Amour et rêve américain : quand la comédie musicale s'empare des grands mythes - cours d'anglais

Préparez-vous à chanter et danser avec Erwan et Lynda ! Les profs d'anglais vous proposent un cours autour de la comédie musicale West side story, écrite en 1961 par Robert Wise et Jerome Robbins et mis en musique par Leonard Bernstein. Let's sing and dance !

Retrouvez en PDF le support de cours et les 2 extraits étudiés (America et Tonight).

Extrait de West side story : America, act 1, sc. 7 (texte en anglais)

Anita
Once an immigrant, always an immigrant!
Bernardo
Hey, look! Instead of a shampoo, she’s been brainwashed!
Anita
Stop it!
Bernardo
She’s given up Puerto Rico and now she’s queer for Uncle Sam!
Anita
Oh, no, that’s not true.
[sings]
Puerto Rico, my heart's devotion
Let it sink back in the ocean
Always the hurricanes blowing
Always the population growing
And the money owing
And the sunlight streaming
And the natives steaming
I like the Island Manhattan
(I know you do)
Smoke on your pipe
And put that in!

Girls
I like to be in America
Ok by me in America
Everything free in America
Bernardo

For a small fee in America
Anita
Buying on credit is so nice
Bernardo
One look at us and they charge twice
Rosalia
I have my own washing machine
Indio
What will you have, though, to keep clean?
Anita
Skyscrapers bloom in America
Rosalia
Cadillacs zoom in America
Teresita
Industry boom in America
Boys
Twelve in a room in America
Anita
Lots of new housing with more space
Bernardo
Lots of doors slamming in our face
Anita
I'll get a terrace apartment
Bernardo
Better get rid of your accent

Anita
Life can be bright in America
Boys
If you can fight in America
Girls
Life is alright in America
Boys
If you're all White in America
Boys and girls
La la la la ... America! America!
La la la la... America! America!
Girls
Here you are free
And you have pride
Boys
As long as you stay on your own side
Girls
Free to be anything you choose
Boys
Free to wipe tables and shine shoes
Bernardo
Everywhere grime in America
Organized crime in America
Terrible time in America
Anita
You forget I'm in America
Bernardo
I think I'd go back to San Juan
Anita
I know a boat you can get on (bye bye)
Bernardo
Everyone there will give big cheer
Anita
Everyone there will have moved here!