‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum’ (1966) (For more classic ’60s cinema, stream “ Judgment at Nuremberg” or “ The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”) Watch it on Amazon Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer perform admirably in the leads, but Rita Moreno and George Chakiris steal the show in support - and won Oscars for their efforts, two of the film’s astonishing ten-statue haul, which included prizes for best picture and best director. The original stage director and choreographer Jerome Robbins and the filmmaker Robert Wise shared directorial duties, thrillingly placing the show’s songs and dances on the real streets of New York City while using the proximity and intimacy of the camera to render the longing and loss of the story even more poignant. So it’s no surprise that it spawned one of the great movie musicals. Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’s ingenious musical adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet,” which updated its setting and story to the streets and gangs of New York, remains one of the towering achievements of the Broadway stage.

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