As I said before I was surprised someone said "Any Moment" is the best song in the show Reading comprehension warning: If you read what I wrote, I never said it was the best song in the show, I said I thought of it as one of the best songs in the show. I think the way the Prince archetype gets turned upside its head (in a different context than earlier in the show) is clever, and I love the rhymes and lyrics Sondheim came up with for this number. It's another seduction number that ties in with "Hello, Little Girl," sung earlier by the same actor (as originally conceived). I think without "Any Moment," the payoff from "Moments in the Woods" is not as strong, and in that way, I agree with Besty's idea that the songs are a continuation of the same song. I think the impact of one depends on the strength of the other.
I'm also a fan of Bernadette Peters' performance of the song on her Carnegie Mellon record. Fantastic rendition.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Updated On: 6/24/14 at 07:27 AM
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