West Side Story Revival will cut I Feel Pretty and Somewhere Ballet
Posted: 11/9/19 at 10:39am
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:00am
So far I am making a list of reasons not to go.
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:02am
Oh, for crap's sake.
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.”
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 :/
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:09am
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:10am
Wow. What a time to be a woman and a fan of Broadway.
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.
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:16am
And West Side Story has always been male heavy so your complaints are a little late.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Yeahhh...didn't you listen to what Be More Chill was telling us????? THERE ARE NO GOOD FEMALE PARTS IN MUSICALS.
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.
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I was raked over the coals on here for supporting the 2009 revival. It’s someone else’s turn. Have fun!!!!!
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.
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:44am
Lord. The casting felt like a wrong turn and these edits don’t do anything to convince me otherwise.
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:48am
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:51am
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:51am
...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...
Posted: 11/9/19 at 11:56am
Gross. First Amar and now this? I hope this all blows up spectacularly in their faces.
Updated On: 11/9/19 at 11:56 AM
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.
Posted: 11/9/19 at 12:10pm
What a wonderful musical, and what a sad flop of a revival this is going to be.
Posted: 11/9/19 at 12:10pm
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