man i'm with all the rentheads out there. i really want to see the movie but it's not out here yet, stupid living in isolated country. but i must say that west side story is by far and away the best apropriation of romeo & juliet that anyone is ever going to get, everything else is just too, trying not to be cheesy but failing miserably.
fun fact: elvis was originally offered the role of tony in the movie version but the colonel made him turn it down because...well because the colonel was a rather mean fat man who wasn't a colonel at all. oh at natalie wood can't sing to save her life, dubbed all the way!
-paula
p.s no one mentioned the wiz! i mean yes it was lame and yes the original movie version had diana ross and michael jackson but come on! ease on down the road is a fav of mine, as well as 'slide some oil to me' or something like that. nothing like a song full of sexual innuendo!