Cappybara Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 18 hours ago, Jeff Ream said: well after 2017 i'd be back flipping mad too The Cadets truly do ruin everything 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Continental Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 28 minutes ago, skevinp said: FWIW ethnicity is not the same thing as race. Also FWIW, Natalie Wood’s real name was Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko. RKO pictures made her change her name because it was more "Star Friendly." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 1 hour ago, DFA1970 said: She's in the new movie but a different character from, 1961 (obviously). And I think also as an executive producer. The Exec Producer part is what I was thinking of. Good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 2 hours ago, jpaul said: The broadway revival was meant to be updated. The Spielberg film appears to be set in the 50s. As much as I am a huge fan of the Jerome Robbins choreography, I also love Justin Peck's work and am excited to see his interpretation. The Broadway revival over a decade ago was directed by Arthur Laurents who wrote the original book. My daughter-in-law was a Production Assistant on that show, so we got to attend the dress rehearsal. Laurents came out to speak to the audience. His viewpoint was that there was no reason to replicate exactly what was done before, so he made a bunch of changes. One was to have some of the songs sung in Spanish. "I Feel Pretty" had an amazing sound in Spanish, just listening to the flow of the lyrics. He did recreate a bunch of Robbins' choreography. It was actually contractual; any revival on Broadway had to do that. I guess they got that changed for the current revival. The Maria in that show was from Argentina, a wonderful young actress named Josefina Scaglione (Argentina????) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 31 minutes ago, MikeD said: The Maria in that show was from Argentina, a wonderful young actress named Josefina Scaglione (Argentina????) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josefina_Scaglione 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Tuma Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 4 hours ago, Lance said: You find it hard to believe that a movie studio in the 50s that cast a Polish guy in brown face and lily white woman as "Puerto Ricans" would relegate an actual Puerto Rican to a supporting role rather than a starring one? Even if it didn't go down exactly like that, it certainly wouldn't be unheard of at that time. The phrase "too ethnic" as grounds for routine discrimination was actually pretty PC in the 50s, disgustingly enough. I don’t find it hard to believe at all! What I doubted was Rita Moreno auditioning for the role of Maria. (The person who made that claim graciously cleared that up.) I know what Hollywood did (does) to actors who don’t fit their mold. Dorothy Dandridge comes to mind. Anyway... I read Spielberg is relying on the stage version rather than the film version. “Cool” and “Officer Krupke” occur before the rumble in the film rather than after and “America” went coed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Neal's Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 3 hours ago, skevinp said: FWIW ethnicity is not the same thing as race. Also FWIW, Natalie Wood’s real name was Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko. Exactly. There are white latino's. Maybe they should fill the Maria role with a African American? Less problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Continental Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, MikeD said: The Maria in that show was from Argentina, a wonderful young actress named Josefina Scaglione (Argentina????) 62.5% of Argentina has Italian, ethnic ancestry. Edited April 27, 2021 by Continental 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Continental Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 35 minutes ago, O'Neal's said: Exactly. There are white latino's. Maybe they should fill the Maria role with a African American? Less problems. Since it's Spielberg, you know who else could play Maria? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skevinp Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 4 minutes ago, Continental said: Since it's Spielberg, you know who else could play Maria? “I Feel Pretty” is going to be a stretch. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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