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Posted: 8/23/07 at 9:29pm

Surfing you tube and came across this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR80qiXgMuQ&mode=related&search=

Does anyone know anything about this, when it was done, where it was done.

Yes i know we are not allowed to link to you tube ( will remove the link ) if some one knows the answers.

Thanks

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 9:48pm

Wow. The guy singing Paul's part isn't very good, is he?

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 9:50pm

He looks like he is about to pass out with fear, Steven looks like he is having a great time.

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 9:53pm

I love how Mr. Sondheim is mouthing Amy's lyrics. He really gets into his material, as any good songwriter should.

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 9:54pm

it says right on the clip it's from The Guildhall School in the UK and by the looks of the clothes and Steve himself I would say early to mid 80s

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 9:56pm

It's probably post-Merrily.

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 9:58pm

Thanks Switz78, how did i miss that. ( it would seem very easy )

Gee if you pull down that little area that says more, it tells you more ( who would have guessed )

Updated On: 8/23/07 at 09:58 PM

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Posted: 8/24/07 at 11:19am

If you're interested in seeing the whole thing and you're in NY, they have the program at the Paley Center (formerly The Museum of Television and Radio) on 52nd between 5th and 6th. I've watched clips of it from there. Twice, they did huge Sondheim things so they have quite a few interviews, old and new, clips from lots of TV appearances such as this, etc.

The thing I watched, he watched the clips along with the audience and then the interviewer asked him about it, and I think he said something about it's good to be encouraging and not tell the singer that she's sharp. Heh.

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Posted: 8/24/07 at 11:24am

There are a few of them on there, not just Getting Married Today.

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Posted: 8/24/07 at 12:15pm

Wow, that was amazing. The man is a genius, there's no other way around it.
The guy playing Paul was just a lost cause, the girl singing Susan forgot that this was a comedy number--all the jokes fell flat, Amy was much better though, the only one I thought had potential. But Sondheim stole the show, not only does he understand his music/lyrics but he understands theater, the staging, the audience. Amazing.
The other clips are just as good. The guy who tries singing "Later" is terrible but seeing Sondheim talk about the song and the character and basically act the number himself is orgasmic.

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Posted: 8/24/07 at 12:39pm

In 1990 Sondheim was a Visiting Professor at Oxford University. Afterwards, the students in the class got together and wrote a musical called "The Challenge" based on Greek mythology. Each student contributed a song to the show. The cd was recorded by John Yap. IMO, there are only about two good songs in the show, so the cd is not really worth getting.

When Sondheim taught over in the UK (it might have been this class) he gave all the students rhyming dictionaries as gifts. The problem was that he gave them American dictionaries not British ones.

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Posted: 8/24/07 at 1:05pm

I could do better than these people! Well, maybe not with the pressure of Sondheim himself being there...

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Posted: 8/24/07 at 1:16pm

Actually you are allowed to post YOUTUBE links.

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