13. I Feel Pretty
Maria’s Bedroom – 9:15 p.m.
MARIA (who is getting dressed up to meet Tony):
I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and bright,
And I pity
Any girl who isn’t me tonight.
I feel charming,
Oh, so charming –
It’s alarming how charming I feel,
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I’m real.
See the pretty girl in that mirror there:
Who can that attractive girl be?
Such a pretty face,
Such pretty dress,
Such a pretty smile.
Such s pretty me!
I feel stunning
And entrancing.
Feel like running and dancing for joy.
For I’m loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!
GIRLS:
Have you met my good friend Maria.
The craziest girl on the block?
You’ll know her the minute you see her,
She’s the one who is in an advanced state of shock.
She thinks she’s in love,
She thinks she’s in Spain,
She isn’t in love,
She’s merely insane!
It must be the heat,
Or some rare disease
Or too much to eat
Or maybe it’s fleas
Keep away from her.
Send for Chino!
This is not the
Maria we know
Modest and pure.
Polite and refined.
Well-bred and mature
And out of her mind!
MARIA:
I feel pretty.
Oh, so pretty!
That the city should give me its key
A committee
Should be organized to honor me!
GIRLS:
La, la, la, la…
MARIA:
I feel dizzy,
I feel sunny,
I feel dizzy and funny and fine
And so pretty,
Miss America can just resign!
GIRLS:
La, la, la, la…
MARIA:
See the pretty girl in that mirror there:
GIRLS:
What mirror, where?
MARIA:
Who can that attractive girl be?
GIRLS:
Which? What? Where? Whom?
Such a pretty face,
Such pretty dress,
Such a pretty smile.
Such s pretty me!
GIRLS:
Whom-mmm?
Such s pretty me!
ALL:
I feel stunning
And entrancing.
Feel like running and dancing for joy.
For I’m loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!
(Chino enters and tells Maria that Tony has killed Bernardo; he finds a gun and goes out looking for Tony. As Maria kneels in prayer, Tony appears. He explains what has happened and asks her to forgive him. They declare their love again in an embrace.)
14. Somewhere
TONY:
And – and
And I’ll take you away, take you far, far away out of here,
Far, far away till the walls and the streets disappear.
TONY and MARIA:
Somewhere there must be a place we can feel we’re free,
Somewhere there’s got to be some place for you and for me.
There’s a place for us,
Somewhere a place for us.
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere.
There’s a time for us,
Some day a time for us.
Time together and time to spare,
Time to look, time to care
Some day!
Somewhere
We’ll find a new way of living,
Will find there’s a way of forgiving
Somewhere…
There’s a place for us,
A time and place for us.
Hold my hand and we’re halfway there
Hold my hand and I’ll take you there
Somehow…
Some day…
Somewhere…
ALL:
There’s a place for us…
TONY:
Hold my hand and we’re halfway there
Hold my hand and I’ll take you there
TONY and MARIA:
Somehow…
Some day…
Somewhere!
16. Gee, Officer Krupke!
Another Alley – l0:00 p.m.
KRUPKE (whistle): Hey, you!
A-RAB: Who me?
KRUPKE: Yeah, you!
(A-rab and Baby John stop surprised.)
A-RAB: Why it is Officer Krupke, Baby John-
BABYJOHN (quaking): Top of the evening, Officer Krupke.
KRUPKE: I’ll crack the top of your skulls if you
punks don’t stop when I whistle, (exits; other Jets
appear.)
SNOWBOY: Ya see, cops believe everything they
read in the paper.
ACTION: To them we ain’t human. We’re cruddy
juvenile delinquents. So that’s what we give ’em.
SNOWBOY (imitating Krupke): Hey, you!
ACTION: Me, Officer Krupke?
SNOWBOY: Yeah, you! Gimme one good reason
for not dragging ya down the station house, ya punk!
ACTION:
Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke,
You gotta understand,
It’s just our bringing up-ke
That get us out of hand.
Our mothers all are junkies,
Our fathers all are drunks,
Golly Moses, natcherly we’re punks!
ACTION and QUARTET:
Gee. Officer Krupke, we’re very upset;
We never had the love that every child oughta get
We ain’t no delinquents,
We’re misunderstood,
Deep down inside us there is good!
ACTION:
There is good!
ALL:
There is good, there is good,
There’s an tapped good,
Like inside, the worst of us is good.
SNOWBOY(imitating Krupke):
That’s a touchin’ good story!
ACTION: Lemme tell you to the world!
SNOWBOY (“Krupke”):
Just tell it to the judge!
ACTION(to “Judge”):
Dear kindly Judge, your Honor,
My parents treat me rough,
With all the marijuana,
They won’t give me a puff.
They didn’t wanna have me,
But somehow I was had.
Leapin’ lizards, that’s why I’m so bad!
DIESEL (“Judge”):
Officer Krupke, you’re really a square;
This boy don’t need a judge, he needs an
analyst’s care!
It’s just his neurosis that oughta be curbed.
He’s psychologic’ly disturbed!
ACTION:
I’m disturbed!
ALL:
We’re disturbed. we’re disturbed,
We’re the most disturbed,
Like we’re psychologic’ly disturbed.
DIESEL (“Judge”):
In the opinion of this court, this child is
depraved on account
he ain’t had a normal home.
ACTION: Hey, I’m depraved on account I’m deprived!
DIESEL (“Judge”): So take him to a headshrinker.
ACTION (to “Psychiatrist”):
My father is a bastard,
My ma’s an S.O.B.
My grandpa’s always plastered,
My grandma pushes tea,
My sister wears a mustache,
My brother wears a dress,
Goodness gracious, that’s why I’m a mess!
A-RAB (“psychiatrist”):
Yes!
Officer Krupke, you’re really a slob.
This boy don’t need a doctor, just a good honest job.
Society’s played him a terrible trick,
“Und” sociogic’ly he’s sick!
ACTION:
I am sick!
ALL:
We are sick, we are sick,
We are sick sick sick,
Like we’re sociologically sick!
A-RAB (“psychiatrist”):
In my opinion this child don’t need to have
his head shrunk at all.
Juvenile delinquency is purely a social disease!
ACTION: Hey, I got a social disease!
A-RAB (“psychiatrist”):
So take him to a social worker!
ACTION (to “Social Worker”):
Dear kindly social worker.
They say go earn a buck,
Like be a soda jerker,
Which means like be a schmuck.
It’s not I’m anti-social,
I’m only anti-work,
Glory Osky, that’s why I’m a jerk!
BABY JONN (imitating female social worker):
Eek!
Officer Krupke, you’ve done it again.
This boy don’t need a job, he needs a year in the pen.
It ain’t just a question of misunderstood;
Deep down inside him, he’s no good!
ACTION:
I’m no good!
ALL:
We’re no good, we’re no good,
We’re no earthly good,
Like the best of us is no damn good!
DIESEL (“Judge”):
The trouble is he’s crazy!
A-RAB (“Psychiatrist”):
The trouble is he drinks!
BABY JOHN (“Social Worker”):
The trouble is he’s lazy!
DIESEL (“Judge”):
The trouble is he stinks!
A-RAB (“Psychiatrist”):
The trouble is he’s growing!
BABY JOHN (“Social Worker”):
The trouble is he’s grown!
ALL:
Krupke. we got troubles of our own!
Gee, Officer Krupke,
We’re down on our knees,
‘Cause no one wants a fella with a social disease.
Gee, Officer Krupke,
What are we to do!
Gee, Officer Krupke,
Krup you!
17. A Boy Like That / I Have a Love
Maria’s Bedroom – l1:30 p.m.
(Anita knocks at Maria’s locked door. After agreeing with Maria to meet at the drugstore, Tony scrambles out the window, Maria opens the door for Anita, who looks at the bed and turns to her accusingly.)
ANITA (bitterly):
A boy like that who’d kill your brother,
Forget that boy and find another,
One of your own kind!
Stick to your own kind!
A boy like that will give you sorrow,
You’ll meet another boy tomorrow,
One of your own kind!
Stick to your own kind!
A boy who kills cannot love,
A boy who kills has no heart.
And he’s the boy who gets your love
And gets your heart.
Very smart, Maria, very smart!
A boy like that wants one thing Only,
And when he’s done he’ll leave you lonely.
He’ll murder your love; he murdered mine.
Just wait and see,
Just wait, Maria,
Just wait and see!
MARIA:
Oh, no, Anita, no!
Anita, no!
It isn’t true, not for me.
I hear your words
And in my head
I know they’re smart,
But my heart knows they’re wrong,
And my heart is too strong.
For I belong to him alone, to him alone.
One thing I know: I am his.
I don’t care what he is.
I don’t know why it’s so,
I don’t want to know.
ANITA:
A boy like that who’d kill your brother,
Forget that boy and find another,
One of your own kind!
Stick to your own kind!
A boy like that will give you sorrow,
You’ll meet another boy tomorrow,
One of your own kind!
Stick to your own kind!
A boy who kills cannot love,
A boy who kills has no heart.
And he’s the boy who gets your love
And gets your heart.
Very smart, Maria, very smart!
MARIA:
Oh, no, Anita, no!
Anita, no!
You should know better!
You were in love – or so you said
You should know better…
I have a love, and it’s all that I have
Right or wrong, what else can I do?
I love him; I’m his,
And ev’rything he is
I am too.
I have a love and it is all that I need.
Right or wrong, and he needs me too.
I love him, we’re one,
There’s nothing to be done.
Not a thing I can do,
But hold him,
Hold him forever,
Be with him now tomorrow
And all of my life!
BOTH:
When love comes so strong,
There is no right or wrong,
Your love is your life!
(A policeman comes in to Question Maria, who sends Anita to tell Tony.)
18.Taunting Scene
The Drugstore – 11:00 p.m.
(The Jets have gathered at Doc’s drugstore where Tony is hiding in the cellar. Anita enters with a message for Tony from Maria. A Coin is put in the juke-box: a low mambo. The taunting of Anita by the Jets breaks out into a wild savage dance, which is stopped by Doc. Anita is driven to say to the Jets that Chino has shot Maria. Doc tells Tony, who runs out.)
19.Finale
The Street – Midnight
(Tony is calling for Chino to kill him too. Maria steps out of the darkness. Then another figure appears: Chino. As Maria and Tony run to each other, Chino shoots Tony, and he stumbles. Maria watches him and cradles him in her arms. Other Jets, Sharks and girls run on).
MARIA:
Hold my hand and we’re halfway there.
Hold my hand and 1”ll take you there.
Somehow,
Some day…
TONY:
Hold my hand and I’ll take you there,
Somehow …
(He dies. After a moment Maria gently rests him on the floor and lightly brushes his lips with her fingers. Krupke, Doc and other adults have entered).
MARIA (softly, privately): Te adoro, Anton.
(She kisses him gently. Two Jets and two Sharks lift up Tony’s body and carry him out. The others fall in behind to make a procession. Maria sits quietly. At last, she gets up and, despite her tears, lifts her head proudly and turns to follow the others. The adults are left alone.)