Best Review of West Side Story Ever

[PalJoey]

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...'

[millie_dillmount]

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

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

[millie_dillmount]

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.

[uncageg]

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

I couldn't get past the third paragraph.

millie, I was thinking the same thing.

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

[philcrosby]

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

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

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

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...

[CurtainPullDowner]

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

Yikes!

[millie_dillmount]

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...

[husk_charmer]

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

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

[PalJoey]

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.

[CyCoSpAz2]

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

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

[Mike3]

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

laestar87 hit the nail right on the head

[millie_dillmount]

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

That was actually me Mike, lol.

[DottieD'Luscia]

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

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

[PiraguaGuy2]

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

Amazing.

[DottieD'Luscia]

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

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

[PiraguaGuy2]

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

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

[Wanna Be A Foster]

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

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

[ljay889]

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.

[mormonophobic]

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"

[Wanna Be A Foster]

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

Good to see you're coming around, ljay.

[PalJoey]

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.

[PiraguaGuy2]

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

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

[ljay889]

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!

[Eris0303]

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

If Laurents is Harold Hill is Matt Marion?