On Jun 23, 2006, at 11:01 AM, John Howell wrote:
Andrew Stiller wrote:
In 1964, we did West Side Story with exactly one line change,
altering "You came here w. your pants open!" to "You came here w.
your mouth open!" ...
I don't remember that line at all, but do you happen to recall the
deliberate shock value in 1957 of "Gee, Officer, Krupke ... KRUP YOU!"
You left that in?
Yup. The entire point of a double-entendre is that one of the meanings
must be innocent, and you can take that pretty far. "Krupp you!" is
hardly the only double-entendre in WSS: for instance, at one point
Anybodys (her name itself pretty risqué) is asked "What do you want to
be when you grow up?" to which she wistfully answers "A telephone-call
girl." We left that in, too. "You came here w. your pants open" however
is a single-entendre, and too close to the edge for the faculty advisor
in a 1964 suburban highschool.
But if you had male dancers good enough to do that show, I'm jealous!!
John
I don't remember really, but I suspect that most of the dance
sequences were filled with stage business instead of real dancing. We
did have one very good male dancer, who actually went on to
Broadway--and then died of AIDS.
--Andrew
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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