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#26

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 10/14/08 at 4:18pm

1. Losing My Mind
2. A Weekend in the Country
3. No One is Alone
4. Broadway Baby
5. Side by Side / What Would We Do Without You?

Picking just five is incredibly stressful!

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#27

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 10/14/08 at 6:05pm

In no Order :

Ladies Who Lunch - Company
The Miller's Son - A Little Night Music
Someone is Waiting - Company
Lesson # 8 - Sunday in the Park with George
A Little Priest - Sweeney Todd
The Right Girl - Follies

I had to edit to add the right girl because for over a month I have not been able to stop singing it!

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Updated On: 7/20/09 at 06:05 PM

#28

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 10/14/08 at 6:10pm

At this particular moment in time,in no particular order:

Could I Leave You?
Anyone Can Whistle
Multitudes of Amys (cut from Company)
No One Is Alone
Franklin Shepard, Inc.

By the time this message posts, that list will probably have changed.

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#29

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 10/14/08 at 6:11pm

Johanna (Reprise)
Rose's Turn
Being alive
Epiphany
Sunday

#30

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/17/09 at 11:28am

The Miller's Son
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
There's Always A Woman
No One Is Alone
Marry Me A Little

#31

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/17/09 at 11:50am

In no order:

Finishing the Hat
Too Many Mornings
Quartet: Kiss Me/Ladies in Their Sensitivities
Someone in a Tree
No More

#32

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/17/09 at 11:52am

I have really only seen 3 shows so my list doesn't have much variety.

You know, I hear they have these newfangled contraptions called Compact Discs that allow to to hear a song without seeing it live!! Amazing!

Seriously, though, buy or borrow all the Sondheim recordings you can, at least to listen through once. Some of my favorite Sondheim songs are from shows I've never seen live.

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#33

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/17/09 at 12:32pm

Ladies Who Lunch - Company
Rose's Turn - Gypsy
America - West Side Story
A Little Priest - Sweeney Todd
I'm Still Here - Follies

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#34

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/17/09 at 12:32pm

No one is alone
Marry me a little
Move on
Every Day a Little Death
Not while I'm around

THAT was hard!
Stick to five though people...

#35

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/17/09 at 12:49pm

Move On- Sunday in the Park With George
The Miller's Soon- A Little Night Music
No More- Into the Woods
The Worst Pies In London- Sweeney Todd
Unworthy of Your Love- Assassins

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#36

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/17/09 at 12:52pm

Last Midnight-"Into the Woods"
Move On-"Sunday in the Park with George"
Marry Me a Little-"Company"
Epiphany-"Sweeney Todd"
Send in the Clowns-"A Little Night Music"

#37

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/17/09 at 12:57pm

(In no order)
The Miller's Son- ALNM
Now/Later/Soon- ALNM
Another Hundred People- Company
Being Alive-Company
Everything's Coming Up Roses- Gypsy

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"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim

#38

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/17/09 at 2:03pm

I'm Still Here
Broadway Baby
Beautiful Girls
Being Alive
Rose's Turn

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#39

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/17/09 at 2:11pm

no particular order:
"Sunday" (SITPWG)
"Move On"
"Marry Me a Little" (Company)
"A Weekend in the Country" (ALNM)
"The Worst Pies in London" (Sweeney Todd)

#40

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/17/09 at 2:15pm

In all, the most loved sondheim songs talked about in this thread are (in order) :

Being Alive (11 votes)
No one is alone (9)
Finishing the Hat ( 8 )
Move on ( 8 )
A little priest (7)
A weekend in the country (7)
Someone in a tree (6)
Johanna (6)
Sunday (6)
Miller's Son (6)

I might have made a mistake or two, but I'm pretty sure this is accurate for now...

Updated On: 7/17/09 at 02:15 PM

#41

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/18/09 at 2:10pm

Losing my Mind.
Giants in the Sky
Not While I'm Around,
Joanna (second act sequence)
Agony

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#42

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/18/09 at 2:48pm

In no particular order

Tonight-West Side Story
Wait- Sweeney Todd
Marry Me a Little- Company
Being Alive- Company
Not While I'm Around- Sweeney Todd

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#43

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/18/09 at 3:14pm

IN order:

"Water Under the Bridge" - SINGING OUT LOUD
"Who Could Be Blue?" - cut from FOLLIES
"Gun Song" - ASSASSINS
"Simple" - ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
"What Can You Lose?" - DICK TRACY

Did any of these make anyone's lists? I guess I like my Sondheim rare.

P

#44

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/18/09 at 3:18pm

Haven't seen many of his shows, but out of the ones I've seen:

Johanna - Sweeney Todd
Giants in the Sky - Into the Woods
Everything's Coming Up Roses - Gypsy
One Hand, One Heart - West Side Story
No One is Alone - Into the Woods

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#45

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/18/09 at 3:50pm

Picking a top five is nearly impossible. But one of my favorites is from "Is This What You Call Love" from Passion.

Call it what you will
This is not love, this is a reverse
Like a curse, something out of control
I've begun to fear
For my soul...

#46

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/18/09 at 4:21pm

Being Alive from COMPANY
Losing My Mind from FOLLIES
Everybody Says Don't from ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
Comedy Tonight from A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
Night Waltz from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

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#47

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/18/09 at 4:27pm

This is too hard! I'll try to limit it to 1 song per show...

If Mama Was Married - Gypsy
Being Alive - Company
No One is Alone - Into the Woods
A Little Priest - Sweeney Todd
Send in the Clowns - A Little Night Music
Somewhere - West Side Story


And I'm partial to Bernadette's rendition of Not a Day Goes By - Merrily We Roll Along.

#48

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/18/09 at 4:43pm

Being Alive
Tonight (quintet)
Not A Day Goes By
Somewhere
No One Is Alone

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#49

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/18/09 at 6:29pm

Updated On: 8/31/11 at 06:29 PM

#50

re: Top 5 Favorite Sondheim Songs (lyrics or music or both!)

Posted: 7/18/09 at 7:03pm

1. Children Will Listen
2. Another Hundred People
3. A Little Priest
4. America
5. Not While I'm Around