Favorite Sondheim Song?
Favorite Sondheim Song?
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#0Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 2:04pm
I was listening to some good ol' Sondheim, and I was thinking, if you had to pick your all time favorite song of his, which would it be? For me, it is Giants in the Sky (for now...).
Updated On: 3/14/06 at 02:04 PM
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#1re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 2:10pmMove On
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
Updated On: 3/14/06 at 02:10 PM
#2re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 2:11pm
Unworthy of Your Love- Assassins
A Little Priest- Sweeney Todd
Broadway Baby- Follies
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
Updated On: 3/14/06 at 02:11 PM
#3re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 2:12pm
If I had to choose: "Finishing the Hat" from Sunday in the Park with George.
I also love Sweeney's "Johanna" and "Being Alive" from Company.
#4re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 2:14pm
I'd go with "Not a Day Goes By" and "Getting Married Today." Yes, I'm partial to the latter because i'm currently singing that number (Paul's part) in a production of "Company." 
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
#5re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 2:14pm
I'd go with "Not a Day Goes By" and "Getting Married Today." Yes, I'm partial to the latter because i'm currently singing that number (Paul's part) in a production of "Company."
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#6re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 2:15pm
"Sorry-Grateful", of course. Or maybe "On the Steps of the Palace."
I have a lot of favorites.
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
#7re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 2:15pm
Oh. I've seriously never been able to pick, it's really impossible. Maybe "Another Hundred People" from Company. I won't commit to it, though. "Move On", "Being Alive", "A Little Priest", "The Glamorous Life", "The Ballad of Booth", "The Miller's Son", "Live, Laugh, Love", "By the Sea", "Not a Day Goes By", "Our Time".
You wouldn't really make me commit to one, would you?
OasisBroadway
Leading Actor Joined: 9/28/05
#10re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 2:20pmI was going to say "another hundred people" but since it was just taken, I'll have to go with "with so little to be sure of" from Anyone can whistle.
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
#11re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 2:49pm
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd.
That song is quite possibly my favorite song of all time.
"The hallmark of aristocracy is responsibility. Oh brother, that got me, that did me in!"
#12re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 3:16pmPippin- wtf is up with that cat!?!?! It looks like a tick that will pop! -threadjack done-
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#13re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 3:18pmBallad of Booth
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
#14re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 3:20pm
Move On
OR
Losing My Mind
Don't f*ck with me fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
#15re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 3:26pmMove On / We do not belong together
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#16re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 4:07pm
Hands down "Marry Me A Little" from Company. :)
Followed by "Being Alive" (Company),
"Agony" and "Your Fault" (ITW)... or anything from ITW,
"Pretty Little Picture" (Forum),
"Not A Day Goes By" (MWRA),
"Something's Coming" and "Maria"(WSS),
"Losing My Mind" (Follies),
etc.....
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..."
~Jaques - "As You Like It" Act 2, scene 7
Anne_here
Understudy Joined: 11/26/05
Anne_here
Understudy Joined: 11/26/05
#19re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 4:10pmA tie between Move On and Being Alive. I just can't pick one over the other!
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
#20re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 4:12pm
I am going to go with Our Time as my favorite
I am a big fan of No One is Alone also
Color and Light
Broadway Star Joined: 10/23/05
#21re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 4:14pm"Finishing the Hat" and Sweeney's "Johanna" ... although I change my mind all the time.
Stop looking at my charisma.
YessicaB
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/05
#22re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 4:45pm
No one is alone - ITW
Not while I'm around - Sweeney Todd
#23re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 4:49pm
Not While I'm Around.
I think it was one of the first ones I heard, and I've loved it since.
#24re: Favorite Sondheim Song?
Posted: 3/14/06 at 4:54pm
It's a tie between "I Wish I Could Forget You" from Passion and "Losing My Mind" from Follies.
Oh, and "Move on".
And "I Read".
And "The God-Why-Don't-You Love-Me Blues".
And "It Takes Two" from Into The Woods.
Arrrrgghh this is too hard!
"Years from now, when you talk about this - And you will - Be kind. "
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