Jerome Robbins wrote this thoughtful and detailed reaction to Arthur Laurents’s Romeo synopsis. Notable among Robbins’s responses are: his argument for a two-act division (p. 1, par.3); his suggested changes to Anita’s character (p. 1, par. 5); his expressed concerns about the “wedding scene” (p. 2, par. 3); his overall philosophy regarding what the work needs to convey (p. 3, par. 2); and his thoughts on casting and the use of dance in the show (p. 3, par. 3). The annotations in the margins, mostly in agreement, are in Leonard Bernstein’s hand.
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