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West Side Story revival?
West Side Story revival?#400
Posted: 9/8/19 at 10:23amI’ve loved the marketing since I first saw it months ago. Doesn’t look like a dusty old musical (not that WSS is)- feels new and fresh.
West Side Story revival?#401
Posted: 9/8/19 at 10:30am
I am also a fan of the marketing. Wish I had gotten a mailer 
I also never got one for The Inheritance
Not sure why I’m suddenly not getting these mailers, they used to come all the time
West Side Story revival?#402
Posted: 9/8/19 at 12:10pmI mean it looks like any fashion ad ever. American apparel had that same blank look.
West Side Story revival?#403
Posted: 9/8/19 at 1:06pmI don’t think I’ve ever been less excited for a revival for a show that I love.
West Side Story revival?#404
Posted: 9/8/19 at 1:29pmI just feel like we are going to get a big blank show. White/tan/grey color palette. Lots of open space and like brick walls but no actual sets etc. I just feel like it’s going to be so “artsy” to the point of boring.
West Side Story revival?#405
Posted: 9/8/19 at 2:55pm
SouthernCakes said: "I just feel like we are going to get a big blank show. White/tan/grey color palette. Lots of open space and like brick walls but no actual sets etc. I just feel like it’s going to be so “artsy” to the point of boring. "
I couldn’t agree more with this. Of course, I rather be pleasantly surprised, but I’m not expecting much.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/05
West Side Story revival?#406
Posted: 9/8/19 at 3:30pm
SouthernCakes said: "I just feel like we are going to get a big blank show. White/tan/grey color palette. Lots of open space and like brick walls but no actual sets etc. I just feel like it’s going to be so “artsy” to the point of boring. "
I don’t know if it will be boring, but there will be several new elements not implemented in any prior productions.
West Side Story revival?#407
Posted: 9/8/19 at 3:42pm
What elements?
West Side Story revival?#408
Posted: 9/8/19 at 4:49pmThe brand new choreography and orchestrations will be a major change. Right now, Tunick and Gemignani’s involvement is the only saving grace for me.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/22/03
West Side Story revival?#409
Posted: 9/8/19 at 9:52pm
Now about those pull quotes... Are they from the original production?
West Side Story revival?#410
Posted: 9/9/19 at 11:12am
I heard a rumor it's gonna be 2 hours with no intermission and "I Feel Pretty" is being cut. I don't know how true these rumors are.
West Side Story revival?#411
Posted: 9/9/19 at 2:26pm
Looking at the mailer. I count 36 photos of men. No women in this production?
West Side Story revival?#412
Posted: 9/9/19 at 3:37pm
InTheBathroom1 said: "I heard a rumor it's gonna be 2 hours with no intermission and "I Feel Pretty" is being cut. I don't know how true these rumors are."
Sondheim, famously, hates that song. He's wrong to hate it, but he does.
West Side Story revival?#413
Posted: 9/9/19 at 5:28pm
ljay889 said: "The brand new choreography and orchestrations will be a major change. Right now, Tunick and Gemignani’s involvement is the only saving grace for me."
Ummm..excuse me? new Orchestrations??? Yeesh, I was already trepidatious about this revival. Are they trying to pull an OKLAHOMA! on this, musically speaking?
Tunick and Gemignani are geniuses (and I always have full faith in them), but why was it even a discussion to touch a single note of that score?
West Side Story revival?#414
Posted: 9/9/19 at 5:48pmNot even in my top 20 favorites. But the act break happens at a pretty big moment. I just wonder what momentum there would be in cutting the intermission?
West Side Story revival?#415
Posted: 9/9/19 at 6:35pmI got the mailer as well. My Roommate asked me if it was a gay version of the show because of the large picture of the guy with the lock on his neck.
West Side Story revival?#416
Posted: 9/9/19 at 11:47pm
there is also a credited video designer on the show...
West Side Story revival?#417
Posted: 9/10/19 at 12:14amAs long as I get a big dance-y Dance At The Gym and America, I'm fine.
Featured Actor Joined: 2/15/15
West Side Story revival?#418
Posted: 9/10/19 at 12:21am
Just want to throw out there that in my (20 something, left leaning) theatre social circles, online and IRL, everyone is pretty disappointed and many are disgusted with Amar's casting. Not angry enough to take to social media and instagram comments necessarily, but enough to pass on this revival. Thaaaat being said, a lot of these people aren't in New York and don't really have $100 laying around for tickets anyway. If given the opportunity to see the show, they would not take it specifically because of him. Maybe you would, that's fine. Lol. So yeah people are mad but not the people who are going to impact the production enough to change the casting.
edit: just realized the discussion about his casting on this thread is from July.... late to the party
West Side Story revival?#419
Posted: 9/10/19 at 7:26am
“I don’t know if it will be boring, but there will be several new elements not implemented in any prior productions."
Well hopefully they’ve found a way to incorporate a 2000 pound gorilla puppet for starters
West Side Story revival?#420
Posted: 9/10/19 at 9:03am
Oy. Are we going to have to endure months more of this pearl clutching?
If you don't like the idea of an Ivo West Side, then don't go. There are productions of this at major regionals nearly every year. And they're usually all just recreating the original concept with contemporary edge. It ain't the only - or the last - one.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
West Side Story revival?#421
Posted: 9/10/19 at 10:18am
Did anyone see this Vulture profile with Ivo? https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/ivo-van-hove-west-side-story-broadway.html
What interested you about a revival of West Side Story?
American theater and playwrights and authors have always interested me. It’s the same with music: jazz, the minimal music that came from America, these are all a huge source of inspiration to me. I think, when you look at [West Side Story], it’s written in a very direct way without beautifying things. It’s about young people abandoned. And then I thought, Well, there’s this beautiful score by Leonard Bernstein, which is just really a masterpiece. It gets the vibration and the feelings of the city but also of the desperate situation these young people are in — and their dreams, like in “Somewhere.” It’s an amazing story about contemporary life, about young people who get stuck in a cycle of violence. It talks about violence in the pure sense of the word. It doesn’t talk about where the violence comes from, where it goes to — it shows you the raw piece of meat.
Broadway Star Joined: 4/24/19
West Side Story revival?#422
Posted: 9/10/19 at 1:06pm
BJR said: "Oy. Are we going to have to endure months more of this pearl clutching?
If you don't like the idea of an Ivo West Side, then don't go. There are productions of this at major regionals nearly every year. And they're usually all just recreating the original concept with contemporary edge. It ain't the only - or the last - one."
Or, you know, just scroll by our comments and keep living your life. We can have any opinion we want regarding this doomed production. If they want to make it cool and edgy, whatever. But, if they start changing the text and cutting songs? It will be a bigger bomb that Carousel, and that was really, really terrible.
West Side Story revival?#423
Posted: 9/14/19 at 6:53pmThere will be LOTS of video in the show and also a lot of rain on stage. That’s all I’ve managed to get out of my friend working on it so far.
West Side Story revival?#424
Posted: 9/14/19 at 9:22pmWill the rain be blood??!
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