Marry Me a Little - Revised Song List? Previews?

They've announced that "Rainbows" will replace "Two Fairytales," "Yoo-Hoo" will replace "Pour La Sport" and "Ah, But Underneath" will replace "Uptown, Downtown".

Updated On: 10/3/12 at 09:20 PM

Anyone else think PS Classics should totally record this? Just sayin'...

I'll judge if Krasker and PS should record this when I see it. I think both performers are talented judging from past performances, but one never knows. There's also a recording from the original 80s production.

Two Fairy Tales seems to highlight the theme of the revue the best, in fact, I thought... And for whatever reason, I always like how Uptown is sung by a guy (I guess Underneath will be now?)

Yeah, I have the old recording of course, and find it charming even if Sondheim was probably right that Craig Lucas wasn't the best of singers and should stick to writing (which of course he has--very well).

As for the new production, I admit I only know Tam from his longterm stint on One Life to Live (yes, another current New York stage actor I know from the soaps), where he was one of the stronger and more charismatic younger cast members (and sang pretty well in the horrific High School Musical type episode they did). I know he was in Chorus Line, but Paul doesn't exactly have a lot to do on the cast album (though he seemed good in Every Little Step)...

So, I know really nothing about this show. Is it an actual story-line? Or is just a song-cycle kind of show, or are there real book scenes? Did Sondheim create it, or did they just use his songs?

I think "Uptown-Downtown" is vastly superior to "Ah, But Underneath".

*****
Uptown, she's got the Vanderbilt clans.
Downtown, she's with the sidewalk Cezannes.
Hyphenated Harriet, the nouveau from New Rochelle.

She sits at the Ritz with her splits of Mumms
And starts to pine for a stein with her Village chums,
But with a Schlitz in her mitts down at Fitzroy's Bar,
She dreams of the Ritz, oh it's so schizo.
******
Sooo good!

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So these aren't songs culled from other Sondheim shows?

Oh okay. So worth seeing to hear the cut songs?

Ripped, it was conceived by Craig Lucas--apparently he got the idea while he was in the chorus for the original Sweeney Todd and something caused him to think about how many great, cut Sondheim songs there were (or ones like The Girls From Summer that was written for a play, etc). He asked Sondheim if he could use them, he said yes, and he put together the show. It has a theme, and the "story" (of two lonely people in adjacent apartments--though they do interact some in sorta fantasy segments) actually works surprisingly well--more than in some similar shows, though at best it could be called a song cycle--no book scenes.

Craig Lucas shortly after gave up performing to concentrate on writing (partly at Sondheim's suggestion), and of course has gone on to write works like Prelude to a Kiss, The Dying Gaul and the libretto for Light in the Piazza.

Any update on the cover art, assuming there's a playbill for this?

seriously -- how can anything sondheim be getting so little attention on *this* board???

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yeah i saw that. but i also saw that the show extended due to "strong demand for tickets" ... my hunch is this is based more on the fact that it's sondheim and not strong word of mouth -- there being a paucity of the latter.

soooooo, anyone have some of that word of mouth???

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