5 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi everyone. I'm Joanna. |
0:04.5 | And I'm Jenny. |
0:05.6 | And this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen. And Jenny, we have a really |
0:12.3 | interesting conversation set up for this episode. We're actually both kind of nervous for it. |
0:19.6 | Kind of nervous. You took your stage fried medication me too you don't say i don't know why like |
0:27.1 | well i think you know west side story is for me like the pinnacle of musical theater but also |
0:36.4 | you know sort of a play that was ahead of its time in some ways |
0:41.9 | in incorporating Latino perspectives into something mainstream. And it's sort of like, I think, |
0:53.5 | one of the most famous plays in the world. |
0:56.1 | And now we're going to be speaking to three of the performers that are in the new Steven Spielberg remake. |
1:02.7 | And it's just, it's a, it feels historic is what it feels. |
1:07.2 | You know what I mean? |
1:07.5 | That's what it is. I think that's what it is. |
1:10.0 | Like, whoa. |
1:10.7 | Because like when West Side Story came out in Broadway in 1957, it was historic. And then in 1961, |
1:17.8 | when it was a movie for the first time, it was historic. It was ahead of its time for its moment because |
1:24.1 | it, although there are some issues with it in retrospect, it did talk about |
1:28.2 | race and tensions and immigration and what that meant and identity. And, you know, even though the |
1:35.9 | creators were these four white dudes, they were four Jewish gay men who sort of understood |
1:41.8 | the idea of not belonging and being outsiders and fighting for |
1:48.3 | who you are in the world. Which is sort of what this movie is really about, what this, what this |
1:54.2 | story is really about. And you know, there's always a criticism revolving around a remake. You know, |
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