Good Thing Going. A few phrases from "Sweeney Todd," fixed in my head, send up a shiver of guilty thrills whenever I summon them. The American Conservatory Theater scored its first big success of the post-Bill Ball era with its 1986 "Sunday in the Park With George." Bob Fosse’s razzle-dazzle 1972 film Cabaret, directed onstage by Prince in 1966, was the exception that proved the rule, and Fosse was a theater man and a contemporary of Sondheim. That said, it's perfectly clear that Sondheim makes a different kind of … From the Album Merrily We Roll Along (The New Cast Recording) November 1, 1994 Listen Now Buy song $1.29. It started out like a song, We started quiet and slow with no surprise, Then one morning I woke to realize We have a good thing going. The red liquid that Patti Lupone and Michael Cerveris (as Sweeney) poured from bucket to bucket downstage center made palpable their characters’ bloody deeds. Call (510) 232-4031. Teen reported missing from Oakland found dead in rural NorCal, What to know about new virus detected in India that's in Bay Area. But by the time the failure of Merrily We Roll Along ended the Sondheim/Prince partnership in 1981, Broadway’s ballooning costs, higher ticket prices, and shrinking audiences required a new approach to developing a musical. About cannibalism? It's not that nothing went wrong, Some angry moment of course, but just a few, Stephen Sondheim - Good Thing Going Lyrics. The American Musical Theatre of San Jose (formerly the San Jose Civic Light Opera) has pulled its weight as well, tackling such difficult works as "Follies" and "Assassins.". He would go on with other collaborators to plumb such deeply felt subjects as the joy of creation in Sunday in the Park with George and the overwhelming force of love in Passion. "We've no time to sit and dither," a mother in "Into the Woods" frets about her failing cow, "while her withers wither with her." -- "The Art of Making Art: A Celebration of Stephen Sondheim": An exhibit chronicling the composer-lyricist's career continues through June 30 at the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum, Fourth Floor, Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco. But they hadn’t.” This scenario would become all too familiar to Sondheim and Prince toward the end) of their historic six-show collaboration, when they took sardonic amusement in critics who unfavorably compared the current offering with previous works that had received decidedly mixed reviews. Why not! Its cost—$800,000—would be millions today. Privacy Policy. In fact, like many things said about Sondheim, even this truism is far from true. Sondheim on Sondheim the Musical - Good Thing Going Lyrics. No copyright infringement intended. The current and upcoming Sondheim playbill stretches from the Marin Mountain Play's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" to a Kelley-directed "Gypsy" in Mountain View. It was Oscar Hammerstein, a family friend, who persuaded a reluctant Sondheim to temporarily shelve his ambitions as a composer and to take the job of lyricist for West Side Story. Further, they implied they had felt that way about it the first time around. Sondheim, as both his ardent fans and detractors would agree, goes places no other composer or lyricist does. Eugene Lee’s elaborate sets and Prince’s epic staging gave the original production a scale that wasn’t at all what Sondheim had had in mind but probably contributed to the production’s popular success: you certainly felt you were getting a lot for your money, watching 28 actors running around all that scenery. Sunday in the Park with George was first presented in a series of workshop performances at Playwrights Horizons in 1983. The lack of tryouts didn’t matter for Sweeney, which was in good shape by the time it began previewing in New York, but it may well have been disastrous for Merrily We Roll Along. While standing in the aisle one evening, Sondheim said, he saw a man rise from his seat not two minutes into the show, coat in hand, and head for the exit. This woman, 82, dresses to the nines each Sunday for virtual church. Curator Sheryl Flatlow makes several telling points in her printed remarks. Stephen Sondheim only looks better with time. Abbott had little interest in the Hammerstein brand of musical drama, the sort that Prince would come to direct. Fifty years ago this fall, when the young lyricist for West Side Story made his Broadway debut, only one New York critic even bothered to mention his name. Follies, by contrast, probably will never again have its themes so perfectly embodied as they were in the opulent production that Prince, Bennett, Aronson, and costume designer Florence Klotz gave it in 1971. Account & Lists Account Returns & Orders. Sondheim knows how to write a song, but often times he writes things that fit into a show like a piece of a puzzle. Rhyme works like an intoxicating spice for the vile pies in "Sweeney Todd": "There you'll sample Mrs. Lovett's meat pies, savory and sweet pies, as you'll see. Tickets: $10. Sondheim on Sondheim Soundtrack Lyrics Good Thing Going Lyrics. Merrily We Roll Along is a musical with a book by George Furth and lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim. Download Stephen Sondheim Good Thing Going sheet music. Later on he would appeal to the historically inclined intellect in "Pacific Overtures," to artistic isolation in "Sunday," to the subliminal anarchist in "Assassins.". He was indulging in hindsight. Rock ’n’ roll—which had recently emerged at the time Sondheim did West Side Story in 1957—coexisted with show tunes and traditional pop material into the 1960s, but it had long since become the dominant style in American music. It tends, in other words, not to be easily hummed on the way home. And yet, when the York Theatre Company in Manhattan staged a Pacific Overtures revival in 1984, The MacNeil/Lehrer Report captured the composer on camera in a warmer mode, observing a rehearsal of “Someone in a Tree.” This lovely song, which layered the memories of two characters (played as young and old men by four actors) into a single, shifting narrative about memory and history, had always been a favorite of Sondheim’s, who usually pointed to its “developed” composition as the reason for his pride. Without the big Broadway orchestration and Michael Bennett’s fabulous tap routine, “What Would We Do Without You?” lost its exuberance and became sadder—truer to Sondheim’s intent, maybe, but eliminating one of the few moments in which Bobby’s married friends were actually a pleasure to be with (always a problem with the script). ", From early on in his career, Sondheim could make words swoon -- in his lyrics for "Tonight" and "Maria" in "West Side Story." The musical received good but not great reviews and no major awards; it had a respectable but not record-shattering run. It missed most of the fun, however. Good Thing Going: The Songs of Stephen Sondheim by Steve Ross on Apple Music. Sondheim had given Merrily one of his most engaging and accessible scores, which only emphasized how much times had changed. A small but instructive exhibition of posters, photographs, memorabilia and manuscripts, "The Art of Making Art: A Celebration of Stephen Sondheim," continues through June at the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum. Publish, sell, buy and download sheet music and performance licenses! John Doyle’s sleek, stark production of Company in 2006, spearheaded by Raúl Esparza’s seething portrayal of the protagonist Bobby, rebutted the cliché that Sondheim’s work is cold. . Charley, his regular lyricist, and Mary, a writer, also move back toward their idealistic beginnings in a show that features such Sondheim standards as “Good Thing Going… Artistically, nothing could have been further from the truth. 2010 Broadway. The year before, Doyle’s stripped-to-the-bone version of Sweeney Todd pulled in closer to the characters and their despair, suggesting a vision that was less cynical than mournful. Beauty is finally personal and ineffable, and no one can persuade another to share a response. Sondheim on Sondheim is a musical revue consisting of music and lyrics written by Stephen Sondheim for his many shows. Licensed to Virtual Sheet Music® by Hal Leonard® publishing company. I can’t blame him! If mega-budget Broadway is not as hospitable as it once was -- and in truth Sondheim has always had a checkered record at the box office -- his shows are done everywhere else, all the time. Call (415) 255-4800 or visit www.sfpalm.org. In the eight years since Follies’ vast array of costumes, scenery, and equipment had been trucked north to Boston in 1971, that Broadway tradition had become prohibitively expensive. Even as songs began to be more carefully integrated with plot in the wake of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! His fervent, intense score for "Passion" has no discernible song breaks because Sondheim "didn't want the audience to remember they were in a theater" during their immersion in obsessive love. About imperialism? In the heyday of “mindless musicals,” as Prince scornfully characterized them, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter wrote pop songs that were played on the radio and sold on record. As one of a six-show rotating repertory in the Kennedy Center’s 2002 Sondheim Celebration, Merrily was considered a success and ran for 16 performances, the same number it received as a flop on Broadway. “Suffice to say that Ross has done a brilliant job of choosing the material, writing dialogue that unifies the program, and performing each song with his own knowing sensibility. New York audiences had to console themselves with this season's off-Broadway run of an early Sondheim show, "Saturday Night," that its creator critiqued as the artistic equivalent of his "baby pictures" -- "not bad stuff for a 23-year-old.". Broadway composers older than 50 never write anything good, he told the New York Times. Her... 2 women die after car plunges over Bodega Bay cliff, Son wielding machete stops robbery of Asian parents in Oakland. “How they can heal, how they can still bring us together, but only if they are spoken with conviction and from the heart.”, Sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa High-Quality and Interactive, transposable in any key, play along. But composer Leonard Bernstein and director / choreographer Jerome Robbins had enjoyed Broadway hits before, together in On the Town, separately with Wonderful Town (Bernstein), High Button Shoes and The King and I (to name only two of Robbins’s many choreography credits). . Company (1970) and Follies (1971) had garnered Sondheim back-to-back Tony Awards for best composer and best lyricist. But no one, not even the excellent Patti Lupone in Doyle’s revival, has topped Angela Lansbury’s Mrs. Lovett. Preview, buy, and download songs from the album Sondheim: A Celebration At Carnegie Hall (Highlights), including "Symphonic Sondheim: Sweeney Todd," "Loveland (From "Follies") / Getty Married Today (From "Company")," "Waiting for the Girls Upstairs (From "Follies") / Love, I Hear (From "a Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum") / Live Alone and LIke It (From "Dick Tracy")," and … Prince’s astute directing, Michael Bennett’s dazzling choreography, and Boris Aronson’s gleaming set made crucial contributions, but revivals like Doyle’s demonstrate that Company’s essence doesn’t depend on the original staging. . It had no traditional plot line, having been reworked from a series of one-act plays by George Furth into an exploration of marriage centered around a 35th birthday party (or perhaps four different parties) thrown for Bobby by the five couples who were his closest friends.
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