We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show.

Jerome Robbins: His Life His Theater His Dance. This would be the first of several collaborative efforts. Although it opened to good reviews it was overshadowed by Meredith Willson's The Music Man at that year's Tony Awards.

Among the numerous stage productions he worked on were On the Town Peter Pan High Button Shoes The King And I The Pajama Game Bells Are Ringing West Side Story Gypsy: A Musical Fable and Fiddler on the Roof. He also received two Academy Awards including the 1961 Academy Award for Best Director with Robert Wise for West Side Story.