Fuck Yeah Stephen Sondheim
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“Here We Are Again” from Do I Hear A Waltz? (Original Broadway Cast)
music Richard Rogers lyric Stephen Sondheim
performance Elizabeth Allen with Carol Bruce, Julienne Marie, Stuart Damon
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The universe has been telling me to look at this show for months—and who am I to argue? I love the interplay between the somewhat atypical music for the ensemble/happy couples and the way it dissolves into a classic Rogers ooom-chick melody as Leona sings her charming duet for one. The recording, just to be nice I suppose, adds to the end of the number an extra round of ensemble “la la la’s” not indicated in the score i found on the internet. Again, who am I to argue? Though I do wish the powers that be had included this final verse for the lonely Leona once she gets home (hipstified with a new iPhone app I’m playing with):
Why is there not more Elizabeth Allen in the world? And though I don’t think I really need see a full production of this (even in an Encores! setting—I hope to never ever have to sit through a staging of “What Do We Do? We Fly!”), I think it’s pretty obvious that Victoria Clark would be a smashing Leona (having played essentially the same part in Piazza).
The final verse was recorded on the Pasadena Playhouse cast recording.
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The final verse was recorded on the Pasadena Playhouse cast recording.
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itssoschizo said:
Elizabeth Allen’s playing of Leona was not seen, by the creators, as too young for the part and too cold.
It’s an interesting piece, which does deserve a second look, I’d have gone with Pasedena recording, btw, rather than this one ;)
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