Last night I had the great pleasure...almost the honor of attending a staged production of West Side Story and it didn't seem right to comment right away.
It's the pro UK company that is touring at the mo....the production that is designed to recreate the original.
Here's where I go on about.....the Greatest Musical Ever Written.....absolutely hands down.
What an amazing creative team.....the music, the songs, the story, the vision and THE MOVEMENT!
Can anyone suggest a more iconic vision of movement and music from the musical canon?
Image after image of a dynamic grace that has earned the description....timeless.
I wonder at what it must have been like to sit in the audience 60 years ago; the audience last night was blown away....what must Broadway have thought?
I had the great pleasure of sharing the experience with a young friend who will one day dazzle some stage with her performance as Maria. It was her first time seeing WSS staged in live performance.....jealous of that experience.
I have had the great good fortune of being involved in performing this piece 5 times.
It has marked me inside and out.....I have a scar on my forehead from diving into the shallow end of a pool at the last night party of my first WSS outing in high school.
One last image....whether Shakespeare or Laurents or all the other expressions of which we as intelligent? beings need to be reminded.....if only we could bridge the gaps of our social, ethnic differences and look with new eyes and fall in love.....
Somehow.... somewhere.....
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