Sale 2470 - Autographs, March 22, 2018

Leonard Bernstein 1918-1990 Lots 147 - 166 August 25th of this year would have been Bernstein’s 100th birthday. Admirers everywhere are celebrating his life, including at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which selected a work by him for its inaugural performance in 1961. Commemorative performances of his works and exhibitions of artifacts from his life are scheduled in cities around the world. “WEST SIDE STORY” 147 c   BERNSTEIN, LEONARD; AND STEPHEN SONDHEIM. Typescript Signed, by both, souvenir script for the opening scene of West Side Story .Additionally signed by choreogra- pher Jerome Robbins, and book writer Arthur Laurents, who additionally inscribed,“ToWillie.” 1 page, 4to. Np, nd [2,000/3,000] West Side Story first opened at NewYork’sWinter GardenTheatre on September 26, 1957.