![]() ![]() We consider the choices for the new film in filming, choreography, casting, and how the script was completely rewritten by playwright Tony Kushner with lots of consultation with the Puerto Rican community to ensure that the representational mistakes of the older versions were corrected. Ron regales us with facts about the original 1957 musical and the 1961 acclaimed film version. Your host Mark Linsenmayer is joined by Broadway scholar, theater critic, and actor Ron Fassler Remakes, Reboots, and Revivals co-host Nicole Pometti and Broadway actor and long-time PEL friend BIll Youmans. Did it make sense for Steven Spielberg to remake one of our nation’s most beloved musicals (with music by Bernstein and Sondheim!), attempting to fix the parts that did not age well politically? Is the new version a modern classic or a doomed Frankenstein?
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