The Reality of the Streets

The film was shot in the middle of summer when it was 95, 97 degrees and a heat index to a hundred and eight. The dancers were absolutely dying but they'd come back for take eight and take nine and take ten with smiles on their faces. I wanted to echo the fact that tony had spent a year in prison and was out now on parole. And so i kind of designed it when when i did all the drawings, that once he gets up to maria, the grating is locked and he can't get on to the actual fire escape. So nothing is letting them come together until the sanheim lyrics invite the final moment where they're actually able coming together and sing