Stephen Sondheim Dead at 91 — Page 7

HogansHero said: "@OlBlueEyes No nits on your explanation. I think there is a conversation that might be had about the why, but not about the observation. Re Soupy, it made your point effectively. The nit would have been cured by leaving out the "had." [I encountered Soupy in a doctors' office once. Even behind a much older façade, the expression was unmistakable.]

I was just joshing, Hogan. I respect you too much to give you a hard time over that. In fact, usually I would check, but it was about 4:00 am and I was falling asleep.

That name just popped into my head and I couldn't remember how long it had been since I had thought of him. I remember I think that he got into trouble when he asked his audience to take those paper bills from their parents' wallets and mail them to him.

Do you think that Oscar was too soft to be considered a great writer? I can't ask to compare Oscar and Stephen as book writers since Sondheim didn't write the books, but fifty years from now, if the country still exists, how will critics compare Hammerstein musicals to Sondheim musicals.

They will be compared. Maybe this isn't the right thread for a critical discussion.

iluvtheatertrash said: "As usual, Lin finds a way to center himself in a moment about someone else. ?"

With the greatest of all due possible respect-

Go piss in someone else soup- >

Lin had a close personal relationship w Sondheim and THAT was who the moment was for.

Updated On: 11/29/21 at 06:47 PM

Who was the soprano voice toward the end of Sunday performance? That brought me to tears wow

Been waiting to see a tribute or statement from Mandy Patinkin, but he has not yet. Knowing how active he is on social media, I can only imagine that he is processing this at his own time (as we all are) and is, of course, saddened. Plus, knowing what a beautifully emotional and openly vulnerable man he is, I could cry at the thought of his thoughts! Does that make sense? :)

My Sondheim story …



Before I’ll just say I like some of his shows, some shows I don’t. I’ve never understood why people refer to him as god.



My now ex and I were in the city for a week. We lived out of the country. We got in town and went to tkts. “Follies” was on for 50% off. I was like “yay” - I’m a big Elaine Paige fan - there was a lot of applause during the show. Intermission I got my phone out looked it up and wow we’re at the first preview.



The show ended. I booked it out mid curtain call. I had to go to the bathroom. I was running down from the mezz. I knocked into an older man. I yelled “sorry”. I came out of the restroom and a few show queens were like “you knocked over Sondheim!!!” He happened to still be there when I came out and laughed.

In its Culture section, the Guardian US has multiple remembrances of Sondheim, including detailed reflections from Sam Mendes.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/sondheim

I've been reflecting on his words for days now.
He was always there. A constant. Even my (LOL) whole life. He gave us so much to see. He changed the way we think about the world; or rather showed us the things we feel and think. We wanted more.

In non-LMM tick, tick…BOOM!- related news, I spotted Amy Spanger at the Central Park tribute. Also, leading the sopranos was Ali Ewoldt.

Both events were featured on the news last night:

https://cbsloc.al/3o0sT1d

Patti is still very emotional over this, and rightfully so.

Patti LuPone: Stephen Sondheim was a complicated, deeply-emotional man

sabrelady said: "Been waiting to see a tribute or statement from Mandy Patinkin

I found this on the NYT site

Take a walk in the words and music that he left us. Walk in privacy, walk with a friend, put it on at different times in your life. Listen to it, sometimes listen more than once because the simplicity with which he expresses the most complicated human emotions — he’s able to do it in a way that once you hear it, it’s unforgettable. He was simply one of our greatest teachers.MANDY PATINKIN"

Mandy Patinkin gave a longer interview about his relationship with Sondheim with The New Statesman, published today.

“I got to be in the room with Shakespeare. Who gets that?” reflects Mr. Patinkin

Today in honor of Mr. Sondheim’s passing, I booked a quick trip (January 4-6) to see Company and Assassins (plus Caroline, or Change). Thank goodness for my remaining Delta Skymiles and relatively cheap NYC January hotel rates. I had not planned to return to NYC again until I had recovered more financially from the pandemic, but I feel compelled to see the last two revivals he had input into before he passed. I don’t have tickets for any of the shows yet, but I’m hopeful that TKTS will help with Company and CoC and that I’ll be able to grab a ticket for Assassins somehow, someway. I just couldn’t stay away.

Kind of wild that the Broadway League has not said anything about dimming the lights for Sondheim. Seems like... an obvious, no-brainer thing that should have been done immediately.

I'm sure some memorial concert is in the works (though the Broadway League had no hand in the memorial concert for Jerry Herman last year). Then again, the Broadway League has become very, uh, particular and prone to dragging their feet about dimming the lights in recent years, for no clear reason (with Herman, it took them nearly two weeks).