Favorite Sondhiem Show- Page 2
Favorite Sondhiem Show
zooxanthellae
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/07
#26re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/9/08 at 7:47pmwest side story. the jets and sharks are HAWT!!!
#28re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/9/08 at 7:49pm
Gypsy and Little Night Music
Didn't like Sweeny
chris d
Broadway Star Joined: 4/21/07
#30re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/9/08 at 8:17pmFollies
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walkedthroughmany
Leading Actor Joined: 3/25/07
#31re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/9/08 at 8:22pm
1. Sunday in the Park with George
2. Company
3. A Little Night Music
#33re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/9/08 at 8:25pm
Can I answer everything? Having heard almost everything (still trying to hunt down some of his work from college and before that) I can honestly say that I have NEVER disliked one of his scores. Every now and then I came across a show that I had to see/listen to more than once, but I eventually would fall in love with it.
Although I can't say it is my favorite I can say that the cassette of "Merrily We Roll Along" is ALWAYS in my car.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
TheaterAddict7652
Broadway Star Joined: 2/7/06
#34re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/9/08 at 8:25pmMy personal favorite Sondheim show is Company. But his best work, in my opinion, is a tie between Sweeney and Sunday.
There's a lot I am not certain of...
#35re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/9/08 at 8:28pm
I could NEVER choose one, my obsession rotates every few months. But I think by top 3 would be
Company, Sweeney Todd, Assassins
And I have a special preference for Into the Woods because it was the show that introduced me to Sondheim
#36re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/9/08 at 8:33pmCompany just edges out Sweeney for me. Then Into the Woods & West Side are tied in third.
#37re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/9/08 at 8:48pm
I think it would be nearly impossible to choose just one but I would have to say Sunday in the Park with George.
Company is a very close second.
I also love West Side Story but since Sondhiem only worte the lyrics for that I can only give him half credit for it
#38re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/9/08 at 9:43pmA Little Night Music. And if it had recently been revived like it deserves to be, a lot more of us would be mentioning it here.
heathurrr
Broadway Star Joined: 12/9/06
#39re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/9/08 at 9:44pmI ache for a ALNM revival!
"As we all should probably have learned by now, to be a Stephen Sondheim fan is to have one's heart broken at regular intervals" - Frank Rich
Dearest, how can this be so? You were dead, you know. - Candide
Oh my god, this show has everything! Half naked guys and girl on girl action! - [title of show]
(My avatar? Why, yes! That is Laura Benanti making out with a chick!)
Dearest, how can this be so? You were dead, you know. - Candide
Oh my god, this show has everything! Half naked guys and girl on girl action! - [title of show]
(My avatar? Why, yes! That is Laura Benanti making out with a chick!)
antz
Chorus Member Joined: 8/9/07
#40re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/9/08 at 9:57pm
Love them all, but if I must choose, today it would be:
1) Assassins
2) Sunday in the Park with George
3) Sweeney
5) Company
6) Follies
7) A Little Night Music 
Into the Woods
9) Funny Thing Happened
10) Pacific Overtures
See, they're all great! Not to mention as a lyricist: West Side Story, and Gypsy
#42re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/10/08 at 12:57am
Company, Sunday, Sweeney, Merrily.
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#43re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/10/08 at 1:02amSunday
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
LadyRosecoe
Broadway Star Joined: 8/4/07
#44re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/10/08 at 1:20am
Overall, it's the magic of FOLLIES.
But next, I think his technical best work is in Sweeney, with Sunday being his most beautiful work.
JBSinger
Broadway Star Joined: 11/12/04
#45re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/10/08 at 8:33am
1) Sweeney Todd (huge story, huge music, comedy, tragedy, love) it's got it all.
2) A Little Night Music (one of the most perfect shows ever written. Glorious music, enchanting story, brilliantly structured).
3) Into the Woods (I have a soft spot for this show. It's funny, clever, a great score and actually has something to say).
I love them all for different reasons, but these are my top three.
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#46re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/10/08 at 8:51am
Company, Merrily, Little Night Music.
Sweeney is probably one of his best shows, but I don't particularly care for it.
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
#47re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/10/08 at 9:34am
Wow this was hard...ok
1) company
2) sunday
3) sweeney
4) into the woods
5) follies
6)Assassins
7) merrily Funny Thing
9) a little night music
10) Pacific overtures
I kept changing it even as I typed it...it changes day to day
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life. Define yourself"
#48re: Favorite Sondhiem Show
Posted: 6/10/08 at 9:40am
This one is totally easy...
A Little Sunday in the Park with George's Night Music
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
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