Happy Birthday Stephen Sondheim
Happy Birthday Stephen Sondheim
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#2Happy Birthday Stephen Sondheim
Posted: 3/22/25 at 4:47pm
One of the masters. Happy birthday, great sir.
#3Happy Birthday Stephen Sondheim
Posted: 3/23/25 at 6:53am
I watched the 80th Birthday concert again last night - it has been a while. Wow, it has aged incredibly well (except for "Sunday" at the end that sounds almost inaudible?). The red dress section is honestly iconic.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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