A Short Review of The West Side Story

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A lot of the humor comes from the words of the songs: numbers like "America" and "Officer Krupke" are full of fun but both have bitter underlying messages; "Everything's free in America. For a small fee in America", and "Gee officer Krupke we're very upset, we haven't had the love every child ought to get" etc...
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For a small fee in America", and "Gee officer Krupke we're very upset, we haven't had the love every child ought to get" etc. Humor also comes in the Jets treatment of Anybody's although to a certain extent there is rather a nasty element to the humor: "It's the only way she'll ever get any man to touch her", and "Go walk the streets like your sister", when they want rid of her...
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