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| Posted by: scoot1er 04:26 pm EST 11/26/22 | |
| In reply to: Thinking of our beloved (so very much so) Stephen Sondheim this day... - stryker94109 04:12 pm EST 11/26/22 | |
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| Mine were the original productions of West Side Story then Gypsy. They absolutely knocked me out. The first all-Sondheim was the original production of Forum. I laughed until my face hurt. And I was hooked. |
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| re: Thinking of our beloved (so very much so) Stephen Sondheim this day... | |
| Posted by: standingO 05:12 pm EST 11/26/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Thinking of our beloved (so very much so) Stephen Sondheim this day... - scoot1er 04:26 pm EST 11/26/22 | |
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| Mine was the mixed bag known as Putting It Together with Carol Burnett. I loved seeing her but overall a pretty meh event. I had loved his music from Dick Tracy. And many years later, the John Doyle’s Company started my reintroduction to Sondheim. (The 2000s Broadway productions of Assassins and Sweeney Todd may have technically come first but Company opened the door). |
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| re: Thinking of our beloved (so very much so) Stephen Sondheim this day... | |
| Posted by: Snowgrace 01:08 pm EST 11/27/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Thinking of our beloved (so very much so) Stephen Sondheim this day... - standingO 05:12 pm EST 11/26/22 | |
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| The first I ever saw & heard was the original cast of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (!!!!!!!)...then was lucky to see the original cast of SWEENEY TODD...but first fell 2000 leagues deeply in love with this genius a few years later when my high school music teacher played Sarah in a faculty production of COMPANY & I played the OBC album over & over & over again...& the touchstone/most eloquent soundtrack to my life was laid in place forever. | |
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| re: Thinking of our beloved (so very much so) Stephen Sondheim this day... | |
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| Posted by: lordofspeech 05:22 pm EST 11/27/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Thinking of our beloved (so very much so) Stephen Sondheim this day... - Snowgrace 01:08 pm EST 11/27/22 | |
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| I saw the original COMPANY. IT WAS JUST SO BOLD, so brassy, and Robert’s aloneness was so touching. Of course La Stritch’s scene near the end and the deeply vulnerable Susan Browning were superb. And the songs were electrifying. And the orchestrations…the piano-bar-accordion-modern world of the piece was different from any musical I’d ever heard. And then there was A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, which was a little too sophisticated for me (I just didn’t know enough about wives withholding sex from husbands to understand the central storyline/triangle). But Patricia Elliot’s work was quintessential Sondheim, combining tragedy with poised archness. Heartbreaking. She was a lesson in acting. And, of course, A Weekend in the Country did everything. And then FOLLIES, which shocked the heck out of me; the mixed notices had not prepared me for the genius of the Loveland sequence and of the two remarkable leading ladies. Loved it. |
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