What does Sondheim think of the new "West Side Story?"
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- Опубликовано: 15 фев 2020
- "West Side Story" creator Stephen Sondheim tells 60 Minutes why he approves the changes made to the 2020 Broadway revival.
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Sondheim sounds amazing for 90-years-old. I closed my eyes and his voice doesn't quaver, no hesitation or stumbling. He sounds sharp and bright. THANK YOU MR. SONDHEIM!
I don’t listen classical music....but I don’t want to rewrite it!
Somethings must be kept as it is.
Anyway who am I to judge !
Good luck to the film I am sure it will be an insta hit....
True he’s in fine mental condition.
sadly he passed yesterday but he was very great and he does sound sharp for sure
I feel like the interviewer was baiting Soundheim to voice complaints, but Soundheim navigated the interview very professionally. A true master of his craft and the industry.
yup. well said. and we wonder why Sondheim has done relatively few video interviews in recent years.
Sometimes interviewers "play" the role of the negative nellies so that the artists can defend the work. Now no one can say that Sondheim doesn't approve of changes, updates, etc.
@Adam Efimoff And smarter than just about everyone!
My sentiments exactly!
Or there's nothing "professional" about his answers. He was giving his honest opinion. The interviewer couldn't bait for a complaint because there was no complaint.
This man is incredibly articulate and well spoken at an age of 90, where most people would have a hard time of collecting their thoughts. You are incredible Sondheim, and may you live another 90 years and more!
this aged badly lll
This man helped write so many songs that made my childhood absolutely magical. Thank you for sharing your music and magic with us!
Stephen Sondheim is 90 now. Just remember this: he might have gone off to Korea, had asthma not kept him out of the military.
WE LOVE YOU MR. SONDHEIM!!!
Emma Rose he looks it, but he doesn’t move like it
89 and still sharp!
The man is not only a landmark genius of the theater, but a class act as well.
So bright, so sharp, so broad minded. We will miss that kind of openness to change in the later stages of life. RIP Mr. Sondheim.
Most folks tend forget that the late Leonard Bernstein was the maestro who composed all the wonderful music. Sondheim composed the lyrics, which is not to suggest that his input was any less important 🖐😉
Exactly. So whose idea was it to write that Stephen Sondheim was the creator of West Side Story?
@@grantcurry4839 Certainly not Mr Sondheim. The idea of transposing Romeo and Juliet to New York was actually Jerome Robbns idea and the book was written by Arthur Laurents.
People haven’t forgotten that at all. It’s Bernstein’s acknowledged masterpiece.it’s just that Sondheim is still alive!
ahh, thanks for clarifying. when I saw the title I was like, "wow! I didn't know Sondheim made this!" and then I was wondering why i didn't realize it before because it's usually really easy to pick out his stuff just by the way it sounds.
Scroll up and you will see this: "West Side Story" creator Stephen Sondheim tells 60 Minutes why he approves (of) the changes made to the 2020 Broadway revival. If the person who'd written that caption had written, "West Side Story" LYRICIST, Stephen Sondheim tells 60 Minutes why he approves of the changes made to the 2020 Broadway revival, it would have been accurate.
I guess it's hard for Mr. Sondheim to say that West Side Story is a miracle: an incomparable masterpiece--acting, dancing, the music. It shook up the world. It played in the same theatre in Paris for either four or five years!!! I'll NEVER tire of looking at the original film--but I look forward to see what the new team has done. They already have the script, the concept, the dancing and music and so forth--they just have to DO IT RIGHT. And I wish them all the best. Btw, Mr. Sondheim, thanks for those lyrics--they're brilliant and they will last.
Sondheim is incredibly sharp for a man turning 90
I could listen to him talk about theatre all day. His comments about the theatre as a living organism that requires change, while shooting down terms like “evolution,” are brilliant. And there it is-that Sondheim criticism of all-“hummable.” :p To wit: critics have always said that Sondheim doesn’t have “simple, hummable tunes,” which in turn makes his work inaccessible and elitist. The guy is still fighting against it! :p
Granted, it was Bernstein's score for this one.
Yet it find myself humming tonight from west side story right at this moment take that critics
God bless Sondheim. A living treasure!
oh...
"a play or musical lives on by its reinterpretation." if only he'd had the sense to say that about porgy & bess...
What did he say about porgy and bess
@@qsings8674 he said the folks involved in the last (award-winning) revival had "distain" for the original...
Douglas Trazzare oh, I haven’t heard about this
@@douglastrazzare3298 His issue was with the revival's director and re-writer calling it "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess", which omits the vital contributions of the lyricist/source material author DuBose Heyward, as well as their condescending remarks towards the original Porgy and Bess, claiming to "fix" the characters, love story, holes/issues, ending, etc. He emphasized he was only criticizing their arrogance, not the production itself.
Douglas Trazzare he can believe both simultaneously. He never said every interpretation is de facto quality.
Thank you so much for your WSS lyrics.
I LOVE the original movie! It was a masterpiece. I couldn't image how a remake could be made. But, Steven Spielberg is genius, and the trailer looks VERY good! I'm looking forward to seeing it! But, I’ll never abandon my love of the original! I hope to ADD my love to the new version.
Fire Amar
Just so everyone is clear, they are talking about Belgian director Ivo van Hove's restaging of West Side Story, not the new movie.
Sorry, I thought they were talking about the new 2021 MOVIE, which I KNOW Stephen Sondheim REALLY Loved, supported, respected and appreciated!!
What an eternal extraordinary great young man!
gotta love Stephen Sondheim
“What keeps the theatre alive is re-interpretation”. This one line alone should be used to stop those complaining that there’s a remake 60+ years after the orginal one. I loved the original one, but is has its faults, and I’m looking forward to seeing this one. Every time there’s a cast change on stage there’s a reinterpretation of the characters and how they sing the songs. It shouldn’t be any different for film, appreciate that we’re getting these great musicals filmed today with new actors and known directors who will bring this incredible piece to a brand new audience and keep it alive for many more years to come. To quote him again “God willing in another few years there will be another new interpretation”.
Creating and panding to policital groups to change elements to support their agenda isn't re-interpreting something it's altering the actual source material to the detriment of the core story. I wish I could appreciate this and was looking forward to it for a year having seen the first revival 5 times and the second revial once, as well as the original film and every touring company. But unfortunately I'm not going to see it because I have learned that they using the film to push political narratives that were not part of the story from it's inception. Again, that's not a re-interpretation. That's destroying it. Hollywood destroys everything it touches because they can't keep their ignorant politics to themselves.
@@djjnonya2170 But with every version you will have seen there would have been a re-invention, every time a cast member is replaced the character itself is altered to their interpretation, every time a different director directs something they put their interpretation, it is literally reinvented constantly. If it weren’t it wouldn’t survive. Things have to remain relevant and keep bringing in new audiences. Personally I love seeing other peoples takes on classic musicals and plays. Imagine if nobody ever did a Chekhov or a Shakespeare or an Ibsen ever again because people only want to see the original and won’t accept any other version. Look at the incredible reinvention of Company that took the West End by storm and as i now doing the same on Broadway - it actually works better in places than the original, all because of reinvention, and all with Sondheims blessing.
@@djjnonya2170 I think you need to look beyond what you think their agenda is, and just enjoy the movie. The new WSS is excellent, and in so many ways an improvement on the first movie
@@greens294 it's not what I "think" their agenda is it's what their agenda clearly "IS". You need to stop tuning out the not so subtle agendas that are tearing apart the fabric of our nation for ENTERTAINMENT. Because that's what this is. Entertainment and nothing more. It is completely non-essential and if you are trying to tell me that there isn't an agenda at play here to portray the Jet's as racists and the Latinos as victims as well as pushing characters being transgendered which adds no value to the story then you are blind.
Tony doens't want to get involved because he is afraid of going back to prison not because he found a better life in staying out of the nonsense. It's definitely a watered down ruined version of the actual story that focuses on self centeredness. Content wise it is NOT an improvement over the original. Perhaps in the production values but that isn't actually factored into the worth or value of a film like this in my opinion.
I would rather watch a bootleg of a stage version to see the intact story that doesn't focus on gender equality and push narratives about how essential and hard working immigrants are. That's political fodder in this day and age and if you don't see that you are blind. That essentially is NOT what West Side Story was about. It was about hating people that are different or at odds with each other. It's not another opportunity for Stephen Spielberg to shove his liberal politics down everyone's throat.
It worked better when it was a simple message. Trying jam in every "woke" checkbox to appeal to the dumbed down general population isn't a net gain.
@@djjnonya2170 minus making a single character transgender (which I think made that character more interesting), the portrayal of the Jets and Sharks was fairly similar to the play. Jets were fairly racist in the original movie too. But much like the new movie, they are at some point redeemable. I think you fail to realize that most Hollywood films through the years had a message to convey. And I’m sure most of those messages you would consider part of a “liberal agenda” if you looked back on it. You really think the original West Side Story had none of that? You think it had nothing to say? You say it’s about people who hate each other for being different, but somehow don’t see how that is a study of racism. That kinda makes you a little blind. Or at least selectively blind.
I also strongly disagree with you on Tony’s back story. I think it was much stronger in the newer version. It doesn’t sound like you saw the movie, but there is more to it than what you wrote. If you haven’t seen the movie, you really should abstain from criticism, since you don’t exactly know what you’re talking about.
And if you plan to overlook the production value, then it sounds like you’re bound to hate this movie. That’s like going into a musical, and refusing to acknowledge the music.
I genuinely think you need to calm down and not overthink when it comes to a movies messaging. Most movies have always had a point to make, you just didn’t think too much about it before because the messaging is often something pretty agreeable. As is that of this newest West Side Story. Things are just so political now, conservatives (assuming you too) are so sensitive to movies/music/art that portray racism for what it is.
So yea, get a grip dude
Saw it this past week. It was good, not great, but good. I won’t get into the casting decisions because I don’t know enough to comment. But, the play was alright. It was too truncated for my taste....as if directed by someone used to doing commercials rather than long form things. The dancing was top notch, the singing strong.....and I liked a lot of how they used the video wall and the two rooms cut into it. There were a couple of times the video wall took something away from the dancing on stage, but other than those instances I liked it. A friend suggested that I go in not expecting to see West Side Story, and looking at it that way helped.
So you "saw" the movie already? How?
@@doc2log saw the play on Broadway right before Covid hit. There isn’t a new movie.
@@polybiuschampion7225 Where have you been?
@@doc2log you realize this video is about the stage play that started on Broadway in 2020? Right?
RIP Stephen Sondheim
Sondheim was the lyricist for WSS and later the composer and lyricist for many of his subsequent shows. Many of his shows were not successes or moderate successes. WWS and Gypsy for which he was lyricist have had many successful revivals. Any of his shows whether filmed or revived on stage pay royalties to Mr. Sondheim. From a man in his twenties to a man in his 90s he has been acclaimed and rewarded financially beyond his dreams.
I love how Sondheim holds his own in this
will be interesting to know what he thinks about the forthcoming new film version
If you revisit the amber often enough, you will see elements that you hadn't seen before.
i rlly didnt know that sondheim was still livin🤭im srrry i love ur work
A master. What poise this man had.
They removed I Feel Pretty and that’s my favorite song in the show.
"I Feel Pretty" is in the new film, but set in a department store where Maria and her friends work as cleaners on the night shift.
Nice that SS calls the interviewer on his bullsh-t opening line about "they call this a WSS for the 21c"
This man interview is incredible . Everyone was waiting for him to say that it flopped as it did but he didn’t . Steven on the other hand knew his movie flopped n also said he never really liked the original at all .
I haven’t seen the new version and especially the new choreography but these changes show us unmistakably how WSS is a classic. Like Shakespeare it’s ok to reinvent it. However, I’m almost positive I will miss Jerome’s choreography.
I deeply enjoyed the new movie but I will say the '61 choreography wasn't topped.
They will never top the classic
Will love you forever, Mr. Sondheim.
I am so glad he loved the changes. Lol at all the stuffy critics who think in the past and close minded! I can’t wait to see it next month!!!!
I think it's funny when people say 'it wasn't popular until it was a movie.' Yes. What does a movie do that a broadway or off broadway or west end show doesn't? It makes the media more freely available to a public who cannot afford the time or the tickets to see a show in a theater. How are we in 2021 and people still don't get that broadway/west end shows are inaccessible to the vast majority of the global population? Just incredible.
As soon as he blinked I felt the shade....
Wow, Sondheim looks just like my Grandfather.
Along with 'Sweeney Todd' another
-classic by mr.Sondheim,'West Side-
-Story' is a real masterpiece of style
-and substance.Hopefully this new
-version of a legendary iconic music
-al by mr.Spielberg will enhance and-
-not diminish the original in it's release.
The gentleman has class......
Remaking a masterpiece is very risky, but Spielberg could pull it off considering his stunning track record.
I want to see the new film.
❤
Ain't nothing like a good eye being gouged out!
This whole production is going to be tainted by casting Amar, if it makes it to the tony awards there’s gonna be an uproar.
He looked at photos of a naked girl that a fellow dancer sent to him. Get over it. Me too run amok.
@@derekheskellderek6037 HE sent those to other people I'm pretty sure
Oh please. Just because he did something you don't like doesn't make him a bad guy. Stop being an irrational, hormone-driven, hysterical female and calm tf down.
@@jasonhurd4379 ok you must not understand what he did and that's ok just don't make fun of people for caring
@@phinp4947 I'm not making fun of anyone. So the guy looked at nude pictures and sent them to someone else. Big f'n deal. Talk about first world problems. This whole thing has been drummed up by delusional, entitled freaks who have a compulsion to ruin people's lives. Sick.
Sondheim was a true genius RIP
movie is incredible, mesmerizing
Hopefully it doesn't suck as much as Cats
You know he's talking about the revival on broadway not the movie right?
It could never bc it’s not cats 😂
The 2 are not even remotely related.
Test audiences were given the choice between watching a single minute of the 2019 "Cats" film - or a year of painful rectal itch. Painful rectal itch proved to be more popular - by a wide margin.
I'm guessing it will.
Thanks for sharing Sondheims views on this remake. I often wonders why there hadn't been a big screen remake of WSS, especially in a world craving sequels. There are certain master pieces like Gone with the Wind, WSS, & with music "You Lost that loving feeling" that are so. revered that it seems too audacious to do over, but with the approval coming from the horses mouth, I'm all in.
The remake is absolutely amazing. BTW, I'd like someone to reboot Jaws because it has its flaws (Spielberg would probably agree in private). The choreography, dancing and screenplay are out of this world. The main actor was criticized but he's a top notch young actor who did great. Even the extra 10lbs he could have lost works shows he's no longer hard like Riff and just wants love like a little baby. The actress who played Maria knocked it out of the park along with the supporting cast. It's going down as the most underrated movie of all time. If anyone says otherwise than they don't know anything about movies.
Agree!!; but the young Actor, Ansel Elgort who played Tony did NOT need to lose ANY weight!
He's usually a bit on the skinner, lanky, but VERY tall side, though still VERY hot and SUPER good looking!
However, in THIS version he actually GAINED some Muscle and bulked up a little bit in the RIGHT, CONVINCING way!!
He was ABSOLUTELY perfect as Tony looks wise and TRULY PHENOMENAL in the role, Singing, Dancing AND Acting!!
A TRUE Triple THREAT!! 🙂😉
So great he got to see the remake before he died. Sad he couldn't get to feel the joy his lyrics bring to a new generation.
I can't even watch the video because there are no captions. Sondheim is what, ninety? 91? I'm 39 and I need captions to watch this video. I'm betting there are a lot of his friends and supporters who need captions to watch this video. Put the captions on. Thx
The thing that’s different about plays and movies is that plays can be reinterpreted? Has this guy heard of re-makes?
I anyone still complains that Sondheim cannot write melodies they should listen to his amazing pastiche score for ASSASSINS.
He has written some of the most stunningly gorgeous melodies in music.
Cannot believe the new Choreography is going to be better than the original.
Can't beat the og WSS no way Jose
He was not allowed to say it sucks.
r.i.p
Nothing against re-interpretation. But, people can love it or despise it. That said, for this show as re-interpreted, I hated it and would have walked out at intermission if they had one. My wife felt the same, as did the people sitting in front of us, and the people sitting behind us.
Why did you hate it
Cruz Gomes, for me there are lots of reasons. If I want to see video on a screen, I’ll go to a movie. That was the most annoying and distracting aspect. The singing was ok, but I wasn’t a fan of the interpretation of songs except for the song ‘America’. Choreography was ok, but I thought the original was more thrilling and new at that time. I also disliked all the tattoos. Finally, I also couldn’t distinguish between the two gangs since they appeared to have the same ethnic diversity, which was unlike the original production. It’s just an opinion, so please take no offense.
@@JSDJerry I actually really like your way of explaining how you disliked it, most people just say " I hated it never go see the show its awful." and you expressed your confusion and dislikes in a kind of constructive critisism kind of way. Sorry i just never see people do that lol
@@mikaylawilkins9262 thank you. So kind.
genius!
Interesting. Mr. Sondheim didn’t have this same perspective when it came to Porgy and Bess regarding the “new interpretation”. Hmmmmm....
I suppose the devil is in the detail my friend.....
And that was a WONDERFUL interpretation. There wasn't a dry eye in the audience when I saw it.
not sure of the relevance. Are you saying that he only can have linear thinking or are you trying to push some hidden agenda that isn't there that you are trying to create. you are indicating that if you label one remake as a "new Interpretation" because it's updated then you have to have the same perspective about every updated show? Because that is absurd. Or are you fishing for a false flag to create victimization when there is none? What exactly are you trying to imply my dear. Please come right out and say it instead of trying to hide your meaning which isn't that subtle. Why don't you go try to dig up some faux outrage somewhere else.
@@djjnonya2170 Have a beautiful, restful day. God loves you.
Sondheim viewed *Porgy and Bess* with the kind of reverence that many of us feel for his works, but he never felt that way about his own works.
God :)
I love this, but I just want to remind Sondheim that the violence is not a new thing. Shakespeare had eyes being gouged out in King Lear.
Arachne97 ROMEO & JULIET had Montagues and Capulets stabbing each other in the streets.
So WSS will always have the violence of its time.
That’s what concerns me about the new Spielberg movie. Two stabbing with switchblades won’t be the extent of the violence. And, while I’m on the subject, I doubt Maria in her slip and Tony without a shirt will be our clues they made love. I have to KNOW what’s in this film before I go. I passionately love the original. I can pretty much watch it on MUTE and say the lines. It’s classic, wonderful, perfect.
@@cards0486 Well, it is a good musical. One of Sondheim's best. I don't know about perfect. Even for a musical, it gets cheesy. And I'm saying this as a season ticket owner to the local Broadway productions. Besides, no one can beat Les Mis with Colm Wilkinson as Val Jean.
I believe he was referring to what was allowed to be seen in 1961 and of that time period in cinema, théâtre and TV. He's be pretty naieve to think that violence was not prevalent in society...
@@Arachne97 ha ha. I'm completely in agreement with that. I was lucky enough to see him in it twice and it ranks out of over 200 plus shows I've seen on Broadway as the standout.
Not to mention *Titus Andronicus.*
I saw it, it wasn't great
he needs to get that thing on his cheek checked out
someone.posted.the.dirty.lets.add.charges.cop.ok..when.u.complain.on.cops..this.lady.wont.take.complaint.asks.cops.if.they.want.charges..//
Why we need a new version ?
The original was 👌
But this generation does not watch it anymore. Sondheim is right...
It this man is trying to trap Sondheim in a word salad then he is way out of his league. You are going to lose at any word games with this lyricist. Sondheim keeps the conversation on the general level for good reason, for the sake of the art. He didn't stoop to bashing that movie version of his Sweeney Todd either even though the only member of the cast that could carry a tune without a bucket was the barber's apprentice.
Reinterpretation = No Jerome Robbins=No Thanks.
They used hid choreography, unless you resurrect JR from the dead.
West Side Story for the 21st Century - SUCKS - there is NO 'replication' of the original 1961 production of it and there will NOT ever be ANY current people able to perform in the way that the original cast did way back then, Se'Lah. IMO !!!
Jeez, you'd be disrespecting Rita Moreno who IS in this movie..
This interviewer had an agenda, and wanted very different answers.
Why not just change the name, instead of riding on the WSS coattails.
Yeah, call it New Jersey Story?
Like he’s gonna say anything bad
:(
I cannot support this production of West Side Story.
Good for you. No-one cares.
Grant Curry Educate yourself. #stupidisbliss
@@mykelcohen Thank you for the advice, but I'm already well-educated. What I was saying is that no-one cares if you support the production or not. Saying you don't support the show means nothing. State your reasons, or don't state them. It's of little consequence.
Grant Curry Stating that someones opinion is not valid makes you someone that I cannot deal with. Sorry that you do not see other humans as equal. Enjoy spewing your hate. Go f with someone else. You have no power here.
@@mykelcohen Okay.
There is a beauty in simplicity of binary tensions seen in the original version seemingly diluted in this new interpretation resulting in artistic atrophy.
It's a musical, calm down.
I think you should listen to what Sondheim says more.
Kaveh Afra did you see it? I’m trying to decide whether or not to go.
Omg the hair on his ears
Randy Magill you live that long and you got bigger things to worry about than trimming ear hair.
stop supporting abusers :)
Yawn!
There was no abuse.
I hope they never do an updated version of Sweeney Todd. Personally, I never liked the original WSS and how Maria slept with Tony even after she found out he had killed her brother. Love the music, love the dancing, hate a lot of the story line.
I want a updated sweeney todd
Nothing can compare to the original. It’s always been my favourite musical. Wouldn’t even watch the remake
I was born the year the movie came out and it is my second favorite movie musical behind Sound of Music. I have to tell you and everyone that the 2021 version is better than the 1961 version. Give it a chance, you won't regret it.
Your loss, honestly.
It's NOT a REMAKE!
More like a NEW Adaptation, or RE-IMAGINING of West Side Story for a new Generation, basically a new Version based on the 1957 STAGE play, with STILL remaining Faithful to the 1961 Movie!
A MUST see and a BRILLIANT, Cinematic MASTERPIECE!
You're DEFINITELY missing out if you don't give it a chance!!
@@runefaustblack YEP!!
I guess I just disagree that "new interpretations" keep the theatre alive, rather, if we just had more new pieces written in the manner and style that directors keep taking old pieces to. imho
Bring this back to Broadway. It's not fair that other musicals were able to reopen but not this. This reveal was way better and more realistic than the 2009 revival. The cast should have made an album of it. I don't care to see Spielberg's new film adaptation of it.
The thing Sondheim misses is that a movie may stay the same but we, the viewers change from viewing to viewing.
Radical West Side Story ?
If this is true, and the original was awesome , then should we be worried ?
Fire Amar