Fuck Yeah Stephen Sondheim
Bow before the fucking king of musical theater.
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The Drama Desk recognized the work of orchestrators long before the Tony Awards took up the cause. This year they have inexplicably eliminated the category. Please sign this petition (and join this Facebook group) to add your voice to the symphony of people asking the Drama Desk to reverse their decision.
Rarely if ever has a living Broadway composer been honored so much for his past and so little for his present. He’s the musical theater’s ultimate example of an oldies act. Nobody wants to sponsor his latest, possibly most mature works. Only the classics, please.
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The Sondheim conundrum is that his lyrics are often so complex, they have to be heard twice — on the cast album, after the show has closed. The corollary is that his musicals are more acceptable as revivals than as originals.
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The Sondheim conundrum is that his lyrics are often so complex, they have to be heard twice — on the cast album, after the show has closed. The corollary is that his musicals are more acceptable as revivals than as originals.
TIME Magazine on Sondheim (via thethundersaid)
