When this version of West Side Story opened on Broadway in March, 2009, theatergoers were surprised by Arthur Laurents's restaging and the actress playing Maria.
"This show will be radically different from any other production of West Side Story ever done," he wrote in 2008, even before he had cast Maria.
He decided to have the Puerto Ricans use Spanish when they spoke with each other. Even some song verses were in Spanish.
Then he had to find the perfect Maria. Friends in Buenos Aires told him to watch this youtube clip of a young actress whom they thought would be perfect.
Laurents agreed and paid for her to come to New York for an audition. He hired her immediately.
The four of us were disappointed in tonight's performance. Some can be attributed to difficulties with the sound system in the first act.
As one of us said, we are not a tough audience but the play just did not move us. Perhaps we were spoiled by the others in the Broadway Series. Les Miserables is a difficult act to follow.
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