Genius or not, there's always one.
I'm not a fan of Someone is Waiting.
"What Would We Do Without You"
"The Day Off"
I totally get why it's there and it serves its purpose, but those dog voices drive me bats.
First thing that comes to mind is What Would We Do Without You, from Company.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
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.
Besides nearly the entire Frogs score, it would probably be One More Kiss from Follies or Two Fairy Tales.
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 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.
VTG, I have to listen to that just for Sally Klein's reading of "Oleg Cassini, well, I think he's real good!"
I always skip "No More" when I'm listening to INTO THE WOODS. And "The Day Off" from SUNDAY.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
"You Are The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened To Me."
Liasons From Night Music.
Sondheim at his worst is better than [________ ____________] at this best.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
Stand-by Joined: 12/27/08
I like "Someone in a Tree," but it evokes calypso music more than Japanese.
Sondheim at his worst is better than [ Pal Joey ] at this best.
"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.
Green Finch and Linnet Bird.
I find all of THE FROGS intolerable.
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.
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.
Bobby and Jackie and Jack is easily my least favorite from Merrily, but it IS a pretty clever song.
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