Tom Wopat - Sondheim on Sondheim

[SondheimFan5]

Tom Wopat - Sondheim on Sondheim#1

Posted: 9/6/10 at 11:22am

Is it me, or does Tom Wopat actually sound really good on the Sondheim on Sondheim recording? His voice usually annoys me, but I really like his interpretations of You Could Drive A Person Crazy and Finishing the Hat among his other numbers...I mean, he's not in the same league as actor-singers like Mandy Patinkin, George Hearn, or the incomparable Norm Lewis, but it was a nice surprise to hear him sounding like this!

[Jordan Catalano]

Tom Wopat - Sondheim on Sondheim#2

Posted: 9/6/10 at 11:44am

I just thank God they left his "Epiphany" off of the cd.

[AC126748]

Tom Wopat - Sondheim on Sondheim#2

Posted: 9/6/10 at 12:35pm

I haven't heard the recording yet, but he was definitely the weakest link on stage. His "Epiphany" was embarrassing.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[RippedMan]

Tom Wopat - Sondheim on Sondheim#3

Posted: 9/6/10 at 2:01pm

I downloaded only the songs I wanted, and I totally forgot Krizter was in the show. Why didn't they give her a big solo number? The girl has a VOICE!

[AC126748]

Tom Wopat - Sondheim on Sondheim#4

Posted: 9/6/10 at 2:22pm

She sang "Now You Know" from MERRILY and was spectacular. She should play Mary if the show is ever revived.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[binau]

Tom Wopat - Sondheim on Sondheim#5

Posted: 9/6/10 at 6:10pm

He sounds a lot better on the recording than I remember him live.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[Pippin]

Tom Wopat - Sondheim on Sondheim#6

Posted: 9/6/10 at 7:58pm

Same thing with Annie Get Your Gun

"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."

[SondheimFan5]

Tom Wopat - Sondheim on Sondheim#7

Posted: 9/6/10 at 9:10pm

I didn't like him on the Annie Get Your Gun recording.

I wish Norm Lewis had sung Epiphany and In Praise of Women. He is clearly the strongest male in the show

[GlindatheGood22]

Tom Wopat - Sondheim on Sondheim#8

Posted: 9/6/10 at 9:47pm

Aside from Ragtime, Norm Lewis' Being Alive was the highlight of the 2010 season for me. Probably my favorite performance of the song.

I didn't think Tom Wopat's Epiphany was that bad. I remember being terrified when I saw him rising up over the set with that evil grin.

I know you. I know you. I know you.

[binau]

Tom Wopat - Sondheim on Sondheim#9

Posted: 9/7/10 at 12:03am

All I remember is a croaky, straining voice with a periphery of cheesy red colours, and any hint of suspense being interrupted by dialogue/video.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[backwoodsbarbie]

Tom Wopat - Sondheim on Sondheim#10

Posted: 9/7/10 at 9:06am

I remember really hating the staging of "Epiphany" in the show, but Wopat's performance didn't really bother me at all.

http://backstagebarbie.blogspot.com

[A NIce Macaroon]

Tom Wopat - Sondheim on Sondheim#11

Posted: 9/7/10 at 10:50am

I was lucky that Wopat was out the night I saw it. Lewis Cleale was wonderful.

I find Wopat lackluster on the recording. The only low point. I skip "Finishing the Hat" every time. And his actory shtick choices are quite grating on my nerves.