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re: Musicals we love: Sondheim's Follies

Posted by:	EvFoDr 04:19 pm EST 01/20/14
In reply to:	re: Musicals we love: Sondheim's Follies - keikekaze 03:15 pm EST 01/20/14

You may be right in a very general sense about character-revealing arias, although I don't think that's specific to R and H, but I know somewhere Sondheim has documented which composers or songs were the inspiration for the pastiche numbers and unless my memory is failing me, R and H are not among them. Losing My mind is modeled after The Man I Love, which is evident not only in that they are both torch songs, but also the loose structure of the melody line. Could I Leave You? and Too Many Mornings are not pastiche songs, they are book songs. I always thought of them as composed in the "modern" style Sondheim was using at the time. I'm Still Here has been hotly debated--is it a character book song or is it Carlotta's Follies number from the past? I personally think it's meant to be an autobiographical character song, but unlike all the other "book" songs in Follies, it is also very clearly a pastiche in style. Maybe the waters got a little muddy here, because I am pretty sure the song it replaced, Can That Boy Foxtrot, WAS meant to be Carlotta recreating an old Follies number.

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