{"id":746,"date":"2010-01-13T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2010\/01\/west-side-story-1980-revival-clips.html"},"modified":"2010-01-13T07:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:08:00","slug":"west-side-story-1980-revival-clips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"West Side Story &#8211; 1980 Revival clips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current revival of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">West Side Story <\/span>will enter its second year on Broadway, but there&#8217;s still memories of the 1980 revival that played for 333 performances. The revival starred Ken Marshall (quite possibly the best sung Tony I&#8217;ve ever heard) and Tony-nominated leading ladies Josie de Guzman and Debbie Allen, recreating the Jerome Robbins&#8217; staging.<\/p>\n<p>First up, the cast visits with Tom Brokaw on &#8220;The Today Show&#8221; for &#8220;Tonight&#8221; and &#8220;I Feel Pretty&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hsAENm8_pmA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hsAENm8_pmA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The Today Show continues with Debbie Allen leading the girls in a spirited &#8220;America&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YkJ-axYUj24&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YkJ-axYUj24&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The cast performs &#8220;Quintet&#8221; onstage at the Met for a TV special called &#8220;Gala of Stars.&#8221; (Note: Brent Barrett is one of the Jets). The audio and video gets out of sync, but it&#8217;s rather well sung. Then Leonard Bernstein and Beverly Sills join the cast for a curtain call.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/M15T1plZcLU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/M15T1plZcLU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current revival of West Side Story will enter its second year on Broadway, but there&#8217;s still memories of the 1980 revival that played for 333 performances. The revival starred Ken Marshall (quite possibly the best sung Tony I&#8217;ve ever heard) and Tony-nominated leading ladies Josie de Guzman and Debbie Allen, recreating the Jerome Robbins&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=746\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">West Side Story &#8211; 1980 Revival clips<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2458,2457,2459],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-debbie-allen","tag-josie-de-guzman","tag-west-side-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}