15 Greatest Sondheim Songs

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

one word....GYPSY

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Updated On: 6/29/05 at 01:13 AM

one word....WICKED

sorry...at least he wrote the lyrics

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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.

ok I do know how to spell his name.. I swear. My computer keyboard is a piece of sh*t. o

I was joking.

Invocation 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

He didn't write the music for West Side Story (and personally is not crazy about the lyrics he wrote for it).

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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

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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.

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Updated On: 6/29/05 at 02:07 AM

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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Updated On: 6/29/05 at 02:29 AM

Loving You and I Read from Passion are pretty good.

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