New Clip From WEST SIDE STORY Features Tony and Maria Singing "Tonight"
A new clip has been released for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the hit Broadway musical West Side Story. The clip features Rachel Zegler as Maria and Ansel Elgort as Tony singing the classic musical number “Tonight” and they do a wonderful job.
The film has recently screened for members of the press and so far everything that I’ve seen praises the movie. So, for those of you who are looking forward to watching this movie, it sounds like Spielberg delivers an incredible adaptation! After all these years, Spielberg finally made a musical and according to the first initial reactions, it was worth the wait.
West Side Story hits theaters on December 10th, 2021.
West Side Story tells the story of forbidden love between two teenagers – Tony and Maria. The story also revolves around the rivalry between two street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, who are of two different ethnic backgrounds.
The members of the Jets include Anybodys (Ezra Menas), Mouthpiece (Ben Cook), Action (Sean Harrison Jones); Jets leader Riff (Mike Faist); and Baby John (Patrick Higgins). Then there are the Sharks, including Maria’s brother and leader Bernardo (David Alvarez), Quique (Julius Anthony Rubio), Chago (Ricardo Zayas), Chino (Josh Andrés Rivera), Braulio (Sebastian Serra), and Pipo (Carlos Sánchez Falú). The film also stars Ariana DeBose (Anita), Ana Isabelle (Rosalia), Corey Stoll (Lieutenant Schrank), Brian d’Arcy James (Officer Krupke), and Curtiss Cook (Abe).
When talking about adapting the story for modern times, Spielberg explained: “This story is not only a product of its time, but that time has returned, and it’s returned with a kind of social fury. I really wanted to tell that Puerto Rican, Nuyorican experience of basically the migration to this country and the struggle to make a living, and to have children, and to battle against the obstacles of xenophobia and racial prejudice.”
The script for the movie comes from Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner, who previously worked with Spielberg on Munich and Lincoln, and it’s explained that he had “to craft an updated story that retains the familiar songs but embeds them in a more realistic cityscape.”