THE SONGS

ACT ONE Prologue - Danced by the Jets and the Sharks Scene One: 5:00 p.m. The Street Jet Song - Riff and the Jets Scene Two: 5:30 p.m. A Back Yard Something's Coming - Tony Scene Three: 6:00 p.m. A Bridal Shop Scene Four: 10:00 p.m. The Gym The Dance at the Gym - Jets and Sharks Maria - Tony Scene Five: 11:00 p.m. A Back Alley Tonight - Tony and Maria America - Anita, Rosalia, and the Shark girls Scene Six: Midnight. The Drugstore Cool - Riff and the Jets The Next Day Scene Seven: 5:30 p.m. The Bridal Shop One Hand, One Heart - Tony and Maria Scene Eight: 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The Neighborhood Quintet - Company Scene Nine: 9:00 p.m. Under the Highway The Rumble - The Jets and the Sharks ACT TWO Scene One: 9:15 p.m. A Bedroom I Feel Pretty - Maria, Rosalia, Teresita and Francisca Somewhere - Danced by Company; Sung by Consuelo Scene Two: 10:00 p.m. Another Alley Gee, Officer Krupke - Action, Snowboy, and the Jets Scene Three: 11:30 p.m. The Bedroom A Boy Like That - Anita and Maria I Have a Love - Maria and Anita Scene Four: 11:40 p.m. The Drugstore The Taunting - Anita and the Jets Scene Five: 11:50 p.m. The Cellar Scene Six: Midnight The Street Finale - The Company

The titles are listed here in the order in which the songs are performed on stage. The songs are performed in a different order in the film. Discussions on this and other differences between play and movie appear elsewhere on this site. See What's the Difference

Certain specific characters listed above represent performances as they were assigned in the Original Broadway cast. As the casting of other productions may warrant, the trio in "I Feel Pretty" can be assigned to other Shark girls, as can the antics of "Gee, Officer Krupke" be demonstrated by any combination of Jets. The off-stage vocalist who sang "Somewhere" in the original cast was soprano Reri Grist. The recording conducted by Leonard Bernstein featured mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne. More recent stage productions have the song sung by a baritone or a tenor, perhaps with the suggestion that the lyrics are Tony's words.

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