Robert Wise va néixer el 10 de setembre del 1914 a Winchester Indiana i va morir el 14 de setembre del 2005 a Los Angeles. Recordem el director i productor de cinema nord-americà escoltant, cantant i ballant una escena mítica de la pel·lícula que va dirigir amb Jerome Robbins: West Side Story.
NOIES
I like to be in America
OK by me in America
Everything free in America
BERNARDO
For a small fee in America
ANITA
Buying on credit is so nice
BERNARDO
One look at us and they charge twice
ROSALIA
I’ll have my own washing machine
CHINO
What will you have, though, to keep clean?
ANITA
Skyscrapers bloom in America
ROSALIA
Cadillacs zoom in America
TERESITA
Industry boom in America
NOIS
Twelve in a room in America
ANITA
Lots of new housing with more space
BERNARDO
Lots of doors slamming in our face
ANITA
I’ll get a terrace apartment
BERNARDO
Better get rid of your accent…
ANITA
Life can be bright in America
NOIS
If you can fight in America
NOIES
Life is alright in America
NOIS
If you’re all white in America
ANITA i CONSUELO
Here you are free and you have pride
BOYS
Long as you stay on your own side
ANITA i CONSUELO
Free to be anything you choose
NOIS
Free to wait tables and shine shoes
BERNARDO
Everywhere grime in America
Organised crime in America
Terrible time in America
ANITA
You forget I’m in America!
BERNARDO
I think I go back to San Juan
ANITA
I know a boat you can get on! Bye bye!
BERNARDO
Everyone there will give big cheer!
ANITA
Everyone there will have moved here!
