Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song- Page 2

[AC126748]

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

"Come Play Wiz Me"

[Jon]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 11:10pm

The entire cast recoding of BOUNCE. Listened once. Never again.

[roseaddams]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 11:20pm

Seconding Green Finch and Linnet Bird.

[Boq101]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 11:27pm

I don't like any of the seconds added into the revised Merrily. They just don't do it for me, maybe I'm just too used to the old recording.

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 11:29pm

Finishing the Hat when sung by Tom Wopat.

[sing_dance_love]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 11:45pm

The one I'm shocked at people saying is "One More Kiss"! That one is always a must listen for me when I listen to Follies. I always skip "The Right Girl".

Now that I think about it I do usually skip "No More" and "Send In The Clowns" too. Though I fully appreciate what good songs they are, and am thoroughly touched by them when I see full productions.

The one Sondheim song that I don't feel that way about is "I Know Things Now". I just find it...irritating. The ONLY time I've enjoyed it was in one teen community theatre production I saw that the Little Red was PHENOMENAL in. She like got really intense about the "excited and scared" part when Little Red is telling us this terrifying journey she's been on (but he drew me close and he swallowed me down...) and built the intensity where she's like screaming, and then went instantly deadpan when she got back to "and I know things now...". I don't know if I'm describing it appropriately but she made the song both HILARIOUS in a way I'd never seen it before, and really kind of touching.

So maybe I don't dislike the song so much, maybe just the way it's usually performed. Which I'm sure is the way Sondheim and Lapine wanted it performed, but I guess I just don't respond to it. Anyway, sorry to kind of rant.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/24/10 at 11:52pm

There are a few I'm not fond of including "The Right Girl", "Ah, But Underneath", and most of BOUNCE/ROAD SHOW (just not my favorite score at all) and especial

[singtopher]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 12:06am

Poor Baby and Sorry/Grateful from Company. And I LOVE that show.

[jasonf]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 12:14am

I actually forgot about Bounce/Road Show until I read through again. That's easily his weakest score - I just find it so repetitive and dull, though I don't think I could isolate one song to call my least favorite from it.

[Boq101]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 12:47am

I'm surprised about One More Kiss, too. It's my favorite song.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 1:04am

Yeah, I've only given "Bounce" one listen, though I liked a couple of things on it. Haven't listened to "Road Show" yet.

But, there's a song from "Saturday Night" called "Exhibit A" that I would say is my least favorite song. It's the song sung by the guys who claims to be a Lothario and it's about how to seduce a woman.

It's a list song with exhibits B through H or I. After exhibit D, you're afraid that he's going to go through the entire alphabet...

[Macheath2]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 1:08am

I think I'll be the only one to say i love bounce, but not road show, so I'll toss it into the fire along with The Entire York Merrily We Roll Along, which is atrocious except for Michele pawk and Malcolm Gets.

So Road Show and The York Merrily. And Most of the London follies songs NOT sung by Diana Rigg.

[sing_dance_love]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 2:05am

Out of all of Phyllis' possible Loveland songs I actually like Uptown/Downtown the best. But I like all 3. The whole score of Follies is just stellar.

[mamaleh]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 8:51am

I find many of the songs in PASSION to be dreary and unlistenable, especially "Loving You." I enjoyed watching Donna Murphy essay Fosca on stage, but taken out of that context, I do not like the songs.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 1:25pm

LOVE "Bobby and Jackie and Jack", "What Would We Do Without You", "The Right Girl" and "Green Finch and Linnet Bird"!

Not fond of "Rich and Happy" from MERRILY. Tuneless, overlong with shockingly amateurish stabs at irony. No wonder he cut it in later versions.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 2:18pm

I also dislike The Day Off, Sweet Polly Plunkett (mercifully cut from Sweeney), Something Just Broke, and the majority of Bounce/Road Show. Some songs I like, but I'm just burned out from hearing them in every single Sondheimian concert, event, revue, cabaret, party and/or gay bar. Unless I have a ticket to Merrily We Roll Along, I never want to hear Not a Day Goes By again. Ditto Follies and Broadway Baby/I'm Still Here.

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 2:21pm

I adore Sondheim. But I can't stand In Buddy's Eyes.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 2:31pm

On second thought, I'd pay good money to hear Liza hit a 6.0 on the Richter scale with her lusty and thunderous vibrato belting:

"I'll try...
Gay after gay after gay after gay
After gay after gay after gay
Till the gays go bi!
Till the gays go bi!
TILL THE GAYS GO...
*gasp*
BIIIIIIII-YI-YI-YI-YI-YI-YI-YI!!!"

Updated On: 6/25/10 at 02:31 PM

[AudreyTwoTwo]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 2:37pm

Kiss Me from Sweeney Todd. I think it's because that song gets in my head all the time, and I really don't appreciate it.

[Amalia Balash]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 2:50pm

Ben's last song in the 1987 West End production of Follies. I have blocked everything about it from my memory except for how much I hated the whole idea of it. I dislike "The Day Off" from Sunday because of the dog imitations, but at least I can remember it.

[Huey's Pop]

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

Send in the Clowns has been sung to death. I loved it the first five million times I heard it. Now I cringe.

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 7:14pm

Some of these choices make me cry. Some of you have chosen least favorites that are the epicenter of the score (Liasons for example).

[jasonf]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 9:21pm

I don't know - I can understand not liking Liaisons as performed by some people (Hermione Gingold's voice takes some getting used to) but the lyrics are sheer brilliance.

"What once was a rare champagne
Is now just an amiable hock,
What once was a villa, at least, is digs
What once was a gown with train
Is now just a simple little frock
What once was a sumptuous feast
Is figs.
No--not even figs--raisins!
Ah, liaisons!"

I mean, that's just genius rhyming there!

[wickedfan]

Posted: 6/25/10 at 9:38pm

I'm surprised to see people mention "Something Just Broke" as it's one of my favorite songs in Assassins. The effect it has in the show is just shattering. Even out of context, I love it. Without it, I don't think that Assassins would work nearly as well.

[bryan]

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

i love all his songs.