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- It is widely known that West Side Story (WSS) is based directly on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (R&J). Far less well known is the fact that Shakespeare based his play (1594) on other material, particularly a narrative poem by Arthur Brooke entitled The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562).
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Mar 27, 2022 · That said, West Side Story isn't based on a true story. Even though West Side Story has been associated with a modern and American telling of Romeo and Juliet for decades,...
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- The Fully Bilingual Puerto Rican Sharks
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In a departure from the original, the Puerto Rican national anthem, “La Borinqueña”, joins Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s soundtrack and becomes the first song after the opening instrumental Prologue. The Sharks sing, acapella and in Spanish, before we hear the Jets sing their famous “Jet Song.” As their leader, Bernardo, begins to sing “...
The female gaze shapes Spielberg’s version and the audience experience of the film. Tony’s mentor, the shopkeeper Doc, is replaced by Valentina (Rita Moreno), a new character who is Doc’s widow and now the owner of the store. Val gazes at Tony as he sings, “Who Knows,” and his soliloquy becomes a monologue showing that he trusts her, that she has h...
In the film, Bernardo clearly states the threat of white American men toward his sister and warns Maria before the dance with, “The first gringo boy who smiles at you.” But she kisses Tony and dances with him anyway, even though she has confirmed that he is not Puerto Rican. The lovers know the stakes. Tony confesses to Maria that he spent a year i...
Spielberg shows us that there’s still a place for Shakespeare in West Side Story. After the Jets perform “Office Krupke” inside the police station, Krupke returns, breathless from chasing Anybodys (who is trans and an aspiring member of the Jets) in the streets. In that same moment, the camera provides close-ups of the Jets who are breathless from ...
It is widely known that West Side Story (WSS) is based directly on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (R&J). Far less well known is the fact that Shakespeare based his play (1594) on other material, particularly a narrative poem by Arthur Brooke entitled The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562).
Dec 9, 2021 · No, West Side Story is not based on a true story, but the musical's setting and issues of race, social class, misogyny, and inequality are very much real. West Side Story was...
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Inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
Dec 1, 2021 · Since its Broadway premiere in 1957, “West Side Story” — a musical based on “Romeo and Juliet” and created by four white men — has been at once beloved and vexing. The score, featuring...
It is widely known that West Side Story (WSS) is based directly on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (R&J). Far less well known is the fact that Shakespeare based his play (1594) on other material, particularly a narrative poem by Arthur Brooke entitled The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562).
