Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
#1Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 2:21pm
Genius or not, there's always one.
I'm not a fan of Someone is Waiting.
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#2Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 2:28pm"What Would We Do Without You"
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"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#2Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 2:29pm
"The Day Off"
I totally get why it's there and it serves its purpose, but those dog voices drive me bats.
#3Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 2:37pmFirst thing that comes to mind is What Would We Do Without You, from Company.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#4Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 2:42pmWhile I love Sondheim's work, I don't particularly like Pacific Overtures. Most of the songs just seem to drag on and on. "Chrysanthemum Tea" is probably my least favorite of his songs.
#5Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 2:46pmBesides nearly the entire Frogs score, it would probably be One More Kiss from Follies or Two Fairy Tales.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#6Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 3:07pm
I'm not too familiar with some of the more obsure shows, but I think Sunday in the Park is my least favorite Sondheim. Some of the songs are absolutely beautiful (Move On, We Do Not Belong Together, Sunday, the title song) but a lot of it just sounds the same to me.
If we're talking Sondheim's best, I think Sweeney's the Father, Company's the Son, and Night Music's the Holy Ghost.
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#7Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 3:08pmI usually skip "Bobby and Jackie and Jack" when I'm listening to Merrily. It's just so long and so dull and I get that it has its place in the show, but I still just don't like it.
#8Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 3:16pmVTG, I have to listen to that just for Sally Klein's reading of "Oleg Cassini, well, I think he's real good!"
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#9Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 3:20pmI always skip "No More" when I'm listening to INTO THE WOODS. And "The Day Off" from SUNDAY.
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#11Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 3:43pm"You Are The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened To Me."
#12Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 3:49pmLiasons From Night Music.
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
#14Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 4:13pmSondheim at his worst is better than [________ ____________] at this best.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
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Stand-by Joined: 12/27/08
#16Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 4:51pmI like "Someone in a Tree," but it evokes calypso music more than Japanese.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#17Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 4:56pm
Sondheim at his worst is better than [ Pal Joey ] at this best. 
Cape Twirl of Doom
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#18Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 5:44pm"Send in the Clowns" always bores me. Yeah yeah, it's a classic and all that, but I'm not fond of sloooooow ballads. Give me a Sondheim patter song any day.
"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"
#19Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 6:20pmGreen Finch and Linnet Bird.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#21Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 6:25pm
I find all of THE FROGS intolerable.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#22Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 8:31pm
Some of these songs are really shocking me. Someone is Waiting? Liaisons? No More? To each his own I guess, but those are some brilliant songs.
I would have to say One More Kiss is the one song I can pretty much count on skipping.
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#23Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 10:15pm
I had another answer all ready then read:
I usually skip "Bobby and Jackie and Jack" when I'm listening to Merrily. It's just so long and so dull and I get that it has its place in the show, but I still just don't like it.
Yep, changing my answer. Bobby and Jackie and Jack is my least favorite for all the same reasons.
#24Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song
Posted: 6/24/10 at 10:22pmBobby and Jackie and Jack is easily my least favorite from Merrily, but it IS a pretty clever song.
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
