).Plot SynopsisUnder the opening credits of the murder mystery/thriller, an enigmatic, nostalgic background image (that recurs throughout he film) is displayed kaleidoscopically.This was the first film without the deceased Donald Pleasence, who had appeared in all of the previous Halloween films (except the third one).Autocratically, Marsh screams and snaps at his dance director:Get another girl.You don""t expect to stand there and take a blonde out of your pant""s leg, do ya?Billy befriends and saves the virtuous Peggy ingenue one more time, pointing out to Marsh that although Peggy has been eliminated, she is still backstage.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.