STEPHEN SONDHEIM and FRANK RICH in SF..Anyone going?
STEPHEN SONDHEIM and FRANK RICH in SF..Anyone going?
DrTheatre
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/05
#1STEPHEN SONDHEIM and FRANK RICH in SF..Anyone going?
Posted: 3/9/08 at 5:20pm
Tonight is the special interview that I have been waiting a year to go to.
Is anyone going to this? Would love to meet other BBW people. IM if you are going...
Stephen Sondheim
In conversation with Frank Rich
Sunday, March 9, 2008 | Herbst Theatre, 7pm
Described by Frank Rich in The New York Times as "the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theatre," Stephen Sondheim has upended and reinvented the American musical in his fifty years writing for the stage. Since his 1957 Broadway debut as the twenty-seven year old lyricist for Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story," Sondheim has stretched the conventions of musical theatre with sophisticated storylines and complex musicality. His innovative concept musical "Company," for instance, featured scenes rather than a more conventional linear plot. Sondheim's landmark shows include "Gypsy," "Follies," "Sweeney Todd," "Into the Woods," "Assassins," and "Passion." His lyrics are known for their intelligence and magnificent rhyme. Critics often praise his use of complex polyphony in vocal parts, such as the reimagined Greek chorus of "A Little Night Music." In his distinguished career, Sondheim has won a Grammy Award for "Sweeney Todd," a Pulitzer Prize for "Sunday in the Park with George," an Academy Award for Best Song, and seven Tony Awards, more than any other composer.
New York Times columnist Frank Rich was the Times chief theater critic from 1980 until 1993. His memoir Ghost Light reveals how theatre gave Rich a new way of understanding the world during his childhood and how it has sustained him in adult life. Rich's work outside of drama writing and a high-profile spot on the Times Opinion page includes commentary in Esquire, The New Republic, and Time, and bestselling books like The Greatest Story Ever Sold.
"In the U.S.A.
You can have your say,
You can set you goals
And seize the day,
You've been given the freedom
To work your way
To the head of the line-
To the head of the line!"
---Stephen Sondheim
#2re: STEPHEN SONDHEIM and FRANK RICH in SF..Anyone going?
Posted: 3/9/08 at 7:07pmDid i read some where that this was going to be filmed?
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
Tazber's: Reply to
Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
DrTheatre
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/05
#2re: STEPHEN SONDHEIM and FRANK RICH in SF..Anyone going?
Posted: 3/9/08 at 7:35pmMaybe for archives...but don' know overall...
"In the U.S.A.
You can have your say,
You can set you goals
And seize the day,
You've been given the freedom
To work your way
To the head of the line-
To the head of the line!"
---Stephen Sondheim
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#3re: STEPHEN SONDHEIM and FRANK RICH in SF..Anyone going?
Posted: 3/9/08 at 8:33pmI'm going to the one in Portland on Tuesday!
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