Best Review of West Side Story Ever

#1

Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 5:24pm

Read it out loud. For a treat it is. If you can.

Huh?
'The production is under the direction of Arthur Laurents, the music man in the original book...'

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#2

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 5:30pm

I gave up after the first paragraph and a few glances after that.

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#3

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 5:31pm

It looks like someone wrote it in a different language and put it through a free translation site.

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"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

#4

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 5:32pm

I couldn't get past the third paragraph.

millie, I was thinking the same thing.

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Updated On: 5/13/09 at 05:32 PM

#5

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 5:33pm

That review made as much sense as Laurent's directorial changes did!

#6

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 5:34pm

I wonder what the reviewer's native language is...

Also, I can't stop picturing Arthur Laurents as the Music Man...

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#7

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 5:36pm

Yikes!

#8

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 5:36pm

Is this her? Lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanne_Klatten

I wonder if she originally wrote the review in German...

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#9

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 5:37pm

Yeah! That'll...teach..him?

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#10

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 5:37pm

This is part. My favorite is.

On the evening of the great crackling is part of a hurricane named Karen Olivo, whose Anita impact of the measure, if it is displayed. Olivo, an alum of "In The Heights", has an indelible personality, a galvanized insistence that Latin women on stage.

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#11

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 5:45pm

Did she like the show? I can't even tell

#12

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 6:04pm

laestar87 hit the nail right on the head

#13

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 6:44pm

That was actually me Mike, lol.

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#14

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 7:21pm

PalJoey, how did you find this? OMG, my head is spinning.

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#15

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 7:36pm

Amazing.

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#16

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 7:41pm

That review has a ton of pull quotes for the outside of the Palace.

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#17

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 7:43pm

It's kind of obviously been run through a translator.

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#18

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 7:45pm

I especially liked how she referred to Larry Kert as "Tony's first Broadway."

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#19

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 7:47pm

A fitting review for a travesty of a revival! She mangled the english language, just like Laurents mangled the memory of Robbins.

#20

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 7:50pm

Well that was just fantastic. And thank you Shmerg for the photo, that's more or less what the review had me picturing. Really though, that is one awful review. I happen to be in the minority of people who really loved the show, but still can't help but laugh at little mini-paragraphs like this gem: "Realism has never been so necessary for the success of "West Side Story". It is that the suspension of belief that we are in history. Because we are members of the group of exceptional dance moves"

#21

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 8:10pm

Good to see you're coming around, ljay.

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"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

#22

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 8:23pm

I was actually Googling "Arthur Laurents Larry Kert" to see if I could find some of the really awful things Arthur said about Larry after he died of AIDS.

This came up, and I tried to read the first few paragraphs two or three times, then just started laughing.

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#23

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 8:25pm

If you find any, please let us know, PJ.

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#24

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 8:27pm

Good to see you're coming around, ljay.


- Thanks! The book director of the ultra successful 1980 really helped me come around!

#25

re: Best Review of West Side Story Ever

Posted: 5/13/09 at 9:37pm

If Laurents is Harold Hill is Matt Marion?

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