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BOWLING WITH SONDHEIM
« on: July 09, 2005, 01:14:34 AM »
Well, you've read the notes, you're plum tuckered out from reading the notes, you must now try to solve the trivia question, and you must also now post until the cows come home - they're doing a Sondheim revue right now.
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« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2005, 01:17:22 AM »
Gee, George and I were doing our own little vaudeville routine!
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« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2005, 01:17:36 AM »
And the word of the day is: CHASM!
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« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2005, 01:18:24 AM »
Like an idiot, I forgot both my camera AND my cell phone, so I took no pictures.  I also forgot to bring my glasses, but I could see pretty well, plus they have huge video monitors.
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« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2005, 01:39:00 AM »
TOTD

Not a Day Goes By
In Buddy's Eyes
Our Time
Move On
Someone In A Tree
Marry Me A Little
Giants In The Sky
Every Day A Little Death
Anyone Can Whistle
Sunday

Probably a Different list at a different time of the day!!
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« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2005, 01:48:06 AM »
TEN??  You want us to limit our list to TEN songs??  To quote a Sondheim song (that's not on my list ::)), Impossible!
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« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2005, 01:50:11 AM »
But I'll try....(sigh) ;)
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« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2005, 01:57:19 AM »
I'm down to 30 songs, now...I started with 43!
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« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2005, 02:04:13 AM »
Okay, in addition to 10 individual songs (when I narrow my list down to 10), I'm including the entire scores to Follies and Sunday in the Park with George.  I can't pick individual songs from them...so I won't. ;D
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« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2005, 02:04:50 AM »
I've already edited my ten list George.
I love the Johanna Quartet from Act 2 of Sweeney and many of the comic songs too.
"Goodbye For Now" is another I may well have listed.
I've opted not to include songs for which he did not write the music so some gems have been passed over.
No other composer has given me such choices.
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« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2005, 02:07:45 AM »
Still "putting it together" George?
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« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2005, 02:08:57 AM »
Quote from: Tomovoz on July 09, 2005, 02:07:45 AM
Still "putting it together" George?

Yup!  Down to 23 now (but with eight confirmed in the top 10). :)
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« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2005, 02:10:17 AM »
AARRGGHH!!  Only two to go...it's so hard! :-\
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« Reply #13 on: July 09, 2005, 02:12:20 AM »
Okay, here they are...in alphabetical order:

Being Alive
Company (the opening number)
A Little Priest
Opening Doors
Pretty Lady
Please Hello
Someone in a Tree
Water Under the Bridge
A Weekend in the Country
What More Do I Need?

As always, this list will change by the minute!
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« Reply #14 on: July 09, 2005, 02:12:26 AM »
"The House For Mama" from Wise Guys/Gold (not from Bounce!) nearly made my list too.

In my case - what can you do on a Saturday night?
(I'm about to got to a 21st birthday - I'd rather listen to Sondheim - even his Sondheim sings Sondheim)
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« Reply #15 on: July 09, 2005, 02:18:34 AM »
And here are just some of the runners up:

Another Hundred People
The Ballad of Booth
Chrysanthemum Tea
Everybody Ought to Have a Maid
Everybody Says Don't
Getting Married Today
I Wish I Could Forget You
Invocation and Instructions to the Audience
Kiss Me
Love, I Hear (I played Hero about 10 years ago, so it has a special place in my heart ;D)
The Miller's Son
More
No One is Alone
Not a Day Goes By
Our Time
Poems
Send In the Clowns
So Many People
Unworthy of Your Love
With So Little to Be Sure Of
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« Reply #16 on: July 09, 2005, 02:20:35 AM »
And with that, I must end my frenzy.  Good night, Tomovoz!
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« Reply #17 on: July 09, 2005, 02:38:41 AM »
Goodnight GeorgeovWA
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« Reply #18 on: July 09, 2005, 04:36:57 AM »
Good morning, DRTomovoz!

I'm off to Toyland for a while, then back for an evening with DRs Ben, Rodzinski, and perhaps DRTPunk.

TOD:  The Ladies Who Lunch
         Another Hundred People
         Losing My Mind
         In Buddy's Eyes
         Anyone Can Whistle
         Every Day a Little Death
         Silly People
         Someone in a Tree
         Sunday
         Finishing the Hat  
       
         
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« Reply #19 on: July 09, 2005, 04:44:15 AM »
Good morning DR Elmore. Enjoy your toys.
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« Reply #20 on: July 09, 2005, 04:48:57 AM »
My revised list would include "Finishing The Hat".
A hopeless task - the list not the hat!
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« Reply #21 on: July 09, 2005, 04:52:28 AM »
I probably prefer Kander & Ebb musicals but it is the Sondheim songs that I appreciate for their staying power and their "art". Did someone say "Art Isn't Easy".
I looked at George's list and thought about the wonderful construction of "A Weekend In The Country".
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« Reply #22 on: July 09, 2005, 06:42:10 AM »
Yikes 10!     Only 10!

If it was Andrew Lloyd Webber I might have difficulty name 10 songs of his that were favorites.

And  to think both of then were born on the same day!!!
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« Reply #23 on: July 09, 2005, 07:11:31 AM »

Thank you for the FULL report on the gorgeous
birthday event, dear BK.  It's really fun and I enjoyed it as if I'd been there with you.

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« Reply #24 on: July 09, 2005, 07:14:29 AM »

Hello, DR TPunk!
I hope you understand my strange English. :)
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« Reply #25 on: July 09, 2005, 07:16:35 AM »
I decided that my list had to have music and lyrics and written for the stage only

Children Will Listen
I'm Sill Here
Ladies Who Lunch
Losing My Mind
Loving You
Move On
Our Time
Someone In a Tree
Sunday
We Do Not Belong Together

Cut from the list
Children and Art
So Many People
Too Many Mornings
Weekend In the Country

And these songs didn't make the list because......
The songs that were written for the stage and were cut or for films
Can That Boy Foxtrot
The Gaggle of Geese
Goodbye For Now
I Never Do Anything Twice (One of the Greatest S & M song ever written)
It Takes All Kinds
Multitudes Of Amy
No Mary Anne
Silly People
There Won't Be Trumpets
There's Always A Woman
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« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2005, 07:16:51 AM »
Appreciated the report on the SOndheim event, and was really worried when I read about Angela Lansbury's mishap. She's elderly now and has had knee replacement surgery before, so that really scared me. Hope she is OK. How great that she and Len Cariou reprised that great, great song.

Nice to read about the star-studded audience, too. So glad so many of them have an appreciation for Stephen Sondheim.
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« Reply #27 on: July 09, 2005, 07:17:55 AM »
COnvoluted trivia contest? Say it ain't so!

As usual, it gave me a terrific headache reading through the circular paths to get to the questions. Ah, me.
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« Reply #28 on: July 09, 2005, 07:21:51 AM »
The ten Sondheim songs that mean the most to me:

1. "Water Under the Bridge"

2. "Not a Day Goes By"

3. "What Can You Lose"

4. "The Miller's Son"

5. "Losing My Mind"

6. "Move On"

7. "Not While I'm Around"

8. "The Ballad of Booth"

9. "I Remember"

10. "Our Time"
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« Reply #29 on: July 09, 2005, 07:31:55 AM »
I read more about the WIZARD OF OZ set. It will indeed have a John Fricke commentary, but the description said a NEW commentary. I don't know how his original commentary could be improved, but at least there will be one, and I can retire the laserdisc set to the attic.
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