West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
#1West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 5:02pm
An extraordinary video!
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Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids' 19th Annual Gypsy of the Year competition, one of Broadway's most celebrated Fund Raising events, decided to make tribute to 50 years of West Side Story. They flew from all over the country 22 cast members of the Original 1957 Production and put together with young Broadway Gypsies a historical Opening Number.
This is the rehearsal at AEA audition auditorium on 12/16/2007 where the Young Broadway generation performs snipits of the legendary Jerrome Robins Choreography, and the original cast members join to creat one of the most moving and thrilling opening numbers of BC/EFA.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=B6gok589fVg
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#2re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 5:08pmHoly moly. What a gem!
#2re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 5:12pmThis made my day Joey, THANK YOU!
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#3re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 5:13pm
That was really incredible.
Wow.
#4re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 5:24pm
How much did that make my day?!?
Thank you Pal!
#5re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 5:25pm
I got chills about a dozen times. What a beautiful thing to watch. Did anyone else get a bit of a FOLLIES-esque feeling watching the older gentleman singing as their younger counter-parts were dancing and singing as well? It was so thrilling!
The ending made my eyes water.
Thanks PalJoey, as usual, rocking the world of BWWers 
#6re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 5:35pm
I bumped the old thread about the 1980 revival, which has my memories of working on that revival.
BLT III - clip from 1980 WEST SIDE STORY Revival
#7re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 5:36pmWow. Thanks PJ. That was wonderful. I'd give my right arm to have seen the original production.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#8re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 6:34pmWhat a treat! Thanks, PJ.
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#9re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 9:09pmWow- so the Vets have to all be in their 70's or 80's? Amazing!
#10re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 9:21pm
Yes, and my beautiful, talented friends from the 1980 revival who died of AIDS would have been in their late 40s and early 50s.
They would have been up on that stage too...except there would have been no need for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS because there would have been no AIDS.
I can't watch that video without weeping for Reed and Mark and Richard...and I can't stop watching that video.
#11re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 9:35pmUnbelievable. Thank you.
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
#12re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 9:48pm
Sublime!
Thanks PalJoey.
#13re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 9:50pmI just watched it again. Beautiful. But my friends from the 1980 revival are the Missing Generation.
#14re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 9:51pm
What a living legacy!
And what a joy to watch! Thanks for posting this, PJ.
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Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#15re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 9:56pmI loved seeing Michael Callan. It's been a long, long time! I hope BC/EFA gets the tape out for sale as soon as possible.
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blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#16re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 10:02pmFabulous! Thank you so much for posting that.
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#17re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 10:30pm
Thank you for that beautiful gift.
It made me weep... A gem, indeed.
bwayballerina
Broadway Star Joined: 11/14/04
#18re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 10:59pmBeautiful. I cried at the end. It's my favorite musical of all time, hands down. Absolutely amazing.
#19re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 11:24pmWow, that was the most magical thing I've ever seen.
#20re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/17/07 at 11:41pm
thank you for that, Pal Joey!!!!!!!
a million times over.
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#21re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/18/07 at 12:16am
Amazing, just amazing!
I'm nearly in tears (of joy and awe) after watching this. West Side Story is special to me, and watching that reminds me just how wonderful a show it is and will be.
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
#22re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/18/07 at 12:52amHow Great is this? Thank You PJ.....
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#23re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/18/07 at 11:17amPJ, don't forget Larry Kert in the whole people-who-couldn't-be-there-due-to-AIDS thing. When we had the moment of silence yesterday, I thought of him and just started bawling.
#24re: West Side Story: From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dying Day
Posted: 12/18/07 at 1:01pmHe was such a lovely man. My moments of silence are very crowded, but I'm glad they let this moment of silent pass in silence. Events like this are to celebrate the those who are still here.
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