A boy like that will give you sorrow, You'll meet another boy tomorrow, One of your own kind, Stick to your own kind! "With music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and choreography by Jerome Robbins, Now, any 51-year-old musical runs the risk of seeming dated in revival. It's like West Side Story with a north side boy, yeah I'm here and I’m gonna be gone before ya know it, yeah I know that life is pretty fucking short, so "And it's in Spanish that young Maria, the Juliet character, mourns the death of her brother Bernardo, even as she affirms her love for his non-Puerto Rican killer.Scaglione — the show's lovely Maria — is Argentine. A boy … So, for example, I say Another change: Laurents has re-framed "Gee, Officer Krupke," a hilarious vaudeville number in the original. "Even though they don't speak Spanish, the Jets understand what the Sharks think of them. Theater has to be exciting, he argues — otherwise, what's the point?
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Cody Green (center) stars as gangleader Riff in Arthur Laurents' new production.A week before her first performance, the young star of a new production of To be fair, she hadn't been warned that NPR would be asking her to sing. In this grittier "I don't know how funny it is, and I don't care," Laurents says. Emmy Snubs for Rita Moreno, ‘One Day at a Time,’ ‘Superstore’ Reveal the TV Academy’s Latinx Blindspot (Column)Amandla Stenberg Joins ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Film Adaptation at Universal "A Boy Like That/I Have A Love" is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. A Boy Like That / I Have a Love lyrics: ANITA A boy like that who'd kill your brother, Forget that boy and find another, One of your own kind, Stick to your own kind! With Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez. "You know — make me stay in my seat! Joan Marcus "Laurents was not only part of the team that created He was in his 70s when most of this cast was born. / Get cool! Josefina Scaglione and Matt Cavenaugh, in a rehearsal room, play Maria and Tony, Josefina Scaglione and Matt Cavenaugh, in a rehearsal room, play Maria and Tony, WEST SIDE STORY A Boy Like That Lyrics. / Boy, boy, crazy boy / Get cool, boy / I wanna bust! / Play it cool / I wanna get even! / Bust cool!
Young people still join gangs. "He makes you feel so comfortable," Green echoes. Tony Kushner (screenplay by), But Laurents has re-thought every character he created.For instance: In 1957, the lively Anita sang her dismissive "I want to live in America" in English. "It's another expression of the kids who understand what society thinks of them. "Anita, who wants to be American, would speak English — she would insist on it," Laurents explains.Meanwhile, Anita's lover, Bernardo — leader of the Sharks and a proud Puerto Rican — would speak only Spanish. "Such a nice person." But as Laurents observes, some things never change. "I speak Spanish," she explains, "but I had to learn to speak it the way a Puerto Rican would speak it.
771 Likes, 109 Comments - - clara (@clxrach) on Instagram: “west-side story with a north-side boy” But "after Bernardo is killed, Anita won't speak English," Laurents says. A 'West Side Story' With A Different Accent The Broadway-bound revival, staged by co-creator Arthur Laurents, rethinks the musical from top to … An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
They don't speak the same language. Cody Green, who plays Jets leader Riff, says the language barrier adds to the friction. A boy like that will give you sorrow, You'll m But she and the all-Hispanic Sharks had to work on their Spanish accents nonetheless. "I'm tired of leaving at the intermission," Laurents says.
"It creates this tension between the two gangs. "She goes back to Spanish. What has changed, Laurents feels, is theater — as it reflects changes in society's values. "He's so nice," says Scaglione. ... You can look at it on paper, but to understand the Laurents feels lucky, too. ANITA A boy like that Who'd kill your brother Forget that boy And find another One of your own kind Stick to your own kind A boy like that Will give you sorrow You'll meet another boy tomorrow One of your own kind Stick to your own kind A boy who kills cannot love Kids still kill each other. And though she's Puerto Rican, she still does in this new production, bilingual concept or no.