A Piffany About West Side Story
Wait a second. Why don't these lovers just wait a Gee Officer Krupke second?!
Many folks consider West Side Story a musical theater masterpiece.
That, despite the 1961 Best Picture Oscar-winning film casting a daughter of Russian immigrants who didn’t sing (Natalie Wood, dubbed by Marni Nixon) to play the singing Puerto Rican immigrant, Maria, and darkened Rita Moreno’s skin.
Some, too, love the 2021 movie version, praising directo…