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Time magazine explained that Sondheim is "still the great chronicler of married life" in all its form - in this song he demonstrates the bitterness of marriage. [1] Backstage described it as "biting contemplation of divorce." [2] Vulture calls the song a "stinging Coward-esque waltz."
Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman.. The plot centers on a crumbling Broadway theater, now scheduled for demolition, previously home to a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies).
Cover of Finishing the Hat. The first volume contains Sondheim's lyrics from his first professionally staged show, Saturday Night (1954), through West Side Story, Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, Do I Hear a Waltz?, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, The Frogs, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and ending with ...
"Evening Primrose" is the ninth episode of the first season of the American television series ABC Stage 67. The episode is a musical with a book by James Goldman and lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim.
Anyone Can Whistle Cover of the original cast recording. Music Stephen Sondheim Lyrics Stephen Sondheim Book Arthur Laurents Productions 1964 Broadway 1995 Carnegie Hall concert 2010 New York City Center Encores! 2022 Off-West End Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Described as "a satire on conformity and the insanity of ...
Sondheim died in November 2021, and both Barnes and Kathlene Ritch have reverence for the musical master. Tri-M's production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in late 2022 was a ...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.. Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (254–184 BC), specifically Curculio, Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus, and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by ...
Sondheim wanted to write music and lyrics; he consulted with Hammerstein, who said, as Sondheim related in a 2008 New York Times video interview, "Look, you have a chance to work with very gifted professionals on a show that sounds interesting, and you could always write your own music eventually. My advice would be to take the job."