West Side Story - Gee, officer Krupke!

[@kangadillo]

It's very moving to watch the great master teach the young ones and pass his legacy on to them.

[@PRR5406]

Watch Leonard Bernstein enjoy this piece of music as well as the lyrics. Wonderful piece.

[@KarstenKriwat]

Bernstein was a genius!

[@stvp68]

Adler Horst Sondheim too

[@yamilartigas2014]

No

[@Seastorm13]

Seems that Bernstein was satisfield with that! :-)

[@sarahfish132]

The best description of the juevenile justice system to date and it's from the 1950's

[@CathyKitson]

No wonder we're in a mess. It's been going on for 70 years. It's never their fault, it's always society's. LOL.

[@akimych23]

0:36 Homer Simpson's song!!

[@coreycox2345]

This is fun to watch.

[@KBAFourthtime]

Whoever played Baby John here really pulled off the female voice!

[@WelshHomo87]

Extremely difficult to do.

[@CathyKitson]

And he looks just like a young Dirty Den.

[@barryschwarz]

Done this show on 3 different tours. The music is mostly extraordinary ("I Feel Pretty" isn't the greatest song ever written), and the original choreography (which the productions I've worked did) is brilliant. There are a couple of mistakes. The snare shot should happen after the lyric - pretend-Krupke is bashing boys on the head after they sing each line in the chorry. But the snare comes in during the line for the first 2. Either Bernstein or the drummer fixes it for the third and after3:44

[@verkaforever]

COOL!

[@2010-BTC-yep]

Love this

[@Loweene_Ancalimon]

The lyrics where changed, the part where Riff is with the "head shrinker".

[@RastaSaiyaman]

Not just that but in the movie "gee Officer Krupke" and "Cool" were switched. Also it isn't Riff singing, it's Action. In the play before the rumble takes place Riff is calming the Jets down by telling them to be cool. And after Riff gets killed "Gee Officer Krupke" was sung by Action to get the Jets back into spirits with humor. In the movie the songs are switched over because "Cool" would be a much better song to get the Jets back in order after the murder of Riff. Also Ice takes the place of Action as the Jets' new leader.

[@yahiryellow1]

Yeah and krupke you was originally gonna say fuck you

[@vaec58]

Who were the singers? They were great!

[@gargantuaism]

I figure it's only a matter of time before the line "My brother wears a dress" will to be removed from the song in fear of offending men who wear dresses. I think it's a pretty good guess the line will not be in the Spielberg version.

[@ZidaneWarner]

Jokes on you, it remained in the film.

[@gargantuaism]

@@ZidaneWarner YES! IT WAS. I was happy to see that, ! Spielberg left it in. I was curious if anybody was going to comment on that.

[@yamilartigas2014]

Very por the músic

[@stvp68]

When was this session recorded? These are clearly not actors from a production.

[@WelshHomo87]

Opera singers

[@goshdang7897]

That a problem?

[@yahiryellow1]

@@WelshHomo87 really?

[@barryschwarz]

@@yahiryellow1 Yeah, really. All of them. Jose Carreras played Tony (not his best performance ever), and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa played Maria.

[@ashleynelson-oneschuk3800]

Most of the back-up singers (JETS here) were just popular jingle & voice-over singers in NYC at the time. (My dad is on this) A couple opera singers were used for leads.

[@juanmonge8]

As a life long new Yorker I can say unequivocally that no one here sounds like that.

[@Purple_Box]

juan monge Language and dialects change. This was the 50s way of speaking ’Newyorkian’.

[@eddihaskell]

This is an exaggeration of what a "Brooklyn" accent was supposed to sound like in the middle part of the 20th century. And even then it is highly exaggerated. Listen to old Three Stooges movies and you will hear something like this.

[@horrorfan5157]

Well as a texan we don't sound how were portrayed in movies or tv as well

[@timlamiam]

@@horrorfan5157 tbf when they do Texan, all the stereotypes come out

[@guilhermesobrinho1329]

who's the main singer?

[@guilhermesobrinho1329]

he is amazing!!!

[@guilhermesobrinho1329]

Oh, I believe you are mistaken. Kurt Ollmann is the one who sings "cool". I am asking about the main character in this piece. I think he's called "Riff".

[@AndKa73]

His name is David Livingston, and he's playing "Action", not "Riff"

[@stefanufer608]

How the f***k did that old boy in the middle of the group get in on the act!

[@robmartin3250]

No sorry...off key,, flat, over acted.....Sorry...this is not quality.

[@RastaSaiyaman]

The funny thing is that Berstein always said that he HATED the movie versions of the songs because they "lacked subtlety" But here he's trying to have the singers and the orchestra to better what the movie did. The DRIVE of the movie versions of his songs was so great that he actually wanted to go better than that.

[@durulseren2134]

These guys are old. Movie version is better. The characters must be teenagers trying to act like adults am I wrong?

[@gargantuaism]

Oh brother, Mr Critic here. Tell us more...

[@horrorfan5157]

The movie version wasn't great either

[@holly9096]

The 2021 movie version is great