It's the Sharks versus the Jets. It's Tony and Maria who find instant dangerous love on a dance floor. It's Leonard Bernstein's incredible music with lyrics by a young Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents and original choreography by Jerome Robbins. It's West Side Story (1957), that most American...
It's the Sharks versus the Jets. It's Tony and Maria who find instant dangerous love on a dance floor. It's Leonard Bernstein 's incredible music with lyrics by a young Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents and original choreography by Jerome Robbins., that most American of musicals even though its source material of Romeo and Juliet was set in 14th Century Verona, Italy.
"My family were gypsies so I understood from a fairly young age what I was getting into. There's opportunities to travel all around the world and meet amazing people. and do amazing works of art but in the pursuit of that passion for that art form you give up some things. You give up financial stability all the time and just a normal schedule all the time. I've been lucky enough to work and sometimes I've had trouble finding work.
He says he's always been intrigued by TV and film and has learned to approach it in a far less linear way than the narrative arc of theater. In film he's learned"to be present in every moment. There's a million things happening behind the camera in your eyesight. You have to block that out; you have to stand perfectly."movie with Spielberg is his favorite movie experience.
He says he's been lucky enough to do slightly different versions of this show a lot so I've taken and seen things from a lot of different people."That's part of the joy of being an artist, the collaboration." and says this one is set in modern times.
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