Tuesday, 18 November 2008

• West Side Story obsession...

  This is how sad:

  

  I just love that choreography.  I was just messing around in the dance studio after teaching two classes, taking my own ballet class and a nutcracker rehearsal with my sister and we were doing my favorite dance sequence ever-- "the dance at the gym" because I had the music. lol. I was already tired- who knows where I got the energy to do this.  Chelsy knows the first part of the dance, but I knew this part better.  LOL.

  OK, I am a little annoyed now.  Apparently there is going to be a revival on Broadway of West Side Story.  Arther Laurents is directing it, and apparently they are going to make it more contemporary. Ugh.   Why mess with a good thing?  If it ain't broke, don't fix it.  I'm officially grossed out by the idea of Tony and Maria totally making out in the "Tonight" scene... Um, Maria is a Catholic girl!  Also, he claims that the Jets are all going to be killers.  Oh boy.  Shouldn't they be in jail then?  I think the whole point of the officer is that he wants to catch them doing something wrong so that he can put them away, ya know?  The Puerto Ricans are now going to speak mostly in Spanish and the lyrics are going to be translated into Spanish, so the audience member gets to read subtitles! Any idiot should know that they wouldn't speak Spanish at home when they are living in America.  They would practice English and especially in THAT time when they had to fit in more- it was more politically incorrect then.  I have had lots of foreign friends and they all claimed, "Oh, my parents wouldn't let me speak our language at home."  I would hate reading subtitles.  For one, since it is more of a dance show, you would miss half the action reading the stupid words!  That is so effed up, I'm sorry.  I am so disappointed that they are going to make it 'more gritty'.  That sucks.  I really wanted to see it on Broadway, and now that just completely bursts my bubble.  I do hope he isn't upgrading the times to this time.  That would be even worse.  We can then see a bunch of cruddy gangbangers in baggy jeans and white Tees.  I hate that.  He is going to ruin the characters.  They aren't all supposed to have the same gang personality- that's why they have names that describe their personality.  The dude seriously needs to like go retire.  He's 91, and he wrote the old screenplay.  I think maybe he went coo-key in his old age.  He claims that the movie is 'horrible'.  It's.A.Classic. It won like 10 or 11 Academy Awards!  UGH... I feel like SCREAMING!!!!!!

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