During the "Officer Krupke" song, when Riff is sent to the analyst, just before the start of the verse, someone says "whoops" and it isn't part of the song. See more...
Popular blog posts:
10 Twilight mistakes in pictures
Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood barely talked to each other in real life. They would say "Good Morning" to each other as if they'd just met, and then start making out when someone said "action." Whenever they finished a scene, Wood would go straight back to her trailer. She wasn't this cold toward many of the other actors in the film. Her ability to cover this up shows her great acting skills. This fact is also mentioned in the West Side Story Special Edition DVD.
Tucker Smith (Ice) dubbed Riff's voice in the "Jet Song."
In the original stage version Tony and Maria sing "One Hand, One Heart" on the fire escape on the night of the dance. This song was considered too solemn in that scene when the movie was made, so they lifted a tune from "Quintet" and did some lyrics adjustments. The result was "Tonight", which is still the song sung in that particular scene in most stage productions.
Rita Moreno was reduced to tears when she was nearly raped by the Jets(although it was only acting) when it brought back memories of her being raped as a child. When she started crying the cast immediatly stopped and tried to comfort her.
The actors loved being on location in New York, so in order to get to stay there longer they would do rain dances to make it rain and delay production. It ended up raining so often that the director forbid them to do any more rain dances.
The bracelet Natalie Wood wears on her left wrist is to hide an injury she got while working on a previous movie.
A lot of people know that Marni Nixon dubbed Natalie Wood's singing. But in fact, she also dubbed two of Wood's sentences - "Don't you touch him" and "Te adoro, Anton" in the end of the movie.
Eliot Feld had pneumonia when they were filming "Cool."The studio they were filming in was extremely hot so when the cast took a break they went outside in the cold air. This all took a toll on Eliot and he collapsed.
The songs "Cool" and "Gee, Officer Krupke" were switched around in the film version as the latter song felt too merry after Riff had just died. In most stage productions since the film's release the songs have appeared in the order they did in the film.
You may also like: Home Alone | Family Guy | The Sound of Music | The 40 Year Old Virgin | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The message boards are meant for discussing things with other users, rather than making submissions/corrections. By all means feel free to post what you like here, but for anything to be looked at properly and entered into the "official" section please use the "submit something" link in the navigation bar. Any members who post offensive content will have their accounts blocked. This is also not the place to contact Jon (who runs the site (although the members who help him check are a BIG help)) - for that, please use the contact form.
