The Dance At The Gym  
Composer(s): Leonard Bernstein - Stephen Sondheim
Performer(s): The Jets; Johnny Mathis



The Gym - 10:00 p.m.
(By the time the mambo music starts the Jets and sharks are each on their own side of the hall 
At the climax of the dance, Tony and Bernardo's sister, Maria, see one another
as a delicate cha-cha-cha, they slowly walk forward to meet each other)

Meeting Scene                                                       

Tony: You're not thinking I'm someone else?

Maria: I know you are not

Tony: Or that we have met before?                                  

Maria: I know we have not

Tony: I felt I knew something-never-before was going to happen, had to happen 
But this is...                         
                                            
Maria (interrupting): My hands are so cold 
(He takes them in his) 
Yours too
(He moves her hands to his face) 
So warm 
(She moves his hands to her face)

Tony: Yours, too...                                                  

Maria: But of course 
They are the same

Tony: It's so much to believe 
You're not joking me?

Maria: I have not yet learned how to joke that way 
I think how I never will

Jump
(Bernardo is upon them in an icy rage 
Chino, whom Bernardo has brought Maria from Puerto Rico to marry, takes her home 
Riff wants Bernardo for "War Council" 
they agree to meet in hall an hour at Doc's drugstore)