Very happy for Karen Olivo

In our family trip to NYC this year, we went to see the Broadway revival of West Side Story. Quite possibly the greatest of all American musicals, it moves "Romeo and Juliet" into a singing 1950's NYC. The movie won the Oscar. This year, the revival tried to again modernize the earlier production by adding a lot more Spanish Language components and using real Latinos in the key roles. They took the best actors from In the Heights and used an updated book. It didn't really work out because while the Jets were still in the 50s, then Sharks were in the 2000's.

What did work was Karen Olivo, who was the best thing going by far in the musical. Here is her singing the show stopping "America" on Letterman.



Here is her doing one of my favorite numbers from "In the Heights": In the Club. This is her dancing and this number was completely different with here non-dancing understudy.



Finally, if you want to hear her sing, here is a short clip of her singing, "It won't be long now":



Here is her with Amy and Jake!