Tony, Maria, Anita, Bernardo ( and the Sharks ), and Riff ( and the Jets ) all anticipate the events to come that night (" Tonight Quintet ").

When Bernardo pushes Tony, Riff punches him in Tony's defense.

In an important moment of the show, Riff has an opportunity to stab Bernardo, but Tony holds him back.

After shaking off Tony, Riff returns to the fight but is accidentally stabbed and killed by Bernardo in the process.

Only the bodies of Riff and Bernardo remain.

" Tonight Quintet and Chorus " – Anita, Tony, Maria, Bernardo, Riff, Jets and Sharks

* In the rumble scene, Bernardo kills Riff like Tybalt kills Mercutio ; Tony avenges Riff's death by killing Bernardo, just as Romeo kills Tybalt.

The other principal or notable cast members in the original production were: Anybodys: Lee Becker, Riff: Michael Callan, A-Rab: Tony Mordente, Action: Eddie Roll, Big Deal: Martin Charnin, Gee-Tar: Tommy Abbott ; Velma: Carole D ' Andrea, Bernardo: Ken Le Roy, Chino: Jamie Sanchez, Nibbles: Ronnie Lee ; Rosalia: Marilyn Cooper, Consuelo: Reri Grist, Teresita: Carmen Gutierrez, Francisca: Elizabeth Taylor ; Lt. Schrank: Arch Johnson, Doc: Art Smith, and Krupke: William Bramley.

Featured performers were George Chakiris, who won an Academy Award as Bernardo in the 1961 film version, as Riff, Marlys Watters as Maria, Don McKay as Tony, and Chita Rivera reprising her Broadway role as Anita.

This production has starred such performers as Kirsten Rossi / Elisa Cordova / Sofia Escobar / Ali Ewoldt as Maria, Ryan Silverman / Scott Sussman / Chad Hilligus as Tony, Lana Gordon / Oneika Phillips / Desiree Davar as Anita, Spencer Howard / Brett Leigh ( also playing Action )/ Denton Tarver as Riff and Emmanuel de Jesús Silva / Marco Santiago / Oscar as Bernardo.

The cast features Josh Piterman as Tony, Julie Goodwin as Maria, Alinta Chidzey as Anita, Nigel Turner-Carrol as Bernardo and Rohan Browne as Riff.

In June 2011, a Lima production was produced by " Preludio Asociación Cultural " with Marco Zunino as Tony, Rossana Fernández-Maldonado as Maria, Jesús Neyra as Bernardo, Tati Alcántara as Anita and Joaquín de Orbegoso as Riff.

In December 2011, a Indonesia production was produced by Nino Theatre with Manda Alaysia as Maria, Bimo Reisnanda as Bernardo, Zara Fathy as Anita, Ton Dorino as Riff.

Riff wants to convince his friend and former member of the Jets, Tony, to meet the Jets at the dance, but some of the Jets are unsure of his loyalty (" Jet Song ").

When Principal Togar ( Mary Woronov ) takes her ticket away, Riff and her best friend Kate Rambeau ( Dey Young ) have to find another way to meet their heroes — by winning a radio contest.

The pronunciation of that word may vary according the spoken Berber dialect, for example it is pronounced as " Amrabadh " in the Riff dialect.

The 2012 Waverly Boogie was held on Saturday April 21, 2012 and featured sets from Centro-Matic, Hurray for the Riff Raff and The Pine Hill Haints among others.

Frank makes a final plea for sympathy from Riff Raff, trying to make him understand his desire to spend the rest of his life having sex with earthlings (" I'm Going Home ").

She also wrote and directed an episode of Women for Showtime Cable Network, as well as Sax Cantor Riff, one of HBO ’ s Subway Stories for producers Jonathan Demme and Rosie Perez.

In cartoons with non-Western themes, he uses various aliases, including " Chilkoot Sam " ( named for the Chilkoot Trail ; Sam pronounces it " Chilli-koot ") in 14 Carrot Rabbit ( although in the same cartoon, when he tries to gain Bugs Bunny's trust, he cleverly invents alias " Square-deal Sam "), " Riff Raff Sam " in Sahara Hare, " Sam Schulz " in Big House Bunny, " Seagoin ' Sam " in Buccaneer Bunny, " Shanghai Sam " in Mutiny on the Bunny, and " Sam Von Schamm the Hessian " in Bunker Hill Bunny and many others.

After The Police stopped touring in 1984, Copeland established a career composing soundtracks for movies Airborne, Talk Radio, Wall Street, Riff Raff, Raining Stones, Surviving the Game, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Highlander II: The Quickening, The Leopard Son, She's Having a Baby, Taking Care of Business, West Beirut, I am David, Good Burger ), television ( The Equalizer, Dead Like Me, Star Wars: Droids, the pilot for Babylon 5 ( 1993 ), Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show, The Life and Times of Juniper Lee ), and video games ( Spyro the Dragon and The Agents ), along with operas ( Holy Blood and Crescent Moon, commissioned by Cleveland Opera ) and ballets.

He also performed the character Riff on Allegra's Window, and was an animatronic puppeteer for Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

* Rubber Riff ( library music originally recorded for DeWolfe music in 1976 under Karl Jenkins ' name-re-issued on CD as a Soft Machine title by Blueprint, 1994 )

Russell Irving " Russ " Tamblyn ( born December 30, 1934 ) is an American film and television actor and dancer, who is arguably best known for his performance in the 1961 movie musical West Side Story as Riff, the leader of the Jets gang.

These characteristics identify a more restricted subset of Berber than those previously mentioned, mainly northern Saharan varieties ; they exclude, for example, Chaoui and all but the easternmost Riff dialects.

It is relatively similar to the so-called Senhadja de Srair Berber varieties, spoken around Ketama, but s probably difficult to understand for a speaker of the mainstream dialects of Riff.

The song " Big Riff and Mando " reflects life on the road for the relentlessly touring musicians, giving a wry account of the theft of Barre's prized mandolin by a stage-struck fan.

The main riff for " Riff Raff " is often used as a soundcheck for Melvins guitar player Buzz Osbourne before live Melvins performances, as heard on the DVD Salad of a Thousand Delights.

They are, according to Labbe, currently working on a new article for Fangoria magazine about American International's Muscle Beach Party, released in 1964 where Scott played the role of " Rock ," a bodybuilder who was part of " Jack Fanny's " ( Don Rickles ) exercise group ( Scott's character name is listed incorrectly on the Internet Movie Database as " Riff "-the shirts he wears in the film all read " Rock ").

After Riff destroyed their Aylee-Clone project and Gwynn revealed their evil for all to see, the corporation was reduced to shambles.

Rather than forgo the unlimited supply that the mines of Iberia and the Riff offered, Hitler summoned General Sanjurjo from Lisbon ( where he was living in banishment ) to Berlin in March 1936, and the plot for a military insurrection against the Republic with the aid of the Fuehrer and Signor Mussolini was hatched.

The Norderney took over Veronica's broadcasts in November that year and the Borkum Riff was sold for scrap.

The musical R & B quintet Riff recorded a song and accompanying music video called " White Men Can't Jump " for the movie.

Its chord progression, known as the " rhythm changes ", is the foundation for many other popular jazz tunes such as Charlie Parker's and Dizzy Gillespie's Bebop standard " Anthropology ( Thrivin ' From a Riff )".

His fondess for jazz is reflected in the names of several of his works including " Riff " ( 1996 ), " Round Midnight " ( 1996 ), " Stormy Weather " ( 1997 ), " Night and Day " ( 1979 ) and " Perdido " ( 1978 ).

During the Riff War of the early 1920s most of the Foreigners serving with the Legion were Spanish speaking Latin Americans.

Riff meets Tony while he's working at Doc's Drugstore to persuade him to come.

The Jets try their hardest to get their minds off the death of Riff by poking fun at all of the adults who try to make sense of what they do (" Gee, Officer Krupke ").

The Rocky Horror Show had a longer revival on Broadway from October 2000 to January 2002 at the Circle in the Square Theatre and featured Tom Hewitt ( later Terrance Mann ) as Frank N. Furter, Alice Ripley as Janet, Raúl Esparza ( later Sebastian Bach ) as Riff Raff, Joan Jett as Columbia / Usherette ( later Ana Gasteyer ), Lea DeLaria ( later Jason Wooten ) as Eddie / Doctor Scott, and Daphne Rubin-Vega as Magenta.

In July 2006, British hard rock magazine Metal Hammer awarded Cantrell the title of Riff Lord, at its annual Golden Gods Awards show, held at the London Astoria.

Programmes were pre-recorded at Veronica's Amsterdam studio together with the Dutch programmes, and broadcast from the Veronica ship Borkum Riff.

The production started with Riff Markowitz envisioning the initial concept and then inviting a room full of creative friends to a spaghetti and champagne ' brainstorming ' dinner party in his double suite at the Windsor Arms Hotel in Toronto.

Their leader, Riff Randall ( P. J. Soles ), is the biggest Ramones fan at Vince Lombardi High School.

After appearing in the off-Broadway play Riff Raff at Circle Repertory Company, Heavy D returned to recording with the hit Waterbed Hev.

She clearly knows Torg and Riff and, despite her talents as an assassin, appears to view them as a potential threat, or at least challenge.

; Dr. Lorna: Riff's biological mother ; a radio personality who once employed Gwynn and Zoë, similar to Dr. Laura Schlesinger ( however, she appears notably younger — Zoë notes that she must have given birth to Riff at a relatively young age ).