WEST SIDE STORY motherjumping sountrack poll!

ok the Broadway recording is great, thank you for the recs dan & jaymc (iirc)

With a click, with a shock,
Phone'll jingle, door'll knock
...open the latch...
Something's coming, don't know when, but it's soon –
Catch the moon, one-handed catch!

^^^the business

omg I forgot until just now how often my roommate sang "Maria." There was this one-month period where he opened up all his music practice by singing/playing "Maria," and he was always humming and muttering it around the house. I found out a few weeks in the waitress-of-the-month he was bringing home to fuck was named Maria.

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craziness!

lololol @ this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAjskQTRGE8

The tritone was robbed.

Actually, I meant to vote for "Cool" or "The Jet Song."

kinda off topic but I don't think this post warrants a new thread.

saw the touring version of this the other night. was fucking great. the music has aged very very well, so very timeless, and the choreography was gorgeous.

still my favorite dialogue in the show:

Doc: You people make this world LOUSY!
Action: It's the way we found it, Doc.

I read your post abt some guy in the audience who quietly sang along to everything. It made me think of this singalong they are having on Val's Day in my town. He should have gone to that instead.

I still can't believe "America" won this poll!

true of any poll, dat.

i'm going again tomorrow, only with a much better seat. they're showing the movie tomorrow at the local art movie theatre but that'd be overkill I think!

I would defs say "America" is the earwormniest, based on how often it gets stuck in my head compared to the others.

just read this the other day due to following a link abt the pixies in a thread abt indie http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/01/the-ft-top-100-songs-of-all-time-10-west-side-story-obc-america/

I think "Tonight" is my EASY favorite of the bouncier numbers, and of teh ballads, "A Boy Like That/i Have a Love". I also love all of the instrumental bits too.

many of my favs here barely got any votes! ;_;

I agree! Love "Cool" so much for example. I feel like it gets made fun of a lot (or just lovingly parodied, like in "Flight of the Concords") BUT I do think it has its finger on the pulse of something nervous and volatile and real!

'Somewhere' makes me ;_;

"You people make this world LOUSY!"

I believe it's "You KIDS" (at least in the movie).

I can't remember off hand -- I'm mostly going from what I heard on the stage the other night, but it may have been "you kids!"

"Cool" is great and the choreography is amazing. can't wati to see it up closer tomorrow night...for $25!

"Cool" is so iconic, not just the song but the choreography...you can't have West Side Story without Cool.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/107/277676305_9c37fc8e67.jpg

In Work Freak, Stefan Fastis notes that Marlon Hill (above), Scrabble genius," has "breeze it, buzz it, easy does it" as a personal mantra (along with "know the ledge").

Saw the revival tour last night. I'm pretty gay for this show.

Tho it is a little distracting that the members of both gangs are so ... um, pretty?

this poll is bad and wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80-DtChQ39U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x84LJjZhKSs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip9CCVX4Ms4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taeFKIKfnZU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAu3a7CMA84&ob=av2e

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OavR37tHXDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIii2urYUmg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjoF46_yp_Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVveVuIglhg

haha this one's bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeLeTsQJ7S8

Spielberg-directed film remake rumored; I'd bet it never happens.

Also P Kael otm re '61 movie (scroll to end):

http://www.geocities.ws/paulinekaelreviews/w1.html

please no

remake might not have brownface

except when people get charred from huge spaceship explosions

big-budget bigscreen B'way musical adaps would never use separate actors and singers in roles anymore, right? too "fake" lol

its quintet

i mean how could it not be quintet for fucks sake

woah - russ has an insane CV - Elvis's choreographer for Jailhouse Rock, played a punk in Teenage Confidential, West Side Story, Twin Peaks and Neil Young's insane Greendale thing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Tamblyn

― Brio, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 15:47 (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol @ the omission of his proper star turn in seven brides

i played this score in my hs's production lol. really wonderful tho!

underrated by this poll:

dance at the gym
a boy like that/i have a love
one hand, one heart

actually basically everything that isn't one of the top 2 lol

its quintet

i mean how could it not be quintet for fucks sake

― old yeller-at-clouds (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 December 2018 03:14 (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am still pissed off tbh

this Jimmy Bryant guy gets a lot less press than Marni Nixon

he'll be 90 next week

I maintain "Somewhere" is the best song in the musical, but the movie version is pitiful.

100% otm