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Summarize the content of the synopsis of the classic musical West Side…

- - - - At the dance in the local gym
        
        Sharks and their girls on the othe
        
        Riff and his lieutenants move to challenge Bernardo
        
        but they are interrupted by Glad Hand
        
        the chaperone who is overseeing the dance and Officer Krupke.
        
        The two initiate some dances to get the kids to dance together, across the gang lines.
        
        In the promenade leading up to the dance, though, the girls and boys end up facing each other at random, Jet girls across from Shark boys and vice versa.
        
        Bernardo reaches across the Jet girl in front of him to take Anita's hand, and Riff does the same with his girlfriend, Velma.
        
        Everyone dances with their own group as Tony enters ("Mambo").
        
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        Jets and their girls on one side
  - - - Riff goes to see Tony, who is now working at Doc's drugstore. Riff presses him to come to the school dance for the war council, but Tony resists; he's lost the thrill of being a Jet.
        
        Nevertheless, Riff convinces Tony to come to the dance. Riff leaves Tony to wonder about this strange feeling that he's been having ("Something's Coming").
        
        Riff plans to have a war council with Bernardo to decide on weapons.
        
        He explains that, every night for a month, he's had a strange feeling that something important is just around the corner.
      - Action wants to be his second, but Riff says that Tony is always his second.
        
        The other boys complain that Tony hasn't been around for a month, but Riff doesn't care; once you're a Jet, you're a Jet for life ("Jet Song").
  - - - Anita, Bernardos girlfriend
        
        Anita is knowing, sexual and sharp. Maria is excited, enthusiastic and childlike, but also growing into an adult.
        
        In a bridal shop, Anita remakes Maria's communion dress into a party dress. They are both Puerto Rican
        
        It turns out that the dress is for the dance, which Maria is attending with Chino, whom she is expected to marry, despite the fact that she does not have any feelings for him.
      - Maria, Bernardos Sister
        
        Maria complains that the dress is too young-looking, but Anita explains that Bernardo, her boyfriend and Maria's brother, made her promise not to make the dress too short.
- - - - Bernardo calls Tony a chicken for not fighting him
        
        Riff punches Bernardo
        
        Bernardo kills Riff and, in response
        
        Tony kills Bernardo
    - - CONTROLS WHO TALKS TO HIS SISTER
      - CONTROLS SKIRT HEIGHT OF HIS GIRFRIEND
      - CONTROLS WHO HIS SISTER DATES
    - - WANTS TO FIGHT HIM AT THE FIGHT
        
        HE KNOWS :P
  - - - CULPRIT IN BERNARDOS DEATH?
      - AFTER REALIZING HER BROTHER IS DEAD GETS MAD AT MARIA - THEN WHEN SCORNED BY THE JETS TRIES TO HELP THEM ONE MORE TIME - GETS MAD - LIES AND CAUSES TONY TO DIE
  - - - ASKS TONY TO STOP THE FIGHT
      - HAPPENS AT THE DANCE
      - AFTER HIS BROTHER DIES IN BY TONYS (HER BJ) HAND STILL REFUSES TO GIVEUP ON TONY
        
        TRIES TO PROTECT TONY - TRUSTS MARIA TO HELP HER - BY TRUSTING MARIA TO SEND A MESSAGE CAUSES TONY TO GET SHOT BY CHINO
- - - - instantly horrified by what he's done
    - - Tony arrives and convinces them all to agree to a fair fight AKA NO WEAPONS
        
        TELLS MARIA BEFORE GOING ITS A "FAIR FIGHT"
- - - - Doc calls them hoodlums