On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide
Well, I got panned in The New York Times. SONDHEIM: Oh. Well, I knew I was right. (laughter) LAPINE: That was a first for me. It’s funny, because I went home after reading that review, and I thought, Oh, Stephen Sondheim’s never going to work with me now. I thought, Why would he? SONDHEIM: Gee, thanks. You had a lot of faith in my character. LAPINE
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always said that Bernie didn’t bet on the horses, he bet on the jockeys. Michael Bennett comes up with a musical. Mike Nichols comes up with a play, Neil Simon with a play. You try to get their shows in your theaters. So Sondheim comes up with a musical—you say yes. William Goldman used to say, “Nobody knows anything. Every time out, it’s a guess.”
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Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George
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“Musicals…are often put together at the last moment by many gifted people operating in a creative panic.” - Humphrey Burton, in his biography of Leonard Bernstein
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In every score I write, there’s a Harold Arlen song. “Children and Art” is the Harold Arlen song. LAPINE: And how do you characterize a Harold Arlen song? SONDHEIM: It’s about seduction and warmth and yearning.
James Lapine • Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George
The pair started building what would ultimately amount to a 15-song album that includes an amorous duet between the show’s leading couple, a comedic solo for the show’s nonconformist tomboy and an opening number that they wrote with a lavishly dressed Broadway ensemble flitting around the stage in their heads.
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