West Side Story revival? — Page 16

bk said: "Fetus said: "bk said: "I'm not "going after you." I'm trying to understand why you're trying to act like this a a huge, major thing on social media. I don't use Twitter but I do have eyeballs enough to know that it is not what you're trying to make it out to be. Speak your outrage, that's fine. Others will agree or not. You can't make stuff up, though, and this Twitter thing is not a storm, nor is this thread. Will it BE a storm in the future? Who knows. It certainly isn't now. That was my point. That is still my point. You're not going to be able to make my point seem like it's about anything other than my point."

Since you have eyeballs can you direct me to where I'm making things up? I never called it a 'storm', I said that there were groups of people outside of this forum upset with this casting.

I said this tweet has more engagement than the most popular tweet about the casting announcement, which it does. I also said the tweet about the casting announcement had a majority of responses concerning Amar so the 'outrage' was not contained to BroadwayWorld as another user claimed.I'm not petty enough to count the actual number like you did, but my point stands. Stop dismissing me over what you're clearly ignorant to."

You know exactly what you were trying to make it seem like. I'm not "dismissing you" - this is what you do when you don't like that someone questions something or is curious why someone is misrepresenting something. You are very defensive and I don't get that either. I haven't been mean to you, I haven't "come after you" or whatever you said. As they say in Oklahoma - we've gone about as fer as we can go." "

What fetus is saying, the first tweet there, combined with the two tweets threaded to it, has over 5,700 likes. Vs the casting announcement tweet which has 700+ and a majority of the comments under that tweet are/we’re critical. Meaning there is far greater engagement with the tweet criticizing his casting. 

 Now if you search his name on twitter, there are hundreds of tweets criticizing his casting also.  

Updated On: 7/13/19 at 01:13 PM

Impossible2 said: "So if people randomly take the time to search for someone’s name that 99.9% of the worlds population have never and will never have heard of, this thing is gonna trend out of control?

Gotcha x"

Exactly.  If this were trending there would be, I should think, some Google action about it - search his name on Google - the ONLY thing that comes up aside from the various announcements is - this thread.  I stopped looking after four pages.  Well, I just looked at the "hundreds" of outraged tweets, most, if not all of which, were written by young teens who seem a bit confused about what this person actually did - if they were going on about what he actually did that would be fine - when they make it up or outright lie and call him a criminal as if there'd been some kind of arrest and trial (you have to be arrested and convicted to be a criminal), using terms like revenge porn (not applicable to what he did), and everything else under the sun.  They'd be better off sticking to reality and calling him out for what he actually was/is accused of doing, which was, of course, not acceptable on any level.  

Updated On: 7/13/19 at 02:55 PM

Yes, the first page of searching his name is completely dominated by his disgusting behavior.  Social media (IG, Twitter, FB) now has thousands of comments regarding his casting. As someone else stated, people are not going to let this go, nor should they. The 2 people still defending him support rape culture and are very clearly acting out of ignorance.  

AEA AGMA SM said: "And yet when I Google him the first page of results is dominated by stories regarding his participation in the events that led to his firing and subsequent rehiring at New York City Ballet"

Well, you see, I searched his name AND West Side Story casting because, you know, that's what this is supposed to be about.  Yes, if you search his name only you get the stories about the controversy not a one of which mentions the casting.  But you knew that.  

 

trpguyy said: "What do we suppose is the over/under on the number of theater goers who research the actor playing Bernardo when deciding whether or not to buy a ticket to WSS?"

Everyone on earth apparently x

There was a great interview with Ivo van Hove (3 hours) on European tv, will try to find it with subtitles. He also talked about WSS.

Updated On: 9/7/19 at 03:32 AM

Couldn't disagree more. Received a mailer last week and love the campaign and aesthetics so much I didn't want to throw it away, going so far as contemplating putting it up somewhere in my house. Then, I thought, "What am I - a 15 yr old?"

But anyhow, disagree.

It would make me interested to see the show because it feels like something fresh + new as opposed to the same old production that has been trotted out time and time again. Who knows what we will actually get in the delivery though.