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I agree about Nixon. Plus she always sounded too old for Maria to me anyway. If I could lift Rachel Zegler’s vocals and place them on the ‘61 album I’d be in heaven. Wand never sounded drunk or Mexican to me on that track, but to each his own. I’m not sure why they felt the need to dub Moreno...

I grew up on the OBC but in my 20s, thanks to some jazz musician friends, I bought the ‘61 soundtrack and it’s been my go-to recording ever since. I think Irwin Kostal and Sid Ramin improved greatly on their own arrangements from the OBC, possibly because Bernstein was no longer directly...

Sadly, due to health and mobility issues I cannot see it on the big screen like I want. I would have loved to see it in Imax. But I’m forced to wait for the streaming or disc release. I have been spinning the soundtrack though. Love it, although it hasn’t edged out the ‘61 soundtrack as my...

The ‘61 film had a very slow release. It opened in October 1961 on just one screen: the Rivoli in NYC. That was the only theater anywhere running West Side Story until November when roadshow engagements opened in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, On December 13 it opened at Grauman’s Chinese...

Yeah, an argument could certainly be made that the ‘61 film putting Rita Moreno, Yvonne Orthon and other Puerto Rican and Latinx performers in brown face was “revisionist.” Moreno certainly thought so at the time as well as now. It does take some major balls (or ignorance) to argue with a...