, so how has Spielberg fared directing his first musical? Plus, a 90th birthday celebration for Rita Moreno, who is back in West Side Story having won the academy award for playing the role of Anita in the original 1961 film.
RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 11th December, 1pm-4pm