| re: "Chatty" West Side Story | |
| Posted by: reed23 10:09 pm EST 12/24/21 | |
| In reply to: re: "Chatty" West Side Story - Chromolume 09:40 pm EST 12/24/21 | |
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| That's not this writer's only error. Among others, the misconception persists that Tony and Maria introduce the song "Somewhere." Tony sings a very fast, high-strung section coming out of dialogue, that leads into a mounting disquiet music, that rises higher and higher and suddenly dissolves into the beginning of the ballet, when the stage was cleared of scenery and the entire cast found itself in blazing white sunlight in a metaphoric open space ("open air.") The ballet came in four parts, beginning with the playful scherzo, in which the gang members leap and play in the wide open sun; then "Somewhere" was sung by Consuela (one of the Shark girls, obviously) – played in the original by Reri Grist. The song was followed by The Processional, in which the two gangs began to pair off with each other in a quiet parade (which was repeated, with devastating effect, at the end of the show, following Tony's death as the curtain fell.) The Nightmare section followed; coming out of this, Tony & Maria sang the last 8 bars of the song as the entire sequence came to a close. |
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