15 Greatest Sondheim Songs

[QHDramaQueen]

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

[apdarcey]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:13am

spelling his name right would be key.


in my opinion: finishing the hat

[BwayBoy25]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:13am

one word....GYPSY

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

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:15am

He didn't write the music to Gypsy -- Jules Styne did.

Updated On: 6/29/05 at 01:15 AM

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:18am

one word....WICKED

[CurtainUp]

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

[BwayBoy25]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:19am

sorry...at least he wrote the lyrics

[neomystyk29]

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)

[wickedbway]

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.

[toodramatic]

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)

[QHDramaQueen]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:37am

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

[wickedbway]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:40am

Wait wait wait..
Sondheim?? Wicked??? AM I GOING CRAZY?!

[toodramatic]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:42am

I was joking.

[BwayBoy25]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:43am

for 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

[berenger4079]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:46am

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

[Jimmyojimmy]

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.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:01am

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

[berenger4079]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:03am

side 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

[ForTheLoveOfLea]

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

[QHDramaQueen]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:04am

did I ever mention all of you have awesome tastes?

[ForTheLoveOfLea]

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.

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

[Aigoo]

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.

[jam_man]

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!)

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

[apdarcey]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:31am

the other dick tracy one.. 'what can you lose' is pretty great too. i sang it at a recital recently.

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:46am

Loving You and I Read from Passion are pretty good.