The entire score of Passion and Pacific Overtures.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Parlour Songs, totally. When I'm listening to the OBC of Sunday, "The Day Off" goes every time, though I like it on the London recording.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
also a bit of the beginning of Sweeney, mostly some "Barber and His Wife" and "Poor Thing" and stuff. I like it, but I kinda OD'd on Sweeney so now I'm a bit sick of those songs.
Same thing happened with Caroline, or Change. Always skip the first scene.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
"Sorry-Grateful" on the Company revival recording. I don't know why. I liked it live.
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I chose, and my world was shaken- So what? The choice may have been mistaken,
The choosing was not...
"Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler
A friend of mine once said, "A little Sondheim goes a long way." I agree with this statement, and I think it has to do with the power of his music and the amount of energy and processing it takes to enjoy his gifts.
"Company" from the OBC, because Strich is SOOOO flat in that second "we loooooooove you". I can't help it, it's gotten to be a knee-jerk reaction. I hear the song start and I leap for the "skip" button.
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE The Cookie Chase With So Little to Be Sure Of
Most of FOLLIES - not a fan
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC In Praise of Women It Would Have Been Wonderful
PACIFIC OVERTURES There Is No Other Way Poems Welcome to Kanagawa
SWEENEY TODD Ah, Miss Wait Ladies In Their Sensitivities The Letter
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Old Friends It's a Hit!
INTO THE WOODS Moments in the Woods
BOUNCE What's Your Rush? The Game The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened The Game (Act II Opener)
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
Something Just Broke from the revival recording of Assassins. I love that entire recording (I could do without the dialogue, but it's nice on occasional listen), but that song completely breaks the tone of the entire show. I know, people related to it but it just does not fit in.
And Another Hundred People on the 2006 revival of Company usually gets skipped because really, I just want the song, not 3 minutes of dialogue with it.
<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT Cages or wings?
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds.
Fear or love, baby?
Don't say the answer
Actions speak louder than words.
(Tick, Tick... BOOM!)