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#1

Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 12:26pm

I hate when people say Sondheim isn't sentimental enough when, in fact, he probably one of the most sentimental writers out there. He is a genius at capturing the love that "could have been" or "Should have been". It's in every one of his shows. That being said. What do you think is his greatest love song?

I'm gonna go with "Too Many Mornings" from "Follies". Absolutely heartbreaking!!
#2

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 12:29pm

I'm quite partial to "Johanna". Also, "Not While I'm Around" is a great non-traditional love song.

And "No One Has Ever Loved Me" from "Passion".
Just remembering you've had an "and" When you're back to "or" Makes the "or" mean more than it did before
#3

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 12:33pm

"with so little to be sure of" from Whistle. so simple, but so direct and pure.
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#4

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 12:34pm

"Happiness" from Passion is my favorite, but "Johanna" is another incredibly beautiful song.
#5

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 12:41pm

Not traditionally a love song, but "Move On" from SITPWG makes me cry.
#7

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 1:35pm

I've always been partial to "Unworthy of Your Love"...even if it is about Jodie Foster and Charles Manson re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?
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#8

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 1:39pm

Well, discounting "West Side Story", which I believe contains some of the BEST love songs ever written... I'm a fan of the "mixed emotions" in Company's "Sorry, Grateful" and "Being Alive"...
#9

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 1:41pm

I don't know if it's his most beautiful, but my favorite is "I Wish I Could Forget You" from Passion.

And there's no way that Sondheim isn't sentimental. (Hurray for double negatives!) He's just not as overtly sentimental as other composers and/or lyricists. And I certainly wouldn't want him to become effusive with sentimentality, talking about loves and doves.
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#11

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 1:49pm

In Buddy's Eyes. Especially when sung by Barbara Cook.
PEACE.

Updated On: 10/19/06 at 01:49 PM

#13

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 2:05pm

Not a Day Goes By. NO QUESTION.

Second, Losing My Mind.
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#14

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 2:08pm

"My Friends" is another unconventional love song
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy

"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

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#15

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 2:10pm

I certainly have to agree...

Too Many Mornings!

One of the most emotional, beautifully written love songs I've ever heard!
#16

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 2:22pm

Somewhere and I have a love from West Side Story...Both have to be performed with feeling and emotion I saw a community version of WSS and I Have A Love made me cry.....I almost never cry
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#18

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 2:59pm

If you adapt the POV, "Our Time" is very much a love song.

However in context, the reprise of Not a Day Goes By nails it.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher
#21

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 3:44pm

NOT A DAY GOES BY and LOVING YOU
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
#22

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 4:08pm

Is "Unworthy of your love" considered a love song? That's pretty scary!
#23

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 5:19pm

Too Many Mornings is the first song that came to my mind, followed by With So Little To Be Sure Of.

The best "LOVE" moment for me from a Sondheim show though is on the London recording of Passion when Ball does "No One Has Ever Loved Me" -- it's beautiful and completely heartbreaking.
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#24

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 5:21pm

NOT WHILE I'M AROUND from SWEENEY TODD

UNWORTHY OF YOUR LOVE from ASSASSINS
#25

re: Sondheim's Greatest Love Song?

Posted: 10/19/06 at 5:21pm

MY FRIENDS from SWEENEY TODD
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.

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