West Side Story: Now With More English
Photo: Joan Marcus
According to publicists for Broadway's West Side Story — in which the Puerto Rican characters occasionally sing in Spanish — a number of "slight changes" have been implemented, and several songs will revert back to their original English. Probably because it's so hard to find bilingual substitute actors. [ArtsBeat/NYT]

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