January 2010
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philosophical idea #12
It is acceptable to be overcritical as long as you are equally as harsh on yourself as you are on others.
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flaws #1
I wish I didn’t constantly have to be distracted from the thoughts in my head. It seems ridiculous to have to distract yourself from yourself.
“Choreography is more than just doing ‘steps’ - which is something...”
– Michael Bennett in Zadan’s Sondheim and Co.
“What I did in Company was to choreograph the characters. I think that a lot more...”
– Michael Bennett in Zadan’s Sondheim and Co.
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re music theatre formspring comments
Genuinely Australian music theatre is happening, but very very slowly and you have to be on the pulse to know when and where it’s happening. So to say that you hate Australian music theatre is not really fair, because I doubt you’ve actually seen any, or for that matter, know anything about it. Also the non commercial music theatre scene gets absolutely no money or recognition. They...
“The problem was to find the form for [Company]….It was new for me because...”
– Sondheim, you put me in a quandary.
in Zadan’s Sondheim and Co.
“[Do I Hear A Waltz] most simply was what Mary Rodgers calls a ‘Why?’...”
– Sondheim in Zadan’s Sondheim and Co.
“Forum is not generally recognised as being experimental, but I find it very...”
– Sondheim in Zadan’s Sondheim and Co.
“The first thing a librettist must be prepared to do is to sacrifice ego. You...”
– Arthur Laurents in Craig Zadan’s Sondheim and Co.
“A good character song does something that can’t be done by a line by the...”
– Sondheim in Zadan’s Sondheim and Co.
“[West Side Story] was a hit with theatre people but not with audiences. Four...”
– Sondheim in Zadan’s Sondheim and Co.
“Sondheim, along with his distinguished collaborators, has continued to break old...”
– Craig Zadan in Sondheim and Co.
“Even though Steve doesn’t think of himself as a political writer, his...”
– Michael Cerveris on Stephen Sondheim, The Sondheim Review, Vol XV, No. 4
“Show Boat is the first American musical that integrates the elements of a...”
– Joseph Stein, The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey
“An aesthetics of popular art is clearly wanted here. The small New England...”
– Joseph Stein, The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey
“The popular nature of the [musical theatre] tradition does not undermine the...”
– Joseph Stein, The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey
eric bentley, le douchebag
“[Oklahoma] belongs with the “new Americanism” in being folksy and excessively, ostentatiously wholesome; also in being trite, cocksure, sentimental and vacuous. On the stage it is decked out in gay color and from time to time enlivened by tricky dancing. But in all drama … color and dancing are only embellishments; in this case they are the embellishment of a...
“It is possible to deny music a dramatic role, then, only if one insists that...”
– Joseph Stein, The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey
“Whether music in the theater can really be an essential dramatic force has been...”
– +1 to Joseph Stein in, The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey
“The music of a good musical play informs the drama that contains it, and the...”
– Joseph Stein, The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey
“Some critics of Sunday in the Park with George complain that all the characters...”
“Passion demands things of an audience that the average Broadway theatregoers...”
– Scott Miller in Deconstructing Harold Hill
june 18 demonstration in st petersburg, do you even exist? No sources seem to corroborate your existence.
who would have ever though that I, of all people, would procrastinate by going to the GYM!
“Passion is a hard show to do because it rarely lines up with a musical theatre...”
– Scott Miller in Deconstructing Harold Hill
i love being reblogged by http://www.fuckyeahsondheim.tumblr.com. it just makes my day
is very pleased about my new 2010 kikki k diary although i have purchased it 18 days too late
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solitudine
just a few hours of semi-solitude and I pretty much go insane. What is wrong with me?
I want to fucking kill my sister.
historical source analysis is really not on my list of fun things to do.
“[Passion] was Sondheim’s first musical that told a nonironic love story....”
– Scott Miller in Deconstructing Harold Hill
doesn’ feel like doing anything except eating and watching tv today
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movies i am going to watch this summer
Funny Girl
Pal Joey
42nd Street
Carousel
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
Meet Me in St. Louis
Paint Your Wagon
Sweet Charity
Damn Yankees
On the Town
Can Can
Bye Bye Birdie
Night and Day
Hello Dolly
The Old Maid
A Chorus Line
Glengarry Glen Ross
Angels in America Part 1
Angels in America Part 2
Wit
Blithe Spirit
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
The History...
“If Chicago is a musical that might be offensive to your audience, it would be...”
– I couldn’t agree more, Scott Miller (in Deconstructing Harold Hill)
why is there an article about Sondheim in the Mercury??? #itsastupiddescriptivearticleanyway
good times at hamlet. i wish my shoulders would stop hurting though.
“Chicago continued Fosse’s experiments with plot-driven concept...”
– Scott Miller in Deconstructing Harold Hill
“Why don’t we apply the same rules to working on Camelot that we do to...”
– Scott Miller in Deconstructing Harold Hill
went to 2 different gatherings last night but still wished to be waiting in a line with a beret-wearing kirby, a sleeping kevin and douglas
fuckyeahsondheim:
verticalsoftrees:
Farewell...
worst shoulder pain i’ve ever had in my life. i want to stay at kevin’s house tonight and meet kenny but i can’t #disappointedtweets
“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”
– Stephen Sondheim (via reluctantbuddha) (via fuckyeahsondheim)
chilling with douglas and kevin plus a surprise coles visit for kirby