THIS is murdering West Side Story.
THIS is murdering West Side Story.
#1THIS is murdering West Side Story.
Posted: 8/8/09 at 5:01pm
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2re: THIS is murdering West Side Story.
Posted: 8/8/09 at 6:24pmYup, that was brutal.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2re: THIS is murdering West Side Story.
Posted: 8/8/09 at 6:31pm
Considering this was high school, I put them on par with the current production!
Almost.
Tg31590
Swing Joined: 5/29/09
#3re: THIS is murdering West Side Story.
Posted: 8/8/09 at 6:32pmpoor kids. I have been in some pretty bad versions of good shows though and, like me, they look like they know how horrible it is. This is what Karen Olivio must feel like.
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Posted: 8/8/09 at 6:36pmwell it's Stagedoor Manor, not a high-school. But they do only have about a week to put it together right?
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#6re: THIS is murdering West Side Story.
Posted: 8/8/09 at 6:38pmWith only one week of rehearsals you need to put something on that best showcases their talents, not humiliate them.
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Posted: 8/8/09 at 6:40pmKaren Olivo missed THIS performance, too?
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
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Posted: 8/8/09 at 6:46pm
That video is GREAT compared to this one.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
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Posted: 8/8/09 at 7:07pmOkay...is that Anita purposely talking weird or is that her idea of a hispanic voice?
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
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Posted: 8/8/09 at 7:09pm
Well ljay, we might have become the same person just there. 
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
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Posted: 8/8/09 at 7:10pmIt depresses me more than I can ever express when people here post videos from bad high school productions and they end up being a million times better than anything my high school ever did. Some of them seem to actually have big budgets. Those are the most depressing. We put on shows with next to no funding at all which you'd think would still have some heart with talented actors, but no...
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Posted: 8/8/09 at 7:13pm
Both of those are awful for different reasons... the first has absolutely no energy! I have directed musicals for high schools before and I always tell the kids "if you screw up, screw up with energy because everything looks better with energy!"
The second video.... god that choreography is horrendous!! and the costumes as well!! Yeash!!
"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"
"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
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Posted: 8/8/09 at 7:42pmI don't know anything about licensing, but they're allowed to use the movie version of America?
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Posted: 8/8/09 at 8:00pm
I'm sorry, but none of these videos have anything on this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSwBm0aaHL0
I'm usually not one to make fun of high school productions, but this one... is EPIC.
-best12bars
"Sorry I am a Theatre major not a English Major"
-skibumb5290
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Posted: 8/8/09 at 9:43pmBoy, that first one has the energy level of an anesthesized tortoise.
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Posted: 8/9/09 at 2:04amAnd here I thought the revival is what was murdering West side story :P
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Posted: 8/9/09 at 3:23amI don't understand the need for the lyric changes in America. They took out the "babies crying" and "bullets flying" but are still doing WSS which is a show that features sex and people being stabbed and shot. Or did they change it so that no one dies?
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