say it loud, and there's music playing...

"omg! you're going to hate it so much!"

is what Nick said to me when I told everyone at work that I was going to see West Side Story tonight. He also told me that they had translated "I Feel Pretty" y "A Boy Like That" into Spanish. They also set it in the current time which takes away a lot of the tension around a multicultural relationship. "It's like they had a meeting and said 'ok, you do costumes, you do set, you do music...' and then never met again."

what follows are my thoughts on it...

LOVE LOVE LOVED the dancing! some of the moves weren't as um, "tough" as i would have liked them for the opening scene but i let that slide when i saw how amazing the dance scene between the puerto ricans & italians was in "Mambo". 

then when tony & maria first meet and dance together. the first thing i thought was "don't do it girl, i know how it ends." all i kept thinking about was how sad she's going to be when he dies. 

but she does it anyway of course because she doesn't know how much of a bad idea it really is. 

and then he goes to her room late at night...and tells her he loves her. "aren't you going to say it back? you've gotta say it back..." 

he starts to walk away. she calls him back three times...everytime i tense up waiting for her to say it. 

she doesn't say it until she asks what tony stands for.

"anton."

"te adoro, anton."

tingly, gay feeling. 

that's when i decided this was pretty okay. then they had this little ginger boy come out during "somewhere" and sing. i don't know if he was suppose to be their love child or what but it was awk. 

even though i knew it was coming. i gasped when chino shot tony. they way they set it up was so quick.

tony thinks maria's dead. he goes looking for chino saying, "why don't you finish me off too?" 

he sees maria...runs to her....BANG!...chino comes outta nowhere and shoots him. 

tears running down my cheeks. then i was embarrassed so i wiped them away. 

gabe really liked it, he's staying with me for spring break. we both found it especially funny that they added "he's an asshole" to "A Boy Like That." 

God of Carnage tomorrow courtesy of NYFA. Free tickets are amazing. Then Impressionism on Thursday (thanks to my job!).