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#26

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 4:21pm

Comic: A Little Priest
Moving:I can't pick right now...

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#27

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 5:03pm

I agree with Sunday.
and I've always liked Not While I'm Around.

#28

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 5:15pm

For me, moving is "No One Is Alone". Comical is "Not Getting Married Today".

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#29

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 5:18pm

Someone In A Tree

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#30

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 5:22pm

I like "Send in the Clowns" and "The Miller's Son" from "A Little Night Music." I also like "Agony" from Into the Woods.

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#31

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 5:23pm

I love "The Miller's Son" as well. I guess for me it's sort of in between moving and comical.

Oh, and for comical I definitely love "There's Always A Woman"...at least as Alice and Emily did it in DC. (Forget what it was cut from though. But it makes me laugh. FISH!!!!!)

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Updated On: 5/23/08 at 05:23 PM

#32

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 5:24pm

"We Do Not Belong Together" beaks my heart every time.

#33

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 5:24pm

I'm partial to SILLY PEOPLE.

It was cut from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

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#34

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 5:36pm

I can’t choose just two. My favorite Sondheim song changes as often as my favorite Sondheim show.

#35

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 6:12pm

Moving: Children and Art
Not While I'm Around
Stay With Me
Being Alive
Send in the Clowns
Move On (probably my favorite)
No One Is Alone
Comical: Getting Married Today
It's Hot Up Here
Agony
...I'm drawing a blank

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#36

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 7:19pm

Not A Day Goes By

A Little Priest

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#37

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 8:14pm

NOT A DAY GOES BY, LOVING YOU and BEING ALIVE

Anything from INTO THE WOODS

A LITTLE PRIEST makes me laugh every time

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#38

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 8:47pm

"The Miller's Son"
"Moments in the Woods"

#39

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 8:57pm

"Sunday" - Sunday in the Park With George

#40

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 9:03pm

On the cast recording of SIMPLY SONDHEIM : 75th Birthday Salute, there is a recording of "Not While I'm Around" and "Children Will Listen" as a duet, it is sung by Kim Larsen and Kelly Ground, I think the combination of the songs sung together are done so amazing, I cry every time I hear it!

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#41

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 9:17pm

Wait, did the OP calling The Ladies who Lunch the most comical? Barbara Walsh made me cry.

#42

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 9:20pm

yeah i guess i was referring to elaine stritch's version

barbara walsh's take WAS very sad, i watched hers for the first time today and i was like wait how could i have said that song was comical

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#43

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 9:32pm

I've always had a soft spot for "Children Will Listen". The entirety of Sunday in the Park with George save 2 or 3 songs. And definitely "Franklin Shepard Inc." too.

Parhaps a better thread would be pick your favorite song from each Sondheim show. That'd still be hard though...

Updated On: 5/23/08 at 09:32 PM

#44

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 9:33pm

tie: Being Alive and Send in the Clowns.

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#45

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 10:42pm

most moving: Our Time (Merrily...)
most comical: A Little Priest(Sweeney...)

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#46

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 10:51pm

Being Alive is simply amazing. My favorite hands down. :)

others:
A Miller's Son
Every Day A Little Death
Children Will Listen
A Little Priest
Getting Married Today
Send in the Clowns

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#47

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 10:58pm

There are too many.

Being Alive
Sunday
A Weekend in the Country
The Ladies Who Lunch
On the Steps of the Palace
I'm Still Here
Johanna
Someone in a Tree
Move On
And all of the opening numbers.

And a few less obvious choices:
Franklin Shepard, Inc.
The Ballad of Guiteau
Kiss Me
If Momma was Married

#48

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:20pm

Best:
I'm Still Here
Sunday
Send in the Clowns

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#49

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:39pm

At the moment...

Being Alive (my absolute favorite) and A Little Priest

Several others are right up there though.

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#50

re: best sondheim song....EVER

Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:57pm

this is very difficult.

I think Being Alive, Move On, Sunday, and No One is Alone are among the msot moving songs in musical theatre.

Thourgh to be conpletely honest, my favorite funny song of his is probably "I Love to Travel". Not for any good reason. I just love it, it's so funny.