WEST SIDE STORY motherjumping sountrack poll!

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

This is still the best musical

krup you :)

The best music in a musical, at any rate.

well, that's why Kushner is fixing the book

I was just on the politics thread and reading that name here filled me with so much rage and terror

I was just watching a long interview with Steve Vai (don't ask) and he said the two most formative musical experiences of his youth were getting introduced to Led Zeppelin and the "West Side Story" soundtrack around the same time.

The highest google search result for best Broadway musicals (that isn't a shitty user-generated list): https://www.chriscaggiano.com/the-100-best-musicals-of-all-time.html

I'm mystified at those who rank Gypsy above all else.

well, that's got one of the best books, and psychological terror

plus "Have an Eggroll, Mr Goldstone"

But, like, maybe 3 memorable songs if memory serves?

gypsy does that thing musicals do where the first half seems to think it has all the time in the world to indulge in affectionate vaudeville pastiche and then when you come back from intermission it's like SHIT IS THAT THE TIME? I HAD A BUNCH OF PLOT ACTUALLY

Together, Wherever We Go (which i knew as a kid from Tony Randall singing it on The Odd Couple)
Everything's Coming Up Roses
Some People
Let Me Entertain You
aforementioned Goldstone
Rose's Turn (not exactly a song, ok)

a number of these were staples of TV variety shows in my childhood, so...

also the station mgr of WFMU regularly plays "You Gotta Have a Gimmick" amongst Rammstein and Japanese recordings of Jesus Christ Superstar on his freeform show

Was gonna say...

Everything’s coming up roses
Let me entertain you
Bump it with a trumpet

I know my “are the songs memorable?” firewall on what musicals I consider great allows in The Sound of Music, but so be it.

Gypsy is pretty great; I'd never seen it until recently when I went to a local production starring a friend (who killed, btw)

I'm still all about WSS though