Broadway musical “West Side Story” has made its triumphant return after more than 50 years. As mentioned here before, this time the Puerto Rican characters actually speak Spanish — How exciting is that!
New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley has a lot to say about the show, most of it positive. Sadly, Brantley seems a [...]
Mexican-American film and TV star Ricardo Montalbán passed away Wednesday, at 88. Latino Hollywood’s small club of headline actors will miss the elegant hearththrob, as will his many fans.
Ricardo Montalbán is best known to modern audiences as Mister Roarke from “Fantasy Island” (1978-’84) and Khan Noonien Singh from “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan” (1982). [...]
Amy Tan, SF-based author of
“The Joy Luck Club” novel and movie, will soon see another of her stories jump off the page: “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” by Tan opens the San Francisco Opera’s new season Sept. 15.
(Tan is hugging beloved Bay Area neighbor Rita Moreno in photo.)
How exciting! When was the last time you attended an [...]
Very cool news: The original director of “West Side Story” on Broadway is bringing it back in a bilignual incarnation for Feb., 2009.
Makes perfect sense. Half the characters are Puerto Rican, many recent immigrants. Of course they speak Spanish! Here’s the great director Arthur Laurents’ description in the New York Times:
“’They will speak Spanish where [...]
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