This is not the movie
Many of you who have reviewed it so far have never seen the stage show...it is different from the movie. In the stage show Krupky is after Riff diesalso the original lyrics were toned down for the movie and Cool is after the war council in the show, the changed it for the movie. This is not the movie. Also the shark girls sing America not the sharks. Also when it originally was on broadway it did not succeed. I actually like the idea of spanish being spoken for spanish speaking characters. It worked in Light in the Piazza to have Italians speaking Italian so why not

West Side Story on Monday, Mar 16th, 2009

wow
I just saw it this past Wed and I liked it. The Spanish wasnt that over powering...they only sing 2 songs in Spanish and some of the dialogue before America and when Chino tells Maria about her brother are in Spanish. If you like West Side Story you should def go see this. It is not to be missed

West Side Story on Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2009