haineshisway
Senior HTF Member
This is not the first production of West Side Story to use new dancing, and I believe the Spielberg will also feature new dancing, but perhaps with nods to Robbins. I doubt the Spielberg film will have the ballet, just as the Wise film didn't have the ballet. As to I Feel Pretty, it serves a purpose in the show - it's a moment for its leading lady, a moment for her to feel JOY and a comic moment that the show sorely needs and, in the show, the act two opener after the audience knows the tragedy that ended act one.