"her outside her bedroom (""Maria""). She appears on her fire escape, and the two profess their love for one another (""Tonight""). Meanwhile, Anita, Rosalia, and the other Shark girls discuss the differences between the territory of Puerto Rico and the mainland United States of America, with Anita defending America, and Rosalia yearning for Puerto Rico (""America""). The Jets get antsy while waiting for the Sharks inside Doc's Drugstore. Riff helps them let out their aggression (""Cool""). The Sharks arrive to discuss weapons to use in the rumble. Tony suggests ""a fair fight"" (fists only), which the leaders agree to, despite"
"Maria (West Side Story song) ""Maria"" is a song from the Broadway musical ""West Side Story"", sung by the lead character Tony. The music was written by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The song was published in 1956. ""Maria"" is sung by the male lead Tony when he learns the name of the girl he's fallen in love with is ""Maria"". The name ""Maria"" is spoken or sung in the song 29 times. It begins in B major and then modulates to E-flat major. The song is widely known for its use of the melodic interval of a"
"tritone in the main theme. The song is an example of the use of Lydian mode, which is the same as the major scale but with a raised 4th, giving the tritone characteristic of this piece. It was also sampled in the song Almost Like Praying by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Maria (West Side Story song) ""Maria"" is a song from the Broadway musical ""West Side Story"", sung by the lead character Tony. The music was written by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The song was published in 1956. ""Maria"" is sung by the male lead Tony when he learns"
"""soothing duet"" that ""establishes their oneness"". One Hand, One Heart ""One Hand, One Heart"" is a song from the musical ""West Side Story"". It is a duet sung between Maria and Tony. Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence introduced it in the 1957 Broadway production. This is the song Maria and Tony sing while they have a make-believe wedding. The song was originally written for ""Candide"". Phillip Brophy analysis the song's context within the musical: Inkpot argues it is ""the most moving song"" of the musical, and that due to the tragic ending, this scene ""will be enough to move you"
"""West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast)"". In the 1961 film, the song occurs at a pivotal point, after the rumble in which Tony (Richard Beymer) has stabbed Maria's brother, Bernardo (George Chakiris). Having nowhere else to go, Tony runs to Maria (Natalie Wood), who has just been told of her brother's death and who killed him. When Tony comes to her room through the balcony window, Maria, in shock, pounds against his chest. Realizing in spite of her anger that she still loves Tony, Maria begs him to hold her. After Maria cries out, ""It's not us...it's everything around us."""
"singer Claudia Alves in the episode named ""Force Majeure"". Josefina Scaglione Josefina Scaglione (born September 5, 1987) is an Argentinian musical theatre actress and singer, best known for her performance as Maria in the 2009 Broadway revival of ""West Side Story"", for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Scaglione was raised in Rosario, Santa Fe, and became interested in performing as a child. While in high school, she received a scholarship to attend a summer arts program at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Upon graduating from high school, Scaglione moved to"
"One Hand, One Heart ""One Hand, One Heart"" is a song from the musical ""West Side Story"". It is a duet sung between Maria and Tony. Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence introduced it in the 1957 Broadway production. This is the song Maria and Tony sing while they have a make-believe wedding. The song was originally written for ""Candide"". Phillip Brophy analysis the song's context within the musical: Inkpot argues it is ""the most moving song"" of the musical, and that due to the tragic ending, this scene ""will be enough to move you to tears"". Filmsite calls it a"
"Josefina Scaglione Josefina Scaglione (born September 5, 1987) is an Argentinian musical theatre actress and singer, best known for her performance as Maria in the 2009 Broadway revival of ""West Side Story"", for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Scaglione was raised in Rosario, Santa Fe, and became interested in performing as a child. While in high school, she received a scholarship to attend a summer arts program at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Upon graduating from high school, Scaglione moved to Buenos Aires and began working as a musical theatre"
"West Side Story West Side Story is a musical with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". The story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid 1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood (in the early 1960s, much of the neighborhood was cleared in an urban renewal project for Lincoln Center, which changed the neighborhood's character). The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The members of"
"Air Presbyterian Church Carol Lawrence Carol Lawrence (born September 5, 1932) is an American actress, who has appeared in musical theatre and on television. She appeared as Maria on Broadway in the musical ""West Side Story"" (1957), receiving a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She has appeared at The Muny, St. Louis in several musicals, including ""Funny Girl"". She appeared in many television dramas, including ""Rawhide"" to ""Murder She Wrote"". She was married to fellow performer Robert Goulet. Born Carolina Maria Laraia in Melrose Park, Illinois, her parents were of Italian ancestry. Her"
"Scaglione made her Broadway debut in ""West Side Story"" at the Palace Theatre on March 19, 2009. As Maria, Scaglione won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical and a Theatre World Award, and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, becoming the first actress portraying Maria to receive a Lead Actress nomination (Carol Lawrence and Josie de Guzman each received nominations in the Featured Actress category for their portrayals of Maria in the original 1957 production and 1980 revival). She was recently on the USA network's ""Fairly Legal"" as"
"Carol Lawrence Carol Lawrence (born September 5, 1932) is an American actress, who has appeared in musical theatre and on television. She appeared as Maria on Broadway in the musical ""West Side Story"" (1957), receiving a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She has appeared at The Muny, St. Louis in several musicals, including ""Funny Girl"". She appeared in many television dramas, including ""Rawhide"" to ""Murder She Wrote"". She was married to fellow performer Robert Goulet. Born Carolina Maria Laraia in Melrose Park, Illinois, her parents were of Italian ancestry. Her father was born"
"Maria (West Side Story) Maria is the leading female character in the film ""West Side Story"". Maria is in her late teens when she arrives on the US mainland. Her older brother Bernardo is the leader of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks. He has a girlfriend, Anita, who Maria is friends with and looks up to. Maria is eager to start a new life in New York, but Bernardo is protective and keeps a close eye on her. He intends for Maria to marry his friend Chino, but Maria is uninterested. She meets Tony who used to be part"
"Somewhere – The Songs of Sondheim and Bernstein Somewhere – The Songs of Sondheim and Bernstein is the third studio album by Australian singer Marina Prior featuring Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The album is a tribute to the work of Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein. In 1994, Prior starred as Maria in an Australian production of the musical ""West Side Story"" and won an Australian Variety Artists Mo Awards (MO) Award for 'Best Female Music Theatre Performer' for this role. The songs ""Tonight"" and ""One Hand, One Heart"" are duets with American actor Sean McDermott, who played Tony in the production"
"Deaf Side Story Deaf Side Story is a musical based on ""West Side Story"", itself an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Takes place in New York City during the mid-1950s, the musical based on West Side Story explores the rivalry between the two gangs Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different cultural backgrounds (Deaf and Hearing). The members of the Sharks from Puerto Rico are taunted by the Jets, a white working-class group. The young protagonist, Tony, one of the Jets, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the"
"based loosely on ""West Side Story"" and adapting parts of the musical's music and lyrics, was performed a total of more than 500 times in Miami Beach, Florida, Stockholm, Gran Canaria and Los Angeles. The show lampoons the musical's tragic love story, and also lip-synching and drag shows. West Side Story West Side Story is a musical with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". The story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid 1950s, an"
"added to the second act. He was outvoted on other issues: he felt the lyrics to ""America"" and ""I Feel Pretty"" were too witty for the characters singing them, but they stayed in the score and proved to be audience favorites. Another song, ""Kid Stuff"", was added and quickly removed during the Washington, D.C. tryout when Laurents convinced the others it was helping tip the balance of the show into typical musical comedy. Bernstein composed ""West Side Story"" and ""Candide"" concurrently, which led to some switches of material between the two works. Tony and Maria's duet, ""One Hand, One Heart"","
"witty and gay/And I pity/Any girl who isn’t me today'. In the movie this night scene was changed to the daytime, and presumably for this reason, the rhyming words ""bright"" and ""tonight"" were changed to ""gay"" and ""today."" In the musical, Maria is not yet aware that her love, Tony, has just killed her brother Bernardo, while in the film version, the song occurs before Bernardo's death. In the bridal shop where she works, Maria sings about being happy and feeling beautiful because she is ""loved by a pretty wonderful boy"", while her coworkers tease her about her silly behavior."
"of ""West Side Story"". ""A Boy Like That""/""I Have a Love"" is a duet with Caroline O'Connor, who played Anita. Somewhere – The Songs of Sondheim and Bernstein Somewhere – The Songs of Sondheim and Bernstein is the third studio album by Australian singer Marina Prior featuring Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The album is a tribute to the work of Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein. In 1994, Prior starred as Maria in an Australian production of the musical ""West Side Story"" and won an Australian Variety Artists Mo Awards (MO) Award for 'Best Female Music Theatre Performer' for this role. The"
"Tonight (1956 song) ""Tonight"" is a popular song with music written by Leonard Bernstein and the lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and was published in 1956. It was introduced in the Broadway musical ""West Side Story."" The movie version, featuring vocals by Marni Nixon (dubbing Natalie Wood) and Jimmy Bryant (dubbing Richard Beymer), finished at #59 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. The song was revived in 1961 on single records in versions by Ferrante & Teicher (#8 pop, #2 easy listening) and Eddie Fisher, whose version narrowly missed the Top 40. Shirley Bassey recorded"
"Tonight (1956 song) ""Tonight"" is a popular song with music written by Leonard Bernstein and the lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and was published in 1956. It was introduced in the Broadway musical ""West Side Story."" The movie version, featuring vocals by Marni Nixon (dubbing Natalie Wood) and Jimmy Bryant (dubbing Richard Beymer), finished at #59 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. The song was revived in 1961 on single records in versions by Ferrante & Teicher (#8 pop, #2 easy listening) and Eddie Fisher, whose version narrowly missed the Top 40. Shirley Bassey recorded"
"nominated as Best Reproduction (Play or Musical). Allen won the Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. Other notable cast members in the revival included Brent Barrett as Diesel, Harolyn Blackwell as Francisca, Stephen Bogardus as Mouth Piece and Reed Jones as Big Deal. The Minskoff production subsequently opened the Nervi Festival in Genoa, Italy, in July 1981 with Josie de Guzman as Maria and Brent Barrett as Tony. In 2007, Arthur Laurents stated, ""I've come up with a way of doing [""West Side Story""] that will make it absolutely contemporary without changing a word or a"
"advertising and television industry awards. ""Pretty"" follows a day in the life of Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova. It shows her getting ready, leaving The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and travelling by limousine to a match at New York City's Arthur Ashe Stadium pursued by paparazzi. Every person she passes on the way sings a line from ""I Feel Pretty"", a song performed by the character Maria in the second act of the stage musical ""West Side Story"". She arrives at the game, where fellow players, reporters, camera crew, the ball boys and girls, announcers, and umpire sing the chorus along with"
"Sofia Escobar Sofia Escobar (born 1984) is a soprano singer and actress. She is best known for being part of the cast in West End musicals, in London. She performed the role of Maria in ""West Side Story"". Her most acclaimed role was Christine Daaé, the lead character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's ""Phantom of the Opera"". Sofia Alexandra Cepa Escobar Ferreira da Silva was born on November 29, 1984 in Guimarães, district of Braga, Portugal. She studied at Conservatório de Música do Porto in Oporto, Portugal, and continued her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She had"
"in ""West Side Story"". She has been nominated in the best actress category for the 2009 Laurence Olivier awards due to her performance of Maria in ""West Side Story"". She got a Portuguese Golden Globe nomination for Revelation of the Year 2010, where she sang ""Think of Me"" from ""The Phantom of the Opera"". Sofia Escobar Sofia Escobar (born 1984) is a soprano singer and actress. She is best known for being part of the cast in West End musicals, in London. She performed the role of Maria in ""West Side Story"". Her most acclaimed role was Christine Daaé, the"
"operas of our century. ... This idea is hotly resisted, but the best argument for it is here on the records in the music itself. I can see no reason why the 'Tonight' ensemble should not be compared to the quartet from ""Rigoletto""."" Based on the duet between Maria and Tony earlier in the musical, ""Tonight"", the five parts of the quintet are sung by the Jets, the Sharks, Tony, Maria, and Anita. The song begins with the parts sung in turn, and then overlapping and building to the final line, ""Tonight,"" sung by the ensemble with multiple harmonies. The"
"Side Story"". ""West Side Story"" is a contemporary version of ""Romeo and Juliet"", set in Hell's Kitchen. The show, with music by Leonard Bernstein, marked the first collaboration between Robbins and Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics, as well as Arthur Laurents, who wrote the book. Because book, music, and dance were envisioned as an organic whole, the cast, in a Broadway first, had to be equally skilled as actors, singers, and dancers. To help the young cast grow into their roles, Robbins did not allow those playing members of opposite gangs (Jets and Sharks) to mix during the rehearsal"
"in Trivigno, in the province of Potenza, and her maternal family came from the same town. She spent one year at Northwestern University and then left to pursue her career. Lawrence made her Broadway debut in 1952 in Leonard Sillman's ""New Faces of 1952"". She achieved success in the role of Maria in the original Broadway production of ""West Side Story"" in 1957, and received a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for this role. She played the role for two years, and after an appearance in the short-lived show ""Saratoga"" in 1959 she"
"in the 1961 film, although the singing voice was provided by Marni Nixon. The songs sung by Maria include: Tonight, tonight / It all began tonight! I'm loved / By a pretty wonderful boy. Now it begins, Now we start / One Hand, One Heart. / Even death won't part us now. Peace and quiet and open air I have a love and it's all that I have / Right or wrong, what else can I do? In both the film and the play is a song named ""Maria"", which is sung by Tony in both. He sings this right"
"that focused on racial tolerance included ""Finian's Rainbow"" and ""South Pacific"". Towards the end of the Golden Age, several shows tackled Jewish subjects and issues, such as ""Fiddler on the Roof"", ""Milk and Honey"", ""Blitz!"" and later ""Rags"". The original concept that became ""West Side Story"" was set in the Lower East Side during Easter-Passover celebrations; the rival gangs were to be Jewish and Italian Catholic. The creative team later decided that the Polish (white) vs. Puerto Rican conflict was fresher. Tolerance as an important theme in musicals has continued in recent decades. The final expression of ""West Side Story"""
"taken over from Karen Olivo on November 18, 2008. She stayed with the role until the Broadway production closed on January 9, 2011 Oonaballoona.com Marcy Harriell Marcy Harriell is an American musical theater and television actress. Harriell starred as Maria in a 1996 tour of the Broadway musical ""West Side Story"" and replaced Daphne Rubin-Vega as Mimi in the Broadway production of ""Rent"". She made her Broadway debut on April 4, 1997. Harriell was also part of the ensemble in the short-lived Broadway musical ""Lennon"", featuring the music of former Beatle John Lennon; it was written and directed by Don"
"group. Just like the storyline of ""Romeo and Juliet"" by William Shakespeare’s Maria, sister of Bernando leader of the Sharks, falls in love with Tony member of the Jets, which was not accepted by either gang. ""Deaf Side Story"" portrays similarities from West Side Story, however in this storyline two different cultures are shown, Deaf culture and the hearing world. Brewer went to the Illinois School for the Deaf to cast the Sharks. Hearing college performers at MacMurray auditioned to be the Jets. Once Diane Brewer had cast her hearing Tony and deaf Maria, came the challenging part of teaching"
"actress. In Buenos Aires, she performed in ""Cinderella"", and as Amber Von Tussle in ""Hairspray"". In 2008, director Arthur Laurents, unable to find an actress in the United States appropriate for the part of Maria in a Broadway revival of ""West Side Story"", discovered Scaglione after friends in Buenos Aires directed him to a YouTube clip of her performing Ástor Piazzolla's composition ""Libertango"". Laurents flew Scaglione to New York City to audition, where she immediately received the role, despite the fact that she was unknown in the United States. After performing as Maria at the National Theatre in Washington, DC,"