Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song

[GlindatheGood22]

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

Genius or not, there's always one.

I'm not a fan of Someone is Waiting.

[doodlenyc]

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

"What Would We Do Without You"

[lull89]

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]

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

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

[AwesomeDanny]

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]

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.

[GlindatheGood22]

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.

[VonTussleGirl]

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]

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!"

[BroadwayGuy12]

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]

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

"Country House" from the 87 Follies.

[noradesmond]

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

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

[Pippin]

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

Liasons From Night Music.

[ObiHave]

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

Something Just Broke from Assassins

[PalJoey]

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

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

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

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

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

[raker]

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

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

[Marquise]

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

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

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

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.

[binau]

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

Green Finch and Linnet Bird.

[PalJoey]

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

Impulse control! It's a good thing.

[munkustrap178]

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

I find all of THE FROGS intolerable.

[jasonf]

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.

[Hest882]

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]

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.