| re: question re: WSS - have the authors ever addressed why there's SO much more Jets than Sharks in the score/play? | |
| Posted by: theatreguy40 02:08 pm EST 12/25/21 | |
| In reply to: re: question re: WSS - have the authors ever addressed why there's SO much more Jets than Sharks in the score/play? - Chazwaza 07:20 pm EST 12/24/21 | |
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| I absolutely agree with everything you say about "America". I felt the exact same way when I saw the new movie a few days ago. It really was "opened up" to such an extent that it lost a lot of the dramatic tension and meaning of the sequence! As far as our discussion about "Tonight" -- just to pinpoint it a bit more: it IS Maria who starts singing first ("Only you, you're the only one I"ll see forever...") Maria is also the one who sings the "chorus" first as a solo ("Tonight, tonight, it all began tonight, I saw you and the world went away!"). In the stage show -- Tony does get to sing it solo when Maria goes inside to answer her mama's call for a minute -- however that moment is in neither the original nor the new movie , only the stage production. But Maria (in all versions) does sing first... WSS is a magnificent creation (for so many many reasons!). I never tire of doing (directing or choreographing) the piece. And I'll watch the original movie whenever it is shown - be it in a special showing in a movie theatre or some late night TV showing. A few years ago I had the pleasure of seeing it at Lincoln Center OUTDOORS. That was really special because even as the movie played - the sounds of Manhattan traffic were always in the background and it made it seem even more "immediate". I also saw it at Lincoln Center INDOORS when they showed the movie accompanied by a LIVE orchestra playing the score -- also magnificent! |
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