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This makes me so happy, so much of his work seems to be at risk of getting lost or dissappearing. I hope it gets preserved somehow, ideally a recording but at least the book, score etc. for future performances.

Well I for one have no idea why Bobby wanted to get married and I still absolutely love Company. I don't love Joseph ATATDC nearly as much, but also have no idea what he wanted.But, having not seen QoV, I don't think it is that hard to create a relevant point of view or dramatic question:If the problem everyone has is that she doesn't ever change or learn and since they are already using the original Versailles framework, isn't it as simple as having the aristocrats be like "We never saw the ...

If I were to choose another Schwartz musical to adapt I'd go for The Baker's Wife. It was adapted from a movie so it should fit the medium, the best parts of the musical are the generally intimate solo numbers which lend themselves well to film and maybe the adaptation could be an excuse to either trim the ensemble numbers or give them some depth and energy with the editing. On the other it has zero name recognition and adultery is not that interesting of a topic nowadays. I could see as a Ne...

To me the 2 musicals that are obvious choices and seem natural for a film adaptation are Ragtime and The Baker's Wife, but I'm not sure Jon M. Chu would be my choice for either. To me Ragtime screams Spielberg and I don't know about Baker's Wife, has anyone succesfully rendered a chamber musical film in the last decades?

For me it is "Philemon" by Schmidt & Jones. I live in a pretend reality where it is universally hailed as a boundary-pushing landmark of the genre with a similar status to Gypsy, Cabaret, Fiddler or Pacific Overtures and I refuse to leave it.

As Coroner, I must averI thoroughly examined herAnd she's not only merely deadShe's really most sincerely dead

All the duets between Ziggy and the Robot Waiter on Starmania. The originals are in French, but there's an English translation by Tim Rice called Tycoon. I'm not familiar with the translation, but from the original "La chanson de Ziggy", "Nos planetes se separent", "Duo d'adieu". Admitedly, their respective solos are more interesting.

darquegk said: "I love when a successful show publishes its annotated show bible after the fact. I learned so much about writing and rewriting from The Producers Bible."Wow, I missed the Producers one, seems very useful. Do you know any other shows that have done the same?

Ives said on the Frank Rich piece that Sondheim had completed to versions of a terrific song from Altogether Now, the other musical they had been working on. I hope they record it as bonus track at least. But also, since we know everything Sondheim writes at a time tends to sound of the moment, maybe it sounds similar enough to Here We Are that it could be interpolated.

On "The almost unknown Stephen Sondheim" there is the sheetmusic for Singing Out Loud, Looks and I can't recall if any other. Also Water Under the Bridge is supposed to have a very prominent counterpoint line that is missing from the recorded versions. A version of the script also floats around. Indeed it seems to me like a natural next film for Lin Manuel to direct as prestige project for some streaming platform.

ljay889 said: "According to Michael Riedel”Tunick can’t discussHere We Arejust yet—everybody on the show had to sign a confidentiality agreement that runs until its first preview, on September 28, at the Shed in New York—but sources say he has taken sketches of Sondheim songs and fleshed them out for the second act.”https://airmail.news/issues/2023-9-23/putting-it-togetherI wonder if this is referring to the act two interludes or actual songs that may be in act two now."I have a theory about ...

I need to put in a word for Philemon, unjustly neglected and forgotten and yet such an interesting and relevant piece. The PBS proshot of the original production is on youtube for those unaware.

The concept of the production is that Bobby is 50 and reminiscing about his life and past decissions.

Probably controversial but Showboat, so many glorious tunes and the overture does a terrible job of selling them. Similarly I don't think I've ever liked a South Pacific overture.

Ke3 said: "TotallyEffed said: "What is Singing Out Loud?" No one's ever seen the script though so maybe it's in much better shape than its shelving implies*.*I will say, maybe the script is fine, and Barbra being busy got it shelved. No one has said that, but I can't imagine this happening without her or another singer of her stature."It is not true that no one has seen the script, it circulates on social media and can be found. Great news that the Buñuel musical will premiere somewhere at so...

It is also the plot to Stage Fright

Who knows, he's producing but he might star like in A Chorus Line and Company. I'm also excited for a new Schwartz score.

Stephen Schwartz was recently in Malaga to oversee Antonio Banderas' new production of Godspell at his Teatro del Soho, but he was also accompanied by director Gordon Greenberg and a look to the projects section of his web (https://www.gordongreenberg.com/projects) reveals the following:

I had to struggle to find it on my account despite being on my list since it was added before release, however, it was the first thing on my little brother's child profile list of new releases.

I don't know about the state of Square One, but Singing Out Loud is supposed to be finished, please Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV, whomever, Spielberg or Lin-Manuel ask some favours and make the movie.