In his long and storied career, Steven Spielberg never has ventured into the musical genre but always has wanted to give it a try. So now, nearly half a century after his first feature film, he fin…
In his long and storied career, Steven Spielberg never has ventured into the musical genre but always has wanted to give it a try.
is that in world racked by racism, nativism, impossible division, poverty and a lack of hope, there is still the possibility that maybe, justThe original 1957 Broadway production — Leonard Bernstein wrote the music, Stephen Sondheim penned the lyrics, Jerome Robbins choreographed and Arthur Laurents wrote the book — conceived of this as a modernset against the gang wars of the white Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks in an-ever changing environment and gentrification on New York City’s West Side.
The tone of Kushner’s script, which also reorders the songs and action in smart ways, is set right at the start with a more mature-feeling musical prologue set to the decaying streets of an area that is being torn down, moving out the descendants of Eastern immigrants as well as the Puerto Rican population .
Anita is a powerhouse role for any actor, and Ariana DeBose, with vast experience in the theater and movie credits likedoes the role proud even as she is literally in the shadow here of Moreno.
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