re: question re: WSS - have the authors ever addressed why there's SO much more Jets than Sharks in the score/play ?did Sheldon Harnick "lyric-shame" Sondheim?
I think in the book SONDHEIM & CO>, Sondheim mentions ' showing off ' the I feel pretty lyric, and harnick said somthin like 'really steve?. Sondheim cooled to the lyric After that; or is my memory playing tricks on me. By the way, a brilliant analysis /Chazwaza