In the words of Arthur Laurents within “West Side Story” itself, “When you were my age when my old man was my age when my brother was my age! You were never my age, none of you! The sooner you creeps get hip to that, the sooner you’ll dig me.” Even art cannot convey the individual experience, and art is the best hope humanity has to do such a thing.įor further proof of shallowness, many millennials and gen-z echoed the same sentiments on such websites as Twitter. What might appear as shallow, inartistic, or may present with “problematic appropriation” is the experience of the critics who cannot get past the artistic attempt to reveal a deep experience of one’s own experience. Doctorow the experience of experience cannot be conveyed. The Los Angeles Times reported “But is it possible to transform a text like that of “West Side Story,” as profoundly flawed as it is groundbreaking and beloved, with such surface-level fixes? No matter how many Nuyorican actors are cast, how many lines are recited in Spanish, how many Puerto Rican consultants are hired and how many panels with historical experts are held, the collective effort does not correct the problematic appropriation on which the musical was built.”
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In 2021, Steven Spielberg sought to remake “West Side Story” as a movie for a modern audience stating that “It’s important that representation be authentic to return the piece to the integrity that I think it deserves…I really felt - we felt, all of us, together - that we needed this to be a Latinx production.” While this was met with increased positivity, the internet continued to speak strongly against “West Side Story”. There are countless reviews and literary criticisms that condemn “West Side Story” as inflammatory, provocative, and lionizing violence while validating it within a love story.
Many have believed that Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim missed the point of the original play. These criticisms focus on the prominent racism, use of brown face, and the propagation of harmful stereotypes within the musical itself. Many Shakespearean scholars also have condemned the show, stating that it does not speak for its source material “Romeo and Juliet”.
The point of this particular musical is to give an artistic focus which opens an emotional doorway to a cultural inhumanity. Even the blues can only suggest the harsh realities from which it was derived. Musicals rely on their music to tell their story, but music tends to blur authenticity. Many believe that the show suffers from its rose-tinted retrospective which does more harm to modern America than good. The show itself has been deemed artistically flawed and unfixable, with many critics believing that it should not be remembered or revered as fondly as it is. While it is beloved by many, the Broadway show has been met with consistent criticism throughout its many revivals and adaptations. “West Side Story” has been an iconic American musical for over sixty years. As they stood there hungry, I stood there crying, is this land really made for you and me?” –Woodie Guthrie “By the concrete parks, in the shadow of the steeples, by the relief office, I’ve seen my people.
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