| re: This is the artistic choice of the authors |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 10:29 pm EDT 05/25/23 |
| Posted by: Chromolume 10:26 pm EDT 05/25/23 |
| In reply to: re: This is the artistic choice of the authors - student_rush 07:40 pm EDT 05/25/23 |
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If Sondheim wrote SWEENEY to be orchestrated and played by a 20+ orchestra pit, that’s how it should be produced and that’s how I want to see it.
He didn't.
He wrote the show on piano (and in fact, Sweeney was the first of Sondheim's vocal scores to be published with his original piano part, pre-orchestration, intact) and the size of the orchestration was not decided upon until the theatre and its musician minimums were settled upon - and that had to do with Prince's huge-scale vision for the show, which actually was NOT what Sondheim originally had in mind. (Sondheim originally saw it as a much smaller, more intimate piece.)
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