All of the following statements are true of Bernstein's West Side Story EXCEPT?

a) the libretto is by Stephen Sondheim
b) the story is based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
c) some of its numbers reflect the influence of the 19th-century operatic tradition
d) it deals with the problem of gang warfare in New York City

b

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