Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#0Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Posted: 3/11/06 at 8:39am
Imagine some of these shows with a Sondheim score
1.Light In The Piazza
2.Dracula
3.POTO
4.Titanic
5.Grand Hotel
#1re: Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Posted: 3/11/06 at 10:16amwow light in the piazza with a sondheim score, woah!
ihearttheatre
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/12/05
#2re: Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Posted: 3/11/06 at 10:20am...but The Light in the Piazza already has a beautiful score!
MasterLcZ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/12/03
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Posted: 3/11/06 at 10:29am
Imagine if Irving Berlin had written BOUNCE.
Or if Jerome Kern had written ANNIE GET YOUR GUN.
Or if Rodgers & Hammerstein had written MY FAIR LADY.
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Posted: 3/11/06 at 10:46amDracula by Sondhiem could have been pretty wicked...
#5re: Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Posted: 3/11/06 at 10:47amIf he'd written Avenue Q, the poor puppeteers would all be arthritic about 3 months into the run.
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Posted: 3/11/06 at 10:56am
imaging Sondheim wrote the score for Wicked.... now that would be interesting... and it would have probably stayed more true to the darker elements of the book.
Also... what about Little Shop?
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Posted: 3/11/06 at 11:00amnice one princeton
Isabella2
Broadway Star Joined: 10/6/05
#8re: Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Posted: 3/11/06 at 11:19am
yeah princton that made me laugh out loud.
I personally think that sondheim in pure genius and that he could make any musical sound good.
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Posted: 3/11/06 at 11:38am
.....Rent by Sondheim.
Can you imagine?
The3DImaxOfMyMind
Understudy Joined: 12/29/05
#10re: Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Posted: 3/11/06 at 12:10pmI don't want to imagine. =P
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#11re: Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Posted: 3/11/06 at 12:34pm
Speaking of Avenue Q, I just had a crazy thought
How about Beautiful Girls from Follies done by the puppets ?
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Posted: 3/11/06 at 12:35pmI've always wondered what his music for "Gypsy" would have been like had Merman let him do it. Well, one thing's for sure, Herb would've sung a bit more.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13re: Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Posted: 3/11/06 at 12:38pm
The Merm in Sweeney
He'll be swell
He'll be great
Gonna have his whole head on a plate
#14re: Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Posted: 3/11/06 at 12:40pmWell, if Merman wouldn't say "damn" onstage, I don't think she would have done Sweeney Todd.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
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Posted: 3/11/06 at 12:43pmWe are allowed some fantasy aren't we?
theatrebabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/22/05
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Posted: 3/11/06 at 1:34pmThat made me laugh out loud, Mr. Roxy.
-cheezedoodle
#17re: Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Posted: 3/11/06 at 1:56pmI'm currently in Company...and in my nightmares, i'm hearing "Bobby-Bubbi."
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Posted: 3/11/06 at 2:08pm
nice one Roxy. Thanks for the chuckle
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#19re: Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Posted: 3/11/06 at 2:25pm
Sondheim writes a musical about exercise clubs
"The Ladies Who Crunch"
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#20re: Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Posted: 3/11/06 at 2:44pm
Roxy, the Merman joke made me laugh out loud! Good job!
What if you kept the original team for CHICAGO, but Sondheim wrote it? I know he would probably have had Bennit choreograph, but could you imagin Fosse choreographing a Sondheim show?
bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#21re: Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Posted: 3/11/06 at 4:59pm
No offense to Sondheim, b/c I love him. He's an amazing writer. But if he had written these shows like Little Shop and Phantom and Wicked, musical theatre and Broadway would be a lot less popular. Sondheim shows are notorious for not being very big hits or very "mainstream," however brilliant they are. I think it's very valuable that the people who did write those shows actually did.
But if Sondheim did his own SEPARATE adaptations of those shows, I would love it. I wouldn't take away the original authors or shows, but if he just decided he wanted to do another adaptation like Yeston did with Phantom, I'm all for it. What if he had written Carrie? At least then we would know that it would be recorded.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#22re: Imagine If Sondheim Had Written.....
Posted: 3/11/06 at 8:22pm
Sondheim is a gifted composer but, like Woody Allen , has gone from whimsical fare ( Funny Thing, Waltz, Whistle ) to very dark pieces like Follies Into The Woods etc. Can he go back ? He tried in Bounce & although it did not make it I like the Score & think he can
If he did nothing but Follies, he would be remembered. People like Jerry Herman & Kander/Ebb were very versatile . Hopefully Sondheims next venture will be a little piece of fluff
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Posted: 3/11/06 at 10:18pmPardon my ignorance, but what was the most recent show Sondheim wrote?
-My fault, I fear.
zannadont
Stand-by Joined: 2/13/06
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Posted: 3/11/06 at 10:29pmUpdated On: 3/11/06 at 10:29 PM
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