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Thought this might be of interest to some here: https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/history-legacy-showmanship/west-side-story-60th?limit=1&fbclid=IwAR1rLKg1aHJFUe9WobboywGWTLJlcxV_2t_Rzb-qgDVsNzXAi_ULv4hLFwU

Whatever one may think of the film, saying it's closer to the stage version is just silly. It is almost completely rewritten by Kushner. Yes, the structure is a bit closer (but not the same) as the stage show, but Kushner keeps Lehman's way of doing America. And no, no nomination for Zegler...

Why is it necessary to make this kind of post. The film wasn't made "today" - and shouldn't be judges as if it was.

Natalie Wood was terrific in mostly everything that had a good script and director. Of course, the person posting his disdain is welcome to his opinion just as we are welcome to offer ours. Not only Splendor in the Grass and Gypsy, she's superb in West Side Story, she's great in Inside Daisy...

Gee, Officer Krupke is a comedy number and it has a vital purpose BEING a comedy number. And when a comedy number gets not a single laugh, something is clearly wrong. The original film got it perfectly and had big laughs throughout and got applause every time I saw it during its original...

I'm sure it was a guaranteed booking given it's Spielberg and Disney. I suspect it will lose theaters after this week, but if there's nothing coming to replace it, then... They can keep it in theaters until the cows come home, but at 200 bucks a theater, it will just continue to be a losing...

Oh, so now that there's no more spinning the US box-office, this will be the new game? To try and tout its overseas numbers in every market? Its overseas numbers were worse than its US numbers when it opened overseas two weeks ago. I don't think that's going to change much. Unless you're trying...

I know no one who has gotten an actual screener for West Side Story - maybe we will, but Disney has NOT shipped it yet. What they have done is sent a link for streaming.

First off, I haven't seen anyone gloating in this thread, nor have I seen anyone equating bad box-office to the artistic worth of the film. What I HAVE seen, here but mostly elsewhere, is a lot of people who first acted like the box-office was fine and who said it would get better and have legs...

I think it's more than obvious that you know them. I read an interview with them - did someone make that interview up? Did the interview say they said something they didn't say? Something doesn't compute here. What does compute is that you're friends with them and therefore I completely...

I think you're confusing things here and we really shouldn't be doing that. The new West Side Story has been hugely appreciated by those who've seen it, at least most of them. This isn't about appreciation, it's about the fact that it is a HUGE box-office failure. That's not going to be...

Um, America is absolutely taken from the 1961 film - why would anyone even argue this point? The boys were not IN the stage version ever. It's just the Sharks' girls.

I don't think the theater was at fault here - I think these idiot, ego-ridden authors deliberately said what they said for publicity purposes. I have no question the Long Wharf was immediately contacted by the legal folks who control the show. I think we can file this under things that will...

I saw it today at the El Capitan in Hollywood (or what purports to be Hollywood - certainly not MY Hollywood) - great projection and sound. There were maybe forty to forty-five people. While some on Facebook would equate that to the theater being three-quarters full (yes, people actually lie...

You can't be serious. "He (meaning Tony Kushner - Spielberg didn't write the screenplay) made changes but tried not to drastically verge from the source material." The screenplay, other than the score itself as well as the plot, is entirely different. I mean ENTIRELY different - in tone, in...

C'mon already - you loved it. Be happy. You cannot spin the soft opening in any way. It had NO competition this week - zero. It's numbers are less than In the Heights and we know how that turned out. No one knows at this point what the ultimate numbers will be, but its overseas numbers were even...

I found Cyrano basically unwatchable and therefore shut it off after the hour I gave it - terrible songs. Was La La Land after The Greatest Showman? And in the bona fide flop department, you left out the biggest - Dear Evan Hansen.

They said the same thing about In the Heights - didn't happen. Not sure with these very small crowds that it will happen here either - Spiderman comes next week and that's where everyone will be.