Tag Archives: Stephen Sondheim

30 Musicals in 30 Days: Your Current Favourite Musical

Posted on April 25, 2011 by David Fick

Post a song from your current favourite. Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne and Arthur Laurents’s Gypsy is my all-time favourite musical. It is also my current favourite. It’s a fantastic musical, brilliantly conceived and executed. It features one of the most … Continue reading →

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30 Musicals in 30 Days: Musicals Made Into Movies

Posted on April 22, 2011 by David Fick

Post a song from a musical you wish was (never) made into a movie. The brackets make this one wide open. Perhaps I’ll pick something from somewhere in the middle, namely ‘a musical that I wish was never made into … Continue reading →

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30 Musicals in 30 Days: A Song with the Best Lyrics

Posted on April 18, 2011 by David Fick

Post a musical theatre song with the best lyrics. The first time I heard “Someone in a Tree” was in a documentary about the making of Pacific Overtures, the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical (with additional material by Hugh Wheeler). As … Continue reading →

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30 Musicals in 30 Days: Least Favourite Musical + Favourite Composer

Posted on April 16, 2011 by David Fick

Post a song from your least favourite musical by your favourite composer. I’ve never liked Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove’s The Frogs much. I just haven’t taken to it. As much as I like classical Greek theatre, I just can’t … Continue reading →

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30 Musicals in 30 Days: A Favourite Compser’s Musical

Posted on April 15, 2011 by David Fick

Post a song by your favourite musical composer. The choice of composer is easy: Stephen Sondheim. But which song? That’s the tough part. Perhaps, then, I should simply go for the first one that springs to mind, “The Road You … Continue reading →

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30 Musicals in 30 Days: Long Time No See

Posted on April 14, 2011 by David Fick

Post a song from a musical that you haven’t listened to (or seen) in a while. There are many of these. Which should I choose? I think I’ll go with Merrily We Roll Along, the musical flop that basically ended … Continue reading →

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30 Musicals in 30 Days: Love at First Note

Posted on April 13, 2011 by David Fick

Post a song from a musical that you loved from hearing the first note. Today I am going to post a song from one of my big musical obsessions: Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim’s Gypsy. Gypsy begins with one of … Continue reading →

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INTERVIEW: Sondheim in AMERICAN THEATRE

Posted on April 8, 2011 by David Fick

American Theatre has published a really interesting interview with Stephen Sondheim in this month’s edition of the journal. Titled “A Playwright in Song”, the interview deals with his work, his influences, the dramatic language of musicals, pop and rock music, … Continue reading →

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30 Musicals in 30 Days: Favourite Female Singer

Posted on April 7, 2011 by David Fick

Post a song sung by your favourite female singer in a musical. The name that immediately springs to mind is Audra McDonald. Bernadette Peters arrives next, but McDonald was here first and she really is, at this point in time, … Continue reading →

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INTERVIEW: Joanna Gleason on BROADWAYWORLD

Posted on April 6, 2011 by David Fick

Joanna Gleason, the Canadian, Tony Award-winning musical theatre actress who originated the role of the Baker’s Wife in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods, has just done an interview with BroadwayWorld in which she admits that Into the … Continue reading →

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