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NYT: Our Gangs
Mar. 20th, 2009 04:19 pmMarch 20, 2009
THEATER REVIEW | 'WEST SIDE STORY'
Our Gangs
By BEN BRANTLEY
Even when they’re flashing switchblades and kicking people in the ribs, the teenage hoodlums who maraud through Arthur Laurents’s startlingly sweet new revival of “West Side Story” seem like really nice kids. When a pure-voiced boy soprano (Nicholas Barasch) shows up to perform the musical’s banner anthem, the aching “Somewhere,” it feels like the manifestation of some inner angel who always lurks beneath the surface of the angry adolescents onstage.
Youth has always been the engine of this epochal musical from 1957, created by one of the most talented teams in showbiz history: Mr. Laurents (book), Leonard Bernstein (score), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) and Jerome Robbins (director and choreographer). But usually it’s the scary, adrenaline-stoked energy of youth that sets the tone and rhythms of the show.
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THEATER REVIEW | 'WEST SIDE STORY'
Our Gangs
By BEN BRANTLEY
Even when they’re flashing switchblades and kicking people in the ribs, the teenage hoodlums who maraud through Arthur Laurents’s startlingly sweet new revival of “West Side Story” seem like really nice kids. When a pure-voiced boy soprano (Nicholas Barasch) shows up to perform the musical’s banner anthem, the aching “Somewhere,” it feels like the manifestation of some inner angel who always lurks beneath the surface of the angry adolescents onstage.
Youth has always been the engine of this epochal musical from 1957, created by one of the most talented teams in showbiz history: Mr. Laurents (book), Leonard Bernstein (score), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) and Jerome Robbins (director and choreographer). But usually it’s the scary, adrenaline-stoked energy of youth that sets the tone and rhythms of the show.
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NYT: Same City, New Story
Mar. 16th, 2009 09:52 amMarch 15, 2009
Same City, New Story
By PATRICIA COHEN
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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Same City, New Story
By PATRICIA COHEN
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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Stephen Sondheim - The Story So Far podcasts
A companion to the Sondheim box-set (The Story So Far), these are the podcasts. :)
http://www.sendspace.com/folder/5k4w8i
of course, the box set is on sale at Virgin Megastore (15.99/box set), so instead of waiting until December, I pressed the ticky box button. ;)
A companion to the Sondheim box-set (The Story So Far), these are the podcasts. :)
http://www.sendspace.com/folder/5k4w8i
of course, the box set is on sale at Virgin Megastore (15.99/box set), so instead of waiting until December, I pressed the ticky box button. ;)
West Side Story Revival, Directed by Laurents, Sets Broadway Opening Date
By Andrew Gans
August 8, 2008
As previously announced, the new Broadway production of the landmark musical West Side Story, directed by librettist Arthur Laurents, will begin previews Feb. 23, 2009, at a Nederlander theatre to be announced.
The revival — produced by Kevin McCollum, James L. Nederlander and Jeffrey Seller — will officially open on Broadway March 19, 2009, according to an Aug. 8 press announcement.
A pre-Broadway engagement will play Dec. 16, 2008-Jan. 17, 2009, at Washington, DC's National Theatre, where the musical made its world premiere in 1957.
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By Andrew Gans
August 8, 2008
As previously announced, the new Broadway production of the landmark musical West Side Story, directed by librettist Arthur Laurents, will begin previews Feb. 23, 2009, at a Nederlander theatre to be announced.
The revival — produced by Kevin McCollum, James L. Nederlander and Jeffrey Seller — will officially open on Broadway March 19, 2009, according to an Aug. 8 press announcement.
A pre-Broadway engagement will play Dec. 16, 2008-Jan. 17, 2009, at Washington, DC's National Theatre, where the musical made its world premiere in 1957.
( Read more... )
