The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
takehomeazak06
Chorus Member Joined: 6/21/05
#0The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/23/05 at 10:43pm
Place your vote here.
Mine is Webber.
Running Toll:
Weber=1
Sondheim=0
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#1re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/23/05 at 10:46pmwe've had a million threads on this.. you should try searching new guy!
#2re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/23/05 at 10:46pm
Um...
SONDHEIM
no question.
"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living
piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character
and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and
incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness.
Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish
it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a
rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get
along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small
unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings.
Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end.
But end it does. Another part of you vanishes.
That's show business."-Anonymous
takehomeazak06
Chorus Member Joined: 6/21/05
#3re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/23/05 at 10:48pmi got burned.
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#4re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/23/05 at 10:49pmapdarcey probably didn't mean to 'burn' you but this has been done to death. Perhaps use the search feature before starting threads.
#6re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/23/05 at 10:54pmsondheim...and i get two votes cuze im that special
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#9re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/23/05 at 11:00pm
I apologize for coming across gruff before, I was just trying to clarify.
My vote, is of course for Sondheim, love his worksand their intricacy (sp?) very much.
dotmarie
Broadway Star Joined: 8/14/03
takehomeazak06
Chorus Member Joined: 6/21/05
#11re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/23/05 at 11:05pm
no its cool i am still learning about this site.
Since this is overdone and weber is losing i think it is best if the poll close.
#12re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/23/05 at 11:57pm
OMG, lets do a poll on how many more times this topic is going to come up......
.....I LOVE BOTH IN DIFFERENT WAYS! These two men are not even comparable, they write in completely different styles, GIVE IT UP!!!!!
Later!
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#13re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 12:03am
1. There have been many threads on this.
2. I don't think you can ask, nor anyone here can definitively say who is 'better,' although you could ask who people prefer.
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
#14re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 12:27amThis completely cant answer I love POTO, but ::cough::sondheim::cough::
TonyInATL
Stand-by Joined: 8/28/04
#15re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:03am
I'm not sure if I find one better than the other, but I did overhear this conversation between the two one night as they were dining together at Sardi's:
ALW: Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you.
SS: No, you can't.
ALW: Yes, I can.
SS: No, you can't.
ALW: Yes, I can.
SS: No, you can't!
ALW: Yes, I can! Yes, I can!
SS: Anything you can be, I can be greater. Sooner or later, I'm greater than you.
ALW: No, you're not.
SS: Yes, I am.
ALW: No, you're not.
SS: Yes, I am.
ALW: No, you're not!
SS: Yes, I am! Yes, I am!
It was at this point that I had to leave, but if I recall, the two got into a shoving match, and as I was walking out the door, I noticed that Sondheim had Lloyd Webber in a headlock and was giving him noogies. The wait staff was trying their best to get the two to calm down.
#16re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:18amim gonna be a non conformist and say webber, lol
Jean Prouvaire
Swing Joined: 6/21/05
#17re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 5:52am
Schoenberg & Boublil, Ahrens & Flaherty and Finn. 
Seriously: I like them both - Sondheim is more influential, Lloyd Webber more accessible.
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WickedShopofQ
Stand-by Joined: 4/18/05
#18re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 5:54am
Sondheim
...Please understand that it's still strange and frightning...
#19re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 6:04am
Webber is more accessible because his music is simpler.
"Better" is subjective, of course. And I'm not saying that Sondheim's style, with it's many, many lyrics and less-than-easily-hummable melodies, is my favorite.
Personally, I find Sondheim's music to be much more intellectually stimulating and, in the end, far more rewarding.
Listening to Webber's music makes my brain feel sluggish.
Updated On: 6/24/05 at 06:04 AM
#20re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 8:14amThe right answer is Idina Menzel.
#21re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 8:34amSondheim...looks like he's winning...Wanna update your poll?
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
#22re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 9:29am
I can't believe you are actually asking this question!
Obviously Sondheim.
#23re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 10:46amSONDHEIM! I jsut stated in a previous post that i like ALW's music, but Sondheim questions and performs was is considered inapropriate and questions the mind and gets the audience to feel something. Like he said in the pbs documentary for Sweeney Todd, which is my favorite of his shows, he creates that rumble in the beiginning to create the mood.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#24re: The Official Poll: Webber or Sondheim...who is better?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 10:52am
We have to think about this?
Sondheim.
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