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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Murray Reminds Trump Puerto Ricos in America by Performing Songs from West Side Story
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-murray-reminds-trump-puerto-ricos-in-america-by-performing-songs-from-west-side-story?source=TDB&via=FB_PageBill Murray Reminds Trump Puerto Ricos in America by Performing Songs from West Side Story
The actor sang a West Side Story medley on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert that ended with a strong message to President Trump.
Matt Wilstein
10.13.17 2:21 AM ET
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Bill Murrays latest creative endeavor is an experimental spoken word and music album called New Worlds that finds the comic actor teaming up German cellist Jan Vogler. On Thursday night, he stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and, after joking around with the host about his beloved Chicago Cubs, he performed the West Side Story medley that closes out the album.
Murray ran through Somewhere and I Feel Pretty before arriving at America. Though that songlike the otherswas written in the 1950s by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, the verse that Murray chose to end with feels awfully relevant to our current moment.
Immigrant goes to America. Many hellos in America, Murray sang. Nobody knows in America. Puerto Ricos in America!
That last line got a huge cheer from Colberts audience, who no doubt perceived it as a shot across President Trumps bow. As Hillary Clinton said while Trump was still focused on the NFL, Im not sure he knows that Puerto Ricans are American citizens.
While Trump has expressed nothing but support for hurricane victims in Texas and Florida, he has been continually hostile toward Puerto Ricans, tweeting on Thursday, We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!
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Bill Murray Reminds Trump Puerto Ricos in America by Performing Songs from West Side Story (Original Post)
babylonsister
Oct 2017
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As I wrote in another thread, the stanzas about PR were NOT sung - we heard just instrumentals.
flor-de-jasmim
Oct 2017
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tymorial
(3,433 posts)1. Pretty cool
It's missing the augmented fourth.
flor-de-jasmim
(2,125 posts)2. As I wrote in another thread, the stanzas about PR were NOT sung - we heard just instrumentals.
This gave the song more impact, at least for those of us who remember the original lyrics, because we knew that the PR side was not being heard. By half-way through tears were streaming.
Jim__
(14,076 posts)4. You're right!
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[/center]moondust
(19,981 posts)3. Enjoyed it.
Musical trio was awesome. They're playing Carnegie Hall on Monday night.