Stephen Schwartz isn't crazy about current "Sweeney Todd"

[Buck]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:43pm

Does Patti know about this!?!?! LOL.

Sweeney Updated On: 4/25/06 at 04:43 PM

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:44pm

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[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:47pm

hm....

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:48pm

Patti does, actually. It was reported here that when Schwartz saw the show, he was sitting rather close to the stage and walked out. Patti shot a nasty letter off to him and he apologized.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:49pm

Stephen Schwartz is my new idol!

[best12bars]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:50pm

Should anyone be shot for not liking a show?

If so, there would be a lotta dead people around HERE.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:50pm

Go Wicked!

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:52pm

no comment...

[Calvin]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:52pm

So I guess this means we won't be seeing Elphaba play a really amplified synthesizer while Fiyero bangs on the drums anytime soon?

[Kevinoes]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:53pm

I thought this SWEENEY staging was intriguing and clever. Still, I prefer the classic Prince ("big") version.

[best12bars]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:54pm

Galinda on the French horn.

Morrible on the harpsichord.

It could work!

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:56pm

If only there was room on the cherry picker for a marimba...

[BluCat500]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 5:00pm

Awww, now Sondheim is gonna feel foolish when he shows up at Wicked in his red tracksuit...

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 5:00pm

I'm sure the feeling is mutual.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 5:01pm

Schwartz is a self-important, self-obsessed hack.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 5:12pm

With fun hair!

[morosco]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 5:16pm

"...when Schwartz saw the show, he was sitting rather close to the stage and walked out..."

Did he really and truly walk out during SWEENEY TODD? Just imagine how much ego it would take for a composer to actually do that!

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 5:21pm

What a mature stand to take by walking out on a show. Honestly, he can have any opinon he likes but I certainly don't see Mr. Sondheim going around saying what shows he likes and doesn't. I never liked Schwartz or his insignificant music and lyrics(terrible!!) and this makes me dislike him even more.

update...
Muscle, why do you feel its necessary to say "Go wicked" as if it is some sort of a victory? Should I be shouting "Go Into the Woods" as it is the ONLY show Sondheim ever wrote? (insert saracism)

Updated On: 4/25/06 at 05:21 PM

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 5:23pm

It was reported here that when Schwartz saw the show, he was sitting rather close to the stage and walked out. Patti shot a nasty letter off to him and he apologized.

Is there a link to this? I'd love to read that.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 5:24pm

I kind of lost respect for him when Wicked lost the Tony for Best Musical and he went on and on and on about it in public. I can understand being disappointed about it, but move on, your show is making over $1 million a week.

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 5:27pm

Sondheim rips on other shows and composers all the time :P

I doubt Patti LuPone let her letter become publicized.

Everyone's entitled to their own opinions. Personally I think the guy who wrote the article is the one coming off as self important here. Someone disagrees with him and he writes an article about it? What's up with that?

Personally, I often agree with the detractors, although I couldn't imagine why Schwartz would have walked out.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 5:27pm

He's probably being a little bitter since he's basically the Martin Scorcese of the Tony Awards with twice the mouth and half the talent of other winners.

[tz0o]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 5:33pm

Sorry to thread hijack, but I remember when sister and I were talking about "Wicked", and she asked if the show won any Tonys, and I told her that Idina Menzel won one (but that should have belonged to Kristin Chenoweth, but then again, I can only judge by the cast recording), but that the show ultimately lost to "Avenue Q", and she started laughing and laughing, saying that a show must be really pathetic if it lost to "Avenue Q" (She's no "Avenue Q" fan.). It was funny, in an "You-gotta-be-there-to-feel-it" kinda way.

But back on topic. I don't see what the big deal is. We walk out when we don't like shows, if Stephen Schwartz doesn't like a show, he shouldn't be forced to sit through it.

[best12bars]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 5:33pm

Wow.

Kill the beast! Murder him! Crucify him!

[Marguerite Chauvelin]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 5:34pm

Wasn't Patti in Schwartz's Baker's Wife? It would make sense then that she was upset when he left.