This work's first act ends with a searchlight sweeping the stage, which holds two corpses.
This work's first act ends with a searchlight sweeping the stage, which holds two corpses. During aballet in this work's second act, an off-stage soprano sings the melody that will be reprised as thiswork's finale, which begins "There's a place for us / A time and place for us". One character in thiswork describes herself as (*) "stunning" and "entrancing" and feeling "like running and dancing for joy"in "I Feel Pretty", before being informed of her brother Bernardo's death in a knife-fight with Riff. The titlegirl's name is described as "All the most beautiful sounds in the world in a single word" by Tony in thesong "Maria". For 10 points, name this musical featuring the rival gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, byStephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein.
This work's first act ends with a searchlight sweeping the stage, which holds two corpses.
West Side Story