there's something due any day
Thirty-seven minutes in, dancers dancer, and the screen goes blurry but for two spots of clarity--Maria on the left, Tony on the right. The rest of the dance ceases to matter (and is quickly reduced to just three other couples) as Maria and Tony dance for the first time. And, as the dancing ceases (for them) there's this line: "I knew something never before was going to happen, had to happen, but this is so much more." The something is clear--like Romeo and Juliet before them, Tony and Maria have fallen in love. Love at first sight. A trope of fiction, entirely necessary for a musical because we don't really have time to deal with anything more realistic. Not that musicals aren't realistic. Aside from the obvious break with, you know, normal human interaction, musicals tend to be quite grounded, more melodrama than drama. "You're the only thing I'll see forever," Maria sings, and a somewhat cheesy thought occurs to me to counter my usual cyn...