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MichaelMon
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posted November 04, 2000 10:35 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for MichaelMon   Click Here to Email MichaelMon     Edit/Delete Message
Audiences didn't really enjoy it. It never made it to Broadway. Critics gave it great reviews but the investors just weren't willing to put money into something that controversial and dark. I think the songs are brilliant and point out the hypocrosies in American society.

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posted November 06, 2000 12:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jpgordo   Click Here to Email jpgordo     Edit/Delete Message
I read a interview that Steve Allen gave recently - in which a very pompous Allen said that he thought that he was the greatest living composer and that he was the second greatest living lyricist with only Stephen Sondheim being a better lyric writer. He's definitely wrong on the music thing - but right in the fact that Sondheim is the best lyricist ever - no way is Steve Allen number 2. I would even put Jerry Herman or Tim Rice before Steve Allen.

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posted December 29, 2000 06:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jpgordo   Click Here to Email jpgordo     Edit/Delete Message
Sondheim is cool. How's that for a lame attempt to revive this topic?

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Jen2Whes
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posted December 30, 2000 01:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jen2Whes     Edit/Delete Message
Pretty lame.

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jpgordo
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posted December 31, 2000 05:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jpgordo   Click Here to Email jpgordo     Edit/Delete Message
Well, then how about this? Sondheim rules! That's better, huh?

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posted January 01, 2001 05:08 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeopleHater     Edit/Delete Message
As we enter a new century, the world sits in wonder - CAN SONDHEIM SUCK ANY WORSE??? Only time will tell.

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MichaelMon
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posted January 03, 2001 09:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for MichaelMon   Click Here to Email MichaelMon     Edit/Delete Message
Well, you know, there are Jerry Herman people, like People Hater, and there are Sondheim people like me.

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posted January 06, 2001 03:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeopleHater     Edit/Delete Message
People Hater is no Jerry Herman people. People Hater likes people (as much as any people hater can) like Rodgers and Hammerstein, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

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posted January 06, 2001 11:51 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jpgordo   Click Here to Email jpgordo     Edit/Delete Message
So PeopleHater is gay?

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posted January 18, 2001 03:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jpgordo   Click Here to Email jpgordo     Edit/Delete Message
There's a great Sondheim website for anyone who wants the latest news on what's up with the big guy...
www.sondheim.com

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MichaelMon
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posted January 28, 2001 03:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MichaelMon   Click Here to Email MichaelMon     Edit/Delete Message
It is a good website. I go there all the time. It is constantly updated with the latest news on SS.

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posted February 15, 2001 09:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jpgordo   Click Here to Email jpgordo     Edit/Delete Message
I was very disappointed with the cast recording of "Saturday Night" - a rehashing and reworking of Sondheim's first musical. The vocals are weak (and a bit gay sounding - Broadway needs a good dose of John Raitt and Len Cariou if it wants to come back). They might as well have just recorded Marry Me A Little. I guess any recording of Sondheim is better than no new recording of Sondheim.

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MichaelMon
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posted February 23, 2001 10:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MichaelMon   Click Here to Email MichaelMon     Edit/Delete Message
I had to log on and post real quick - but I just read in Entertainment Weekly that a DVD (and VHS, whatever those are anymore) of the making of the Company original cast recording is being released. This is a must for all Sondheim fans. Go to Amazon or to the sondheim.com website for more info and ordering information.

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posted February 26, 2001 12:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jpgordo   Click Here to Email jpgordo     Edit/Delete Message
Britain's love affair with Sondheim continues as "Merrily We Roll Along" won the Olivier Award for Best Musical on the West End. It beat the new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical and "The Witches of Eastwick" - which is produced by Cameron Macintosh.

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posted February 26, 2001 10:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeopleHater     Edit/Delete Message
The Witches of Eastwick? What'll they think of next?! (I suppose whatever film was released after Witches of Eastwick.) These are truly the dark ages of entertainment.

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