Favorite Male Sondheim Solo

RentBoy86
#0Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 3:36am

I'm looking for some songs to do in my voice class next semester, what are some of your favorite Sondheim solos for men? Thanks.

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bythesword84
#1re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 3:59am

Giants.in.the.Sky.

hands down, my favorite.


(although Marry Me a Little is a great song too but its done by both males and females so I don't think it counts)


And hang on, when did you win the discus?

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NYC_or_Bust
#2re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 4:19am

Well I don't have ONE favorite, but two

Later- A Little Night Music
Giants in the Sky-Into the Woods


I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2

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Taryn
#3re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 5:00am

Giants in the Sky
Marry Me a Little
Being Alive

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paradox_error
#4re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 7:37am

Not While I'm Around - Sweeney Todd
Good Thing Going - Merrily We Roll Along
Growing Up - Merrily We Roll Along
Hello Little Girl - Into The Woods
Finishing The Hat - SITPWG
Lesson #8 - SITPWG
Everybody Says Don't - Anyone Can Whistle
Beautiful Girls - Follies
A Bowler Hat - Pacific Overtures

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melissa errico fan
#5re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 8:55am

The Road You Didn't Take (Follies)
Being Alive (Company)
Marry Me A Little (Company)
Someone is Waiting (Company)
In Praise of Women (A Little Night Music)
Finishing the Hat (Sunday in the Park with George)
Is This What You Call Love? (Passion)
No One Has Ever Loved Me (Passion)
Addison's Trip (Bounce)

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Piazzaslight
#6re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:20am

Finishing the Hat - SITPWG


MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza

"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel

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adamized88
#7re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:43am

christopher seiber doing both parts of agony - hysterical!!


"Nothing is an accident, We are free to have it all, We are what we want to be, It's in ourselves to rise or fall!!" - "Fortune Favors the Brave" from Aida - the love that never died

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GClef2
#8re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:52am

JOHANNA is the most beautiful sondheim song ever, IMO.


"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish

Jon
#9re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:52am

Finishing the Hat.

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luvtheEmcee
#10re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:53am

Not While I'm Around


A work of art is an invitation to love.

apdarcey
#11re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 11:45am

i agree with most of what's been said, i'd just like to add what can you lose from dick tracy.

sweeneyfan
#12re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 11:49am

How about The Epiphany from Sweeney Todd?


"Cor! me bones is weary!" -Mrs. Lovett

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BobbyBubby
#13re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 11:54am

Someone is Waiting (Company)
Later (A Little Night Music)
A Bowler Hat (Pacific Overtures)
Johanna (Sweeney Todd)
Franklyn Shepard Inc (Merrily We Roll Along)
Giants in the Sky (Into the Woods)
Love, I Hear (A Funny Thing Happened...)
I Remember (Evening Primrose; Written for a female, but sung by a man in Side by Side by Sondheim.)
Finishing the Hat (Sunday...)
Is This What You Call Love? (Passion)
A Little House for Mama (cut from Bounce)



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Blonde
#14re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 12:30pm

Johanna because it's incredibly gorgeous, as well as Being Alive.


shalom kitty

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InfiniteTheaterFrenzy
#15re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 12:34pm

Franklin Shepard, Inc.
With So Little to Be Sure Of (can be done as a male solo, a la Norm Lewis)


[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

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munkustrap178
#16re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 12:39pm

Being Alive - COMPANY
Not a Day Goes By - MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
The Road You Didn't Take - FOLLIES


"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

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ShuQ
#17re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 12:44pm

Take Me To the World- Evening Primrose

LostLeander
#18re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 12:53pm

Talent - Bounce
Not A Day Goes By - Merrily (Frank's song in original)
Marry Me A Little (Company)
Epiphany - Sweeney Todd
The Road You Didn't Take - Follies
Buddy's Blues - Follies
If You Can Find Me, I'm Here - Evening Primrose
Lesson # 8 - Sunday
Not While I'm Around - Sweeney Todd

So Many!


Personally, I think I have too much bloom.

Tenorific2
#19re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 1:39pm

"Being Alive"
"Not While I'm Around"
"Johanna"
"Finishing the Hat"

OasisBroadway
#20re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 1:49pm

Not While I'm Around

jo
#21re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 4:16pm

NO ONE HAS EVER LOVED ME ( PASSION) but the extended version sang in the London production which includes I LOVE FOSCA. If you have heard the Michael Ball version, it is incredible.

I REMEMBER - was this originally sung by a female? I thought I heard it sung by Anthony Perkins in the original TV production - I could be mistaken, though. It is my favourite Sondheim song. Have you heard the Christmas version ( with added lyrics) by Barbra Streisand.

Another song for a female is BROADWAY BABY - but I have heard it sung by Michael Ball in a CD of a Sondheim tribute concert in London and it worked out fine ( camp-sounding re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo).

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corsairstw
#22re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 4:25pm

Definitely "Johanna."

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BroadwayRandy0711
#23re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 4:40pm

Giants in the Sky - Into the Woods
Johanna - Sweeney
Not while I'm around - Sweeney

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melissa errico fan
#24re: Favorite Male Sondheim Solo
Posted: 12/10/05 at 4:55pm

Take Me To the World- Evening Primrose


"Take Me To The World" is a duet sung between a man and a woman.