Mine is Quintet and Cool
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friendoffilm — 10 years ago(July 22, 2015 03:14 AM)
The music, singing and dancing of America in combo still blows me away.
Yup! Adding Bernardo and the rest of the Shark guys really brought the
"America"
scene "to the Heavens", as Rita Moreno said, afterwards. -
daultimatefan — 9 years ago(January 08, 2017 09:15 AM)
A Boy Like That/I have a Love is actually my favorite song in the musical. It's at the height of WSS's emotional intensity, but it's also a great stand-alone song. It's also a greatly directed scene. Moreno is flawless in bringing out emotion, but this is also one of the few scenes that I don't mind from Wood (I know she's not singing)
The Jet Song is also fingerly snappingly good.
And Somewhere is my favorite rendition of the song-something about the slightly muffled, dated quality of the music makes it more haunting than something that was recorded 5 years ago. It's hard to describe. Maybe it's the cello.