<P> "I Feel Pretty" is a song from the 1957 musical West Side Story . </P> <P> The New York Times explained that "Mr. Sondheim...has said he was never particularly fond of his lyrics in' West Side Story,' especially' I Feel Pretty"', later expressing that "The idea of the song is so simple". </P> <P> The original stage version of the lyrics were altered in the making of the movie version of West Side Story due to a change in the scenes occurrence . Making' I feel pretty and witty and bright / And I pity / Any girl who isn't me tonight' into' I feel pretty, and witty and gay / And I pity / Any girl who isn't me today' . In the movie this night scene was changed to the daytime, and presumably for this reason, the rhyming words "bright" and "tonight" were changed to "gay" and "today ." </P> <P> In the musical, Maria is not yet aware that her love, Tony, has just killed her brother Bernardo, while in the film version, the song occurs before Bernardo's death . In the bridal shop where she works, Maria sings about being happy and feeling beautiful because she is "loved by a pretty wonderful boy", while her coworkers tease her about her silly behavior . Robert Cummings of AllMusic comments that the song "features one of Bernstein's more memorable melodies: its first four notes, deliciously rhythmic in their rising contour, repeat, then are reduced to three, then to two ....Bernstein's instrumentation colors the music with a Latin character...and so does the girls' chorus that enters midway through . Stephen Sondheim's lyrics deftly capture Maria's bliss and newfound sense of confidence". </P>

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