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Little Night Music Benefit
#51
Posted: 1/17/09 at 9:40amOne of my all-time favorite performances of "The Miller's Son" is Kate Baldwin's at Wall-to-Wall Sondheim. Just gorgeous!
#52Night Music
Posted: 1/17/09 at 1:28pmSpeaking of Night Music, has any footage of the original turned up? I was going through my Aronson book this morning. What a glorious production! I truly help LCT decides to revive this. I doubt the Roundabout would put on such a lavish production. In fact, after this revival of Pal Joey, I don't think I want to see another Roundabout show again.
#53Night Music
Posted: 1/17/09 at 1:30pmBut honestly, does Pal Joey entirely erase the memory of She Loves Me, Cabaret, Assassins, The Pajama Game, 110 in the Shade, and Sunday in the Park?
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#54Night Music
Posted: 1/17/09 at 1:34pm
Harry Connick and Kelli O'Hara made The Pajama Game. Otherwise it was just another Kathleen Marshall cheese-fest.
Sunday and Pacific Overtures were transfers Stephen Sondheim thought they ought to put on.
Cabaret was a transfer I believe Kander and Ebb suggested they put on.
110 in the Shade was mediocre.
She Loves Me was charmless.
Assassins was a rare, brilliant exception.
And Pal Joey was such a disaster it makes me not want to go back to the Roundabout, at least for a little while.
#55Night Music
Posted: 3/9/09 at 8:42pm
I didn'w want to start another thread on Night Music, but I just had to start a discussion about it again.
Can anyone top Glynis Johns? Really. I recently discovered the recording of her singing "Send in the Clowns" at the Sondheim: A Musical Tribute concert right after Night Music opened and it gets me everytime. It's brilliant, utterly brilliant.
#56Night Music
Posted: 3/9/09 at 8:49pm
recently discovered the recording of her singing "Send in the Clowns" at the Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
- Where did you find that??
#57Night Music
Posted: 3/9/09 at 8:54pm
She doesn't sing Send in the Clowns on that album. Here is the video from a different concert.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAl-EawVobY
#58Night Music :learning from the master
Posted: 3/9/09 at 9:11pm
Lovely, PJ. Look what I found... talk about the "master" of master classes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-VXXZLh2a0&feature=related
#59Night Music :learning from the master
Posted: 3/9/09 at 9:25pm
PalJoey, check your PMs. I wasn't talking about the album.
ljay and all interested in the recording I'm talking about, please PM me.
#60Night Music :learning from the master
Posted: 3/9/09 at 9:31pm
Omigod, thanks, jv! I had no idea!
And PB--doesn't he have a lovely gentle way of teaching? That's what he was like when he taught us at NYU. Pity that he didn't like teaching. It was such a gift to listen to him.
#61Night Music :learning from the master
Posted: 3/9/09 at 9:41pmI had no idea until this afternoon and then I heard her and broke down in a mess of tears. Aside from the entire concert being beautiful, her performance in particular was stunning. It's a shame they didn't put it on the actual album.
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