West Side Story

the play West Side Story is a well performed play that people should see. It possess qualities of a musical, thriller, crime, drama, and romance to create a captivating performance. The theater at times was filled with laughter and sadness to create an interesting emotional roller coaster. In this critique, I will be reviewing aspects of scenography, costumes, music, and many other pieces of the successful production. To begin with, the scenography mimics the aspects of Upper West Side New York

musical, West Side Story had an enormous impact on the world around it. It challenged people’s ideas on immigration and racism while capturing one's heart with a tragic love story. One a smaller scale, a mural in Morrison, IL, remines any viewer the importance of art. Art has transformed the social environment in America by questioning some of our fundamental values and thoughts; however, art has also inspired Americans to live their best life and strive for success. The musical West Side Story is a

The musical, the west side story, is by Arthur Laurents. This musical was inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. Some of the songs in this musical are Jet Song, Something's coming, and A Dance at the Gym. This story is set in an Upper West Side neighborhood in New York city. It was also set in the mid 1950s. This musical is about two teenage gangs. One of the gangs is a white American gang, the jets, led by Riff and the other gang is a Puerto Rican gang, the sharks, led by Bernardo

“Cool” from the theater production, West Side Story, is a classic. Contrary to many song’s we’ve listened to in class, this was written for theater, and therefore is an example of popular music. The song is clearly jazz, it’s slow, follows a typical jazz-like rhythm, and more importantly has finger snapping. The piano plays the same rhythm cyclically, but at different pitches. There is repetition throughout the song lyrically, as well. At around 1 minute in, the continuous lyrics stop, as well as

Love One of the many themes for the novel “West Side Story” is love conquers all. This means that no matter what is happening, through the highs and the lows. Love is stronger than it all and always ends up on top. Throughout the novel this theme is present avidly. We see it when Tony knows it is wrong to love Maria, but yet he meets her on the fire escape. We also see it when Tony dies at the end and the gangs are united together by the love that Tony and Maria had for each other. Even the undying

tendencies like never before? Playing a vivacious and strong woman in the performance of a musical, of course! By taking on the role of Anita in my school’s production of West Side Story, I truly became a more confident and empowered version of myself. While I have always been fairly self-assured, I never fully embraced this side of myself in fear of being seen as bossy. This led to being withdrawn amongst my peers and being overly conscious of my interactions with others. In previous stage performances

London, where the man re-enacted “María” from West Side Story. It was Cofer’s Hispanic appearance which led to the incident and the extra attention caused her to feel like an “island”. She felt out of place and insists that the same situation would not have likely occurred to a white woman. Next, Cofer recounts another stereotypical encounter with an American man who serenaded her with a different degrading and humiliating song, followed by the story of the time she was mistaken for a waitress in

work that I have chosen to analyze the concepts is a song called “America”, which is a clip from movie West Side Story. MUSICAL CONCEPTS Since the beginning of the time rhythm has capture the soul of all people, from very first heartbeat

Grantaire’s jealousy started with the release of the cast list for the production of West Side Story. The Cast List stated Enjolras, his long-time crush, had been cast as Tony Wyzek. It also stated Éponine Thénardier,his long-time best friend,as his love interest, Maria Nuñez. “I can’t believe you get to KISS Enjolras!” Grantaire complained, as he and Éponine sat on his bed. Éponine had come over the house to look at the cast list on Grantaire's computer. “Grantaire, we only kiss like twice or

At around 12:00 PM on November 27, 1981, Miracle on 34th Street and West Side Story actress Natalie Wood boarded her yacht, called the Splendour, along with her husband, Robert Wagner, and her Brainstorm co-star, Christopher Walken. Two days later on November 29, 1981, Wood’s waterlogged body would be discovered floating face down about two hundred yards off of Catalina Island, California. She was found not far away from a dinghy from the Splendour, which was washed up onto rocks. Its ignition was