Any news on Sondheim's new show?

[TheHappyPhantom]

Posted: 12/30/12 at 3:48pm

I'm guessing if Playbill hasn't reported, there's not much to tell, but just in case. Have there been any updates on the new musical by Sondheim? Last report said it was called "All Together Now" and the book was by Mamet, I believe. I can't wait to finally have him back.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/30/12 at 4:59pm

Nothing new but unless something's changed, the book was by ives, not Mamet.
all together now

[jv92]

Posted: 12/30/12 at 6:07pm

He broke his wrist recently, and told an Australian radio interviewer he couldn't even pick up a pen, let alone play the piano, for a while, but that before that, work was progressing nicely.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/30/12 at 6:33pm

Slacker!

[jv92]

Posted: 12/30/12 at 7:10pm

I know, right?

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 12/30/12 at 7:27pm

At the restaurant bar across the street of City Center (before a performance of Uncle Vanya) last summer, I overheard (i.e. ease dropped) him saying he was hard working on his new project. He seemed particularly excited about it (as did I).

When did he break his hand? I saw him before the benefit performance of Assassins and he was clearly writing something in a book.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 12/30/12 at 7:47pm

Last month he did a talkback in Australia. "All Together Now" is to be based on Ives' play "Sure Thing". Sondheim had, at that stage, written the opening number and half of a second. He was also searching for new ways to procrastinate after he recovers.

[TheHappyPhantom]

Posted: 12/30/12 at 9:28pm

sorry...yes, it was Ives. Good to know it's going well. Can't wait.

[ChairinMain]

Posted: 12/31/12 at 5:38am

How the hell are you going to turn the basically plotless "Sure Thing" into a musical? I trust you Steve but I am really curious to know what about this piece called to him.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 12/31/12 at 8:19am

This is really funny to me, considering Sondheim already had a script for All Together Now by Terrence McNally going back to the early Nineties. If he's suddenly decided an adaptation of the Ives play is a better way to go, fine, but why throw out what sounds like a completely workable book?

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 12/31/12 at 8:38am

If I'm understanding things correctly, it's not based on Sure Thing but based on a MOMENT in Sure Thing.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 12/31/12 at 8:50am

Yes, he seemed to indicate that he was inspired by the ideas of the play, which he described as 'notional'

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/31/12 at 9:17am

Plotlessness has never been an obstacle for Sondheim.

[Kad]

Posted: 12/31/12 at 11:13am

There's no news but the old news. And I doubt we'll see this come to fruition.

[jv92]

Posted: 12/31/12 at 2:51pm

See, I like to think positive and say "Yes, this will happen." John Kander's still plugging away and doing good work at 85...why can't Sondheim?

[Kad]

Posted: 12/31/12 at 2:56pm

Sondheim doesn't really seem particularly passionate about creating new work anymore.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/31/12 at 2:56pm

John Kander, Stephen Sondheim & Jerry Herman should get together and write a Super-Musical.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/31/12 at 3:08pm

I'd see their musical version of "Prick Up Your Ears."

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/31/12 at 3:31pm

They should write their own version of CARRIE. It would be sublime. And confusing.

[jv92]

Posted: 1/1/13 at 2:56pm

I've never had the nerve to tell SS this, but I think he and Edward Albee should write a show together. But Albee might be a musical-hater for all we know. But who could hate Sondheim?!

[TheHappyPhantom]

Posted: 1/2/13 at 2:55pm

I'd love to see that happen. We just need one last great Sondheim show. I know he can do it.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/2/13 at 8:35pm

Though Guare has not had the best track record with musicals, I'd love to see them write something together. I know they're good friends...

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 2/10/13 at 7:30pm

I rewatched Groundhog Day over the weekend and was struck by the something, Sondheim has said for years he's wanted to adapt this into a musical and now I see why he's picked Ives to do this, even if it's not officially "Groundhog Day."

There's a montage in the middle that is almost exactly "Sure Thing" beat for beat. Bill Murrey spends his "day" with Andy Mcdowell and every time he says something that rubs her the wrong way the scene starts over with him correcting his faux pas. I think Sondheim is very attracted to this and found a way to do Groundhog Day without having to worry about adaptation.

[theatergeek3]

Posted: 2/10/13 at 7:36pm

OMG!!!! Sondheim is coming out with a new show! YAY! :) Does anyone have any information on what it will be about or who will be in it?

[brian.klimowski]

Posted: 2/10/13 at 8:44pm

Totally excited.