That evening, Cora asks her husband if he could give he newly-hired man a "week""s salary and let him go" - fearful of the consequences of their close proximity to each other.The stuff nightmares are made of.The children still feared me, and their fear gave me the power to invade their dreams, and that""s when the funreallybegan.He exited from the car onto the sidewalk where some Native Americans (in traditional tribal dress) were standing and walking by.The play reworked the traditional love story material (of lovers that crossed racial/ethnic barriers) and translated it, in a radical, novel and revolutionary style for a musical, to include racial strife between rival New York street gangs (newly-arrived Puerto Ricans and second-generation Americans from white European immigrant families), juvenile delinquency and inner-city problems of the mid-twentieth century - in exhilarating musical and dance form.He had also brought along a cardboard box with various food items (including crackers, fruit, caviar, cheese, etc.