What if Sondheim had written WICKED?- Page 2

[Belasco07]

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Posted: 4/30/04 at 8:26pm

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[DAME]

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Posted: 4/30/04 at 8:35pm

It would have closed by now.

HUSSY POWER! ------ HUSSY POWER!

[Plum]

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Posted: 4/30/04 at 8:44pm

Just like the last Sondheim show involving witches- what a flop!

[Unknown User]

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Posted: 4/30/04 at 8:46pm

if sondeheim wrote wicked donna murphy woulda been elphaba from 18-40 and marin mazzie woulda been glinda, or something to that effect. strong, dramatatic amazing vocalist who can act the crap outta anything. it woulda been soooo much different.

i love the wicked now. i love idina. but i honestly hafta say it woulda been a better musical if sondheim wrote it.

[Jamie Hat]

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Posted: 4/30/04 at 10:36pm

"Content dictates form." -Stephen Sondheim

[BillyLawlor]

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Posted: 4/30/04 at 10:37pm

I think it would be a wonderful musical if Sondheim wrote it, but it's still an incredible musical. The music is still an amazing score; one I never get tired of, and I like some of the pop-sounding material in the show. It's a very contemporary, modern musical, which may be why so many young people love it. I think there needs to be more shows like this around. The contemporary music mixed with a great story and FANTASTIC special effects.

Sondheim would written amazing score for it, though, I do have to say.

[Plum]

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Posted: 4/30/04 at 11:12pm

I wish I could say I liked this score, I really do. I don't hate Schwartz- like I said before, his music is occassionally okay. I really really wanted to like the score to Wicked, but it just wasn't happening. I was so disappointed. No accounting for taste, huh?

But I wish Sondheim would have a hit as big as Wicked. I know I've said over and over that money isn't what makes a musical good, but what all the Sondheim lovers secretly want is for everyone else to like him too. Oh, well. Assassins looks to be doing nicely now. :)

[StateOfJade]

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Posted: 4/30/04 at 11:15pm

There would have been some obvious sexual subliminal messaging.

lol, who knows.

"I really liked the show--Wish I saw Boy's Night...Am I allowed as I am not a boy anymore:)"-duffyny1

[nystateomind04]

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Posted: 4/30/04 at 11:18pm

well they sure are present in the book, stateofjade

[BroadwayBound06]

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Posted: 5/1/04 at 12:55am

Sondheim has so many more shows than Schwartz, before there was any talk of Wicked were there as many Schwartz fans? I know I was, because Pippin, Godspell, Children of Eden enthralled me, and they all do appeal to younger generations. Now I'm 16 and I just found out about this whole musical theater thing about a year ago. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, sometimes I think Sondheim is to wordy for his own good. Schwartz writes songs where you have to sing within a range of 12 octaves. It still doesn't make one better than the other.

[Sumofallthings]

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Posted: 5/1/04 at 12:08pm

Comparing Stephen Sondheim to Stephen Schwartz is like comparing (respectively) Fine Wine and Beer. Schwartz writes for money not for art. Sondheim writes for something higher. I know I'll be jumped in the streets for saying that. You can deny it as much as you want. But in the words of Arthur Miller "Attention must be paid"

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

[BroadwayBound06]

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Posted: 5/1/04 at 12:26pm

How is it that you know Schwartz does not write for the art? Is that a keen assumption becasue you have been listening to Sondheim so long you refuse to belive that there are other things just as good.

[mominator]

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Posted: 5/1/04 at 12:27pm

Personly I like both. Having done Godspell heaven only knows how many times!I truley enjoy sining a Schwartz's songs, they just stick w/ you.
Sondheim is just a different writer (not many earworms here), but after seeing ASSASSINS "Why Did You Do It Johnny" is just stuck in my head(Talk about an earworm!)
Wicked would still be a good show only ALOT darker, closer to the book

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

[Sumofallthings]

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Posted: 5/1/04 at 2:02pm

I'm afraid, BB that you are incorrect. While I listen to Sondheim, I also listen and enjoy Schwartz. However I can sense that they are writing for two different reasons. To try to portray me as close minded in favor of one composer is an inaccurate picture to draw.

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

[JohnPopa]

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Posted: 5/1/04 at 2:36pm

Yeah but to dismiss Schwartz's artistic motivations is equally inaccurate. Stephen Schwaretz, just like Sondheim, is a guy trying to create good theater. Not everyone writing more 'popular' music is a sell-out whore, any more than Stephen Sondheim is.

[BroadwayBound06]

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Posted: 5/1/04 at 4:29pm

Well I guess we'll have to wait for Frogs.

[Plum]

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Posted: 5/1/04 at 4:45pm

Well...I haven't been subtle about which of two I like better, but I don't know if I can sense Scwartz's motivations by listening to his music. I do think he has some kind of artistic sensibility at the very least.

[BroadwayBound06]

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Posted: 5/1/04 at 4:52pm

What are Sondheim's "motivations" within his music.