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Sondheim's Hats

Posted: 3/13/12 at 8:37pm

Was playing a game with friends where we tried to remember all of Sondheim's hat references in lyric.

This is what we came up with:

"Does anyone still wear a hat?" COMPANY

"Very young and very old hat" FOLLIES

"Let me get my hat and my knife!" A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

"A bowler hat" PACIFIC OVERTURES

"Finishing the hat" SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

"Can't you hide it with a hat?" INTO THE WOODS

Are there others?

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Sondheim's Hats

Posted: 3/13/12 at 9:17pm

"Yes thank you, George for That.....and for the Hat" - also from Sunday

"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."

Sondheim's Hats

Posted: 3/13/12 at 9:40pm

"Giorgio, please stop pulling my hat down over my head!"
Fosca - Passion.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.

Sondheim's Hats

Posted: 3/13/12 at 9:44pm

"Get a feathered hat for the baby." -GYPSY

"Hats off, here they come, those beautiful girls." -FOLLIES

Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....

Updated On: 3/13/12 at 09:44 PM

Sondheim's Hats

Posted: 3/13/12 at 10:34pm

"Sure, you could say 'hey, here's your hat'" in Gypsy

Sondheim's Hats

Posted: 3/13/12 at 10:35pm

I can't be bothered to scour the internet for a source, but Sondheim has spoken specifically about his use of hats. Completely paraphrasing this, but it went something along the lines of ... "Because I mention hats so often, no doubt some graduate student will write a dissertation on the subject. Well I can save them the trouble and tell you that it's just because of the jaunty nature of the word, and the amount of words it rhymes with." Or something. He was using hats specifically to make a bigger point about over-analyzing his work. I think I might have read it in one of lyric books, come to think of it.

Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....

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