Word: sondheims
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...citywide aesthetic shop floor. Then there's Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, and then the Sculpture Project in Münster. Dealers, curators, critics and other determined members of the migratory art herd will be turning up at all four. There's a line from an old Stephen Sondheim song that could be their anthem. Do you know it? It goes, "Art isn't easy...
...Beatles songs, directed by The Lion King's Julie Taymor, with a cast including Evan Rachel Wood and Bono. And at year's end, just in time for Oscar season, comes Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp as the murderous barber in an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical thriller...
...first Encores! entry of 2007, Stephen Sondheim's and James Goldman's Follies, might seem in no need of excavation. The original production, in 1971, is well remembered, indeed cherished, by the folks of a certain age who haunt City Center. The fabulous CD is readily available. In the 80s a famous concert version (also on CD) was performed at Carnegie Hall, and just six years ago a not-so-hot Broadway revival - I should say embalming - was on display...
...wide mirror that caught both the middle-aged actresses on stage and the middle-aged audience, staring at the women and sharing their discomfort. In the second act, the animosities festering in the two main couples explodes into rancorous fantasy in the faux-Ziegfeld "Loveland" section, and Bennett gave Sondheim's comic-poignant torch songs and novelty numbers a splendor that both mocked and deepened the characters' self-pity or numbness...
...more than just a new musical, “Ask Me Anything” was a good musical that consistently wedded witty turns of phrase to tight harmonies and a cute story. One shudders at the prospect of a brooding, self-styled future Sondheim in charge of something like this, and it’s a relief to see that “Ask Me Anything” was not going for anything it couldn’t handle...