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Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
#25Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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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Updated On: 9/16/21 at 12:35 AM
Ravenclaw
Leading Actor Joined: 9/16/17
#26Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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?
#27Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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?
StylishCynic
Stand-by Joined: 7/5/16
#28Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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?
#29Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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!
#30Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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.
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#31Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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
#32Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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!
#33Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
Posted: 9/16/21 at 12:44amI assume the press will have more on this tomorrow. I’m so happy!!
#34Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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.
#35Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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!!
#36Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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!)
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Ravenclaw
Leading Actor Joined: 9/16/17
#37Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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.
#38Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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.
#39Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
Posted: 9/16/21 at 1:00amWow, I am over the moon about this!
#40Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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…
#41Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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!
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
#42Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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!
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Wayman_Wong
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#43Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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
bear88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/26/16
#44Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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.
¿Macavity?
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/16
#45Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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.
sng
Featured Actor Joined: 6/7/15
#46Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
Posted: 9/16/21 at 4:58am
well at least Sondheim seems proud of West Side Story for once lol
#47Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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.
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#48Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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.
#49Reading of New Sondheim Musical with Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters
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.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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