What if life was a musical?

With nothing else really on today, we decided to watch the second half of West Side Story... It was pretty bad. No offense to people who liked it, but the ending was just awfully depressing and was so abrupt. Did anything really get resolved?? It just had a sudden ending where Tony just died and Maria becomes depressed and the gangs just kinda leave like nothing really happened. There's barely even any law enforcement either! Do we just assume they just ignore them? I get it's supposed to be a spin-off of Romeo and Juliet, but.... All I did see was Romeo and Juliet with American and Mexican gangs and dancing. Even though I did like it gave a solid reason why these two groups hate each other, it wasn't really too spectacular to me.

Oh and not to mention how super unrealistic it is. My sister and I poked fun at it a lot how people just sing and break out into dance and suddenly everyone's problems are better. I know it is a musical but c'mon, can't we have just a little bit of reality apply to this? Let's take a look.

Scenario #1: The two gangs into a knife fight, resulting in the death of one guy from each gang.

• Reality- Law enforcement comes in to do some murder investigation or something and interrogates friends and family.
• Musical- Dancing offstage with one of the guys who became a murderer screams the name of his girlfriend into the air. (BTW screaming "Stella" is more classic than screaming "Maria")

Scenario #2: A girl had her brother murdered by her secret boyfriend because of said knife fight and boyfriend sneaks into her room to see her.

• Reality- Girl would break up with boy, hate him and call 911. Would grieve for the loss of her brother.
• Musical- Girl would be angry but still in love with boy and go into a romantic song number

Scenario #3: One of the gangs after the death of one of their members

• Reality- Grieving and possible plotting of revenge/running away from police
• Musical- Burst out into choreographed dance number and forget the sadness of their loss

Oh how fun it is to poke at this stuff in musicals. But again, didn't like this particular musical.