West Side Story in Russian?

[Alexandra Smith]

Dear Tony,

I've forgotten to mention that the translation of West Side Story used  
  today by the Novosibirsk production was done by Vladimir Pozner.  
According to the article published by Vedomosti  
(http://www.vedomosti.ru/afisha/10/610), the translation was done by  
Vladimir Pozner (Pozner's father) 50 years ago. Orenburg Theatre uses  
the translation of Ekaterina Rakitina and Vladimir Pozner (poems)  
(http://inoren.ru/events/10/505)
Yet the website of Moscow Teatr operetty gives this information about  
its 1965 production of West Side Story (I would imagine that the  
theatre has its own museum and archive that has the 1965 copy of the  
text used for the production):
24 июня. "ВЕСТСАЙДСКАЯ ИСТОРИЯ"
Музыка Л.Бернстайна. Пьеса А.Лорентса. Русский текст А.Афониной,  
Г.Морошкиной, В.Лугового. Стихи С.Сондгейма в переводе В.Лугового.  
Постановка Г.Ансимова. Режиссер И.Барабашев. Дирижер Г.Черкасов.  
Художник Э.Стенберг. Балетмейстер Л.Таланкина.
The website of this theatre is  
here:http://www.mosoperetta.ru/main/history.php#nul

All best,
Sasha Smith

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