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Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke, you gotta understand
It's Just our bringing upkey that gets us out of hand
Our mothers all are Junkies
Our fathers all are drunks
Golly Moses, naturally, we're punks!
I love you, Kristen Stewart. :) You are so beautiful and talented. I would love to perform with you.
The verses are changed a bit between the stage and film version. And it ends with them saying Krup You! as a put on *beep* You! and his name Krupke.
shareThe Jets outplayed this song with brilliant mockery. Anyone who claims they didn't ROFL (at least once), is lying 😎
Peanutlee33
Absolutely right! I saw WEST SIDE STORY last night on Blu-ray for the first time in more than twenty years. Not only was it as funny as I remembered but there were things I never noticed as a kid. Like when Riff is singing A-rab is pretending to be a court stenographer typing away, and when Riff gets to the part about marijuana and cross-dressing A-rab does a screamingly funny double-take and stops typing altogether!
"Your next challenge is always your biggest." Joe Namath
Here is something funny: David Winters, who played A-Rab in the film, played Baby John in the stage version. In the Krupke song, he does the female social worker in the film as A-Rab and onstage he did it as Baby John. Maybe because he did it so well on the stage, when they decided on who was going to do what in the song, they let the same actor do it.
shareGood points there, stevenackerman69. The fact that a good many of the cast members of the film had also played in the original Broadway stage revival of West Side Story, as well as in the film version also helped make this classic film the dynamic package that it is.
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