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i pref "Gee Officer Krupke"

-- Dr M (wjwe...), December 5th, 2006. (later)

I still say they're singing "fuckin'" at the end of that song.

― PPlains (PPlains), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

they say "krup you", which was pretty racy at the time!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

horseshoe, over Donen & Minnelli? no way!

also, fastest-disappearing Oscar winner ever... George Chakiris? (He was in The Young Girls of Rochefort and not much else of note subsequently.)

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I meant more favorite musical than movie musical. but I think it's my favorite movie musical, too.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

sometimes I think all modern Indian cinema is based on "West Side Story"

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw West Side Story for the first time when I was 8, and I think I cried for about 45 minutes after the end of the movie. I think my mom threatened me with some kind of punishment if I didn't stop crying. It was just too tragic! Though I'm kind of over it now. Kind of.

― Leon Czolgosz (Leon), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Absurdly, I've never seen the film. I looove the music, though: I have the original cast recording on an old cassette. Can't do much better than Bernstein + Sondheim.

My high school used to put on this "cabaret night" every spring -- you had to audition for a performance slot -- and there was always a tradition of an all-male chorus, which did a whole choreographed routine. One year we did "Standin' on the Corner (Watchin' All the Girls Go By)" and the next we did "Gee Officer Krupke."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Love the movie, but this was the first place I ever heard the music:
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― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

That's funny---I worked making donuts on the graveyard shift and all my fellow bakers were only into really bullshit metal ala Hatebreed. So pretty much any night I got to choose the music it was WEST SIDE STORY time! It's my favorite musical soundtrack ever. I don't see why anyone likes GREASE when WSS exists.

Also, whenever me & the boy want to say we suspect a girl is a girl-like, we say 'she could be cast as Anybodys,' who I desperatley wanted to play in the HS production. I did not even make it to the chorus.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

This is my favorite musical of all-time. I played Action in our high school production (oh the lols when the only black kid in the cast got to tell a white kid playing a Puerto Rican "YOU'RE TOO DARK TO PASS!") and got to sing "Gee, Officer Krupke"; you'll have to ask Sara, John and FB whether I was any good at it or not. (Heh)

I like the stage show a lot more than the movie because I don't like the changes they made to the song order and who sang them for the movie.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

haven't seen in ages but I like it fine... tho I would probably rate all of my favorite Fosse material ahead of it.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost)Dan was great, and so were John and FB (if memory serves, John was a Shark and FB a Jet...). I would never lie about West Side Story. But I will admit that I watched it from backstage, not from the audience.

Dan, I don't remember that line, but I'm laughing now...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

People still call them librettos?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link

...Yes?

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 05:01 (seventeen years ago) link

If you call it a "book," many ppl get confused.

I was thinking of comedian Bob Smith's line about how the stories of musicals all stink, and that he lives in fear of someone opening a libretto bar.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Wood movies - West Side Story vs. Brainstorm

West Side Story does not feature an old man having 800 orgasms in a row, I rest my case.

― JTS (JTS), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I might see Chita Rivera (the original Anita) LIVE next weekend, sooooo excited.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 8 December 2006 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link

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