Lately I've really fallen in love with some of them, especially Pleasant Little Kingdom, which I believe is suppose to be sung by Ben and Sally?
Others I'm curious about:
Bring On the Girls
All Things Bright and Beautiful
That Old Piano Roll
Who Could Be Blue/ Little White House
Can That Boy Fox Trot
Pleasant Little Kingdom
And I think I'm right to assume Uptown and Downtown would just replace Lucy and Jessie, right?
Also, does anyone know of productions where any of these songs were used?
This is what I remember:
Bring on the Girls was replaced by Beautiful Girls
That Old Piano Roll was replaced by Buddy's Blues
Can That Boy Fox Trot was replaced by I'm Still Here
I don't believe the others ever made it to Boston rehearsals.
Uptown Downtown was replaced with Lucy and Jessie, which was later replaced in the 1987 London production by Ah, But Underneath, which was also used in the Papermill production, but reverted back to Lucy and Jessie for the Broadway revival.
How did I do, PalJoey?
Sondheim tells you in the liner notes of the Papermill recording.
Thanks!
"Sondheim tells you in the liner notes of the Papermill recording."
Unfortunately I bought it off of itunes, something I've regretted.
Oh! I'll try to to type them up for you in a little bit.
Thanks ljay! I'd greatly appreciate it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
I'm pretty sure that Little White House/Who Could Be Blue was an earlier version of the Young Four's Follies number.
I don't think that That Old Piano Roll was a precursor to Buddy's Blues, but I could be wrong.
Pleasant Little Kingdom was (I think) a song intended for Sally.
All Things Bright and Beautiful was (I think) a song for Sally and Ben.
Yes, I believe All Things Bright and Beautiful was sort of a precursor to Too Many Mornings, but I may be wrong.
I read somewhere that That Old Piano Roll was a predecessor to The Right Girl.
Buddy sang it while dancing with a broom because Sally (who is stood watching him) refused to dance with him. The song finishes with him hurling the broom through a window.
So Sondheim.
Funny how the same people always flock to a Follies thread. I bet EricMontreal shows up too.
Updated On: 2/17/09 at 03:25 PM
"Pleasant Little Kingdom was (I think) a song intended for Sally. "
On the Papermill recording it sounds like Ben and Sally... was this also replaced by Too Many Mornings? Or perhaps placed right before Too Many Mornings?
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
I just did a google on Pleasant Little Kingdom and read a book excerpt that said it was originally a separate song, then it was going to lead into Too Many Mornings. I don't think it was ever in the script when it got to rehearsal stage, though.
I have time to type of the linter notes for PLK real quick
This was the verse to "Too Many Mornings," when the latter appeared earlier in the show When we placed "Too Many Mornings" later in the plot, it made "Pleasant Little Kingdom," a getting-acquainted song, unusable.
I may be wrong but I believe "Pleasant Little Kingdom" was in the "The Road You Didn't Take"/"In Buddy's Eye" moments that happen while Ben and Sally are catching up. Eventually, the number was cut, and Sondheim wrote the two solos for that moment. I don't think it was to stand in for "Too Many Mornings."
I love both "Pleasant Little Kingdom," "All Things Bright and Beautiful" (which we can still hear in the Overture), "Uptown/Downtown," "Ah, But Underneath," and the haunting number that's not in the Papermill album but it's in MARRY ME A LITTLE called "It Wasn't Meant to Happen."
Does anyone know who was supposed to sing "It Wasn't Meant to Happen"? I imagine it was Sally. I wish it had been recorded for the Papermill cast recording.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
Yes, "It Wasn't Meant to Happen" was originally a Sally song, also from the days when it was "The Girls Upstairs."
Updated On: 2/17/09 at 04:03 PM
"Pleasant Little Kingdom" can be heard on the Scrabble album as a lead-in to "Too Many Mornings," but I think they were just joined for that benefit. There's a verse for Sally and a verse for Ben.
I first heard "All Things Bright and Beautiful" in Marry Me a Little, recognized the music from the Follies prologue and immediately started sobbing.
It's one of Sondheim's most yearning melodies.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
Here's something I never knew, from Sondheim's Broadway Musicals by Stephen Banfield:
"In Buddy's Eyes," in its original guise as "In Someone's Eyes," included a part for Ben pitted contrapuntally against Sally's and covering some of the sentiments that, it seems, were later siphoned off into his solo "The Road You Didn't Take."
Ah, that what was what I suspected with PLK.
Swing Joined: 5/10/15
Sondheim singing the follies demos
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qX-HQ4BDuJM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
https://youtu.be/qX-HQ4BDuJM
Swing Joined: 5/10/15
Sondheim singing the follies demos
Videos