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Stephen Sondheim R.I.P.
Probably not a lot of interest in musical theater here, but Sondheim’s greatness cannot be overlooked. He put the “Theater” into musical theater and he was unafraid of changing musical forms at his whim. Sweeney Todd, Pacific Overtures, Sunday In The Park With George, all eye openers for me, but I wrote musicals once upon a time,
He was 91.
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He also write all the lyrics for West Side Story while Leonard Bernstein write the music.
He left bed to create crossword puzzles too I think for The NY Times.
I have very little interest in musical theater—stale and convention-bound for the most part—but Sondheim broke the mold.
Sweeney Todd.
[MRS. LOVETT]
Here we are now, hot out of the oven
[TODD]
What is that?
[MRS. LOVETT]
It's priest
Have a little priest
[TODD]
Is it really good?
[MRS. LOVETT]
Sir, it's too good, at least!
Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh
So it's pretty fresh
And Assassins, man, Assassins. Currently off-broadway.
[PROPRIETOR]
Hey, pal— feelin' blue?
Don't know what to do?
Hey, pal— I mean you
Yeah, c'mere and kill a president
No job? Cupboard bare?
One room, no one there?
Hey, pal, don't despair
You wanna shoot a president?
C'mon and shoot a president
Some guys
Think they can't be winners
First prize often goes to rank beginners
….
Comprehensive obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/theater/stephen-sondheim-dead.html
What a wonderful life to have blessed this earth.
I am not a big fan of musicals. But anyone who can write classic songs like Send In The Clowns, weirdness like Sweeney Todd, and heartbreaking meditations on ageing and past glories like Follies… well, let me put it this way. I sobbed my heart out in Follies. Powerful, clever stuff.
@Svetlovska, you are right. “Clever” is the perfect word for Mr. Sondheim.
Interested to learn more about your musicals.
@Stochastically, I wrote/collaborated on several. One was based on H.G. Wells’ Time Machine, another an adaptation of Robinson Crusoe set in Soho NY and a third about the German invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The last was optioned for off Broadway production in NYC but the producers went bankrupt, lol! The Time Machine got me and my partner selected by ASCAP to participate in a Sondheim workshop, but we were at each other’s throats and dropped out, Earlier, at 21, I wrote a straight play which garnered a Dramatists’ Guild Award. That’s the sum of my theatrical endeavors,
Posting this fragment of an obit in the Washington Post.
“Songwriters after Sondheim often craft work more toe-tapping than the master’s compositions. But the best of their lyrics bear his unmistakable influence. Every song of “A Chorus Line” belongs to his lyrical school, developing characters and deepening the drama — and hundreds of shows since then bear the same imprint. Favorites currently on Broadway or on film are unimaginable pre-Sondheim: “Breathe,” from “In the Heights;” “Waving Through A Window,” from “Dear Evan Hansen;” “She Used to Be Mine,” from “Waitress;” even the comic anthem “I Believe,” from “The Book of Mormon.” The list is longer every year.
Talent does an old thing well. Genius makes an old thing new. Rest in peace, Stephen Sondheim, genius.”
Those subjects all sound pretty intriguing. The work and production of musicals must be daunting but also amazing if it pulls together; all those art forms combined. So in the Time Machine would there be singing Morlocks?
More off topic: Did you have an art print publishing business in the 80s-90s ?
@Stochastically, indeed, singing Morlocks…
Oh to live the lowlife
Where we never reach thirty,
But the livin is breezy,
Cause it's ever so sleazy!
Some people may say there’s a heaven above
But when you die there’s a big black hole.
It only takes one night in the cold cold ground
Just to know what we already know…
God’s down below,
And he’s living the low life
And he’s living it up…
Down below.
Oil the drive shaft,
Grease the piston,
Let the bump and grind begin!
We are Morlocks, We are Morlocks,
We are sub-ter-rane-ean!
Those Morlocks don't mince words. It would have been a spectacle for sure.
My Friends from Sweeney Todd is one of my favorite songs ever. Everything about that song is amazing. The chord transitions, the dynamics, counter melody harmonies, bam ending... just gorgeous.
Rest In Peace
Sondheim was asked to make a list of his favorite movies... (not sure of the exact year... probably around 2000):
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I think I've seen about 5 of them.