Showing posts with label Sondheim. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sondheim. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Finishing the Hat

For Richard;
paraphrased slightly:
...
And how you're always turning back too late
From the grass or the stick
Or the dog or the light,
...
Studying a face,
Stepping back to look at a face
Leaves a little space in the way like a window,
But to see...
It's the only way to see
...
And when the one man that you wanted goes
You can say to yourself,
"Well I give what I give"
But the one man who won't wait for you knows
That, however you live

There's a part of you
Always standing by
Mapping out the sky,
Finishing a hat,
Starting on a hat,
Finishing a hat,
Look, I made a hat,
Where there never was a hat!


Here's a youngster named Trevor McQueen Eaton (who I just discovered on YouTube) doing a most credible version:

Sunday

Let's have a little "Sunday":
A blank page;
Empty Cavass
"Order; Design; Balance; Composition; Harmony

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Company - Original Broadway Cast Album circa 1970


Ah!, Elaine, Dean, Barbara, Donna, Beth, Charles, et al...

And a toast to that invincible bunch, the dinosaurs surviving the crunch, all of you who forwent the brunch, and went to see this show with me last Sunday,

And I'm Not Getting Married!

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Finishing the Hat

Since I am taking almost everybody I know to "Sunday" on Sunday let's have a little "Finishing the Hat".

This is probably the most sublime song from the show...
By Neil Patrick Harris, who continues to impress me.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Friday, October 16, 2009

Sondheim - "Boy From..."

I found it!
My response to "I'm Still Queer", from the Master himself:
From "The Mad Show" performed by a Emma Yong, Nice version.


Lyrics Here.
Exerpt:
TALL AND TENDER, LIKE AN APOLLO,
HE GOES WALKING BY, AND I HAVE TO FOLLOW HIM,
THE BOY FROM TACAREMBO LA TUMBE DEL FUEGO SANTA MALIPAS ZATATECAS LA JUNTA DEL SOL Y CRUZ. ("crooth")

...
TOMORROW HE SAILS.
HE'S MOVING TO WALES,
TO LIVE IN LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYR NDROBULLLLANDYSILIOGOGOGOCH.*

[*Pronounced: HCHLAN-VAIR-PUCH-GWIN-GICH-GWAN-GAI R-ICH-WIRN-DREW-BUCH-HCHLAN-TA-SIL- LY-AW-GAW-GAW-GAWCH]

Gotta Love the Welsh (Cymru)

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Sunday Sondheim - "Ballad Of Sweeney Todd" in Concert

'Cos I bloody well need a soul screeching chorus, right now:


I really need to reconnect with my inner Sweeney and
Swing my razor wide;
Sink it in the rosy flesh of righteousness, today...

Could be an Anvil day.

Reprise at minute 5:35.

"Cos Sweeney wishes the world away...
Hearing the music that nobody hears..."
What a great lyric!

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Cos he sat in my chair and ruined my sleep

He was just that kind of a guy:


Somebody hold me too close,
Somebody hurt me too deep.
Somebody sit in my chair
and ruin my sleep,
and make me aware
of being alive
Being alive

Somebody need me too much
Somebody know me too well
Somebody pull me up short,
and put me through hell,
and give me support,
for being alive,
Make me alive.
Make me alive..
Make me confused,
Mock me with praise,
Let me be used,
Harry my days;
That alone...
Is alone...
Not Alive!

Somebody crowd me with love,
Somebody force me to care,
Somebody let me come through,
I'll always be there
As frightened as you,
To help us survive,
Being alive
Being Alive
BEING ALIVE!!!

I had that.

not so much anymore.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Sunday Sondheim - Ladies Who Lunch

It's been awhile, so I give you the cross-pond sensation Elaine Stritch!!
1st a full version done when she is in her late 70's maybe even 80 in 1999:

Go to YouTube and see part one of this next version, from 1970. She had to record the definitive version. And she had to sweat, cry, and cuss until she got it right. This is from a documentary called "Original Cast Recording: Company". I saw this in a film class and fell in love with Elaine, Stephen and "Company":

I am lucky enough to have seen her one woman show "At Liberty". What fun, What a Life. I was also one of the people who called to complain to CBS when they cut short her acceptance speech for this show. For gawdsakes, let the woman speak!