Which musicals has Sondheim raved about?- Page 2
Which musicals has Sondheim raved about?
#25re: Which musicals has Sondheim raved about?
Posted: 2/8/07 at 7:07pmHe's a huge fan of La Cage, right?
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#26re: Which musicals has Sondheim raved about?
Posted: 2/8/07 at 7:09pmHe's not crazy about Stop The World: I Wanna Get Off! as per his TIME Magazine interview in '05.
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#27re: Which musicals has Sondheim raved about?
Posted: 2/8/07 at 7:17pmLarson was also Sondheim's apprentice during "Into the Woods"
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#28re: Which musicals has Sondheim raved about?
Posted: 2/8/07 at 9:10pmI've wondered this for a while. How exactly did he "apprentice" Sondheim? Did he just tag along all the time? Did he fetch coffee? Did he (as was asserted in a ridiculous thread about this time last year) write Giants in the Sky?
#29re: Which musicals has Sondheim raved about?
Posted: 2/8/07 at 9:30pm
He liked RENT? Well, that's something we disagree on.
I know he loves Carousel, Porgy and Bess, Showboat and Allegro. Allegro isn't a great show, but he loves it because 1- he worked on it and 2- it was the originator of the "concept musical" which was something he perfected over the years. He has said he likes She Loves Me and the scores of Cabaret and Chicago, though not the shows.
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#30re: Which musicals has Sondheim raved about?
Posted: 2/8/07 at 10:03pmThis is second-hand, but I've read that he saw Billy Elliot twice and said the first half hour of it was the best he'd seen in twenty years.
#31re: Which musicals has Sondheim raved about?
Posted: 2/8/07 at 11:05pm
Quote from that NY Times Magazine Article:
"Sondheim would welcome changes in the New York theater, but doesn't expect any, despite his long efforts to champion his own Hammerstein-like causes, like the Young Playwrights Festival and the Broadway Initiative, an attempt to lower producing costs. "The theater is an acquired taste," he says. "You don't go by yourself at 10 years old -- you're taken. Children don't acquire that taste anymore because it's too expensive, while movies and TV are shoved in their face from the beginning. I don't think the theater will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was. You can't bring it back. It's gone. It's a tourist attraction.""
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Updated On: 2/8/07 at 11:05 PM
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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#32re: Which musicals has Sondheim raved about?
Posted: 2/8/07 at 11:39pm
As for Billy Eliot, what I have herd is that he said the production was one of the finest pieces he had seen in a long time and that Stephen Daldry’s direction was exceptional. He wasn’t so fond of the score, more the production. I also herd he loved Caroline, Or Change.
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