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Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#25
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"
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#26
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?
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#27
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?
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#28
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?
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#29
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!
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#30
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.
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#31
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
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#32
Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:43am
Well, whatever project it is, it’s at a stage where he and one of the stars of the reading are comfortable talking about it as actually happening.
WHAT A WEEK THIS HAS BEEN!
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#33
Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:44amI assume the press will have more on this tomorrow. I’m so happy!!
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#34
Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:46amRemember 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.
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#35
Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:47am
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!!
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#36
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!)
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#37
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.
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#38
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.
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#39
Posted: 9/16/21 at 1:00amWow, I am over the moon about this!
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#40
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…
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#41
Posted: 9/16/21 at 3:17amSo completely ecstatic about the news of Square One. I had pretty much given up hope of ever hearing a new Sondheim score again and I’m giddy at the prospect. He’s giving us more to see!
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#42
Posted: 9/16/21 at 3:27amThe prospect of seeing Bernadette in a new Sondheim show is only something I could dream about, I could cry. If Bernadette’s involvement does not once again confirm she is practically Sondheim’s muse, I don’t know what does!
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Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#43
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
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#44
Posted: 9/16/21 at 4:22am
I stayed up to watch the West Coast feed of Colbert’s show. The biggest news is the title of the show, which I assume is the Bunuel adaptation and not something completely different. Obviously, that doesn’t mean I am right.
Neither Sondheim nor Lane made it sound like anything other than a new musical, but who knows?
Sondheim had very positive things to say both about the Company revival, praising Marianne Elliott’s direction, and of the Weat Side Story remake. Aside from praising Tony Kushner, Sondheim said there are a lot of surprises in this version.
I don’t always trust Sondheim’s assessment of film adaptations of his work, and he’s certainly not going to trash it, but he did make me more intrigued.
As for any new musical, I won’t get my hopes up. But it is rather striking that Sondheim and Lane both discussed it on national television appearances, with Sondheim talking about it possibly being ready next season.
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#45
Posted: 9/16/21 at 4:44amLast night I was having trouble falling asleep because I was fantasizing about Sondheim elaborating on what Lane mentioned - but thinking he probably wouldn't. I woke up, searched up "Sondheim on Colbert" and it was like opening the best Christmas present ever! I'm vibrating!! When he said Square One, I wiggled and giggled more than I'd care to admit... And it was such a nice interview.
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#46
Posted: 9/16/21 at 4:58am
well at least Sondheim seems proud of West Side Story for once lol
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#47
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.
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Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#48
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.
Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters#49
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.
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