The All-Sondheim Thread- Page 15
The All-Sondheim Thread
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#350All Things Sondheim
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#351All Things Sondheim
Posted: 12/28/05 at 12:25pmI 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.
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#352All Things Sondheim
Posted: 12/28/05 at 12:38pm"We Do Not Belong Together", "Too Many Mornings", Finale of Sweeney.
#353All Things Sondheim
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.
"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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#354All Things Sondheim
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
#355All Things Sondheim
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
#356All Things Sondheim
Posted: 1/29/06 at 7:44pmBump for genius!
gettinhep
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/9/04
#357All Things Sondheim
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
#358All Things Sondheim
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."
bestnurse
Chorus Member Joined: 6/4/05
#359All Things Sondheim
Posted: 1/29/06 at 9:58pmLoved 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.
#360All Things Sondheim
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?
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