Word: sondheimer
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Barbra Streisand doesn't sing, she emotes. She ascends octaves with the zeal of a new initiate in a 12-step program. She deconstructs melodies and remakes them in her own image (she once asked Stephen Sondheim to rewrite Send in the Clowns). She tends to avoid singing one note when three or eight will do. All her emotions are bigger than life -- bigger than the afterlife if you include On a Clear Day You Can See Forever -- and every sentiment seems to end in multiple exclamation marks...
...career in 1962 with a debut in the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale and springboarded to the movies after her starring role in 1964's Funny Girl. In 1985 she scored an enormous success with The Broadway Album, a collection of songs by such composers as Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein. Her non-Broadway hits have never been very credible, and they've proved to have the shelf life of sugary foodstuffs on convenience-store shelves. It's hard to listen to You Don't Bring Me Flowers, her 1977 duet with Neil Diamond, without thinking of eight...
When she got back to Harvard, Toomer again didn't see much that excited her, but, by this time, she had found her niche. She sang in the Sondheim Cabaret, starred in a spring production of "Dreamgirls" (working with Forbes was "really exciting") and, of primary importance, met Benjamin F. Waltzer '93, who had recently transferred to Harvard from a joint program with Tufts and the New England Conservatory...
Alan P. Symonds '69 may be more important to theater fans on this campus than Shakespeare, Chekhov or Stephen Sondheim. Certainly his name appears on more programs year round than do all of these luminaries combined. Symonds isn't a playwright, a director or even a wealthy patron of the arts. But without him, few of the fifty-odd plays and musicals that are performed here each year would ever see an opening night...
...piece was "devised" (there's not enough dialogue to constitute a libretto) by Sondheim and directed by Julia McKenzie, who starred in London and on Broadway in Side by Side. The emphasis on courtship means six songs from Company and four from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum but little from more venturesome shows -- one song each from Into the Woods and Sunday in the Park with George, none from Pacific Overtures. For aficionados, that shortcoming is balanced by five numbers from the short-lived Merrily We Roll Along and two items, never before heard...