WEST SIDE STORY Reviews
WEST SIDE STORY Reviews
#1WEST SIDE STORY Reviews
Posted: 4/17/09 at 1:36pm
Walter Kerr's (New York Herald Tribune) is in and it's a RAVE!
The radioactive fallout from West Side Story must still be descending on Broadway this morning. Director, choreographer, and idea-man Jerome Robbins has put together, and then blasted apart, the most savage, restless, electrifying dance patterns we've been exposed to in a dozen seasons. ...the show rides with a catastrophic roar over the spider-web fire-escapes, the shadowed trestles, and the plain dirt battlegrounds of a big city feud.... there is fresh excitement in the next debacle, and the next.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#2re: WEST SIDE STORY Reviews
Posted: 4/17/09 at 1:36pm
Atkinson (at the TIMES) is positive.
Everything in West Side Story is of a piece. Everything contributes to the total impression of wildness, ecstasy and anguish. The astringent score has moments of tranquillity and rapture, and occasionally a touch of sardonic humor. And the ballets convey the things that Mr. Laurents is inhibited from saying because the characters are so inarticulate. The hostility and suspicion between the gangs, the glory of the nuptials, the terror of the rumble, the devastating climax-Mr. Robbins has found the patterns of movement that express these parts of the story.
Times
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Updated On: 4/17/09 at 01:36 PM
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#2re: WEST SIDE STORY Reviews
Posted: 4/17/09 at 1:38pm
TIME magazine gives the show a good notice with a RAVE for Robbins.
It also suggests that the salvation of the serious Broadway musical may lie in neither text nor music?which, trying to coalesce, all too often merely collide?but in dancing. he near success of West Side Story certainly derives from its dancing. If there are special reasons for this?the brilliance of the choreographer, Jerome Robbins, and the choreographic rightness of the material?the point is still worth pondering. For despite much talk about integration and balance in serious musicals, musical drama?unlike musical satire or comedy ?must have a master pulse. Hence the one alternative to what must virtually be opera is what will roughly be ballet.
TIMEs
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#3re: WEST SIDE STORY Reviews
Posted: 4/17/09 at 1:41pm
I think these reviews mean the TONY is locked up! The only other show that could take it is THE MUSIC MAN and I've never even heard of this woman Meredith Willson.
Does anyone know if Larry Kert stage doors??
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#4re: WEST SIDE STORY Reviews
Posted: 4/17/09 at 1:47pmNice try.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#5re: WEST SIDE STORY Reviews
Posted: 4/17/09 at 2:59pmDoes that mean he doesn't?
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#6re: WEST SIDE STORY Reviews
Posted: 4/17/09 at 3:00pmHe did last Sunday, and he was the nicest person I've ever met. We had a conversation that lasted two minutes and forty-three seconds.
