Imagine having this many students willing to preform with brown face in front of their school and staff 😂 I hope everyone got roasted for this

@@addieb1314 imagine having this many students remembering their lines

Ann Pitz 🤦🏽‍♀️

@@addieb1314 🤣🤣🤣🤣

whooo i might just faint everyday

This is INSANELY good for high school... it's actually good for anywhere!

It’s just a normal high school I’ve been there before no professional they’re only doing this cuz of the tommy tune awards

Kiko Li Same here, Incredible

Pretty sure this isn’t a highschool

@@cyppy7473 read the description buddy

GingerNinja awe shit u right. They still used black face sooo. Yee haw cowboy?

@@cyppy7473 they got spray tans they didn't paint their faces lol

I literally gasped when I looked closer and realized the brown makeup. Completely unnecessary and tone deaf

I dont think its a huge issue, but unnececary certainly, especially because the color of clothers keeps the factions apart quite easily anyway in the original. If anything they could have changed up the costuming a bit more

I'm Hispanic American and when I saw the painted faces of Bernardo and Anita I smirked and that's all. I was far too focused on the dancing and marveled at how well they recreated the original Jerome Robbins choreography. It's usually toned down and simplified for high school productions but not here, they basically do the steps full justice. I agree that it's unnecessary to have the actors get a tan or paint their faces because Puerto Ricans and Hispanics more broadly come in all shades. "Hispanic" or "Latino" or "Puerto Rican" aren't racial terms. They denote culture, region, and nationality, respectively. What race are "Hispanics" or more specifically, what race are Puerto Ricans? If you say non-White, you'd wrong as there are many fully European blood PR's. PR's like Hispanics more broadly can be of ANY race. They are a multi-racial people. So the actor playing Bernardo could've left his skin alone as well as the actress playing Anita. The only impression it gives is that the characters don't wash their faces often because it looks blotchy and not even. Having said that, I disagree with anyone who would even think for a second of calling the use of brown face here racist, unkind, or insensitive. I have no doubt there was no malice involved and their intentions are obviously good, even if a bit naive. OK, enough of that...I am still in awe with all of these young performers' performances here. Can easily rival a professional Broadway production and cast. Bravo!

I mean hey, it’s Texas what do you expect? Oddly enough the one Asian Shark was not face painted 🤔

Yeah that lead trumpet was really laying it out extremely impressive also considering how many times they must of played and practiced they must have chops of steel

Awesome right !! :D

Finally someone said it 😂

True

yeah but not a different skin colour stupid

Yeah lets not, its very clearly brown face. if it was regular stage makeup it wouldn’t only be the sharks wearing it.

stratford playhouse is majority white, the actors who played hispanic roles got tans

Hey man ... are you familiar with the concept of "stage make up."

Are you familiar with the concept of "stage make up?" It's High school. They work with the cast that is available. Calm down. Are you suggesting that actors not be allowed to play parts of cultures other than their own? It's called ACTING, a-hole.

White people will say anything to defend black face like omg. Hilarious actually. You know this is wrong.

No, it's not, Nikki, you racist. lol Blackface is supposed to mock your black ass. This is just a fake tan (or a real one seeing how white people can actually tan naturally to the colour of nearly being black whole you can't bleach naturally).

There were a few pros mixed in with the students in the orchestra - but the cast was totally students in the theater dept. with the 4 adult roles (Doc, the cops, and the chaperone) played by teachers at the school.

Right i'm like, are my eyes working properly?? These people are really in brown face like come on!

PC police mind your own damn business

i mean i agree, but they did it to George Chakiris in the film and i know different times....,more importantly what have they got round their heads?

Blake Fletcher 'Hidden' microphones lol

hahaha really? xD hidden.....

No, this is a High School theater program - just happens to be a really, really good one.

yes!

And then you'd likely be complaining that they cast the Latino characters with white actors.

rubyslipper1939 you know there are white hispanics right 🌚

Clearly you have no idea of what blackface is.

me!

I’m glad I’m not the only one that saw that

puerto ricans are americans. so its americans making fun of other americans without realizing they are making fun of other americans.

West Side Story is not "about Americans being racist to Latinos." If you think it is, then "the irony" is how dreadfully you have failed to understand the show while being up on a high horse about it.

www.politico.eu/article/the-case-for-blackface-theatre-african-heritage-offensive/ - an appropriate article to read for everyone that's been commenting on this subject

@@THATBILLMOORE so what I’m getting is instead of admitting its wrong ur replying with an article to try and excuse brown face lmfao bye

Don't be embarrassed. If your school has the stones to stage WSS ... Do your best, have fun, and be glad you went from beginning to end. Don't constantly compare yourself to others, especially where WSS is the matter. This is Americas #1 objective for high school musicals. sing, dance, have fun.

Z Gaztambide grow up. It's called ACTING. They needed to work with what they had.

Soul of Music my school recently did WSS and the cast was white for the most part, but they were still very respectful and avoided browface completely...and it worked! They delivered the story wonderfully and did it without getting racist and unnecessary tans or using darker stage makeup.

Thank you, like i would know who is who without them offensively painting their skin.

Hey Nikki, would it have been okay if they had just gotten a natural tan from the sun like white, Latino and Asian people can get? Or is it just offensive if you use a make-up tan? XD lmfao

Given that Bernardo was based on Tybalt (from R+J), it's more accurate that he'd stomp his foot or show some level of aggression. Tybalt was a brute.

Mics can't go on chests because of the sound the costumes will make. Professionally, mics are usually wired through the wig cap or hair and rest on the forehead. An alternative is for them to be on a thin band that sits around the hairline.

Are you really wanting to compare a professional version (in a different language) to a production from a high school in Texas? One thing I can say, having watched parts of the production you're referencing, is that the camerawork and editing are much better in this version - and to be clear, the performances and music from this high-school level production are incomparable at that level. They should receive nothing but praise.

@@THATBILLMOORE you know the Eduardo Capetillo and Bibi gaytan ?

@@GabrielGomez-xv2zq I looked up their performance and they’re great - I couldn’t find “Mambo” but I saw some other parts of their performance. If you have a link, please post it.

James Court west side story is a musical and had been before the film, and they clearly bought performance rights. They're following the script.

The choreographer Jerome Robbins, whose dances for the original Broadway production were used in the movie version, is no longer living -- which means that his staging ideas are "in the public domain." So it's not "ripping off," any more than having the ensemble step in time to the music at the end of LES MISERABLES Act I is "ripping off" the original staging. It's called performance tradition.

@@detectivefiction3701 Public Domain begins when the person is deceased for at least 100 years. This choreography is not for public use. They are a nice ensemble but the choreographer was using Robbins work illegally as it is copyright law.

Vibeke Degnehave Sandahl Scheibe not all hispanics are tan. Brown face is equivalent to blackface. RACIST

I’m not surprised white people are making these remarks.

People are just wanting to find any reason to be offended imo. I’m a latino and I saw no problem with it.

Yeah, not a fan of your meaningless virtue signalling.

@@phangirlable It says a lot that you think not being racist is performative.

No, it's just not being racist. If something isn't racist it isn't racist.

I'm sorry to tell you that calling something 'not racist' doesn't magically make it... not racist. What on earth makes you think that you're the final authority on whether something is harmful to black people or not?

I'm sorry to tell you that calling something 'racist' doesn't magically make it... racist. What on earth makes you think that you're the final authority on whether something is harmful to brown people or not?