15 Greatest Sondheim Songs
15 Greatest Sondheim Songs
15 Greatest Sondheim Songs#0
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:11am
hey all... Im trying to make a CD of the 15 greatest Sondheim songs and Im looking for your guys advice as well. I am looking for any song from any score of his, and no the list doesnt need to be in order. Thanks!
Updated On: 6/29/05 at 01:11 AM
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#1
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:13am
spelling his name right would be key.
in my opinion: finishing the hat
Leading Actor Joined: 6/19/05
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#2
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:13am
one word....GYPSY
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#3
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:15am
He didn't write the music to Gypsy -- Jules Styne did.
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re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#5
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:18am
I donmt know about the BEST, but here are some my favorites:
-Send in the Clowns
-Moments in the Woods
-No One is Alone
-Being Alive
Leading Actor Joined: 6/19/05
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#6
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:19amsorry...at least he wrote the lyrics
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#7
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:26am
Wicked ? Schwartz did Wicked.
Songs I Enjoy:
No More (into the woods)
Last Midnight (Into The Woods)
No One Is Alone (Into The Woods)
Children Will Listen (Into The Woods)
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#8
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:30am
My favorites are
"Another Hundred People" from COMPANY
"Moments in the Woods" INTO THE WOODS
and the opening song from INTO THE WOODS is another of my favorites, but I don't know what its called.. Prolouge perhaps?
oh and I've never actually heard it myself, but "Someone in a Tree" is pretty famous, i believe.
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re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#9
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:36am
Some of my favs
-Move On (sunday)
-Moments in the Wood (ITW)
-What More Do I Need? (Sat. Night)
-You are the best thing ever to happen to Me (Bounce)
-Losing My Mind (Follies)
-A Little Priest (Sweeny)
-Being Alive (Company)
-Someone in a tree (Pacific Overtures) (Sondheims fav)
-A Weekend in the Country (A Little Night Music)
-Unworthy of Your Love (Assassins)
-Our Time (Merrily We Roll Along)
-One Short Day (Wicked)
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#10
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:37amok I do know how to spell his name.. I swear. My computer keyboard is a piece of sh*t. o
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#11
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:40am
Wait wait wait..
Sondheim?? Wicked??? AM I GOING CRAZY?!
Stand-by Joined: 12/29/04
Leading Actor Joined: 6/19/05
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#13
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:43amfor the last time..sondheim has nothing to do with wicked....sheesh...wicked is not the only musical to brush across the ny stage ya know
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#14
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:46amInvocation and instructions to the audience from frogs is great, also anything from assassins is enjoyable if you dont mind the language. pirrellis miracle elixir from sweeney is good. glamourous life from a little night music. those are the ones off the top of my head, he has written such beauty that it is had to name the best
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#15
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:57am
West side story, period
Into the woods period
(No one is alone)
Side by side by sondheim probably pretty much sums up some of his greatest works.
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#16
Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:01amHe didn't write the music for West Side Story (and personally is not crazy about the lyrics he wrote for it).
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#17
Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:03amside by side was a review show and only had sondheim up to pacific overtures, you have to admit he has written amazing things after that
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#18
Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:04am
EVERYTHING from Into the Woods
If you want to go with anything he's worked on, West Side Story and Gypsy are my two favorite musicals.
Johanna- Sweeney Todd
Green Finch and Linnet Bird- Sweeney Todd
A Weekend in the Country- A Little Night Music
You Could Drive a Person Crazy- Company
There Won't be Trumpets- Anyone Can Whistle
Not Getting Married Today- Company
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#19
Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:04amdid I ever mention all of you have awesome tastes?
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#20
Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:07am
Gosh, I blanked on Broadway Baby from Follies.
Thanks dramaqueen. 
edit: Its not from a musical, but I love "Sooner or Later" from Dick Tracy.
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#21
Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:16am
I think it's funny people took brdlawyr seriously. :)
My personal favorite is the Prologue for Into the Woods. Or Children Will Listen. Both are fine pieces.
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#22
Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:29am
Here are some ones that aren't, I woulds say his 15 BEST, but are great and would probably be slighted otherwise:
-Free (... Forum)
-Barcelona (Company)
-I'm Still Here (Follies)
-Could I Leave You? (Follies)
-You Must Meet My Wife (Night Music)
-Send in the Clowns (Night Music; come on - you're not allowed to have a Sondheim compilation without it!)
-Someone in a Tree (Pacific Overtures)
-Poems (Pacific Overtures)
-Pretty Women (Sweeney)
-A Little Priest (Sweeney; see "Send in the Clowns")
-Not While I'm Around (Sweeney)
-Not a Day Goes By (Merrily ...)
-Finishing the Hat (Sunday ... w/George; see "Send in the Clowns)
-Sunday (Sunday ... w/ George)
-The Gun Song/Ballad of Czolgosz (Assassins; it's set up like that on the Original Cast Recording & has Terrance Mann!)
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re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#23
Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:31amthe other dick tracy one.. 'what can you lose' is pretty great too. i sang it at a recital recently.
re: 15 Greatest Sondhem Songs#24
Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:46amLoving You and I Read from Passion are pretty good.
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