Fuck Yeah Stephen Sondheim
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- YOUNG PHYLLIS: Hey, I thought you said tonight'd be Tony's--
- YOUNG BUDDY: This joint is just as grand.
- YOUNG SALLY: We girls got dressed for dancing at Tony's--
- YOUNG BEN: This joint is in demand.
- YOUNG SALLY and YOUNG PHYLLIS: Ta-ta, goodbye, you'll find us at Tony's--
- YOUNG BUDDY and YOUNG BEN: Wait till you hear the band!
- YOUNG SALLY and YOUNG PHYLLIS: You told us Tony's, That we'd go to Tony's.
- YOUNG BUDDY and YOUNG BEN: I told you Tony's?
- ALL GIRLS: Then Ben mentioned Tony's. Well, someone said Tony's. There's dancing at Tony's--
- ALL MEN: When's Ben mentioned Tony's? I never said Tony's. It's ritzy at Tony's--
- ALL: All right, then, we'll go!
Charlie Rosen gives “Another Hundred People” the big band treatment, sung by Jay Armstrong Johnson who sounds like he’s doing the musical equivalent of slam poetry.
PS Classics has revealed the track listing for its expansive two-disc Off-Broadway cast recording of the Tony Award-winning musical Passion, featuring Judy Kuhn, Ryan Silverman and Rebecca Luker. In anticipation of the album, PS Classics shared an exclusive track with Playbill.com.
This sounds really good. Really good.
Lucy Williamson, who played Joanne in the Union Theatre’s production of Company in 2009, reprised “The Ladies Who Lunch” with the BBC concert orchestra in September, 2012.
Enrique Guzman sings “Comedy Tonight” from the 1963 Mexican cast recording of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
I have a thing for pop covers of showtunes by the stars who introduced the songs on Broadway. Here’s Larry Kert’s pop cover of “Something’s Coming” from West Side Story.
homage
(h/t theatreaficionado)
Here’s a link to the TV broadcast of Sunday in The Park from Paris this Spring. Only available for the next two days we.tl/LBoP1w1NZs
— Julian Ovenden (@JulianOvenden) May 20, 2013
If you’re in NYC, you can hear Anthony de Mare play selections from The Liaisons Project today at 3pm. He also has concerts this month in Ashland, OR and Norfolk, VA.
WHY AM I NOT IN NYC.
For $3 you can stream it live to your computer!
Wondering if it’s worth your $3?
Rachel Colbert, producer of The Liaisons project, shared with me today’s setlist:
He’ll be performing the following (asterisks by things that we have no sharable recording of yet):
Mason Bates, Putting it Together*
Eve Beglarian, Happiness*Annie Gosfield, A Bowler Hat*
Ethan Iverson, Send in the Clowns
Phil Kline, Somewhere in a Tree*
Nico Muhly, Color and Light
David Rakowski, The Ladies Who Lunch
Steve Reich, Finishing the Hat
from his May 10, 2013 performance, recreating a role he performed in high school
