A ‘West Side Story’ Story
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ส.ค. 2014
- Things don't go as expected onstage. Hilarity ensues. The infamous "poison boot" West Side Story story retold with award winning costumes and flawless acting.
West Side Story
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Arthur Laurents
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guys, we really need a broadway revival of west side story with THIS scene...
THE WAY I ALWAYS HEARD IT WAS "How many kicks left chino? How many kicks and one left for me?" LMAO
Do you know the story of the Jesus understudy for some church production of the resurrection of Christ? The original Jesus was supposed to ascend gracefully to heaven in front of the crowd but got the flu or something opening night. The understudy weighed way less than him and someone forgot to rebalance the rigging. So picture this kid playing Jesus, about to slowly and gracefully ascend while giving a speech or something, and instead just SHOOTS LIKE A ROCKET INTO THE RAFTERS.
I just imagine that with the team rocket line from Pokémon “WE’RE BLASTING OFF AGAIN!!!”
Another "West Side Story" Story: During "Gee, Officer Krupke" you know how every verse except one starts with "Deeeeeaaaaaarrrrrr" and that one starts with "My..." well when I went to see a production of it. The guy who had that one verse accidentally started it like the other verses and to compensate he started making things up, I swear to god some of the words probably weren't even real words
Man, a musical theatre channel wouldn't be complete without a video with a mishap with the props and the actors trying to compensate for it.
Lol, I was just in a production of WSS, and up until opening night, during the song "Gee, Officer Krupke", the guy who played Baby John would always mispronounce his name as "Krumke", which would piss off the director and the actors listening. The second night, however, he finally got the name "Krupke" right, and when he said that, the entire green room cheered loudly for him.
What a twist for one of the most devastating endings in any opera or musical! Now I am imagining Sweeney Todd killing Mrs. Lovett with a poison boot when the oven doors won't open, and then nudging the boot to Tobias for (as I interpret it, and as it is done in the original production) his suicide-by-deranged-mentally-ill-abuse-victim. Or how about Madama Butterfly not being able to find the knife with which her father committed seppuku, and hitting herself over the head with a poison boot at the massive tam-tam stroke? Brünnhilde not being able to ride onto Siegfried's funeral pyre, but rather riding her poor horse Grane into a pile of poison boots, which then topples over onto Walhalla? Don Jose forgetting his prop knife and throwing a poison boot at Carmen? The possibilities are endless!
Audrey II spitting a boot out at Audrey.
Carrie just going “Fark it!” and throwing boots everywhere.
Woah, wasn't expecting to see a picture of my old high school right then and there.
Tommy looks adorable in a beanie. I love it! I need more of it!
I'M DYING OF LAUGHTER, PLEASE SEND HELP.
When I heard the story, Maria told the others "How many kicks?"
POISON BOOT baahahahahahahaha
A poison boot. THE ULTIMATE WEAPON.
If this scene happens in the Spielberg version, I will deem it a worthy remake.
I thought after watching this how funny it'll be if all musicals that had a gun scene will use a poisonous boot. Then I remembered the gun dance scene in Hamilton.... omfg 😂
I'M DYING OF LAUGHTER OMG
Oh man that's awesome
pure beauty
I really enjoyed that.
Cute! Story!
True story: in high school I directed a play and in the first scene a woman kills her husband with a gun. Well one performance the gun jammed. The actor playing the man, still in character, tried to get the gun working again but couldn't. So he handed the gun back to her and told her, still in character "just shoot me." She pulled the trigger; he yelled *"BANG!"* and dropped down dead.
Lol I'm playing Chino in a production of West Side Story... XD XD XD
rumor has it this is how Spielberg plans to end his upcoming adaptation - Rachel Zegler will perform an incredibly moving rendition of the final monologue with boot in hand, just imagine...
FUN STUFF
Great story. XD
Hilariously, Maria herself didn't have to use the boot. Since in the original play she never fires the gun, she could have just picked up the prop gun and carried on as normal.
You're my favourite :-)
and that's how romeo and juliet turned into hamlet
"Better get rid of your shoe wear"
I want you to know that I take to school lot more serious than you do I see this movie in high school and I seen this movie on my own time and I actually enjoyed it have you ever watched the show of making fun of it I take movies bit more serious than you do and you took a very lightly and just ran with this For no reason at all if you want to review a movie then you better do it so we can front of a serious movie that has a very serious message behind itAnd it talks about being prejudice is wrong
😂😂😂😂
Sorry people It wasn't funny for me.