Broadway Abridged: West Side Story

[PiraguaGuy2]

Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#1

Posted: 5/14/09 at 7:09am

FINALLY.

Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08

[PalJoey]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#2

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]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#2

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.

http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#3

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]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#4

Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:35am

It's a HE, ray.

http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer

[MeganW]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#5

Posted: 5/14/09 at 11:40am

I 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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[little_sally]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#6

Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:53pm

I love how spot on this is.

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[mormonophobic]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#7

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

[PalJoey]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#8

Posted: 5/14/09 at 1:06pm

The Arthur names are priceless.

[ljay889]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#9

Posted: 5/14/09 at 1:14pm

It's gone!

[PalJoey]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#10

Posted: 5/14/09 at 2:31pm

Gone where?

[Theatreboy49]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#11

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

[SporkGoddess]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#12

Posted: 5/14/09 at 3:11pm

I 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]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#13

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.

http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#14

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

[roseaddams]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#15

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

[everythingtaboo]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#16

Posted: 5/14/09 at 9:51pm

Nobody 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

[tonight]

re: Broadway Abridged: West Side Story#17

Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:16pm

ahaha, 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