Sondheim Songs cut *during previews*

I know all too well about the myriad of sonds Sondheim has written for each product--what I wanna tyr to get a clear idea for this thread is what songs actually made it to full performance but were cut before the opening?

Off the top of my head I can think of:

West Side Story: Like Everybody Else (was this performed?)

Forum: Love is in the Air, full House of Marcus Lycus

Anyone Can Whistle: There Won't be Trumpets, Halt Lame and the Blind (?)

Company: Happily Ever After (did any other full song make it to actual previews?)

Follies: Uptown/Downtown, Can That Boy Foxtrot

A Little Night Music: Silly People, Bang! (I think?)

Pacific Overtures: Prayers

Sweeney Todd: Judge's Joanna (I believe Hal staged it--not sure...)

Merrily we Roll Along: I know Not a Day Goes By was sung by Beth--not sure if The Blob, Darling or Honey actually got to performance?

I know most of the changes made during workshops for SUNDAY, Woods and Passion--and since it was a bit of a different atmosphere--workshopping instead of previews I won't include that here...

I wish we had the chance to hear all these cuts performed with their original orchestrations the way we do for the FOllies songs and Silly People from Night Music

Right and I guess the extra little bit in First Midnight and in the Prince/Baker's Wife song as recorded on CD were quickly cut in the Broadway run.

I know of all the San Deigeo workshop changes but workshops work kinda differently than out of town previews (Sunday with the original Gotta Keep 'em Humming being an example) so was more concentrating on the Prince shows

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Sweeney had "Beggar Woman's Lullaby" cut by one of the first few previews in the revival. I liked it, but I suppose they felt it gave a little much away?

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Hal staged Judge Turpins' Johanna. It was cut after a few previews, due to length and because the audience wasn't particularly responsive to it.

Well, Hal was lying. The audience just didn't like seeing The Judge in such a perverted number. It was staged quite well from what I hear.

It was the audiences. Hal Prince was and still is a balsy guy. Had it not been for that rabbi and that obnoxious lady from out of town, Fred Ebb's "anti-Jew" lyrics from Cabaret would have stayed. (Perhaps you all feel different, but I think that it's far from anti-Jew.) The audiences didn't like The Judge's song, there was some (well, a great deal of) hubub about what he was doing, it got cut.

I believe it was cut in rehearsals.

It was cut in rehearsals of the original production and replaced by Losing My Mind and Lucy and Jessie to my knowledge.

World is full of Boys/Girls was never even run in rehearsal--in Chapin's book he mentions that Sondheim had the title sketched out when the Loveland sequence still wasn't written, and then that he had to type the lyrics and SOndheim got mad at him about the word Galop being mispelled (he spelled it Gallop not knowing it was the DANCE Galop). When Prince saw him re-typign the sheets he basically said "why we're not doing that song anyway" and then Sondheim mischeiveously grinned and said it was true.

jv Prince is ballsy but he still has more of an eye on the commercial product than a young SOndheim did--i'ms tanding by what I said, it was Prince who was uncomfortable with the Judge's Joanna

BTW Prince says in his autobiography that he did cut the jew line in Cabaret and in HINDSIGHT he wouldn't have--but he nonetheless did cut it--he makes it clear it was solely his decision and he wasn't pressured into it. Ballsy or not.

Wait, was Judge's Joanna ever recorded?

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I love Giorgio's song (and of course it was largely reinstated in the London production and concert)

COOOLkid the Judge's Joanna is on all major recordings (including the OBCR)

yep that's why it was listed in the very top post

lol I know I just didn't have my cd with the demo on hand to compare *blush* I was curious about whether it actually made it to previews though