WEST SIDE STORY Revival will have an Orchestra of 30 players...- Page 4

[jaystarr]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 4:23pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6gok589fVg

Updated On: 7/16/08 at 04:23 PM

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 4:37pm

Forget the Palace. Blonde is not going anywhere, despite the "I love to pee on Legally Blonde" usual suspects who can't resist taking their shot on every thread.

Blonde will eventually recoup (mainly because we have no idea how it was financed. Have you seen the list of involved parties?) and I don't believe they'd kick out Little Tween Girl Magnet #2 for yet another revival of West Side Story

[gypsy4]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 4:44pm

If disney didn't own the new amsterdam that would be a good venue.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 4:44pm

Now that Patti LuPone is back in Arthur Laurents' good graces, think she'll play Anita? She can play the tuba in case it becomes one of those shows.

[gypsy4]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 4:51pm

she's to old well thats my opinion.

[morosco]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 5:16pm

I just LOVE this video. Their enthusiasm is outrageously contagious.
Venezuela Youth Orchestra - Bernstein - Mambo

[adamgreer]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 5:40pm

If disney didn't own the new amsterdam that would be a good venue.

Mary Poppins makes a huge profit every week. It's not going anywhere.

I love how people are predicting shows will close simply because they don't like them.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 5:41pm

Morosco, thanks for the link. It actually brought tears to my eyes.

[morosco]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 5:55pm

Morosco, thanks for the link. It actually brought tears to my eyes.

Me too. Every time I watch it I bawl like a baby.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 5:58pm

There's something about audience exuberance that always gets me teary eyed. There's a very similar clip of one of the dancers from ABT dancing in his country (Cuba) and the audience response gets me every time.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 6:02pm

Did everyone else miss this in Laurents's quote:

"Every member of both gangs was always a potential killer even then. Now they actually will be."


So, in addition to some of them speaking and singing Spanish, he's casting convicted murderers?

Interesting concept.

And if he didn't mean that, then what the hell DID he mean by his remark?

[Smaxie]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 6:11pm

A few more details and background in tomorrow's NY Times. To a concern mentioned earlier in this thread, Laurents also mentions that he intends to cast Hispanic actors for the Sharks.
West Side Story revival

[jaystarr]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 6:17pm

So can we safely assume that Sondheim will add new Spanish lyrics and Laurents will add new Spanish dialogue to the book?

J*

[jaystarr]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 6:19pm

Edit: thanks smaxie for the link: here's the answer:

So with the help of a translator, Mr. Laurents began adding Spanish to the original script.

The result is what he calls “bilingual sexual spats” between the characters Anita and Bernardo, and some of the Stephen Sondheim lyrics translated into Spanish. Other elements, like the original choreography by Jerome Robbins, remain unchanged.

J*

[Smaxie]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 6:20pm

EDIT: You found it!

Updated On: 7/16/08 at 06:20 PM

[jaystarr]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 6:23pm

I dont know, if you guys are familiar with Selena's version of A BOY LIKE THAT~she added spanish lyrics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLiP3iXrUHU

I assume with Stephen Sondheim's lyrics translated into spanish..it will sound like this!

Un hombre asi matara a tu hermano
Encuentra alquien que es como tu
Un muchacho asi te dara tristeza
Cuando termina te deja sola, triste y sola
A boy like that wants one thing only
He will leave you sad and lonely, sad and lonely
Un muchacho asi te dara tristeza
Un muchacho asi matara
Un muchacho asi te dara tristeza
Un muchacho asi matara a tu hermano
Un muchacho asi te dara tristeza
Un muchacho asi te amtara
Un muchacho asi matara a tu hermano
Un muchacho asi te dara tristeza
Un muchacho asi te dara tristeza


Love the idea!

J*

[wicked_beast4]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 6:25pm

I would love to see Krysta Rodriguez as Maria, she is amazingly talented and beautiful, but I don't think she would be able to handle it vocally. When I saw her as Nina in ITH (will never go see the show again unless she is Nina, btw), she sang it great, but her voice didn't sound like it could sing Maria, especially the hih parts. But thats just my perspective.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 6:32pm

A tidbit from the 1980 revival.


***Spoiler alert***


At the end when Jossie de Guzman was waving around the gun saying "How many bullets Chino?" she accidentally fired off one shot. Two chorus members fell down as if shot. Then one had to get back up.

Can't you imagine them both laying there. "You get up". "No, you get up". "I was closer to the gun". "She was pointing the gun at me."

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 6:42pm

Best 12 Bars:

He said "potential" killers.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 6:46pm

"Every member of both gangs was always a potential killer even then. Now they actually will be."

So they cast James Barbour?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 6:48pm

"Every member of both gangs was always a potential killer even then. Now they actually will be."

Then he better get rid of the Robbins choreography. The last time I saw gang members pirouetting down the sidewalk was the 5th of Never.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 7:20pm

The "bilingualness" was in fact always the "big concept" Laurents was referring to.

Re: the overture, I'm not 100% positive of its origin...I know that an overture was not used in the original production, but I'm pretty sure it was still put together by Bernstein...either while the show was in development, and then the decision was made to cut the overture, or it was added to a future production within the couple of years.

[morosco]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 8:11pm

The National in Washington must have gotten a surge of phone calls today. I'm on their email notification list and just got this "stop calling us" email:

WEST SIDE STORY

will play a pre-Broadway engagement at the National Theatre
where the musical made its world premiere in 1957.

DECEMBER 16, 2008 – JANUARY 17, 2009

The production will be directed by its librettist, two-time Tony Award winner, Arthur Laurents.

Please note: Ticket prices and Ticket sales dates are not set.
Please do not call for information. We will alert subscribers to this Email List
as soon as tickets are available.

[xoangel2789xo]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 8:48pm

Aw, no viola?

[gypsy4]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 8:50pm

I didn't realise that was an important instrument.