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Originally Posted by issybird
There’s some obvious opportunity off the top to cast actors who can do their own singing and fit the ethnicity of the characters and also to do a grittier take on it, as the original WSS film was sanitized to meet the moral code still operating in Hollywood.
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Hmmm... from what I've seen, the Sharks will be Latinx (Puerto Rican by preference) while the Jets will be no longer be white but have mixed ethnicity à la Van Hove's 2020 Broadway remake.
As one reviewer commented considering how often WSS has been performed in high schools, community theatre, etc., if you haven't seen WSS, it's because you were in it.
Personally, I think they should have reverted to the original East Side Story version with Jews and Catholics battling it out in the streets.