West Side Story...- Page 3

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:20pm

In the film, "I Feel Pretty" is sung BEFORE the rumble; in the stage version, it is sung AFTER the rumble.

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:20pm

damn i'm good! yo, magruder hand me over a chuleta..all this useless trivia is making me hungry man!

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:23pm

"wss" made it's french debut at the Georges V theatre on March 2, 1962 on the champs elysees

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:24pm

by it's 1st anniversary the film had played 410 theatres worldwide. festive ceremonies were held in 18 countries to commemorate the occasion

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:24pm

Sorry, I'm late to this, but the opening Jet-Shark confrontation dance sequence was shot where Lincon Center now sits. It was tenements and projects at the time and it was all cleared away to begin the construction on Lincoln Center shortly after the WSS filming was completed.

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:25pm

the movie remiered in the soviet union in july 1963 to great acclaim.

[magruder]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:27pm

Ropa vieja is also delicious. Funky name, though.

[magruder]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:28pm

Natalie Wood was the daughter of Russian immigrants. Perhaps we should be discussing blinis?

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:28pm

thrity recording session were done for "wss", utilizing more than 200 musicians...

first assistant director robert relyea called quiet aprroximately 3,985 times and got it 2,678 times....

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:29pm

In R&J, the Friar marries the couple in secret.

In WSS, the couple pretend to marry each other during "One Hand, One Heart."

[magruder]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:30pm

Marquise, do you have a good recipe for arroz con gondules?

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:31pm

The film won a then-record TEN Oscars.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:32pm

The "Tonight" Reprise sung by the Cast was called "The Quintent."

[magruder]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:33pm

Arthur Laurents is mean.

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:33pm

yes natalie' realname is natalia zacharenko gurdin..it was then simplified to natasha gurdin and then when she went inot films director irving pichel christened her natalie wood.

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:33pm

I grew up eating ropa vieja at least once a week.

My favorite, however, was boliche, stuffied with chorizo con arroz y frejoles negros.

Oh, and even my great-grandparents were born in the USA!

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:34pm

the quinTENT?!!!!

gee i always thought it was called "The QuinTET"

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:35pm

ropa vieja is slaaaaaaaaaaaaamin'!! i'm down for some ropa vieja!!

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:35pm

i heard arthur laurents is a mean ol biotch too..

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:35pm

Am I the only one that just never "got" Richard Beymer? I mean he stars in one of the biggest, most honored and acclaimed movie musicals in history and well..... he can't sing (all of his singing is dubbed), he can't dance (not that TOny really has to, but PLEASE) and he really can't act and he's sort of ODD-looking to me (that overbite has scared me since childhood). I mean, Natalie Wood is miscast, but at least she's beautiful and was a big star at the time. But, Beymer???? He was so bad here, he never got cast in anything else, despite starring in one of the biggest blockbuster films of that era? How did he land that role over what I assume must have been hundreds of young, more attractive and more talented white male 20-something actors in Hollywood at the time? If Tony doesn't have to be able to sing or dance then why not Warren Beatty or Tab Hunter or George Hamilton or Robert Wagner? Was Beymer sleeping with Robbins or somebody?

Updated On: 11/9/04 at 09:35 PM

[magruder]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:36pm

But what beats a good pernil, I ask you?

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:38pm

lol..channing...i think beymer may have been chosen because of his turn in "the diary of anne frank"? who knows what they were thinking. i'm totally with you on this. tony comes off as a wussie in the film. he definitely doesn't convince me as a street tough who as one Jet puts it "clobbers The Emeralds single-handedly"....

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:39pm

daaaaaaamn magruder pernil!!!! i canNOT wait to go back to Puerto Rico for the holidays! Mama here i come!!!!

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:39pm

Act I of the stage version ends with "The Rumble."

Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:42pm

Did anyone notice Harvey Evans? One of the nicest men on Broadway. Harvey went on to the original production of FOLLIES.

If you haven't eaten a Media Noche, you haven't eaten.

Molletes are heaven, too.