December 2011
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STT - Sondheimet Tisztelők Társasága →
If you speak Hungarian and love Sondheim, I’ve got good news for you: there’s a new Hungarian-language Sondheim blog (and associated Facebook page) aimed at raising the composer/lyricist’s profile in Hungary.
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sondheim opinion of the night
mrlovett:
The original opening to Merrily We Roll Along is much better/more effective than the revised version.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot as we get closer to the Encores production.
Without “Hills of Tomorrow,” the show loses the key point that Frank peaked in college and spends the rest of his life trying to copy that success rather than grow. Every song Frank...
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ofarrogant:
“By the Sea” - Elaine Paige
I can’t...
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"Whose Stephen Sondheim?"
thingsyoudontwanttohearonbway:
“Whose Stephen Sondheim? GO KILL YOURSELF.”
ITYM “Who’s Stephen Sondheim.”
(I don’t advocate suicide for anyone, but maybe go enroll in English class, an anger management seminar, and take some happy pills?)
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If someone would like to spend a week at my...
…cataloging my cast album collection, which numbers in the thousands, then I’d be happy to post my list too. :)
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charmingbutnotsincere:
Epiphany, or Epifanía,...
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Casting Announcement for John Doyle's "Merrily" →
Just saw this. Love the three leads, but it sure is an interesting choice to cast them so old.
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Weep, Little Lion Man: My combined thoughts on... →
astatuestrongenoughfortwo:
I’ve never heard “We’re Gonna Be Alright” before, but that was really good, very funny. But that’s not the final version?
Depends on your definition of “final.”
As far as Sondheim is concerned, this is the final version of the song. He wrote it for Do I Hear A Waltz, but Rodgers (reportedly under pressure from his wife) rejected it for being too racy....
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“Irony is a made-to-order refuge from emotion or criticism; the author is...”
– Stephen Sondheim Look, I Made a Hat (via onlycompletely)
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“…my fondness for the word “hat,” which the British critic...”
– Sondheim, Look I Made a Hat, pg. 30
I hope y’all caught the pun in the final sentence.
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Stephen Sondheim: A Casebook (Casebooks on Modern...
console46:
Stephen Sondheim: A Casebook (Casebooks on Modern Dramatists) Stephen Sondheim is an artist with many contradictory facets: he is an avant-garde composer and lyricist working in the populist art form, an apparently dry and acerbic critic who captures all the ambivalent pain of passion, an intellectual whose work contains some of the funniest bawdy lines on the Broadway stage. He...
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kellyld:
To find a rhyme for silver Or any “rhymeless” rhyme Requires only will, ver- Bosity and time.
– Stephen Sondheim
(From a letter to the editor of Time magazine, May 24, 1971.)
Eavesdropping on Sondheim →
“When I look back as objectively as I can at the shows I wrote before James [Lapine] and contrast them with ‘Sunday in the Park With George’ and the others I wrote with him,” [Stephen Sondheim] says, “it seems clear to me that a quality of detachment suffuses the first set, whereas a current of vulnerability, of longing, informs the second.”
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“…a devilishly complicated thriller of superior class…”
– Roger Ebert’s review of The Last of Sheila (1973)
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