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Last night I talked about West Side Story and I'm going to elaborate more this evening. I think I was seven years old the first time I saw the film, but I honestly don't remember much beyond the music and the colors. It wasn't until the high schools performed it when I was ten that I really understood the story or the characters. To this day that is the only live production of the play I've seen, and I would like it to remain so.

I've seen the film countless times since then and the music never fails to blow me away. Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim: does it get any better than that? Add in choreographer Jerome Robbins and you've got the perfect musical.

I chose the prologue because the opening scenes for the film comprise one of my favorite cinematic sequences of all time. This is my childhood and my adolescence; everything you need to know about me you can discover in this music. So much love. ♥

"West Side Story Prologue" music by Leonard Bernstein, conducted by Johnny Green

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I will give them the benefit of the doubt since the last film was so awesome (OMG IT'S ON THE LIST WE HAVE TO WATCH IT TOGETHER) and we shall see...Mmm, Holmes/Watson makes me HAPPY. OH OH WE CAN WATCH SHERLOCK TOO! It's all good!

YES I LOVE KISS KISS BANG BANG! Oh, that was a good time. <333

Seriously. Awesome. It cannot be watched too much. ;P

It's almost 12. Almost lunchtime. Most definitely. I need cheese. Okay, if you don't read these comments in the same order I wrote them, nothing will make sense. :P