August 2011
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A straight boy's guide to meeting straight women... →
IMPORTANT — You know nothing from Company! You never heard of Company! Who is this Stritch woman???
Timeless words of Wisdom from Michael Dale.
July 2011
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‘Send in the Clowns’ was never meant to be a soaring ballad; it’s a song of...
– Stephen Sondheim (via hismajestythebitch)
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leonoeleon:
“A weekend in the country, so inactive no one has to lie down.”
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a little night music - A Weekend in the Country
Wow, you got that completely backwards.
The lyric is “so inactive that one has to lie down.”
You see, it’s a joke. Dry humor. Oh, never mind.
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Friends, I don’t really know anything about who this is or if she’s for real. But I want to be the man who discovered her.
I give you Cara Hughs, aka Manhattan Sacha Brook.
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Film Critic: Why Dick Tracy Should Be On Broadway →
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nicknadel:
In my latest column for AMC’s Film Critic, I pay homage to one of my favorite movie musicals. Yep, Dick Tracy is a musical. (Remember all the Madonna songs? Turns out Sondheim wrote them.)
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“All those Madonna songs” = three Madonna songs, plus one Mel Torme song and one Ladies of the Manhattan Transfer song. But I...
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Rarely if ever has a living Broadway composer been honored so much for his past...
– TIME Magazine on Sondheim (via thethundersaid)
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hypotheticalthalamus asked: Hi!
So I noticed you have been featuring "Don't Laugh" quite a lot recently. I was watching the Sondheim Birthday Concert with my friend Melanie recently, and this song caught her ear as something she might want to use as a performance piece, so I did some googling for sheet music and came up empty. Any idea as to some lesser-known sheet-music resources that might...
So I noticed you have been featuring "Don't Laugh" quite a lot recently. I was watching the Sondheim Birthday Concert with my friend Melanie recently, and this song caught her ear as something she might want to use as a performance piece, so I did some googling for sheet music and came up empty. Any idea as to some lesser-known sheet-music resources that might...
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ostrichridingcowboy asked: Didn't Marni have to do Tony, too?
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Let's share music on Spotify.
I am new enough to Spotify that I’m not entirely sure how the music-sharing functions work, but I’m excited to try them out. I’ve got a few playlists that I think are public, and I know you can send songs/albums to individuals. So connect with me (my user id is itsdlevy) and let me know if you can see the public playlists.
If you’d like me to send you cool stuff to your...
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I couldn't find any 8-bit renditions of Sondheim →
So I found this little java tool and made my own. Click through for my attempt at “Putting It Together.” Then make your own and share the link.
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When I got onto Spotify, of course my first goal was to uncover Sondheim tracks I hadn’t heard before. This one, by jazz clarinetist Don Byron, is a different take on “The Ladies Who Lunch” that totally works.
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Foxy Sondheim introduced Dorothy Fields to her...
Small world, isn’t it?
(We’re celebrating Dorothy Fields’s birthday all day at http://dorothyfields.tumblr.com!)
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