# West Side Story Fans: Was There A...?

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**Created:** [September 10, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-side-story-fans-was-there-a/730552 "2015-09-10T20:41:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-side-story-fans-was-there-a/730552/1 "2015-09-10T20:41:34Z")

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I recently saw West Side Story at a dinner theatre. I am sure it was true to the original, but did the Jets have a sidekick, tomboy girl always hanging around and trying to join the Jets? If so, what was the name of this character? (I don’t remember her, but it could be.)

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-side-story-fans-was-there-a/730552/2 "2015-09-10T20:45:59Z")

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Anybodys

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**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-side-story-fans-was-there-a/730552/3 "2015-09-10T20:47:14Z")

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I remembered her, but not her name, apparently it’s Anybodys.

From the [Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story)

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> The tomboy, Anybody’s, who stubbornly wishes that she could become a Jet, tells Tony to flee from the scene at the last moment. Only the bodies of Riff and Bernardo remain.

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-side-story-fans-was-there-a/730552/4 "2015-09-10T21:01:26Z")

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Thanks! I bet we heard her name, but didn’t recognize it as a character’s name! Maybe it went by too fast, or we thought we heard wrong…or in context, the word “anybody’s” seemed to fit!

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-side-story-fans-was-there-a/730552/5 "2015-09-10T21:02:46Z")

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> [@silenus](#):
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> Anybodys

…You realize you almost sparks a “Who’s On First” scenario here, right? 😃

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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-side-story-fans-was-there-a/730552/6 "2015-09-11T22:03:17Z")

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_In Living Color_ did a West Side Story spoof, making the two gangs Jewish and Black, to reflect some then-current tensions between those two groups in NYC. The “Anybody’s” character was trying to join the Jewish gang, who sang to her,

“Goy, goy, silly goy …”