West side story overview the best broadway source for west side story tickets and west side story information, photos and videos. The english lyrics were not translated verbatim they basically created a whole new set of lyrics. Tom hatcher, his longtime partner, saw a spanishlanguage production of west side story in bogota, colombia, and had been electrified by the 2006 show. West side story billets pour broadway new york online. I forgot i was sitting in a broadway theatre watching professional actors in a revival of west side story. Lorsque quatre geants du theatre, jerome robbins, leonard bernstein, arthur laurents et stephen sondheim ont monte west side story, le spectacle a. The west side story revival is about to open on broadway and it promises to be entirely different from the versions that have come before it. Miranda, who is of puerto rican descent, is a hot property on broadway following the. The original broadway production was produced by robert e. A scene from the 2010 national tour of west side story, which featured spanish lyrics by lin. West side story with a spanish accent west side story.
West side story 2018 washington, dc regional tickets. Heres a short compare and contrast by seattle times. The original stage musical of west side story now revived and touring to seattle differs from the wellknown film in key ways. Laurents, who is 91 and wrote the book for west side story more than 50 years before directing this current revival, the englishtospanishto. The production earned robbins a tony award for best choreography.
West side story simple english wikipedia, the free. The success of west side story one of the most important, if not the most. More than half a century after the story of romeo and juliet was teleported from the cobbled streets of verona into the dark steaming alleyways of postwar manhattan, west side story returned to broadway last night in a revival that at last elevates the puerto rican sharks to their rightful place as equals to their deadly white rivals. Miranda to translate the dialogue of the sharks into street spanish. West side story is a musical with a book by arthur laurents, music by leonard bernstein and lyrics by stephen sondheim. Karen olivo and the cast of the 2009 broadway revival of the musical west side story, perform the number america live. He told laurents that, for spanishspeaking audiences, the sharks were seen as the heroes and the jets as villains.
Bilingual west side story edits out some spanish the. West side story had its broadway premiere in 1957, and was directed and choreographed by jerome robbins. This sephardic origin of new york citys jews might in turn bring to mind what could be called the original spanish version of west side story, predating even romeo and juliet. More than 50 years after the musical west side story had its original. The music was composed by leonard bernstein, and the lyrics were written by stephen sondheim. Laurents, the author of the book for west side story and the director of the current broadway revival of gypsy, whose book he also wrote, has vowed to make this revival a more. I may spend the rest of my life trying to make sense of ivo van hoves reconceived and avantgarde, rough and raw revival of west side story. West side story new broadway cast recording 2009 by. The last revival notably incorporated spanish translations of sondheims lyrics penned by. A grim take on west side story ivo van hoves new interpretation of the iconic musical is an infuriating example of what happens when a powerful style calcifies into shtick. Bernstein, lyrics by stephen sondheim, and a book by arthur laurents, has seen a recent wave of. Some lyrics restored to english in broadway revival of west side. Yesenia ayala as anita with amar ramasar, left, as bernardo in the 2020 version of west side story at the broadway theatre. West side story will return to broadway, directed by ivo van hove.
The producers of west side story announced today that tony award winner karen olivo will be out of the broadway musical as she sustained a broken foot at the 2 p. Arthur laurentss book transposes romeo and juliet to the west side of. The show was revived on broadway in 1960, 1964 and 1980. More than fifty years after the first broadway production of the west side story opened, the classic has been revived for the great white way by its original book writer. West side story opened on broadway at the winter garden theatre on 26 september 1957, and on the west end at her majestys theatre on 12 december 1958.
Thats the news from the rialto this week, as profferred by arthur laurents, book writer of the groundbreaking 1957 broadway show and the man. West side story washington, dc regional experience forbidden love, fierce family loyalties, and the ruthless feud between the sharks and the jets through the iconic music of west side story. It was inspired by william shakespeare s play romeo and juliet. West side story transports the tale of shakespeares romeo and juliet to the turbulent streets of the upper west side in 1950s new york city. The spanish translation done for this west side story revival are atrocious.
A bilingual revival of the classic west side story opens. More than fifty years ago one musical changed theater forever. Broadway revival of west side story cuts i feel pretty. Collaborators reconsider spanish lyrics in west side story. For me, this west side story is by far the toughest and therefore the best ive ever seen, and that includes the 1964 movie, the 1980 and 2009 broadway revivals, as well as a few other. Check out west side story new broadway cast recording 2009 by new broadway cast of west side story 2009 on amazon music. The bilingual west side story is the work of arthur laurents, who at 90 is. The tale of lusty young lovers, set against a new york city turf battle between the puerto rican sharks and the anglo jets, was first produced in 1957. More than half a century after the story of romeo and juliet was teleported from the cobbled streets of verona into the dark steaming alleyways of postwar manhattan, west side story returned to. They will speak spanish where they would naturally, mr. Broadway revival of west side story cuts i feel pretty and the. In a statement, arthur laurents, who directed the revival and wrote the book for west side story, said, from the outset, the spanish in west side story was an experiment.
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