Find Out How Tony Kushner Made Stephen Sondheim Finally Like His Own Lyric to West Side Story's 'I Feel Pretty'

Playbill: Though one of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's most enduring songs, West Side Story's "I Feel Pretty" was famously one of Sondheim's least favorite lyrics from his canon. For director Steven Spielberg's new film adaptation of the 1957 musical, screenwriter Tony Kushner was given the freedom to dramatically reimagine the Broadway favorite. Watch above as Kushner explains how his re-setting of "I Feel Pretty" was designed specifically to address Sondheim's problems with his own lyric.