Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song

[GlindatheGood22]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#1

Posted: 6/24/10 at 2:21pm

Genius or not, there's always one.

I'm not a fan of Someone is Waiting.

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

[doodlenyc]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#2

Posted: 6/24/10 at 2:28pm

"What Would We Do Without You"

"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."

"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS

[lull89]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#2

Posted: 6/24/10 at 2:29pm

"The Day Off"

I totally get why it's there and it serves its purpose, but those dog voices drive me bats.

[madbrian]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#3

Posted: 6/24/10 at 2:37pm

First thing that comes to mind is What Would We Do Without You, from Company.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[AwesomeDanny]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#4

Posted: 6/24/10 at 2:42pm

While I love Sondheim's work, I don't particularly like Pacific Overtures. Most of the songs just seem to drag on and on. "Chrysanthemum Tea" is probably my least favorite of his songs.

[Mister Matt]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#5

Posted: 6/24/10 at 2:46pm

Besides nearly the entire Frogs score, it would probably be One More Kiss from Follies or Two Fairy Tales.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[GlindatheGood22]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#6

Posted: 6/24/10 at 3:07pm

I'm not too familiar with some of the more obsure shows, but I think Sunday in the Park is my least favorite Sondheim. Some of the songs are absolutely beautiful (Move On, We Do Not Belong Together, Sunday, the title song) but a lot of it just sounds the same to me.

If we're talking Sondheim's best, I think Sweeney's the Father, Company's the Son, and Night Music's the Holy Ghost.

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

[VonTussleGirl]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#7

Posted: 6/24/10 at 3:08pm

I usually skip "Bobby and Jackie and Jack" when I'm listening to Merrily. It's just so long and so dull and I get that it has its place in the show, but I still just don't like it.

[doodlenyc]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#8

Posted: 6/24/10 at 3:16pm

VTG, I have to listen to that just for Sally Klein's reading of "Oleg Cassini, well, I think he's real good!"

"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."

"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS

[BroadwayGuy12]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#9

Posted: 6/24/10 at 3:20pm

I always skip "No More" when I'm listening to INTO THE WOODS. And "The Day Off" from SUNDAY.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#10

Posted: 6/24/10 at 3:23pm

"Country House" from the 87 Follies.

[noradesmond]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#11

Posted: 6/24/10 at 3:43pm

"You Are The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened To Me."

[Pippin]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#12

Posted: 6/24/10 at 3:49pm

Liasons From Night Music.

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

[ObiHave]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#13

Posted: 6/24/10 at 4:08pm

Something Just Broke from Assassins

[PalJoey]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#14

Posted: 6/24/10 at 4:13pm

Sondheim at his worst is better than [________ ____________] at this best.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#15

Posted: 6/24/10 at 4:14pm

Updated On: 6/24/10 at 04:14 PM

[raker]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#16

Posted: 6/24/10 at 4:51pm

I like "Someone in a Tree," but it evokes calypso music more than Japanese.

[Marquise]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#17

Posted: 6/24/10 at 4:56pm

Sondheim at his worst is better than [ Pal Joey ] at this best.

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#18

Posted: 6/24/10 at 5:44pm

"Send in the Clowns" always bores me. Yeah yeah, it's a classic and all that, but I'm not fond of sloooooow ballads. Give me a Sondheim patter song any day.

"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"

[binau]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#19

Posted: 6/24/10 at 6:20pm

Green Finch and Linnet Bird.

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

[PalJoey]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#20

Posted: 6/24/10 at 6:21pm

Impulse control! It's a good thing.

[munkustrap178]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#21

Posted: 6/24/10 at 6:25pm

I find all of THE FROGS intolerable.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[jasonf]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#22

Posted: 6/24/10 at 8:31pm

Some of these songs are really shocking me. Someone is Waiting? Liaisons? No More? To each his own I guess, but those are some brilliant songs.

I would have to say One More Kiss is the one song I can pretty much count on skipping.

Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

[Hest882]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#23

Posted: 6/24/10 at 10:15pm

I had another answer all ready then read:

I usually skip "Bobby and Jackie and Jack" when I'm listening to Merrily. It's just so long and so dull and I get that it has its place in the show, but I still just don't like it.

Yep, changing my answer. Bobby and Jackie and Jack is my least favorite for all the same reasons.

[jasonf]

Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song#24

Posted: 6/24/10 at 10:22pm

Bobby and Jackie and Jack is easily my least favorite from Merrily, but it IS a pretty clever song.

Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.