Tinkering With the Ideal

WSJ.com: "When is a work of art finished? Never, if you're Arthur Laurents, who wrote the book of 'West Side Story.' Mr. Laurents changed that 52-year-old classic in countless ways when he staged the new Broadway revival, and some of his changes might have irked one of the show's now-deceased co-creators. Not only did Mr. Laurents have some of the songs and dialogue translated into Spanish, but he altered Jerome Robbins's choreography, going so far as to cut the somber funeral procession that closed the original 1957 production."