I performed this muscial in 2000 and bought the CD for the purose! You cannot help singing along to classics like "I like to be in America" and "I feel Pretty". The cast are naturally exceedingly talented and when dancing along it is nice to pretend you are the one singing!
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Advantages: It's a classic and brilliantly sung Disadvantages: some people with ignore it as it is a musical
I performed this muscial in 2000 and bought the CD for the purose! You cannot help singing along to classics like "I like to be in America" and "I feel Pretty". The cast are naturally exceedingly talented and when dancing along it is nice to pretend you are the one singing!
Some songs are comical for example "Officer Krupke"
Some or Sinister for example "Cool"
Some ... ...full of Pride "Jets song"
Some are full of dreams "Somewhere"
There is definately something for everyone regardless of whether you are a hardcore musicals fan or a musical hater. Not all the songs are soppy or sad and the tunes are catchy and make you tap to the beat!
I would recommend this as a musical and as a CD as you can follow the story more or less through only the music. The ... more
I performed this muscial in 2000 and bought the CD for the purose! You cannot help singing along to classics like "I like to be in America" and "I feel Pretty". The cast are naturally exceedingly talented and when dancing along it is nice to pretend you are the one singing!
Some songs are comical for example "Officer Krupke"
Some or Sinister for example "Cool"
Some are full of anticipation "Tonight"
Some are full of Pride "Jets song"
Some are full of dreams "Somewhere"
There is definately something for everyone regardless of whether you are a hardcore musicals fan or a musical hater. Not all the songs are soppy or sad and the tunes are catchy and make you tap to the beat!
I would recommend this as a musical and as a CD as you can follow the story more or less through only the music. The story is a typical Romeo and Juliette tale. Tony (Romeo) falls for Maria (Juliette) and they are members of rival gangs the Jets and Sharks respectively. When Maria's brother finds out there is all hell to pay, ha challenged the Jets to a best fighter verses best fighter but then at the fight things get out of the hand and Bernado (Maria's brother) kills Riff (Jet leader) and Tony kills Bernado and then has to run from the poilce. As with Romeo and Juliette the end is tragic and young love is wickedly cut short.
Icklerae 25.07.2007 (25.07.2007)
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Review of West Side Story [Remastered] - Original Broadway Cast
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Product details
Title
West Side Story [Remastered]
Performer
Original Broadway Cast
Genre
Soundtracks
Sub Genre
Show
Release Date
03/09/2007
Original Release Year
1958
Label / Distributor
Columbia Masterworks / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Producer
Goddard Liberson
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
5099706072423
Catalogue Number
SMK 60724
SPAR code
AAD
Additional notes
Album Notes
Mini disc available on Columbia (32603). NOTES: Music composed by Leonard Bernstein. Lyrics written by Stephen Sondheim. Principal cast: Carol Lawrence (Maria); Larry Kert (Tony); Chita Rivera (Anita); Mickey Calin (Riff); Ken Le Roy (Bernardo). Original cast recorded at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, New York on September 29, 1957. Includes liner notes by Martin Charnin and Nicholas Deutsch. All tracks have been digitally remastered. This is part of Columbia Records' Columbia Broadway Masterworks series. Record buyers who had not seen the show that opened on Broadway in 1957, could hardly believe their ears when this dramatic, early stereo album reached the stores soon afterwards. Classical composer Leonard Bernstein and newcomer Stephen Sondheim's spellbinding score combined exquisite ballads such as "Maria" and "Tonight" with streetwise numbers such as "Gee, Officer Krupke" and the exhilarating "America." Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert and Chita Rivera led the superb young cast, and the album stayed for 120 weeks in the US chart but faired poorly on its UK release. In 1991 it was inducted into the NARAS Hall of Fame.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Prologue
2.
Jet Song
3.
Something's Coming
4.
Dance At The Gym
5.
Maria
6.
Tonight
7.
America
8.
Cool
9.
One Hand One Heart
10.
Tonight (Quintet And chorus)
11.
Tumble
12.
I Feel Pretty
13.
Somwhere (Ballet)
14.
Gee Officer Krupke
15.
Boy Like That/I Have A Love
16.
Finale
17.
Prologue (bonus track)
18.
Somewhere (bonus track)
19.
Scherzo (bonus track)
20.
Mambo (bonus track)
21.
Cha-Cha (bonus track)
22.
Meeting Scene (bonus track)
23.
Cool Fugue (bonus track)
24.
Rumble (bonus track)
25.
Finale (bonus track)
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