West Side Story 1980 Broadway Revival (part 1)

[fountainchain126]

This was the second time de guzman was hired late in the run and the 2nd Tony nomination so uh uh

[reecespiecesheroful]

"Colowyn" from "KRULL" is Tony! They both did great!

[grandcharm]

@reecespiecesheroful I've only known Ken Marshall from Krull (not a trekkie :P) and I always thought he sounded like he could sing, but it only just occurred to me to check the internet for proof today! LOL

[reecespiecesheroful]

@grandcharm Ken was GREAT on Deep Space Nine. You can catch that on here to. If only for his last two appearances, he was and is terrific!

[mslovinlife934]

west side story is my favourite musical.

ever.

[PrinceNakasuki]

== i hate english essays :L

[cvhsfootball33]

is maria supposed to be singing the "today all day i had the feeling"?

[ScienceReasonBelief]

Awwww she's cute! Why are peple saying she's ugly?

[cpuff512]

Okay, this Maria is ugly. The Tony is okay.

I liked Josefina and Matt better. Same with singing.

[cuteblanca12]

oh my god their uglyyyyyyyy both of them

[SexyHogwarts]

Josie is really not pretty! But her voice rocks! And she plays maria well!

Luckily talent really is what matters!!!

[JoshMich1985]

Josie de Guzman has one of the purest soprano voices I've ever heard. Carol Lawrence was really more of a mezzo.

[PhanPhanPhanPhanPhan]

Wow, her soprano is gorgeous!

[FozzyForman]

Yayyyyy a good Tony. The 2009 revival didn't feel that was necessary...

[inlovewithJLT]

@FozzyForman At least they got it right with his replacement

[kmcarter24]

i love how if you compare this to the west side story revial of 2009, you can really see how much broaday has really evolved in the past twenty years. what a beautiful thing :)

[whitetiefilms]

This revival just was really...off. No wonder anyone did it for 25 years.

[SamSkii14]

The costumes look really bad,

but the singing is pretty good!

[fyzz532]

i'm going to go see this show on broadway in about a week and i am soooo exited!! it's like the first time it's been done for 25 years!!!! yay a classic!!

[greenemerald152]

maria looks too old...

[kydbrat]

um...she is a FANTASTIC Soprano, she sang this flawlessly....so take your "true" and shove it up your ass

[hayama317]

This Maria doesn't sound like a "true" soprano. her voice has that certain... sound, I guess. I don't like it.

[SwedishChef13]

@hayama317 I agree

[roccoh21]

And I guess she was nominated for a Tony in another soprano role even though she's not a soprano?

[speedingclock]

I personally think Scaglione is fantastic as well!!

[katesinger]

MARIA. is. fantastic. awesome awesome. yes finally a maria who can sing!

not like the 2009 revial omg awful!!

[TJSBRDB]

i know you posted this 2 months ago, but that is still an poinion. dont be negative.

[NumOneJoeJonasLuver]

This guy sounds almost like the guy who plays Tony in the movie version of this play.

[SingerGirlCMP]

i like them a lot...but maria is a little too old

[ferdecla]

Es una comedia musical, no un documental...tu tienes que ponber un poco de tu imaginación también! :-)

[katesinger]

u wouldnt see her that close tho. she would be onstage obviously, its hard cos they've done this for film so yeah i agree she looks older. but she sounds wonderful! i'd rather that!

[maxxomix]

@SingerGirlCMP your mother is too old

[DassMorris]

@SingerGirlCMP Age isn't the most important thing. TALENT is what matters.

[jimaroo100]

@SingerGirlCMP she could never have played it in the movie with closeups but on stage with that voice she makes a great Maria.

[fountainchain126]

@SingerGirlCMP She still got a Tony nomination for it

[fountainchain126]

she was handpicked by Bernstein you

[justmegkb]

@fountainchain126 if you are talking about josie she was the understudy and went on when maria was fired out of town and no time for recasting....she was also a marginal at best sarah brown in the faithprince/nathan lane guys and dolls

[noodlescooz]

it sounds good, but idk, it doesn't really look good visually to me.

[StreetKid412]

I'm a Native born Puerto Rican

[roccoh21]

I attended the opening night performance. Marshall was so visibly nervous it was so distracting. de Guzman was great as was Debbie Allen. In the current revival, Josephina Scaglione gives the most perfect performance humanly possible. She's beyond exquisite.

[jbactr]

her voice is off though in my opinion.

[SiloliWolfeden]

It's probably only the recording.

[jbactr]

I'm referring to the vocal abilities of Scaglione...her phrasing is not too great.

[skullface667]

lol omg the guy is edward! poor bella! lol that guy seriously kinda looks like edward.

[NumOneJoeJonasLuver]

I agree with you. He does look like an Edward from Twilight!

[birdyllama93]

Sorry, but no one can compare to Marni Nixon

[bruceagogox]

This maria looks olddd.

[Lydia1712]

I diud not know Ken Marshall could sing.

[aasjb4ever]

it sounds worse than the high school production i saw a few weeks ago....

[roccoh21]

Oh grow up. This is a bad quality clip that is nearly 30 years old. I saw the opening night of this show and it was well received for good reason but not sung as well as the current production.

[i0hate0this0place]

this is probably the best musical ever made but the girl freaks me out...her eyes just look creepy

[gilbygil11]

this IS the best musical ever made. That British assclown's entire opus doesn't equal one scene from this brilliant masterpiece

[lakme]

These videos are really making me wish I'd seen this production--alas, I wasn't even born then D:

[AlLwAyStHeRe4u]

maria kinda looks a little cynical at points. other than that - amazing!

[twitwitwi17]

why are all the Tonys so gay?

[jlly16]

they sing the best I suppose. lol

[twitwitwi17]

: )

[MrMidwest]

Ken Marshall isn't gay.

[twitwitwi17]

is that the guy singing here? And also, the 'America' song in this version stinks. They ruined it! Ugh!

[Selendomono]

i thought debbie allen was wonderful in America.

[twitwitwi17]

Well,. . . I guess opinions differ. You've seen the 1961 movie version, right? I just personally think that the America in that was so great and I LOVED the Anita in it. I guess that just by comparison I don't think she did very well. Sorry. It's my favorite, though.

[thegmanofEAP]

theater is usually kind of, sorry, soft. It draws the attention of people liek that. Then there are are lot of gays in theater, so they influence it the most.

Les Mis, though, is an exception.

[jonoware]

Les Mis is an exception to the influence of gays on musical theatre? You are kidding right?

[thegmanofEAP]

Why not? Les Mis is about life and death, freedom, redemption; important themes. It also has no pop songs, of course, and no big dance numbers. Sure, its still a "musical", but it just uses its music to express emotion and thought in powerful ways. Thats the same princible foer all music and songs.

[iamupforallfun]

Les Mis has no pop songs? What the hell are you talkin about?

[thegmanofEAP]

Well, I guess I need to know hwo you define pop. The play is an opera. Its not a "Pop"era like Hairspray and Wicked. All the songs are written in classical opera style.

I want to kno wwhat you mean by pop?

(Can we keep this respectful?)

[G4Rat]

The incidentals in that piece make it very pop like. Especially on my own. BTW Theatre is usually "soft" because it is suppose to take people out of their daily situations and give them an escape. The opinion that a lot of gay people do theatre has nothing to do with that. Les mis is really depression...great musical, but very sad.

[EricMontreal22]

That's simply not true.  The songs are written in a pop music vernacular (verse chorus, verse chorus, bridge chorus, etc) and the authros have even said their main influence was Rodgers and hammerstein, Cabaret and especially Jesus Christ Superstar NO opera). It's a pop opera if you wanna call it an opera, hardly classical. Besides Opera is a "very" gay art if you're speaking of gay incluence ANYWAY--

[Selendomono]

an opera is defined not by the music that makes it, but by what the music does. An opera is a production in which the story is told entirely by music. Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar are great examples of operas written with more pop-ish music. West Side Story is most certainly NOT an opera due to the book scenes. and id hardly call Hairspray and Wicked "pop-era"s. :)

[mllandis08]

Opera is defined as "theater of the voice". It is a story told entirely with specifically voice, not music.

[Selendomono]

oops semantics :P thats what i meant i just wasnt specific. if opera was story told by music then ballets would also be operas... but they are not so your right im wrong.

[naters81]

@Selendomono Actually opera is not necessarily a work told entirely by music. Several genres of opera include spoken dialogue such as singspiel (i.e. Mozart's The Magic Flute) or opera comique in the 19th century French tradition to name just some.

[EricMontreal22]

TONS of musicals are about these important themes--Sunday in the Park with George is about no less than why art matters and connects us, and the importance of passing that on to future generations. It could be easily argued there'd never be no Les Mis without West Side Story and it handling "important" themes

[Hindelle]

amazing talent

[blckrocker]

Tony kinda looks like Hunter Parrish