re: star light express vs. sondheim- Page 2
re: star light express vs. sondheim
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#25re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 12:18pm
As much as i loved Starlight Express.
Sondheim has great musicals including into the woods, Sunday In The Park with George, Sweeney Todd, Company, Passion, etc.
While ALW has cats, Phantom, Evita, Joseph, Jesus Chist Superstar, and Sunset Blvd.
Both are good in different ways
Updated On: 12/3/06 at 12:18 PM
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#26re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 12:24pmIs it possible to use those words in a sentence?
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#27re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 1:05pm
Did I miss something or is today April Fools day?
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#28re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 3:23pmjust because ALW have famous shows doesn't mean that they are good...
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purpleprince101
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#29re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 3:27pmPhantom is overated...Don't kill me
#30re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 3:33pm
The title of this thread made me think of my favorite animated short film "Bambi Vs. Godzilla".
I would agree that in terms of skating Starlight has it over all those skatingless Sondheim shows.
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#31re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 3:33pm
No one'll kill you. Pretty much 80% of this board thinks Phantom is crap.
Now, I don't know what kind of people would ever like Starlight Express...
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#32re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 3:50pmThis person is peeing their pants with laughter, because you are all responding to this thread seriously.
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#33re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 4:03pm
This person is peeing their pants with laughter, because you are all responding to this thread seriously.
My sentiments exactly.
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#34re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 4:08pm
Sorry my terets got the best of me 
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#35re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 4:43pm
Ok,
Starlight Express isn’t even the better show with roller-skating, Funny girl is. And because Jule Styne Wrote the music for Funny Girl, And Gypsy, and Gypsy had lyrics by Sondheim, this therefore makes him far better. It might not make sense but in replying to the comment that started this thread where someone even thinks to compare the two in the same category, it is the most lucid thing that can be said.
(I apologies if this is stupid. But so is the first comment and yes we are meant to be accepting to peoples opinions, but to me that is just offensive. And yes it could be a joke but whatever)
(sorry for grammar ect.)
Mr Roxy
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#36re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 4:50pmHow about staging Follies with the actors skating around while playing their own instruments ?
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Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#37re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 5:24pmNo darling, your thinking of John Doyle's new staging of The Rink where characters from A Little Night Music come and turn the roller rink into a summer getaway while bowling on see-saws, playing their instruments, and singing.
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#38re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 5:31pm
Guys and gals this has to be a joke
I am a huge ALW fan and even I would never say something like that. Probably because I like "Passion" and some of Sondheim's works - and probably because of all of ALW's works - Starlight Express has to be his weakest.
#39re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 7:45pm
I don't know what's funnier - that people are taking this seriously, or that people are on here defending the fact that it's a joke as if there was a POSSIBILITY of it being anything other than a post to spur responses.
I mean really, Starlight Express is freakin' sweet.
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#40re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 7:47pmWhat the hell is "terets"?
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#41re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 7:50pm
I didn't know "tourettes" affected spelling, too...
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#42re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 7:55pmIf you are going to mock a disease, at least spell it CLOSE to correctly.
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#43re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 8:20pmHaha...In his defense, that;s how I would have spelled it.
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#44re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 8:22pmHow did this important and timely theatrical discourse get moved to the Off-Topic board?
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#45re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 8:22pmBee-zarre.
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#46re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 8:41pm
Hah sh*t.
I'm gonna sit this one out.
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#47re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 9:16pm
That's weird...
Dosen't look like he;s coming back!
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#49re: star light express vs. sondheim
Posted: 12/3/06 at 10:48pmWhat a cute picture!
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