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| re: "All Things Bright and Beautiful," cut from Follies. | |
| Posted by: EvFoDr 09:38 am EDT 08/13/20 | |
| In reply to: re: "All Things Bright and Beautiful," cut from Follies. - Chromolume 05:25 pm EDT 08/11/20 | |
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| I understand why the song is problematic. And I probably don't want to see it in a productin of Follies, but I do like that is give Phylis more to do. As it stands now, prior to the final Follies sequence, Ben and Sally each have two duets and a solo, and Buddy while Buddy and Phylis have only one solo each. I REALLY enjoy the lyric: It's my board / Oh dear Lord / And they can't be ignored / No and you can't afford to be bored with your board, can you? :-) |
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| re: "All Things Bright and Beautiful," cut from Follies. | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 04:56 pm EDT 08/13/20 | |
| In reply to: re: "All Things Bright and Beautiful," cut from Follies. - EvFoDr 09:38 am EDT 08/13/20 | |
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| Of course, all four are also in "Waiting for the Girls Upstairs," which Buddy starts and has a bit more solo stuff to sing than anyone else. That song was originally a duet for Buddy and Phyllis. The duet version went into Side by Side by Sondheim during the Broadway run (although it may have been in and out) and was in the Australian production and is on the cast recording of that production (never issued on CD). Sondheim once cited it as one of his favorites of his own songs (and he said that he specifically meant the duet version as performed in SBSBS). Interestingly, the published script gives the first two solo lines after the young people exit to Buddy as a solo, and the next two to Ben. And the published score gives Buddy the first line, Ben the second, and the next pair to the two of them together before the ladies join in. Anyway, just imagine the few days in Boston when Alexis Smith was having vocal troubles and they cut "Could I Leave You?" so that her only solo was "Uptown, Downtown," which hearsay suggests she didn't sing all that well even when in good vocal shape. |
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