West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
DaveyG
Broadway Star Joined: 8/11/05
#2West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 10:39amEw.
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#3West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:00am
So far I am making a list of reasons not to go.
#4West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:02am
Oh, for crap's sake.
VotePeron
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/13
#5West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:04am
to everyone choosing not to read the article and just have knee-jerk reactions:
"The changes have not only been approved by the creators’ estates but, in fact, reflect the original desires of Sondheim, still going strong at 89, who candidly confessed in his 2010 book Finishing the Hat that he had long been uncomfortable with some of the lyrics of the latter song. Van Hove isn’t streamlining to be perverse; the show’s action takes place over 48 hours, and he wants the production to capture that race against time. “I want to make a juggernaut,” he says. “You feel that these people are running toward their death and there’s no escape from it.”
#6West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:08am
I feel bad for Shereen, they're really cutting what little she has to work with Maria as a character :/
#7West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:09amGood. “I Feel Pretty” is deeply out of place with where it falls in the plot and stops the momentum cold. I’m all in for a more streamlined, visceral WSS and excising the schmaltz does that.
#8West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:10am
So the marketing is all men, all of the cut songs helped drive the female characters, and Amar Ramasar is still in the cast.
Wow. What a time to be a woman and a fan of Broadway.
#9West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:15am
ChildofEarth said: "Wow. What a time to be a woman and a fan of Broadway."
Because women aren’t represented anywhere on Broadway and have zero good roles.
GeorgeandDot
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/16
#10West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:16am
Good. They won't be missed.
And West Side Story has always been male heavy so your complaints are a little late.
#11West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:18am
PalJoey said: "Oh, for crap's sake."
PJ, we need you.
Please. We need you.
Get us through this. Please.
#12West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:18am
PalJoey said: "Oh, for crap's sake."
PJ, we need you.
Please. We need you.
Get us through this. Please.
#13West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:21am
ljay889 said: "Get us through this. Please."
Melodramatic much? All you have to do to get through this is not buy a ticket. That's literally it. And it will go by even more easily if you don't read or participate in any threads on the subject.
#14West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:21am
Jordan Catalano said: "ChildofEarth said: "Wow. What a time to be a woman and a fan of Broadway."
Because women aren’t represented anywhere on Broadway and have zero good roles.
"
Yeahhh...didn't you listen to what Be More Chill was telling us????? THERE ARE NO GOOD FEMALE PARTS IN MUSICALS.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#15West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:26am
JBroadway said: "ljay889 said: "Get us through this. Please."
Melodramatic much? All you have to do to get through this is not buy a ticket. That's literally it. And it will go by even more easilyif you don't read or participate in any threads on the subject.
"
I was raked over the coals on here for supporting the 2009 revival. It’s someone else’s turn. Have fun!!!!!
#16West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:43am
So there's no way to make it feel like a juggernaut without cutting a text that has been remarkably successful all this time?
Thank goodness this director knows better than all those fools who went before.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#17West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:44am
...and it’s intermissionless?!
Lord. The casting felt like a wrong turn and these edits don’t do anything to convince me otherwise.
SouthernCakes
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/19
#18West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:48amNo intermission? This show is looooooong as it is.
GeorgeandDot
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/16
#19West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:51amI love that this show has pushed away all the woke kids by casting Amar and pushed away all the Make Broadway Great Again boomer gays by cutting the worst song in the show. Lol, who is this for?
#22...
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:58am
broadwaybabywannabe2 said: "...and my 2 cents worth...i HATED this director's ALL ABOUT EVE!!!...so i will stay away from his reimagining of such an American classic..."
For what it's worth - I also disliked his production of All About Eve.
I've been saying for a while now that Ivo Van Hove does his best work when he's directing material that was originally written for the stage (Arthur Miller, Shakespeare, Ibsen, etc.), but recently he's been doing a lot of film-to-stage adaptations - most of which I've found pretty dull and repetitive. But WSS is obviously material written for the stage, which is why I remain optimistic about this production.
#23...
Posted: 11/9/19 at 12:10pm
JBroadway, in the article it states that he’s using the film version of America, so I’d bet good money that he’s more influenced by the film than the actual piece itself.
What a wonderful musical, and what a sad flop of a revival this is going to be.
I am big. It’s the REVIVALS that got small.
bwayobsessed
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/13
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