Posted: 11/8/15 at 11:12pm
I have been on this WSS kick this weekend and was thinking if someone gave me a couple million dollars to do a revival of WSS, who would I cast in it? Now, I am posing this question to you guys. Who would you cast in your ideal WSS revival?
Posted: 11/9/15 at 8:24am
If someone gave you a couple million dollars, you wouldn't get further than a major city center in your state. Try doing that in NY, and you'd be told your numbers are way too low. A Broadway show on the low end is roughly ten-and-a-half, maybe fifteen, million dollars these days.
Also, one typically does not open a dream casting thread without sharing their own ideas first, but that's your prerogative.
Posted: 11/9/15 at 9:11am
No more West Side Story revivals.
Posted: 11/9/15 at 9:14am
No more dream casting threads.
Posted: 11/9/15 at 9:52am
Posted: 11/9/15 at 1:01pm
Preferably "ethnic" people to play the parts of the Sharks. Preferably Latino, but Asian or black would work too. I'm sick of listening another poor Spanish accent while watching/listening to West Side Story. Only flipping your r's while speaking English does NOT make it a Spanish accent. Good Lord.
Posted: 11/9/15 at 1:11pm
Signature Theater in Arlington is doing a production of WSS next month, if anyone is that eagerly dying to see the show again.
Posted: 11/9/15 at 2:25pm
Also Papermill is doing the show in the spring. We could dream cast the production but it'll probably end up being mostly unknowns.
Posted: 11/10/15 at 11:01am
My vote would be a somewhat revisionist take on WSS, which I outline in more detail here.
Posted: 11/10/15 at 11:16am
I’m sure I’m not the only one who has heard of the apocryphal “dancer’s ‘Jet Song’ parody”:
“When you’re a Jet
You’re a Jet all the way
From your first pirouette
To your last grand jeté”
It's not apocryphal. It's by Brian Kaman, who played Baby John in the 980 Broadway revival.
Posted: 11/10/15 at 11:25am
It's also returning to NYC for a few days in March thanks to Carnegie Hall, with Skylar Astin as Tony and Bianca Marroquin as Anita.
Posted: 11/10/15 at 11:26am
PalJoey said: "It's not apocryphal. It's by Brian Kaman, who played Baby John in the 1980 Broadway revival."
I will credit him accordingly.
