"America (West Side Story song) “America” is a song from the musical ""West Side Story"". Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics and Leonard Bernstein composed the music. In the original stage version, Anita – the most important female character after Maria and the girlfriend of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks – praises America while a fellow Puerto Rican immigrant, Rosalia, supports Puerto Rico. This version of the song deprecates the island and highlights the positive qualities of American life (""I’ll drive a Buick through San Juan/If there’s a road you can drive on""). The irony of this supposedly pro-American number,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"TV comedy """"Pilen flyttebyrå"""" in 1987. After she married and had children in the early 1990s, she largely disappeared from the public eye, but has remained active in minor productions. She is the granddaughter of author Johan Borgen. Iselin Alme Iselin Alme (born 10 July 1957) is a Norwegian singer and stage actress. Alme was born in Oslo, but moved to Stavanger at an early age. She performed in variety shows before getting the role as Maria in West Side Story at ""Det Norske Teatret"" in 1982. Since then, she has acted in several roles, both in musicals and in"
"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"
"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"
"Eden Espinosa Eden Erica Espinosa (born February 2, 1978 in Anaheim, California) is an American singer and stage actress who is best known for her performances as Elphaba for the Broadway, Los Angeles, and San Francisco productions of the musical ""Wicked"". Of Mexican descent, Eden Espinosa began singing at the age of three, performing at age five, and recording at the age of ten. At Canyon High School, she played the role of Maria in ""West Side Story"". After graduating, Espinosa worked at local theme parks such as Disneyland and Universal Studios. She was also part of the successful performing"
"Eden Espinosa Eden Erica Espinosa (born February 2, 1978 in Anaheim, California) is an American singer and stage actress who is best known for her performances as Elphaba for the Broadway, Los Angeles, and San Francisco productions of the musical ""Wicked"". Of Mexican descent, Eden Espinosa began singing at the age of three, performing at age five, and recording at the age of ten. At Canyon High School, she played the role of Maria in ""West Side Story"". After graduating, Espinosa worked at local theme parks such as Disneyland and Universal Studios. She was also part of the successful performing"
"relocated from Moscow to Kiev, Ukraine, with her husband Denis Voronenkov and baby son, saying that they were fleeing the political persecution of Voronenkov in Russia. On 23 March 2017, Voronenkov was murdered in Kiev. Maksakova was born in Munich, a daughter of the Soviet actress Lyudmila Maksakova and the Prague-born German businessman Peter Igenbergs, a son of Latvian Baltic German emigres. Maria spent her childhood at the village of Snegiri, outside Moscow, where Bolshoi Theatre soloists and many famous musicians had their summer dachas. She began studying music from the age of three and aged six enrolled at the"
"Iselin Alme Iselin Alme (born 10 July 1957) is a Norwegian singer and stage actress. Alme was born in Oslo, but moved to Stavanger at an early age. She performed in variety shows before getting the role as Maria in West Side Story at ""Det Norske Teatret"" in 1982. Since then, she has acted in several roles, both in musicals and in plays. Among the productions she has taken part in are ""Godspell"", ""A Chorus Line"", ""Cats"" and ""Oklahoma"", as well as Ionesco's ""La Leçon"" at ""Riksteatret"". Alme has done little screen work, but had a small role in the"
"""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."""
"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"
"an Austrian natural scienist from Vienna. Growing up in the southern German countryside, Maria first pursued a career as a football professional, which was suddenly terminated at the age of 14. The family literally impoverished overnight, removals followed and Maria withdrawed into the world of music moving to Hollywood, California. There he hoped to establish a rock band but the industry tried to turn the songwriter into a Latin Lover type of Act, which Maria strictly refused to be. He accepted a job in a New Orleans paint shop, saved enough money to leave the U.S. and traveled almost the"
"after he meets and kisses Maria for the first time. Her name is sung 29 times in total. Natalie Wood was not the first choice to play Maria in the 1961 film version. Audrey Hepburn was considered, but she did not take it due to her pregnancy. Like Wood, Hepburn was not Puerto Rican; she was British, Dutch, and Austrian. Oh Maria, Maria / She remind me of a West Side story. 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"
"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"
"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"
"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 theatre. In 2015, she became a member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. She also teaches and lectures at various universities. Maria Goyanes was raised in Jamaica, Queens and has lived in New York most of her life. She is the daughter of Pedro Goyanes, who was a bus repairman for New York transit, and Violeta Goyanes, who was a public school teacher. She is first-generation Latinx American, as her parents immigrated to America from the Dominican Republic and Spain; she has called herself a ""spininican"" combining her Spanish and Dominican heritage. After initially wanting to be 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"
"Amanda Green Amanda Green (born December 29, 1963) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. Born in New York City, New York, Green was raised on the Upper West Side with brother Adam by parents Phyllis Newman, an actress and singer, and Adolph Green, a lyricist and playwright. From an early age she was exposed to major talents of Broadway musical theatre, including Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, and Cy Coleman, all of whom were regular guests in the household. At the age of nine, she starred as Maria in her summer camp's production of ""West Side Story"", and decided to"
"was transferred to Broadway, in New York, in 2006, where it ran until its closing on 3 March 2013. The first book introduces the Banks family from Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Banks, their children Jane and Michael, and baby twins John and Barbara. When the children's nanny, Katie Nanna, storms out in a huff, Mary Poppins arrives at their home, complete with her travelling carpet bag, blown in by a very strong East wind. She accepts the job (agreeing to stay ""till the wind changes""), and the children soon learn that their nanny,"
"of having to expose her derrière in front of strangers caused the very modest and sensitive Angela to nearly have a nervous breakdown. The family then moved in with Angelo in the apartment he rented on Christopher Street in Manhattan. Maria, who had never lived in a large city, took an immediate dislike to living in New York, and threatened to return to Malnate if the family did not move to a smaller town. On the suggestion of an American that the family had met on the ""Duke of Genoa"", the family moved to North Bergen, New Jersey, and then"
"between their home in Roscommon, and a rented house in Dublin. According to some sources, when Maria and her sister Elizabeth came of age, their mother urged them to take up acting in order to earn a living, due to the family's relative poverty. The sources further state that the Gunning sisters worked for some time in the Dublin theatres, befriending actors like Margaret Woffington, even though acting was not considered a respectable profession as many actresses of that time doubled as courtesans to wealthy benefactors. However, other sources differ and point out that Margaret Woffington did not arrive in"
"departed on a ship from the city of Batumi. She was reunited with her husband in Istanbul where George had been waiting for her; the couple continued the voyage to France together. After arriving in Paris, Mary and George settled on the ""Rue de la Tour"" in the 16th arrondissement, a district popular with the French high society. Because of losses incurred as a result of fleeing Georgia, Mary's family met some financial problems while living in this expensive neighborhood. For this reason, Mary's mother and sisters, Ellen and Tamar, initially lived with the young couple. This situation changed when"
"Maria Mena Maria Viktoria Mena (born 19 February 1986) is a Norwegian pop artist, best known for her single ""You're the Only One"" which charted in multiple countries. Maria Mena was born into an artistic family. Her mother is a playwright and her father is a drummer. Both Maria and her brother, Tony, are named after characters from Leonard Bernstein's ""West Side Story"". Her mother is Norwegian and her father is an American of Afro-Nicaraguan descent. Her father played in several bands in Oslo, which influenced Mena to write and record her own music. When Mena was nine years old,"
"Austria, to their adventures in America where they escaped from Nazi-invaded Europe. The story reflects on family tragedies, victories, and the kindness of strangers who soon became friends to the young family of refugees. Maria married Georg von Trapp in 1927, not 1938 as portrayed in the musical. She initially fell in love with the children rather than the father and only later came to love him. The father was not the aloof patriarch who disapproved of music but a warm gentle-hearted parent. They also left Austria openly by train. The Story of the Trapp Family Singers The Story of"
"degree and then a Master’s degree in Music from the Manhattan School of Music. She also received a degree in Speech Therapy from Universidad de Medicina de El Salvador in Buenos Aires. Apart from Opera, she recorded many songs in different styles and genres such as Tango, Pop Music and liturgical chants. Pochinki played different characters in many popular Operas, not only in Argentina but also in United States and Europe. For nine months she played the role of Maria in Leonard Bernstein's ""West Side Story"" at the Landestheater in Salzburg and at the Vienna's Volksoper. During her stay in"
"""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"
"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"
"Austrian composer, performer and musicologist Karl Weigl and Elsa Pazeller Weigl, who was a vocal performer and was also very actively engaged in anti-Hitler activities in Vienna. Piers attended a Montessori kindergarten as a young child, which she has noted as an early influence that remained with her, throughout her career in child development In Vienna, Maria met Gerhardt Piers, a friend of her cousin, who was a psychoanalyst by profession. Maria and Gerhardt married in the spring of 1938, and fled to the United States by way of Switzerland later that year, during the Nazi occupation. Maria died at"
"Maria?"" Previous roles include Annie in ""Oklahoma!"", Rizzo in ""Grease"", Blousey in ""Bugsy Malone"", Edith in ""Pirates of Penzance"", Calamity Jane in ""Calamity Jane"", and the Narrator in ""Joseph"". She attended King David Yavneh school in Manchester, then earned a BA (honours) degree in English and Drama at the University of Leeds before going on to complete a master's degree in musical theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama. The singer and actress, originally from Prestwich, now resides in Finchley, London. Her talent shone from a very early age when she starred in virtually every production that her"