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The official invitation!
Fuck Yeah Stephen Sondheim presents our first-ever Tumblr meetup at the Public Theater’s production of Into The Woods at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park!
Sunday, July 29th.
Meet in line at 6:00 am. (God help us all.) Tickets are free, we just have to wait until 1pm when they are distributed. Each person can get two tickets, so if you can join us for the show but not all the line waiting, buddy up! (More info here.)
We’ll wait for tickets together. Bring food to eat, songs to sing, and smartphones for posting the whole thing to Tumblr. Then we’ll reconvene at night for the show, which begins at 8:00 pm.
ONE WEEK!
In case you haven’t been paying attention on Facebook, here’s the plan:
We’re going to gather at Central Park West and 81st accross the street from the line at 5:45 and join the line at a few minutes after 6 to make sure we’re assembled before joining the line proper. My understanding is that it’s hard to join a group after they’re in line, so if you get there after six, you might have to have your own line buddies. :)
See y’all in just a few hours!
If you’re coming and nervous about finding us, I’ll be wearing a black t-shirt that says “NO ONE IS ALONE” in white type on the front, which might be obscured by a black West Side Story hoodie.
Also, I am bringing munchkins to share with everyone. They only had chocolate and jelly left at the Dunkin Donuts, but I don’t see that as being a problem.
The official invitation!
Fuck Yeah Stephen Sondheim presents our first-ever Tumblr meetup at the Public Theater’s production of Into The Woods at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park!
Sunday, July 29th.
Meet in line at 6:00 am. (God help us all.) Tickets are free, we just have to wait until 1pm when they are distributed. Each person can get two tickets, so if you can join us for the show but not all the line waiting, buddy up! (More info here.)
We’ll wait for tickets together. Bring food to eat, songs to sing, and smartphones for posting the whole thing to Tumblr. Then we’ll reconvene at night for the show, which begins at 8:00 pm.
So excited for this. Please reblog the bejeezus out of this post. And come! And even if you can’t come for the whole shebang, stop by the park and say hi!
Well my dear,
Too bad.
It wasn’t meant to happen.
No harm done,
How sad.
It wasn’t meant to happen.
We had our little moment —
No, don’t.
Don’t worry for me.
I worry for you, dear.
I want you to be happy.
Happy.
So my dear,
Goodnight.
It wasn’t meant to happen.
Pleasant dreams,
I’ll write.
It wasn’t meant to happen.
The candlewick was wet,
The champagne was flat,
The timing was wrong.
A little regret
And that’s that.
I’ll get along.
“We’ll both get along,”
She said as she exited smiling.
No, I mean it’s a shame
But there’s no one to blame.
“And we’ve got to be strong,” she said
As she called out tomorrow.
No, it would have been fun…
But its over and done…
Now I really must run.
Well, my dear,
Take care.
It wasn’t meant to happen.
Yes, I know,
Unfair.
It wasn’t meant to happen…
I guess.
God bless.
It seems…
Sweet dreams…
Good try.
Good bye…
dotseurat replied to your photo: I can’t believe he didn’t snap a photo.
what. WHAT? That’s amazing.
me2ism replied to your photo: I can’t believe he didn’t snap a photo.
SRSLY. He’s a good enough friend to text you he saw it but didn’t see fit to get photographic proof?
False alarm folks. He started to describe the shirt to me and I believe it was a follies-theme lolcat but not aFollies lolcat.
I can’t believe he didn’t snap a photo.
Hershey Felder, who’s made a career of one-man shows in which he plays a composers, acting & playing the piano as Gershwin, Chopin, etc., tackles Bernstein in his current show, Maestro Leonard Bernstein, which is in Boston this coming week.
The Saturday night performance has been bought out by the New Center for Arts and Culture for a Jewish community night, but they still have tickets available. If you’re a student, send me a message and I can share a discount code with you. (I’d post it, but I wrote it down at my office and I’m not there right now… And no, you don’t have to be Jewish to come on Jewish community night.)
…and this morning comes the press release that he’s going to swap wigs and do George Gershwin Alone on the same stage following the run of the Bernstein show, the week of May 30th.
Yesterday I dove deep into Spotify’s Dionne Warwick collection to discover she did an album of showtunes. It’s fantastic. Here’s “One Hand, One Heart” from Dionne Warwick On Stage and At The Movies. You’ll note that I actually bought the MP3 to share with you because I know you don’t all have Spotify and I love each and every one of you. And also I love Dionne.
You guys, this album is just SO GOOD. You should hear her “(S)He Love Me” and her “I Believe In You!”
Nicole Johannhanwahr sings “The Ladies Who Lunch,” from the 2001 German Cast Recording of Company.
Lane, you’re going to want to pay particular attention to how they translate the line about Pinter.
(Oops, totally meant to queue this on the other blog. Whatevs.)
This album…
When I was in the fifth grade and first started being obsessed with Stephen Sondheim, I devoured the book Sondheim & Co. by Craig Zadan. Like, memorized it. Including the appendices, which included both a list of songs cut from each of Sondheim’s shows, and a list of cast recordings of each of the shows.
Over the years, I’ve managed to hear each and every one of those cut songs. And I had tracked down copies of every single cast recording mentioned. Except for one: Songs of Sondheim, the Dublin cast album of Side by Side by Sondheim.
I was starting to think this album didn’t actually exist. The reference to the album was removed from the second edition of Sondheim & Co., and one of my theater friends on Twitter who has EVERYTHING didn’t have it.
And then today, through the amazing connections we’ve all developed with people on the internet, and some indispensable help from youregonnalovetomorrow, I finally got to hear this album.
After about 25 years of build up, it was necessarily a let-down. But I love Side by Side by Sondheim so it’s a treat to hear an album of the material recorded by a different producer. This one is recorded live, and includes a bit of the narration. And, as you’ll hear on this track, the narrator steps in to sing one of the songs. And if I have any Irish readers, I hope they’ll forgive me for saying that I think “Could I Leave You” sung by someone who sounds like a leprechaun is simply irresistible. (Perhaps Jason Graae, Broadway singer and former voice of the Lucky Charms elf, could add this to a future cabaret act.)
Anyway, I can’t imagine that any of you reading this are as fascinated with this track as I am, but I couldn’t wait to share it. Enjoy.
Might I also add that I have a very special place in my heart for people who talk-sing Sondheim, and while no one does it quite like Julie Wilson, this deserves a spot of honor in any talk-sing mixtape.
