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#26

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Or, a die-hard theater aficionado, going through his collection of vinyl albums, finds his vintage 'West Side Story' record and plays it in his apartment, and the characters come to life and perform the show in his apartment, every now and then punctuated by the theater aficionado's commentary.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
#28

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1. The show will be staged on the actual streets of New York City. Patrons will be bussed from the theatre to the playgrounds, stoops and fire escapes. Tony and Tina will be the guides.

2. Mamet has done some script doctoring. No more "Daddy-O" or "Krup you". Tony now sings "Somethings...yes..no..yes. something's, um, ****, well, ****, i think, .... yes .... something ****ing great is coming."
#29

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They're speaking spanish. The choreography will be the same, because it has to be according to the Robbins Estate. But Arthur Laurents is playing Anita. Maria is going to be played by Candis Cayne. Anybodys is a lipstick lesbian, and Meryl Streep is playing all of the adult men.
#34

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They might bring in a detective to solve the murder of Tony in the first place and then let the audience decide.

Or how about staging WSS with actual teenagers?? All around 14 or 15.

Or perhaps a revival with disabled actors.

So many exciting possibilities...
#37

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The dance at the gym done by John Doyle would be a blast.

Sort of.

Kinda "walk at the gym". Considering the difficulty of the score I'd doubt they'd find many actors/instrumentalists for something like that.
#39

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They're not going to sing a note - the whole thing will be rapped. And the dancing will be updated. It'll be Romeo & Julliet meets 8 Mile meets You Got Surved!


Or they'll all be painted green and dance on cherry pickers.
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#40

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I just know that we're just gonna see another reproduction of West Side Story. I don't know what concept Arthur Laurents has in mind but I just know we're not gonna get it at all.
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#41

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Underwater Laser Show.

(Maria will be black.)
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#45

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You've all got parts of it right, but the big coupe de theatre will be the double casting of Laurent's new best friend, Miss Patti Lupone in the both the roles of Anita AND Maria. Anyone who has seen La Lupone's "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda" concert already knows she's perfectly capable of doing the "A Boy Like That, Who Killed Your Brotha" duet--all for Maria's high notes where she just smiles at the audience and points to the ceiling--and she WILL, she CAN (CAN), and she SHOULD. But contrary to speculation, she will NOT be performing any of the roles in black face.
#46

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In All Honesty...
A Couple years ago there was a recording of West Side Story (It had Selena's final recording "A Boy Like That") and it was done with some major modern touches.
There was also an amazing version of I Have a Love by Trisha Yearwood.


Anway~ I always thought that if they did a version of WSS using this music (except maybe the Little Richard's I Feel Pretty) it would be really neat. I would love to see it done more modern.

Anyway~ that's all I have to say about that.
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#47

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Or maybe in the spirit of age-blind casting, he'll get as many of the original cast back as possible and do the whole thing with old people. Some even in walkers, like a that number from "The Producers," mobility challenged-blind casting.

But hey, Little Richard singing "I Feel Pretty?" That sounds pretty tasty.
#49

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It's the High School 50th class reunion and new young actors shadow the older performers ala Deaf West's Big River as they remember the past.
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#50

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It's either going to use actual teenagers, or the Jets are going to be black, or both. From what I understand the Choreography is pretty much set in stone, and Laurents said that he isn't changing a word (and I think we can be sure that there won't be any additions as well. So any flashback/commentary probably won't happen).
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?

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