Your Least Favorite Sondheim Song- Page 4

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 6/26/10 at 5:23pm

Id say my least favorites are It would have been wonderful and One more Kiss. Those are the two that always get skipped for me. I however don't get why people dont like Bobby and Jackie and Jack since its been in my head all week while I prepare for a very near future Merrily Audition

[walkedthroughmany]

Posted: 6/26/10 at 5:34pm

I love "The Day Off." It's one of my favorite songs from SUNDAY. I also think the score of PACIFIC OVERTURES is pretty flawless -- thought I've yet to see it live (only the TV recording).

No matter how many times I see FORUM, though, I can't figure out how "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid" manages to stop the show.

[swinther]

Posted: 6/26/10 at 5:45pm

Frank Rich wrote (about Merrily, I believe) that to be a Sondheim fan was to have your heart broken from time to time.

And this is why theater people can't have nice things.




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[mshetina]

Posted: 6/26/10 at 5:58pm

@wickedfan: The reason I admire Assassins so much is that it examines a side of these personages that our collective history has shunted aside. To be fair, the song brilliantly evokes the feelings of collective grief and it firmly attaches a moral weight to the characters’ actions without seeming heavy-handed. However, at least to me, that moral weight hangs over the entire show and it’s most effective when the audience has to confront the fact that they’re being asked to examine the actions and motivations of people whose actions caused such tremendous collective pain. Both times I’ve seen the show and every time I listen to the cast albums, I’m never able to forget that I’m laughing and empathizing (though not sympathizing, I should add before I completely creep you out) with people who committed - or attempted to commit - heinous acts of political violence. The song stops the show cold to remind us of sentiments that are so firmly ingrained in public discourse that they should go without saying. It's an overt concession to the audience and a return to familiar territory in a show that, when done right, is anything but.

And I haven’t heard Bounce, but the version of “The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened” in Road Show is my favorite Sondheim song since No One Is Alone.
Updated On: 6/26/10 at 05:58 PM

[invisiblegirl]

Posted: 6/26/10 at 6:18pm

I would also say that One More Kiss is very central to the Follies score. I believe that Sondheim said it was the first song he wrote for Follies. And how could you not love those lyrics!

[rmusic11322]

Posted: 6/26/10 at 10:28pm

A LITTLE OFF TOPIC: I saw Sondheim on Sondheim today and while Miss Cook was singing "In Buddy's Eyes," I was pretty sure someone was going to appear and start a medley of that song and "Tonight" from West Side Story. They just sound so similar to me...

[backwoodsbarbie]

Posted: 6/26/10 at 11:49pm

I love Company, except for "Barcelona".

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 6/27/10 at 1:55am

ljay, whichever version was done at the City Center concert. Sorry for the incorrect titling.

[Kad]

Posted: 6/27/10 at 2:11am

Most of the material Sondheim wrote for the revival of The Frogs is dreadful. "All Aboard" especially. Although I have an inexplicable soft spot in my heart for "Ariadne".

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 6/27/10 at 8:30pm

Most of 'Pacific Overtures' is not my cup of tea. However, 'Someone in a Tree' is just plain glorious.

But my least favorite Sondheim song would have to be 'Something Just Broke'. I've got a lot of issues with it's placement in the show and whether or not it truly belongs. I understood the addition, but I feel it ruins the spirit of the men and women that were just humanized.

[alawhat]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 2:19am

I don't care much for anything from Anyone Can Whistle or Forum. The Day Off's dog antics are genuinely cringeworthy. A lot of Into the Woods I find dull out of context. But pretty much everything else is amazing.

I love all of Pacific Overtures and adore Road Show - Talent, The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened, You and Isn't He Something are right up there with his best imo.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 2:30am

Something Just Broke seems totally at odds with the rest of the show, and, as many people have noted in regards to songs that were later added to shows, sounds like what he was working on at the time, Passion.




"It takes all kinds" is DEFINITELY the worst thing he has ever written. Although I assume it was probably intended to be tacky.
Updated On: 6/3/11 at 02:30 AM