Is Unworthy Of Your Love appropriate for two high school students to sing?
Is Unworthy Of Your Love appropriate for two high school students to sing?
fiyero8132
Broadway Star Joined: 4/27/05
#0Is Unworthy Of Your Love appropriate for two high school students to sing?
Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:45pmI think this is a beautiful piece of Sondheim from Assassins. I say it is appropriate for two high school students to sing, given that it is done out of the context from the show. Not as two assassins singing to their individual lovers, but merely as two lovers singing a simple ballad. What do you all say? Opinions, please.
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Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:51pm
Well, sure except for the mildly psychopathic lyrics...
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gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#2re: Is Unworthy Of Your Love appropriate for two high school students to sing?
Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:52pmI think it's fine...I don't know if I would let everyone know the background of the song. But it's a great song and is a good love song (different love...but love)
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#3re: Is Unworthy Of Your Love appropriate for two high school students to sing?
Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:54pm
Hmm, it would also make a great pick up line at a bar...
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So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.~Office Space
popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#4re: Is Unworthy Of Your Love appropriate for two high school students to sing?
Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:54pmI think it's fine! I would sing it. The "let me drink poison" parts and things like that may not be too pleasing, though.
myManCape
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/26/05
#5re: Is Unworthy Of Your Love appropriate for two high school students to sing?
Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:55pman amazing song. You dont need to hide the story behind it if people are unfamiliar. Its an excellent show with and amazing score.
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Posted: 4/5/06 at 9:05pmMy brother and I did the song for a theatre ocompetition in high school and it was great. No one thought it was too "controversial" or anything. Its an amazing song. Go for it!
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#7re: Is Unworthy Of Your Love appropriate for two high school students to sing?
Posted: 4/5/06 at 9:11pmwithin the context of PUTTING IT TOGETHER it is sung as two lovers singing a simple ballad with Jodie and Charlie replaced with "darlin', darlin'"...
Albeefan83
Swing Joined: 4/5/06
#8re: Is Unworthy Of Your Love appropriate for two high school students to sing?
Posted: 4/5/06 at 9:17pmThis song has become one of my new favorites and I think it would be perfectly fine performed by students as long as they have a good understanding of the song and recurring themes in ASSASSINS. I just remembered that Ruthie Henshall and John Barrowman performed this song in the most-recent B'way production of PUTTING IT TOGETHER. The lyrics were changed and performed as a love duet. The names "Charlie" and "Jodi" were both changed to just "darlin'". It seemed to work and gave the actors more opportunity to interact with each other.
fiyero8132
Broadway Star Joined: 4/27/05
#9re: Is Unworthy Of Your Love appropriate for two high school students to sing?
Posted: 4/5/06 at 9:21pmYes, I just a regional theatre production of Putting It Together in Florida and that was the way they portrayed it. Thanks for your input, guys! :)
mrkringas
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/05
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Posted: 4/5/06 at 9:35pm
Wow things are certainly different across the pond if you are worried about such a song being inappropriate for high school. I was fortunate enough to have a school that encouraged a range of material. Luckily noone ever thought our productions of Grease and The Crucible were too risque
#11re: Is Unworthy Of Your Love appropriate for two high school students to sing?
Posted: 4/5/06 at 9:42pmIt's not that its inappropriate, I personally don't think this is a song that makes much sense sung out of the bitter irony in which it was written for the show. It would be like doing "Welcome to the Theatre" from APPLAUSE as a real welcome to a theatre event or "Every Day a Little Death" at a funeral. And the "darlin, darlin" lyrics just turn into a bad pastiche of Burt Bachrach.
Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#12re: Is Unworthy Of Your Love appropriate for two high school students to si
Posted: 4/5/06 at 9:45pm
I think it's a great song (though slightly corny) and if you just replace 'Charlie' and 'Jodie' with 'darling' like Putting It Together or use another line like it, it will be easy to understand. I think the music from this show needs to be proformed publicly a lot more. It's such a great musical. Good Luck!
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Updated On: 4/5/06 at 09:45 PM
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