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With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, Sweeney premiered to a warm critical reception in 1979. Winner of eight Tony Awards (including best musical), Sweeney is considered Sondheim??s masterpiece. Obscuring the line between musical theater and opera, Sweeney has been performed worldwide by both theaters and opera companies...
Both Stetson and McClelland contend that the richness of Sondheim??s score, while supplying the greatest challenge of the production, also aids the execution of the show. McClelland notes that “the music takes care of a lot aspects that would otherwise consume me…it’s actually kind of liberating...
Overall, the voices in the cast, a mix of Harvard and other Boston-area students, do more than justice to Sondheim??s notoriously difficult music. Other than an occasional asynchrony between voices and music, the only real weakness was during “How I Saved Roosevelt,” where not all of the supporting cast seemed quite up to the demands of the song. Otherwise, the quiet power of Dan O’Shea’s Czolgosz along with the comically scatterbrained delivery of Megan J. Gaffney...
...hours and 40 minutes. Throughout, his goal was to stay true to the author. “I tried to retain as much of Dickens’ language as possible,” he says. For the musical aspect of the project, Gfaller gained inspiration from Stephen Sondheim??s work. He played with the idea of musical motifs and tried to give characters song styles that matched their personas. Eliot House gave him access to its tower room piano, once owned by Leonard Bernstein—who had done some literary adaptation himself in the form of West...
...Sondheim??s mature works, the only one lacking a recording was The Frogs. Until now. Finally, the musical legendary for its premiere at a Yale Drama swimming pool can be heard in its glory. It is a rich choral production with considerable wit, not to mention the star presence of Nathan Lane and Brian Stokes Mitchell as narrators, with Lane performing the well-known opening number as well. Davis Gaines contributes a lovely rendition of “Fear No More.” Included with the Frogs on the same CD is Evening Primrose, a 35 year...