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petzipellepingo‘West Side Story’s Isaac Powell Joins Universal’s ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Movie
By Greg Evans
Greg Evans
Associate Editor/Broadway Critic
Isaac Powell, the star of Ivo van Howe’s 2020 Broadway revival of West Side Story, has joined the cast of Universal’s Dear Evan Hansen. The project will mark Powell’s feature film debut.
Powell will play high school jock Rhys in the feature adaptation of the six-time Tony winning Broadway musical. He joins a cast that includes Ben Platt, Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Amandla Stenberg, Danny Pino, Nik Dodani, Colton Ryan, DeMarius Copes and Gerald Caesar. Stephen Chbosky (Wonder) will direct.
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By Greg Evans
Greg Evans
Associate Editor/Broadway Critic
Isaac Powell, the star of Ivo van Howe’s 2020 Broadway revival of West Side Story, has joined the cast of Universal’s Dear Evan Hansen. The project will mark Powell’s feature film debut.
Powell will play high school jock Rhys in the feature adaptation of the six-time Tony winning Broadway musical. He joins a cast that includes Ben Platt, Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Amandla Stenberg, Danny Pino, Nik Dodani, Colton Ryan, DeMarius Copes and Gerald Caesar. Stephen Chbosky (Wonder) will direct.
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May. 10th, 2020 02:50 pmpetzipellepingo VIDEO: Isaac Powell and the WEST SIDE STORY Orchestra Perform 'Something's Coming'
by BWW News Desk
It is always hard to see the light at the end of a tunnel and even more so, that of a tunnel we've never been in before. 'Something's coming, something good!' would be good to keep in mind looking to a much brighter time when all this is over!
Check out a very special digital rendition of "Something's Coming" featuring West Side Story star, Isaac Powell, and the show's amazing orchestra.
by BWW News Desk
It is always hard to see the light at the end of a tunnel and even more so, that of a tunnel we've never been in before. 'Something's coming, something good!' would be good to keep in mind looking to a much brighter time when all this is over!
Check out a very special digital rendition of "Something's Coming" featuring West Side Story star, Isaac Powell, and the show's amazing orchestra.
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Feb. 21st, 2020 09:33 ampetzipellepingoThis gutsy new ‘West Side Story’ is unlike any you’ve seen — and it’s exhilarating
By
Peter Marks
NEW YORK — You can teach an old show new kicks.
Look for proof to the bravura audacity of director Ivo van Hove’s movingly gutsy new “West Side Story,” the much anticipated Broadway revisit to the masterwork by the ’50s hive-mind genius of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins and Arthur Laurents.
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By
Peter Marks
NEW YORK — You can teach an old show new kicks.
Look for proof to the bravura audacity of director Ivo van Hove’s movingly gutsy new “West Side Story,” the much anticipated Broadway revisit to the masterwork by the ’50s hive-mind genius of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins and Arthur Laurents.
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Feb. 21st, 2020 06:46 ampetzipellepingoIn the New West Side Story, When You’re Onstage You’re Onscreen All the Way
By Helen Shaw
There’s a rumble on Broadway right now, and — just as with those poor unfortunate Jets and Sharks — nobody’s winning. The tussle is happening right in the middle of West Side Story, where the Belgian director Ivo van Hove’s revival has been mortally divided against itself, done to death by its own staging and design choices.
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By Helen Shaw
There’s a rumble on Broadway right now, and — just as with those poor unfortunate Jets and Sharks — nobody’s winning. The tussle is happening right in the middle of West Side Story, where the Belgian director Ivo van Hove’s revival has been mortally divided against itself, done to death by its own staging and design choices.
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Feb. 21st, 2020 06:38 ampetzipellepingo‘West Side Story’: Theater Review
Director Ivo Van Hove dares to fiddle with perfection in this modernized but still respectful re-working of Jerome Robbins’ 1957 masterpiece.
By Marilyn Stasio
Whittled down to one hour and forty-five minutes, “West Side Story” – with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreography by Jerome Robbins — has grown exceedingly dark and mislaid some of its moving parts in the new Broadway revival from edgy Belgian director Ivo Van Hove. (Can you bear to lose “I Feel Pretty”?) But the plot of this beloved musical remains intact: We are still witnessing the deadly ethnic-fueled violence of two rival street gangs destroy the Romeo-and-Juliet romance of those immortal young lovers, Maria and Tony.
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Director Ivo Van Hove dares to fiddle with perfection in this modernized but still respectful re-working of Jerome Robbins’ 1957 masterpiece.
By Marilyn Stasio
Whittled down to one hour and forty-five minutes, “West Side Story” – with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreography by Jerome Robbins — has grown exceedingly dark and mislaid some of its moving parts in the new Broadway revival from edgy Belgian director Ivo Van Hove. (Can you bear to lose “I Feel Pretty”?) But the plot of this beloved musical remains intact: We are still witnessing the deadly ethnic-fueled violence of two rival street gangs destroy the Romeo-and-Juliet romance of those immortal young lovers, Maria and Tony.
( Read more... )
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Feb. 21st, 2020 05:54 ampetzipellepingoDirector Ivo van Hove reimagines the classic for the 21st century with a remarkable cast of fresh talent and choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
By Jerry Portwood
If we’re being honest, West Side Story has seemed a little out of date for quite a while.
Rather than having the rebellious teenagers of the 1950s represented through rock & roll, the musical about Puerto Ricans newly arrived to New York City being targeted by earlier immigrants (Irish, Poles, and Italians) had Leonard Bernstein’s magnificent dissonant score coupled with Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics that capture the collision of rhythms and impulses.
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By Jerry Portwood
If we’re being honest, West Side Story has seemed a little out of date for quite a while.
Rather than having the rebellious teenagers of the 1950s represented through rock & roll, the musical about Puerto Ricans newly arrived to New York City being targeted by earlier immigrants (Irish, Poles, and Italians) had Leonard Bernstein’s magnificent dissonant score coupled with Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics that capture the collision of rhythms and impulses.
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Feb. 21st, 2020 05:50 ampetzipellepingoReview: ‘West Side Story’ blasts back to Broadway — kinetic, bloody and modern to the core
By Charles McNultyTheater Critic
NEW YORK — During its long gestation in previews, Ivo van Hove’s bold re-imagining of “West Side Story” generated the kind of heated division normally reserved for presidential politics in a year with Donald Trump.
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By Charles McNultyTheater Critic
NEW YORK — During its long gestation in previews, Ivo van Hove’s bold re-imagining of “West Side Story” generated the kind of heated division normally reserved for presidential politics in a year with Donald Trump.
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Feb. 21st, 2020 05:31 ampetzipellepingo‘West Side Story’ Review: Sharks vs. Jets vs. Video
Ivo van Hove’s attention-splintering revival of the immortal 1957 musical features new choreography, a ravishing orchestra and smothering visual effects.
By Ben Brantley
No one should be surprised to hear that Ivo van Hove has blown up “West Side Story.” This industrious, experimental director is celebrated, after all, for taking an artistic detonator to sacred classics — by authors like Shakespeare, Molière, Miller and O’Neill — and letting the pieces fly.
But the blowing up I’m talking about in this curiously unaffecting reimagining of a watershed musical, which opened on Thursday night at the Broadway Theater, is the kind associated with photography, the process by which a picture is enlarged to outsize proportions.
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Ivo van Hove’s attention-splintering revival of the immortal 1957 musical features new choreography, a ravishing orchestra and smothering visual effects.
By Ben Brantley
No one should be surprised to hear that Ivo van Hove has blown up “West Side Story.” This industrious, experimental director is celebrated, after all, for taking an artistic detonator to sacred classics — by authors like Shakespeare, Molière, Miller and O’Neill — and letting the pieces fly.
But the blowing up I’m talking about in this curiously unaffecting reimagining of a watershed musical, which opened on Thursday night at the Broadway Theater, is the kind associated with photography, the process by which a picture is enlarged to outsize proportions.
( Read more... )
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Feb. 13th, 2020 03:31 pmpetzipellepingoCan this generation’s Tony and Maria find their place in yet another ‘West Side Story’?
By
Peter Marks
NEW YORK — He didn't think the show had a role for him. She didn't even have her Juilliard diploma. And yet, the budding careers of Isaac Powell and Shereen Pimentel converged when they were cast as benighted lovers in the latest Broadway revival of a seminal American musical — in a production by a Belgian auteur who has divided audiences for years.
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By
Peter Marks
NEW YORK — He didn't think the show had a role for him. She didn't even have her Juilliard diploma. And yet, the budding careers of Isaac Powell and Shereen Pimentel converged when they were cast as benighted lovers in the latest Broadway revival of a seminal American musical — in a production by a Belgian auteur who has divided audiences for years.
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Nov. 11th, 2019 08:45 ampetzipellepingoHow Ivo Van Hove Remixed West Side Story for the 21st Century
By Adam Green
WHEN WEST SIDE STORY opened on Broadway more than 60 years ago, it shocked critics with its savage depiction of racially motivated teenage gang violence on the streets of New York City—even as Leonard Bernstein’s ravishing jazz- and Latin-inflected symphonic score, Stephen Sondheim’s virtuosic lyrics, and Jerome Robbins’s hormonally kinetic dances beguiled audiences, who fell in love with librettist Arthur Laurents’s retelling of Romeo and Juliet. ( Read more... )
By Adam Green
WHEN WEST SIDE STORY opened on Broadway more than 60 years ago, it shocked critics with its savage depiction of racially motivated teenage gang violence on the streets of New York City—even as Leonard Bernstein’s ravishing jazz- and Latin-inflected symphonic score, Stephen Sondheim’s virtuosic lyrics, and Jerome Robbins’s hormonally kinetic dances beguiled audiences, who fell in love with librettist Arthur Laurents’s retelling of Romeo and Juliet. ( Read more... )
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Jul. 11th, 2019 09:54 ampetzipellepingoWest Side Story Broadway revival finds its Tony and Maria
By Rosy Cordero
The forthcoming revival of West Side Story has found its leads.
The full lineup for the beloved show, which will open at the Broadway Theater, was announced on Wednesday. The production, based on the Arthur Laurents book of the same name, tells the story of two teenagers caught in the middle of opposing gangs when they fall in love.
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By Rosy Cordero
The forthcoming revival of West Side Story has found its leads.
The full lineup for the beloved show, which will open at the Broadway Theater, was announced on Wednesday. The production, based on the Arthur Laurents book of the same name, tells the story of two teenagers caught in the middle of opposing gangs when they fall in love.
( Read more... )
