Okay, went again, glad I did, it's stopping playing in the theater tomorrow and I loooove that theater, it's an old-fashioned one-movie theaterhouse, with a balcony and boxes in the side, and I pretended a little I was kind of in an opera house. And I hadn't seen it in over a month, nice to get it in one more time.
This time, I just had fun with it, sang along to all the songs as usual, but instead of paying so much attention to the plot, which my parents are convinced I should have the script memorized by now, I just kept looking for things I hadn't noticed the other times. I found the couple times the melody of "Learn To Be Lonely" was played during the movie, realized that near the end both Gerard and Patrick are wearing very similar outfits, the button-opened white shirt with black pants. And anyway that was my nicest discovery--realizing that some of their chests were viewable in the end, especially Gerry for me. Patrick seemed to have hardly any chest hairs, Gerry had a teeny bit clumped in the middle, but seemed to have a very nice tanned and buff body. Damn, why couldn't there at least be shirtless scenes during the movie? Oh well, more scenes for me to closely watch when the DVD comes out-woohoo!
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli