| West Side Story IS NOT and never was a "theater piece focused on the immigrant experience" |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 02:20 pm EST 12/15/21 |
| In reply to: re: NYT: The ‘West Side Story’ Remake We Didn’t Need - Delvino 12:03 pm EST 12/15/21 |
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TWO very different immigrant experiences are being portrayed as part of a story of waring "families" who keep two young lovers apart. It is quite literally Romeo and Juliet adapted for a current day (in the 1950s) NYC scenario with race being the key reason for the hatred among families.
This is not, as is commonly and willfully now misunderstood, a musical ABOUT brown people or the Puerto Rican immigrant experience, with a few white characters thrown in as villains. |
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