Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#1Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 7:09am
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#2re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 7:54am
This is clever:
Everybody--Sharks, Jets, El Resto--is living in peace and happiness and harmony. We are either in the musical's second dream ballet or a Claritin commercial.
So is this:
Holy crap. Apparently you've accidentally switched to the Telemundo channel again when they're playing one of those hideous, over-acted soap operas where you don't understand what's going on.
But the ending is weak.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#2re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 9:03am
LOVE THIS:
KAREN OLIVO
Sure--then after seeing a High School Production of West Side to bone up on the foreign-language Broadway version, we can tell people to see a High School Production of Guys and Dolls. So they aren't confused when they realize the new revival has the complexity and nuances of a 16-bit Sega game...And some of the backgrounds too, it seems.
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#3re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 9:44am
It's not my favorite, but his writing is very clever. I love all the digs at Matt Cavenaugh: "he enters blandly."
EDIT: Thanks for the correction, Husk, oops.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Updated On: 5/14/09 at 09:44 AM
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#4re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:35amIt's a HE, ray.
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#5re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 11:40amI love Broadway Abridged, I'm always bummed they don't do more shows.
If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
Stephen Sondheim
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#6re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:53pmI love how spot on this is.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#7re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:59pm
Thanks for posting this. And husk, you beat me to it - I even copied that exact quote to paste here. I laughed so loud when they started on Guys and Dolls. So true. I also love the names given to Laurents throughout.
Did love this though: "Fair enough, Curtis. When Karen Olivo does her one-woman West Side, you get to be the special guest star for one of the duets."
Updated On: 5/14/09 at 12:59 PM
#11re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 2:48pm
This by far my fave quote:
CURTIS HOLBROOK
Oooh, that Officer Krupke's lack of any actual dialogue makes me so much angrier at him than the Lieutenant. Now would be a great time to sing a comedic song about him, and not about the Lieutenant.
LEADER OF THE WHITE GANG
No, singing that in act 1 would gain the audience's sympathies for us early in. Kind of like the movie. Let's just sing a song about being in a gang, so people know we're tough.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#12re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 3:11pmI liked all the "Just like the gangs that you know."
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#13re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 4:18pm
The other really funny one was:
Because the thing that was definitely missing from West Side Story was RAPE.
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#14re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 4:30pm
JOSEPHINA SCAGLIONE
Hola, Senor Abercrombie y El Fitch.
"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)
Updated On: 5/14/09 at 04:30 PM
-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)
#15re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 8:45pm
DIRECTOR/LIBRETTIST ARTHUR LAURENTS, EVERYBODY'S LEAST FAVORITE UNCLE
But-- Maybe my very clever, would-have-worked idea of making it contemporary was to cast the show so they're of age to actually be *in* High School!
MATT CAVENAUGH
Arthur, I'm 31.
DIRECTOR/LIBRETTIST ARTHUR LAURENTS, ASSHOLE OF BROADWAY
How would I know the difference? I'm 90.
"You mean what was the best picture of the year or what did they pick as the best picture of the year?" - California Suite
#16re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 9:51pmNobody does these better than Gil. Nobody.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#17re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story
Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:16pmahaha, omg. i love the ending. poor josefina. D:
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. ~ susanne klatten
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