Showcasing the astonishing talent of siger, dancer and actor, Larry Kert.
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Larry Kert gained an international reputation for playing the original Tony in the Broadway version of West Side Story opposite the stunning and amazingly talented Carol Lawrence.
Larry Kert and Mimi Hines in ''From Rodgers and Hart With Love''
at the the King Cole Room of the St. Regis-Sheraton Hotel
Review by John S. Wilson Published: January 29, 1981
"THE producers Jerry Kravat and Harve Brosten have dug into one of the most delightful collections of Broadway songs for their latest songfest at the King Cole Room of the St. Regis-Sheraton Hotel. It is called ''From Rodgers and Hart With Love,''
.... it is interesting to find that Mr. Kert consistently rises above one's expectations, projecting an easy relationship with his songs that catches and builds on the eager mood of ''Wait Till You See Her,'' the jaunty frivolity of ''Mimi'' or the fullness of ''With a Song in My Heart.''
Footnote: Included in the collection of songs were ''Mountain Greenery'', ''The Most Beautiful Girl in the World,'', Ten Cents a Dance'' and ''Lover''
Original Cast Recording: Track 2: Something's Coming
Larry Kert
"Larry Kert, as Tony on the [Original Cast Recording], does a remarkable job with this song. His voice is clear and his inflections, including the way he scoops into some of the notes, are outstanding. He really sells this song, and his fadeout of "Maybe tonight" is haunting."
From Track by Track by S. Woody White
Review of Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence
at the "Rainbow and Stars" cabaret
NEWS
Larry Kert; 'West Side Story' Star
June 7, 1991 | BURT A. FOLKART, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Larry Kert, whose soaring tenor voice gave the nation its initial glimpse of many of the melodic miracles of "West Side Story," has died in New York of AIDS. Kert, 60, died of the disease Wednesday at his home, said director Martin Charnin, who appeared with the actor in the landmark musical. The musical retelling of "Romeo and Juliet" arrived at the Winter Garden Theater in 1957. Kert and Carol Lawrence played star-crossed lovers doomed by gang warfare between Anglos and Puerto Ricans.
Review/Theater; First 'West Side Story' Stars Sing Together Again
By MEL GUSSOW New York Times
"As it should be, the high point in the Kert-Lawrence cabaret show is a reprise of their signature numbers from ''West Side Story.'' When an audience hears those imperishable Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim songs, sung by those who first brought them to stage life, three decades become a blink in time.
Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert Together . . . Again!"
Review of Larry Kert in Side By Side By Sondheim
"Mr. Kert, [acts] as a straight man, forthright, with a twinkle, until he can cut loose on his show stopper from"West Side Story," "Something's Coining."
John S Wilson, The New Y0rk Times. October 24, 1977
Note: Larry Kert was in the new cast which took over on October 23rd 1977. The other stars included Nancy Dussault, Georgia Brown and Hermione Gingold
Review of Larry Kert in "Company" by Stephen Sondheim
"Larry Kert is a delight ... a marvelously expressive singer and actor"
T.E. Katem, Time Magazine
Review of the Original West Side Story Broadway cast.
"Can or will anyone else ever sing "Maria" or Something's Coming" better than Larry [Kert]? No."
Martin Charnin, Big Deal in the Original West Side Story Broadway cast.
Liner notes to the Original Cast Recording of West Side Story
