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FANtomFollies
#400West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/8/19 at 10:23am

I’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.

cjmclaughlin10
#401West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/8/19 at 10:30am

I am also a fan of the marketing. Wish I had gotten a mailer West Side Story revival? 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

SouthernCakes
#402West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/8/19 at 12:10pm

I mean it looks like any fashion ad ever. American apparel had that same blank look.

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ljay889
#403West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/8/19 at 1:06pm

I don’t think I’ve ever been less excited for a revival for a show that I love.

SouthernCakes
#404West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/8/19 at 1:29pm

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.

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ljay889
#405West Side Story revival?
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. 

trpguyy
#406West Side Story revival?
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. 

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binau
#407West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/8/19 at 3:42pm

What elements? 


"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

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ljay889
#408West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/8/19 at 4:49pm

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.

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bwaylyric
#409West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/8/19 at 9:52pm

Now about those pull quotes... Are they from the original production?

InTheBathroom1
#410West Side Story revival?
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.

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miminy
#411West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/9/19 at 2:26pm

Looking at the mailer. I count 36 photos of men. No women in this production?

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joevitus
#412West Side Story revival?
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.

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musikman
#413West Side Story revival?
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?


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SouthernCakes
#414West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/9/19 at 5:48pm

Not 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?

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YvanEhtNioj
#415West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/9/19 at 6:35pm

I 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.


Miss Keisha? Miss Keisha? Miss Keishhhaaaa?

LightsOut90
#416West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/9/19 at 11:47pm

there is also a credited video designer on the show...

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YvanEhtNioj
#417West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/10/19 at 12:14am

As long as I get a big dance-y Dance At The Gym and America, I'm fine.


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seahag2
#418West Side Story revival?
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


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ukpuppetboy
#419West Side Story revival?
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

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BJR
#420West Side Story revival?
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.

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raddersons
#421West Side Story revival?
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.

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Pose2
#422West Side Story revival?
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.
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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.

Dolly80
#423West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/14/19 at 6:53pm

There 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.

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Call_me_jorge
#424West Side Story revival?
Posted: 9/14/19 at 9:22pm

Will the rain be blood??!


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