Rare printed sheet music for the beloved song in the classic musical West Side Story, signed later in bold black ink by the composer Leonard Bernstein to the front cover.  Some light moisture damage and wrinkling along the upper edge, modest creasing to edges, overall in very good condition.  10 pp. 9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm.).

"Something's Coming" from the 1957 musical, was composed by Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and is sung solo by the male lead character and tenor 'Tony'.  In his work Leonard Bernstein, Humphrey Burton explained: "When it was decided to add Tony’s first-act song "Something’s Coming," Bernstein and Sondheim raided the scene-setting page in Laurents's outline. "something’s coming," Laurents had written: "it may be around the corner, whistling down the river, twitching at the dance – who knows?" The lines were incorporated in the lyrics. "We raped Arthur’s play-writing," Bernstein said. "I’ve never seen anyone so encouraging, let alone generous, urging us, ‘Yes, take it, take it, make it a song.’""

Bernstein reported on the last minute change thus: ". . . I missed you all terribly yesterday. We wrote a new song for Tony ["Something’s Coming"] that’s a killer, and it just wasn’t the same not playing it first for you. It’s really going to save his character – a driving 2/4 in the great tradition (but of course fucked up by me with 3/4s and whatnot) – but it gives Tony balls – so that he doesn’t emerge as just a euphoric dreamer."

The original 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.