A revival of "West Side Story" starring former AS THE WORLD TURNS and ONE LIFE TO LIVE actor Matt Cavenaugh opened on Broadway last night. The cast and crew celebrated at an opening night after party at Pier Sixty. Cavenaugh posed with director Arthur Laurents, the book’s 91-year-old author.
New York publshed a very interesting article on Laurents, who lost his part of 46 years in 2006, earlier this week.
At 91, Laurents is one of the few left standing from the theater’s golden age of bad behavior. As well-known as he is for his writing, he is almost better known for his wronging. Straight people he believes to be gay have found themselves outed. Marriages he deems inconveniently convenient have been publicized as such. Even questions of paternity are not beyond his purview. And then, when he really gets going, beware. People who don’t conform to his narrative may find that they’re no longer in it. Especially when the subject is theater.
The New York Times reviewed the new show.
Mr. Cavenaugh’s Tony, a former member of the territorial Jets gang, has a goofy, woolgathering and slightly shy side that helps explain his subsequent ill-advised behavior. His singing is more tender, wondering and introspective than that of most Tonys, with less of the regulation leading-man virility.
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