Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:35am
According to Mr. Sondheim during his interview with Colbert it is a new show he hopes to get up next season. He mentioned the reading. "Square One"
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Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:36am
I cheered! Is "Square One" a new title for the Bunuel or is it a new piece entirely?
Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:36am
Watching the interview now, and freaking out at this revelation!!!
So what happened in April?? Why the report about the show being off?
Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:38am
Sondheim’s exact words on the Late Show: “I’ve been working on a show for a couple of years with a playwright named David Ives. It’s called Square One. We had a reading of [Square One] last week. And we were encouraged. With any luck, we’ll get it on next season.”
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t this set the record for the oldest person to write the music and lyrics for a new musical?
Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:39am
Ravenclaw said: "I cheered! Is "Square One" a new title for the Bunuel or is it a new piece entirely?"
He’s been working on the Bunuel piece (with Ives) for almost 10 years so id imagine that’s what it is!
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Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:40am
Ravenclaw said: "I cheered! Is "Square One" a new title for the Bunuel or is it a new piece entirely?"
I would assume it is new.
He also said he is still writing. That was exciting news.
Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:40am
Ravenclaw said: "I cheered! Is "Square One" a new title for the Bunuel or is it a new piece entirely?"
Sondheim says he's been working on it "for a couple of years" "with David Ives." I'm assuming he meant to say "a few" years, and that he is in fact referring to the Buñuel project. Unless Sondheim and Ives secretly dropped the Buñuel project 2 years ago and started working on a totally different musical afterward.
EDIT: Has he really been working on the Buñuel project for TEN years? I've never heard that. The first we heard about it was in 2014, I believe, but he doesn't indicate how long he'd been working on it at that point.
https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/breaking-stephen-sondheim-working-on-a-new-musical_70233.html
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Jordan Catalano said: "Remember when you were a kid and your parents told you that next year we’re going to Disney and you didn’t sleep at all that night because you were so excited - that’s how i feel right now. "
Omg, yes, me too!!
Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:55am
Jordan Catalano said: "Remember when you were a kid and your parents told you that next year we’re going to Disney and you didn’t sleep at all that night because you were so excited - that’s how i feel right now."
Same here. Big Time. (Only it wasn't Disney World. I didn't get there until I was an adult!)
Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:55am
Jordan Catalano said: "Remember when you were a kid and your parents told you that next year we’re going to Disney and you didn’t sleep at all that night because you were so excited - that’s how i feel right now."
Couldn't have said it better myself.
He also praised the West Side Story film, particularly Kushner's screenplay. Not worth reading into, I know, but we don't usually hear him speak with pride about anything WSS-related.
Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:59am
Ravenclaw said: "Jordan Catalano said: "Remember when you were a kid and your parents told you that next year we’re going to Disney and you didn’t sleep at all that night because you were so excited - that’s how i feel right now."
Couldn't have said it better myself.
He also praised the West Side Story film, particularly Kushner's screenplay. Not worth reading into, I know, but we don't usually hear him speak with pride about anything WSS-related."
And his doing so is literally the first thing to spark any interest in me about that upcoming release.
Posted: 9/16/21 at 1:00am
Posted: 9/16/21 at 1:24am
I saw Sondheim and Lapine, this past Sunday, on a zoom presentation, from the Getty in Los Angeles, about the creation of SUNDAY IN THE PARK… I was blown away that Sondheim is still sharp as a tack!! Amazing.
Seeing him totally made me believe he’s still got it in him…
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Posted: 9/16/21 at 4:03am
For anyone who missed it, here's video of the actual interview: Sondheim plugged his new show, ''Square One''; James Lapine's new book, ''Putting It Together,'' and the returning revival of ''Company.'' Plus, he sang the praises of Steven Spielberg's ''West Side Story,'' calling it ''really terrific'' and applauding Tony Kushner's screenplay and the ''surprising'' ways it uses his songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKSYeMgamIA
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well at least Sondheim seems proud of West Side Story for once lol
Posted: 9/16/21 at 10:13am
well, Square One would be a very apt title (and a Sondheimian one) for the subject matter of a piece based on the Buñuel properties supposedly involved in the project. The only remaining confusion in my mind is the arc of the Ives involvement.
Posted: 9/16/21 at 10:43am
I need to watch these films! I assume this is a behind-the-scenes type of store about Bunuel working on the films as opposed to adaptations.
Posted: 9/16/21 at 10:54am
sng said: "well at least Sondheim seems proud of West Side Story for once lol"
I wonder if the film radically changes the context of how “I feel pretty” is used that makes him happy. Eg it’s now a fantasy number where she is imaging herself in another context and suddenly the embarrassment of the lyrics no longer matters because it’s not literally coming out of the character’s mouth but a fantasy representation of herself.
