PHOTO FLASH! 1980 Broadway Revival of WEST SIDE STORY!

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 12:43am

Yup... 3rd row orchestra seats were $25.00!




In September 1980, Ken Marshall (who played Tony) was taking time off to film a movie so his understudy was on: Brent Barrett, making his Broadway debut.




And yes... you're welcome.

















The original window card:

[alfgiotir]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 12:46am

awesome pics brody! thanks.

[tellybox]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 1:24am

I must say, that is one SNAZZY windowcard!

[mywonderwa11]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 2:20am

LOVE the photos! And I love Brent Barrett! And I love West Side Story. My favorite show of all time.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 8:16am

My name is in that program. I posted my memories of working on this revival in the thread below.

BLT III - clip from 1980 WEST SIDE STORY Revival

Updated On: 12/1/08 at 08:16 AM

[philcrosby]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 9:41am

Thanks for the reference to that thread Joey ... bet the book you could write would be just as interesting as Ted Chapin's FOLLIES book!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 10:01am

On World AIDS Day, it's appropriate to remember two members of the cats of that revival who can be seen in those pictures: Mark Fotopolous, who played Tiger, and my best friend Reed Jones, who played Big Deal.

In the taunting of Anita picture, Fotop and Reed are the two on the far right.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 5:31am

This is the production that Laurents felt the Jets were cast too "fey" (which wasn't the word he apparantly used), right?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 8:12am

Despite the fact that over half of them were straight.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/1/13 at 9:55am

Bump for N2N Nate