Step 1 : Introduction to the question "2. Which musical takes the plot of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', and puts it in New York City?"
...1. Grease 2. West Side Story 3. Kiss Me, Kate! 4. Saturday Night Fever As Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' set amidst gang warfare in 1950s New York, the love story of Tony and Maria has become a classic in its own right. First staged as a musical in 1957, 'West Side Story' was made into a film in 1961. With Leonard Bernstein's music and Stephen Sondheim's lyrics, it was a new type of musical, with a plot that was rooted in classical tragedy, blended with the social tensions of the twentieth century, making extensive use of contemporary dance and drawing on a variety of musical genres.