WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast

[Rob]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#1

Posted: 8/23/10 at 10:31am

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[chinkie azn jai]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#2

Posted: 8/23/10 at 11:16am

I'm excited Kyle Harris is going to be Tony. Ever since that viral video of him singing Tonight (I think it was about facebook or something), I thought he would be perfect for the role.

"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D

[Bettyboy72]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#2

Posted: 8/23/10 at 11:46am

I was hoping that Natalie might tour as Anita. No such luck!

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[Kad]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#3

Posted: 8/23/10 at 11:48am

" Ever since that viral video of him singing Tonight (I think it was about facebook or something)"

That was him? Ha! Web Site Story is a great little video.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[chinkie azn jai]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#4

Posted: 8/23/10 at 11:53am

found it: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1913584

"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D

[Kad]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#5

Posted: 8/23/10 at 11:54am

"I was hoping that Natalie might tour as Anita. No such luck!"

Well, now that she is a mother, I imagine that touring would be out of the question.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[ACL2006]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#6

Posted: 8/23/10 at 11:56am

So glad they got a dancer for Anita. Kudos Michelle!!

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

[nealb1]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#7

Posted: 8/23/10 at 12:04pm

Great cast. I saw Ali in "Les Miz" twice in NYC as Cosette, and 2 summers ago as Maria in "West Side Story" in Pittsburgh. She was wonderful!

[husk_charmer]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#8

Posted: 8/23/10 at 12:08pm

I saw Aravena as Diana, I'm thrilled to see her as Anita!

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[byebyebaby12]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#9

Posted: 8/23/10 at 1:00pm

THRILLED FOR MICHELLE!

[My Oh My]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#10

Posted: 8/23/10 at 1:07pm

Ali is perfect for Maria. Love it!

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[Jon]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#11

Posted: 8/23/10 at 2:18pm

I notice the press release does not mention the Spanish lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Have they perhaps scrapped them for the tour?

[TheatreFan4]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#12

Posted: 8/23/10 at 3:35pm

^ A lot of it was scrapped in the Broadway production now too. The only Spanish I remember in the songs was a Spanglish I Feel Pretty.

[ljay889]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#13

Posted: 8/23/10 at 4:06pm

Unless things have changed since a few months ago. "I Feel Pretty" and "A Boy Like That" are a Spanglish mix. And the Sharks still sing their parts in the Quintet in Spanish. There is still quite a bit of Spanish dialogue.

[TheatreFan4]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#14

Posted: 8/23/10 at 4:21pm

I saw it in May & 'A Boy Like That' was definitely all in English.

You are probably right about 'Tonight' though.

[ljay889]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#15

Posted: 8/23/10 at 4:27pm

Well that's bizarre. The big change was that both songs became a Spanglish mix. I'll see for myself when Karen returns soon (once was enough with Natalie).

[Kalimba]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#16

Posted: 8/23/10 at 4:27pm

Let's hope they revert back to the Jerome Robbins' original America choreography.

[alightinthedark23]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#17

Posted: 8/23/10 at 4:42pm

I saw the show in late April or early May and "A Boy Like That" was definitely in spanglish.

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[TheatreFan4]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#18

Posted: 8/23/10 at 4:47pm

Does your playbill have a translation for both songs because mine only has one for 'I Feel Pretty'.

[alightinthedark23]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#19

Posted: 8/23/10 at 4:59pm

It only has "I feel pretty" translations.

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[dancingthrulife04]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#20

Posted: 8/23/10 at 5:50pm

I saw the show in late April or early May and "A Boy Like That" was definitely in spanglish.

I saw the show yesterday. It still is.

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[RippedMan]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#21

Posted: 8/23/10 at 5:59pm

I'm surprised Tedder would leave a Tony winning musical to do a tour? But, hey to each their own. He was a stand-out in Memphis, and I'm sure this is more fun to dance.

[adamgreer]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#22

Posted: 8/23/10 at 6:11pm

The quintet still has the Spanish verse for the Sharks.

I Feel Pretty and A Boy Like That are still a mix of English and Spanish, though they both lean more heavily towards English. There was a period for a while where they were tinkering with both numbers and the ratio of English to Spanish. I was at one performance where both songs were entirely in English, save for very small snippets, but that didn't last long at all.

As far as the America choreography, I doubt it will be revised. Natalie Cortez (who I thought was wonderful, as is Olivo, for the record) has been playing Anita for the past few months, and she's perfectly capable of dancing the original choreography, but they never reverted back to it.

[shrekster224]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#23

Posted: 8/23/10 at 9:49pm

Tedder left because his Snowboy track also understudies Tony, like Mike Cannon on broadway. I guess he wanted to do a bigger role, or at least understudy.

[TheatreFan4]

WEST SIDE STORY Tour Announces Cast#24

Posted: 8/23/10 at 9:56pm

If the understudy order will be the same as Broadway then Tedder will rarely ever be on. Mike Cannon has been with the show since the opening & he just had his Tony debut on May 19th (Which I saw). I don't think he's been on since, but I may be wrong.

Maybe there was Spanish in 'A Boy Like That', but I don't remember it.