January 2010
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A lot of people have complained that Steve’s work can’t be whistled…Steve’s...
– Jonathan Tunick on Orchestrations and Sondheim in Zadan’s Sondheim and Co (via marainthepark)
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A good character song does something that can’t be done by a line by the book...
– Sondheim in Zadan’s Sondheim and Co. (via marainthepark)
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Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul, but it’s bad for the heart.
It’s...
– “Perpetual Anticipation,” A Little Night Music (via time-misspent)
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Sometimes the things you most wish for are not to be touched.
– “First Midnight”, Into the Woods (via mydearaquaintance)
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3. “Finishing the Hat” from Sunday In The Park With George (1985), Music and...
– Jason Robert Brown (via gimmick)
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Mandy Patinkin - Buddy’s Blues (from Stephen Sondheim’s Follies)
This is one of the single most impressive performances I’ve seen. I only wish I could have been alive and in Carnegie Hall when this was done! Mandy pays such attention to detail in crafting his rendition of this song.
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It’s basically me loafing around and looking like a beached whale,...
– Stephen Sondheim, joking about Roundabout’s upcoming Sondheim on Sondheim project (source)
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Once, yes, once for a lark
Twice, though, loses the spark
Once, yes, once is...
– “I Never Do Anything Twice”, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
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Roundabout sets Sondheim gala slate
Roundabout Theater Company has lined up a slew of Broadway songsmiths to contribute original songs to its gala celebrating Stephen Sondheim’s 80th birthday, with Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (“Next to Normal”), Duncan Sheik (“Spring Awakening”) and Lin-Manuel Miranda (“In the Heights”) among those on the list.
Andrew Lippa, Michael John LaChiusa, Robert...
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Another hundred people
200 followers! Thank you for following, and welcome to those who’ve just joined us.
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[Passion] was Sondheim’s first musical that told a nonironic love story. So...
– Scott Miller in Deconstructing Harold Hill (via marainthepark)
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There’s a good argument to be made for the fact that the excitement of...
– Stephen Sondheim
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I said the man for me must have a castle,
A man of means he’d be, a man of...
– “So Many People”, Saturday Night (via israfel)
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