Spielberg’s West Side Story

[Sondheimite]

the most intersting part of this is Kushner but I'm still much more interested in the Ivo broadway revival.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

The Sabrina remake was a fine film, but fine seemed to be all it was. The original, for its faults, had Billy Wilder's direction which is just so in-step with that genre, and the trio of Hepburn-Bogart-Holden. Bogart seems to be the odd-one-out but for some people he worked in the role. It's also just funny to see him play that sort of role. I think Julia Ormond was ok in the title role, I liked her in other things, but clearly what made the original a classic was Audrey Hepburn's luminous performance and a distinctiveness that only she could have brought to it. Ormond seemed a bit sleep walky in it at times.

[BwayLB]

ScottyDoesn'tKnow2 said: "TheSabrinaremake was a fine film, but fine seemed to be all it was. The original, for its faults, had Billy Wilder's direction which is just so in-step with that genre, and the trio of Hepburn-Bogart-Holden. Bogart seems to be the odd-one-out but for some people he worked in the role. It's also just funny to see him play that sort of role. I think Julia Ormond was ok in the title role, I liked her in other things, but clearly what made the original a classic was Audrey Hepburn's luminous performance and a distinctiveness that only she could have brought to it. Ormond seemed a bit sleep walky in it at times."

I actually liked the remake better than the original.

[Mister Matt]

I was a Baby John and am now very much a Gladhand.  

Ooo!  Ooo!  Oobly-ooo!

[BrodyFosse123]

[Peter2]

It sounds exciting! Basing it on the Broadway version is great. I’d be thrilled if they use the original stage orchestrations (Bernstein himself didn’t like the “enhanced” arrangements for the film), include the ballet, and restore the awful cut in “A Boy Like That.”

[BwayLB]

The Somewhere Ballet would be exciting

[AEA AGMA SM]

From some of the comments here you would think that the original film was a complete hatchet job to both the book and score.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

AEA AGMA SM said: "From some of the comments here you would think that the original film was a complete hatchet job to both the book and score."

I don't think anybody said anything like that. They're just wondering if they will put things back in from the original Broadway version that the 1961 film version cut out and are a bit excited about it. I admit that I never got the full effect of "Somewhere" until I saw the Broadway Tour with the ballet and Anybodys singing it.

[Peter2]

ScottyDoesn'tKnow2 said: "AEA AGMA SM said: "From some of the comments here you would think that the original film was a complete hatchet job to both the book and score."

I don't think anybody said anything like that. They're just wondering if they will put things back in from the original Broadway version that the 1961 film version cut out and are a bit excited about it. I admit that I never got the full effect of "Somewhere" until I saw the Broadway Tour with the ballet and Anybodys singing it."

Yes, I agree. The Spielberg production may be wonderful--hope it is!--or it may fail, but, as Kushner points out, either way nobody's going to stop loving the 1961 movie.