that's specific to the time they're in. ♪ when you're a jet you're a jet all the way from your first cigarette to your last dieing day ♪ >> west side story is shakespeare in the streets of new york. it has a code that was both old and completely new. ♪ >> with "west side story," the music has this kind of jazz influence, discord ant aspect. you can feel it. it's like sparking in the air. ♪ and the moves are very angular and sort of almost architectural. >> "west side story" was a big broadway hit created by arthur lawrence and stephen sondheim and leonard bernstein, who were some of the greatest musical geniuses working at the time. >> they actually enlisted jerome