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petzipellepingo"It all began tonight"
Marni Nixon and Jimmy Bryant reminisce about recording Maria's and Tony's songs
Interview by
Michael Portantiere
In the multi-Oscar-winning 1961 film version of West Side Story, Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer appear as Maria and Tony — but the stars' singing voices were provided by Marni Nixon and Jimmy Bryant, who dubbed every note of their vocals for no credit and relatively little pay. More than a half-century after they recorded "Tonight," "Somewhere" and a handful of other immortal Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim songs for the soundtrack, Nixon and Bryant granted TSR a joint telephone interview, she speaking from New York and he from Los Angeles.
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Marni Nixon and Jimmy Bryant reminisce about recording Maria's and Tony's songs
Interview by
Michael Portantiere
In the multi-Oscar-winning 1961 film version of West Side Story, Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer appear as Maria and Tony — but the stars' singing voices were provided by Marni Nixon and Jimmy Bryant, who dubbed every note of their vocals for no credit and relatively little pay. More than a half-century after they recorded "Tonight," "Somewhere" and a handful of other immortal Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim songs for the soundtrack, Nixon and Bryant granted TSR a joint telephone interview, she speaking from New York and he from Los Angeles.
( Read more... )
