Rare souvenir program from the original Broadway production of the classic musical West Side Story, signed later to his bio page by the composer Leonard Bernstein in blue ink, adding the date of 1981. 16 pp.  Some light moisture damage and wrinkling along the upper edge, modest creasing to edges, overall in very good condition.  9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm.).

The original 1957 Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 26, 1957 with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Arthur Laurents, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, and marked Sondheim's Broadway debut. It ran for 732 performances before going on tour. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, in 1958, winning two.