Monday, March 16, 2009
A Changed ‘West Side Story’ Returns to a Changed New York
NYTimes.com: "WHEN Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins and Arthur Laurents created “West Side Story” in the mid-’50s, they lived within walking distance of the concrete alleys and playgrounds that were the backdrop for their updated version of “Romeo and Juliet,” the crowded tenements where new Puerto Rican immigrants rubbed up against the Irish, Poles and Italians who had preceded them."
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I think that this idea is a really cool one. West Side Story is a beautiful show, but one of its major problems is that it is outdated. This production seems like it is spicing it up a bit. The translation of parts of the show into Spanish will be interesting (I wonder if they will have subtitles). It will also give the show some more credibility. The article also makes an interesting comment about how a Latin American production turned the usual sympathies around making the sharks the victims and the jets the villains. The rewrites of Office Krupke and the Jet Song will also be a strong change in the show.
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