Five Things You Need to Know: Sept. 26

1. TODAY'S FORECAST: Today will be rainy, with a high of 71. There will be more showers tonight, with a low of 55.

2. MASTER PLAN MEETING: The Master Plan Steering Committee will meet at 7 p.m. in the Moose Hill Council Chambers at Town Hall.

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5. THIS DAY IN HISTORY: On this date in 1957, West Side Story premiered on Broadway. East Side Story was the original title of the Shakespeare-inspired musical conceived by choreographer Jerome Robbins, written by playwright Arthur Laurents and scored by composer and lyricist Leonard Bernstein in 1949. A tale of star-crossed lovers – one Jewish, the other Catholic – on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the show in its original form never went into production, and the idea was set aside for the next six years. It was more than just a change of setting, however, that helped the re-titled show get off the ground in the mid-1950s. It was also the addition of a young, relatively unknown lyricist named Stephen Sondheim. The book by Arthur Laurents and the incredible choreography by Jerome Robbins helped make West Side Story a work of lasting genius, but it was the strength of the songs by Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein that allowed it to make its Broadway debut on this day in 1957.