SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM Reviews- Page 3

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 11:38am

Come to NY, Joe. I'll get tickets for us.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 11:55am

I'd love to see the show nominated for Best Musical. Best Actress (x2), Set Design, Orchestrations... ~Steven

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 11:59am

If Tom Wopat gets a nomination for this, I will never stop laughing.

And one of the weakest things about the show, I thought, were the orchestrations. I thought they were a mess. But I guess I'm in the minority about that.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 12:02pm

I personally loved the orchestrations. They were the typical Roundabout reductions, but it was smart and thoughtful while being economical. Unlike those Sunday orchestrations, which were nominated. ~Steven

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 4:03pm

Like Putting it Together, I'd go see it for the cast. But I think that Times review is just creepy. Yes, I think Sondheim is a genius when he is at the top of his form and was highly influential in the art of musical theatre. I feel that way about others as well. But this worshiping of a human deity nonsense freaks me out. And like other Broadway composers, I think Sondheim has had some great works, some fair material, and a few stinkers.

The OTT cult gushing of anyone makes me really uncomfortable. I think I started feeling this way when I got slapped by a drunk cast member of When Pigs Fly in a gay bar because I said I wasn't a big Judy Garland fan. He didn't do it in jest. It was a full-on open-hand slap across the face. Then he started slur-babbling about how I should apologize and give Judy respect for her artistry, pain and suffering and I could see the same crazy look in his eye I see whenever that Phelps woman is being interviewed on television. That's when I had my first confrontation with celebrity-obsessed batsh*t insanity and I wince every time I see it again.

[ljay889]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 4:05pm

^ Mister Matt, with all due respect. We get it, you are not the biggest Sondheim fan. You think he is overrated.

I think the whole "God" thing is all in good fun. Sondheim pokes fun at it with the new number in the show.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 4:09pm

"Sondheim is God" comes from an old New York magazine cover story called "Is Sondheim God?"

It's a joke.

No one thinks Sondheim is actually God.

(God isn't that talented.)

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 4:18pm

ljay - With all due respect. I get it (though I don't think you do). Redundancy on the subject of Sondheim should only be tolerated if it is complimentary. I don't actually know if Sondheim is overrated because it is difficult to find much objectivity on the subject, but for the record, I never said he was overrated or actually inferred as much. The topic is "Sondheim on Sondheim Reviews" and one particular review prompted some thoughts. The God thing may be all in good fun in the show, but it gets a bit much in the review and a bit tiring on BWW. But it's nice to see double-standards are still all the rage!

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 4:21pm

"I got slapped by a drunk cast member of When Pigs Fly in a gay bar because I said I wasn't a big Judy Garland fan."

I got slapped in the Townhouse by some bitchass because I dared to say I didn't like LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA. I'm still in shock about it.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 4:32pm

That's what I'm talking about! I was just trying to provide a little perspective regarding my attitude.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 4:50pm

Anyone who goes to the Townhouse deserves to get slapped. What were you doing there anyway? Peddling your worn-out wares...again?

But Mister Matt, I feel for you. Those Judy Garland fans can be BRUTAL!

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 4:59pm

Oh...there's nothing I love more than mingling with white geriatrics and blatino hookers!! Add the piano bar in back that was once dubbed by a friend 'Sperm Gully' and it can shape up into one helluva night!

As for the Sondheim is God meme re: the show, it really is clearly an embarrassed reaction by Sondheim to such wild overpraising.

Though I will say the Send in the Clowns youtube section made me believe in Jesus again!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 5:03pm

It wasn't like I said Judy was a pill-popping sloppy lush with a vibrato that measured a 7.5 on the Richter scale. I just said I wasn't a big fan. Speaking of pill-popping lushes, I wonder whatever happened to that bitch who slapped me.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 5:05pm

You say pill-popping lush like it's a bad thing.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 5:12pm

I was speaking hypothetically, of course. Unless you were in When Pigs Fly in Houston the Spring of 2000, then the earrings come off.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 5:22pm

"Unless you were in When Pigs Fly in Houston the Spring of 2000"

Nothing about that statement appeals to me.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/23/10 at 5:30pm

Townhouse.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/24/10 at 11:32am

"Then you wouldn't have seen anything Tony-worthy in Side by Side by Sondheim either.

But the Tony voters did."



Really? Who?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/24/10 at 12:05pm

Weren't all 4 of the performers nominated?

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/24/10 at 12:08pm

Well, yeah.

The way I read it was that someone won, and I thought you had said that regarding Cook's Tony chances (which are actually decent), that someone had won from SIDE BY SIDE... or another Sondheim specific revue.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 4/24/10 at 1:06pm

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