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All Music Guide - William Ruhlmann While there are few revivals and even fewer recordings of unsuccessful Broadway musicals, occasionally there can also be few revivals and few recordings of Broadway musicals if they are spectacularly successful to the point that the original production seems definitive. This seems to have been the case with West Side Story, considered a landmark musical in its initial 1957 mounting, which spawned an original Broadway cast album that spent more than three years in the Billboard chart, not only because of that success, but also because of the even more massive success of the 1961 film, which spawned an original soundtrack album that spent more than a year at number one ... See more details below Eligible for .