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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 14:49:48 GMT
What is your favourite sondiem show?
what is his best rhyme?
How do you feel about his new musicals 'The exterminating Angel'?
just talk anything Sondiem on here about what ever you like or dislike about him.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 14:57:36 GMT
Company is my favourite show of his despite the issues I have with the ending which I've discussed before. Assassins is by far my favourite score of his though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 14:58:25 GMT
God, I thought he was dead!!!
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 6, 2016 15:09:02 GMT
Love him. Love everything about him. Wanna be him for Christmas! Lol!
Mr Sondheim, we're not worthy!
Best show (every time, hands down) Sunday in the Park with George, with Sweeney Todd/A Little Night Music tied for a close second then Into the Woods.
In terms of dialogue- Let all the birds nest in your hair- A Little Night Music
Songs- The Princes song Agony is very clever, as is Agony, both from into the Woods.
The Worst Pies in London and A Little Priest ,both from Sweeney Todd are both excellent, clever and witty. I also like A Weekend in the Country and It Would Have Been Wonderful again from A Little Night Music and Unworthy of Your Love from Assassins.
I once went to a Sondheim talk where the character of Petra and her song from A Little Night Music and why it is placed in the show where it is were discussed in detail. After that, her song The Millers Son makes so much sense.
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Post by littlesally on Aug 6, 2016 15:21:59 GMT
Impossible to choose just one favourite.
Favourite rhyme/line is either
"I like the isle of Manhattan, smoke on your pipe and put that in"
or "While her withers wither with her"
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Post by crabtree on Aug 6, 2016 15:26:03 GMT
oh Sally, you have beaten me to it with the 'withers' line.
Mind you the line about painting without the right, bright, white, light is pretty darn clever.
Gilbert and /Sullivan were also pretty hot on such rhymes - 'to fit the wit of a bit of a chit, and that's the long and the short of it!'
Can we add the missing 'H' to the title of this forum.
Not a rhyme, but it always makes me laugh when Joanna, in Sweeney, is wittering on about her reticule and Anthony sings 'what's a reticule?'
I wonder how Sondheim is translated into other languages...I have a rip roaring Brazilian ( I think) Little Night music.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 15:30:38 GMT
oh Sally, you have beaten me to it with the 'withers' line. Mind you the line about painting without the right, bright, white, light is pretty darn clever. Gilbert and /Sullivan were also pretty hot on such rhymes - 'to fit the wit of a bit of a chit, and that's the long and the short of it!' Can we add the missing 'H' to the title of this forum. Not a rhyme, but it always makes me laugh when Joanna, in Sweeney, is wittering on about her reticule and Anthony sings 'what's a reticule?' I wonder how Sondheim is translated into other languages...I have a rip roaring Brazilian ( I think) Little Night music. Oh god I spelled his name wrong! How do I change it? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 15:31:50 GMT
It has been changed and no one will ever know (unless they look through)
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Post by matt on Aug 6, 2016 17:29:33 GMT
Sunday in the Park with George is easily my favourite Sondheim, although there is very little I don't like. Not rhyming but 'the choice may have been mistaken the choosing was not, from 'Move on' strikes a real resonance with me and 'We lose things. And then we choose things.
And there are Louis's And there are Georges-
Well, Louis's And George'. Kills me every single time!
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 6, 2016 17:34:51 GMT
Sunday in the Park with George is easily my favourite Sondheim, although there is very little I don't like. Not rhyming but 'the choice may have been mistaken the choosing was not, from 'Move on' strikes a real resonance with me and 'We lose things. And then we choose things. And there are Louis's And there are Georges- Well, Louis's And George'. Kills me every single time! Matt, you're a man after my own heart! |
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Post by alece10 on Aug 6, 2016 18:16:15 GMT
Sondheim is my favourite composer of all time so hard to pick out a favourite but probably between Company Sunday and Follies.
Favourite line is from The Frogs."Please don't fart, there's very little air and this is art"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 18:19:05 GMT
I like all of them.
I like the fact that whichever show you go to, you're guaranteed the same song just with different words. It's very comforting.
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Post by crabtree on Aug 6, 2016 18:19:45 GMT
and of course, if you are going to bump it, bump it with a trumpet!
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 6, 2016 18:27:34 GMT
Sunday in the Park with George is easily my favourite Sondheim, although there is very little I don't like. Not rhyming but 'the choice may have been mistaken the choosing was not, from 'Move on' strikes a real resonance with me and 'We lose things. And then we choose things. And there are Louis's And there are Georges- Well, Louis's And George'. Kills me every single time! I know technically not lyrics but towards the end of the DVD when all of the characters from the painting form an arc and bow to him in honour and respect- speechless! Sincerely, I struggle to speak! |
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Post by schuttep on Aug 6, 2016 18:31:47 GMT
I like all of them. I like the fact that whichever show you go to, you're guaranteed the same song just with different words. It's very comforting. I'd box your ears if they weren't made of tin! |
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Post by matt on Aug 6, 2016 18:48:06 GMT
Sunday in the Park with George is easily my favourite Sondheim, although there is very little I don't like. Not rhyming but 'the choice may have been mistaken the choosing was not, from 'Move on' strikes a real resonance with me and 'We lose things. And then we choose things. And there are Louis's And there are Georges- Well, Louis's And George'. Kills me every single time! I know technically not lyrics but towards the end of the DVD when all of the characters from the painting form an arc and bow to him in honour and respect- speechless! Sincerely, I struggle to speak! That moment kills me and topped off with 'White a blank canvas, his favourite. So many possibilities'. I need a good half hour to recover after that! |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 6, 2016 19:08:42 GMT
Anyone know what happened to gay take on Company with Daniel Evans? I guess it never got past its workshop in NY
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 11:17:42 GMT
Sweeney Sweeney Sweeney Sweeney Sweeney Sweeney Sweeney Sweeney SWEENEY SWEENEY SWEENEY SWEENEY SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYY
is my favourite show of his.
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Post by Flim Flam on Aug 7, 2016 11:36:13 GMT
The sound of the whistle in Sweeney always gives me shivers of excitement.
And the finale of SITPWG is my happy place.
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Post by Deal J on Aug 7, 2016 11:49:47 GMT
My favourite:
When a person's personality is personable... It's harder than a matador coercing a bull...
And not QUITE his, but whenever I visit my parents I sing:
I like the town of Prestatyn / Smoke on your pipe and put that in!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 15:02:09 GMT
From Pacific Overtures;
Have some tea my Lord some chrysanthemum tea
It's a tangled situation as your father would agree
And it mightn't been so tangled if you hadn't had him strangled
Lovely!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 15:03:49 GMT
I like all of them. I like the fact that whichever show you go to, you're guaranteed the same song just with different words. It's very comforting.
You can go off people Ryan 
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 7, 2016 15:34:17 GMT
And the finale of SITPWG is my happy place. Thank you for saying that Flim Flam. |
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 7, 2016 15:38:56 GMT
One is fun, why not two?
And if you like two, you might as well have four
And if you like four, why not a few
Why not a slew
More! More!
From the song More by Sondheim from the movie Dick Tracy
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Post by mallardo on Aug 7, 2016 16:30:39 GMT
My favourite song by anybody, ever, is "With So Little To Be Sure Of" from Anyone Can Whistle - perhaps the most heartfelt lyrics Sondheim ever wrote. I can't hear it without dissolving into mush.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 17:02:23 GMT
Hard to choose a favourite but I think as I was converted to Sondheim back in the early 70s with Company, both the OBC and then then near OBC cast at Her Majesty's, it will always have a special place for me.
As far as favourite song, I love "With So Little To Be Sure Of" from Anyone Can Whistle, "Not While I'm Around" from Sweeney Todd and "No One Is Alone" from Into The Woods.
My favourite lyric is probably "With riotous laughter we quietly suffer the season in town which is reason enough for a weekend in the country."
Of course this could all change next week - nothing is ever set in stone (Benjamin or otherwise).
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Post by crabtree on Aug 7, 2016 17:36:10 GMT
Yep, very passionate about Sondheim, but I admit that 'Liaisons' is my least favourite song. Clever lyrics certainly, but it is a dirge, and I'm always amazed that the signers don't get totally lost in it.
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 7, 2016 17:54:46 GMT
Yep, very passionate about Sondheim, but I admit that 'Liaisons' is my least favourite song. Clever lyrics certainly, but it is a dirge, and I'm always amazed that the signers don't get totally lost in it. I used to feel that way too but over time I got to understand the lyrics and this is a great song. From this song, you understand Mde. Armfeldt's previous life of luxury, how Desiree is of Royal heritage and thus her disgust for the her lifestyle choice (an actor) and thus the tension between the two. It also fits in with the little one line quips she makes to Fredrika. |
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Post by poster J on Aug 7, 2016 22:36:46 GMT
I feel like it's almost committing musical theatre sacrilege to say it, but I don't particularly like Sondheim. I much prefer him as a lyricist (I love West Side Story and Gypsy) than composer, and will generally only see a Sondheim show if something about the production itself intrigues me. I did like the Menier production of Assassins, but I am one of the few people who despised the Ball/Staunton Sweeney Todd a few years ago! Staunton was the only good thing about that show as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by whygodwhytoday on Aug 8, 2016 1:02:46 GMT
Sondheim's genius is hard to describe. Some days I cannot stand ANY of his music, and his shows all seem ridiculously pretentious; other days I am kneeling at my Sondheim throne for hours. This is why I consider him a genius, because he taps into that elusive cerebral/emotional space that few composers have so prolifically, and confidently explored. I always understand when people say they can't stand Sondheim... subjectivity and all. In comparison, Webber's music always satisfies and moves me, and he rightly deserves his commercial success, however Sondheim keeps me on my toes and has me engaged instead of standing merely in awe at the sidelines...
1. Company
2. Merrily We Roll Along
3. Sweeney Todd
4. Into The Woods
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