The next film on the AFI top-100 is the 1961 version of West Side Story, which I have seen a few times, but it has been a while. I have also gone to the theater to see the stage version of the show, but that was at least thirty years ago. At the time I was dating a girl who loved musicals, especially stage musicals, so it meant I saw a lot of crappy community theater versions of the classic stage productions.
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