The All-Sondheim Thread- Page 15

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All Things Sondheim#350

Posted: 12/28/05 at 12:10pm

Bumpity bump.

Okay, a question in the spirit of Brantley's review: What Sondheim song gets you the most emotional? Or show, or moment, or whatever.

[SorryGrateful]

All Things Sondheim#351

Posted: 12/28/05 at 12:25pm

I never fail to cry at the Finale of Passion. Never. And if I'm really sad, I'll sob for a few minutes after it's over.

You promised me poems. ~Tricky

[GovernorSlaton]

All Things Sondheim#352

Posted: 12/28/05 at 12:38pm

"We Do Not Belong Together", "Too Many Mornings", Finale of Sweeney.

[Kitzarina]

All Things Sondheim#353

Posted: 12/28/05 at 12:52pm

The reprise of "Johanna" in the second act of Sweeney. It is so beautiful and poignant...

Also "No One is Alone" from Into the Woods.

"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.

Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"

[kissmycookie]

All Things Sondheim#354

Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:35pm

Move On from SITPWG
Losing my Mind from Follies
No One is Alone from ITTW
Nothing's Gonna Harm You from Sweeney

[InTheRed]

All Things Sondheim#355

Posted: 12/29/05 at 8:27pm

I love the "City on Fire" madhouse chorus section from Sweeney Todd. It's super exciting!
In the new John Doyle production, Manoel Felciano's Toby sings it all by himself, after he discovers some hairy stuff in a bucket. (heh).

"City on Fire, rats in the grass and the lunatics yelling in the streets it's the end of the world yes, city on fire hunchbacks dancing, stirrings in the ground, and the whirring of giant wings. Watch out! Look! Blotting out the moonlight! Thick black rain falling on the city on fire, city in fire, CITY ON FIRE!"

Wow!!

In the original, the chorus even loops this part at one point,
a la "row row row your boat" - that's when I realized Sondheim is an insane mad professor crazy awesome super-genius of the highest caliber!

Check it out

[Sumofallthings]

All Things Sondheim#356

Posted: 1/29/06 at 7:44pm

Bump for genius!

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

[gettinhep]

All Things Sondheim#357

Posted: 1/29/06 at 7:58pm

I wouldn't mind bumping into genius...

My 'Sobbing Quietly' list:

In Buddy's Eyes - Follies
Move On - Sunday
Loving You - Passion
Finale - Passion

'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt

[Rose_MacShane]

All Things Sondheim#358

Posted: 1/29/06 at 9:49pm

The one that makes me cry: "Send in the Clowns."
The one that makes me swoon: "Not While I'm Around."
The one that makes me pine: "Losing My Mind."
The one that makes me want to conquer the world: "Being Alive."

http://community.livejournal.com/ltd_brands_suck/

[bestnurse]

All Things Sondheim#359

Posted: 1/29/06 at 9:58pm

Loved Passion. I actually just bought it on DVD and watched it. I hope they release the PBS version with Patti Lapone. Sondheim is a genius.

[InTheRed]

All Things Sondheim#360

Posted: 1/30/06 at 4:40am

I hope you're ALL going to get your CD's signed on Tuesday night at the Eugene O'Neill theater - the GENIUS himself will be there meeting and greeting and signing, along with the rest of the cast.
Go people! Go!
And please - someone take copius notes and post them here!
Live blogging, anyone? Anyone?