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)
Jan 31st
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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)
Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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Listenverticalsoftrees: Loving You (from Passion) by...
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Listenpjcerz4: Being Alive - Raúl Esparza
Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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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)
Jan 27th
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Listenverticalsoftrees: You Could Drive a Person Crazy...
Jan 27th
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“Sometimes the things you most wish for are not to be touched.”
– “First Midnight”, Into the Woods (via mydearaquaintance)
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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“3. “Finishing the Hat” from Sunday In The Park With George (1985), Music and...”
– Jason Robert Brown (via gimmick)
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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tucker: 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.
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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ListenMove On - Marin Mazzie & Jason Danieley
Jan 23rd
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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)
Jan 23rd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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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
Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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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...
Jan 19th
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Another hundred people
200 followers! Thank you for following, and welcome to those who’ve just joined us.
Jan 18th
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Listengivesmevoice: This is definitely one of the best...
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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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)
Jan 17th
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“There’s a good argument to be made for the fact that the excitement of...”
– Stephen Sondheim
Jan 16th
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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)
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th