Sondheim was one of the first people I told about my idea for a piece about Alexander Hamilton, clear view standing cover s9 , GAME OF THRONES Cover Samsung Galaxy S9 back in 2008. It was in this townhouse, on the first floor. I’d been hired cover s9 luminosa, GRATEFUL DEAD BLUES FOR ALLAH Cover Samsung Galaxy S9 to write Spanish translations for a Broadway revival of “West amazon cover s9, JACOB SARTORIUS 2 Cover Samsung Galaxy S9 Side Story,” and during our first meeting he asked me what I was working on next. I told him “Alexander Hamilton,” and he threw back his head in laughter and clapped his hands. “That is exactly what you should be doing. No one will expect that from you. How fantastic.” That moment alone, the joy of surprising Sondheim, sustained me through many rough writing nights and custodia tucano iphone 6 plus missed deadlines. I sent him early drafts of songs over the seven year development of “Hamilton,” and his email response was always iphone x custodia folio the same. “Variety, variety, variety, Lin. Don’t let up for a second. Surprise custodia iphone 5s case us.”
Sondheim: Yeah. I’d been working from a little Samuel French type version.5 I was up unieuro cover s9, HOT COACH MICKEY COUPLE Cover Samsung Galaxy S9 to Page 8 in Bond’s script, which is, I guess, the marketplace scene,6 and already it was an hour and a half long. I thought, “This is not going to work because I don’t know how to cut, really.” I mean I do, but I don’t. That’s why I got Hugh Wheeler,7 because he was born in England, he was the son of a bankruptcy judge. So he knew something about class structure. He wrote (and co wrote) under a pseudonym, Patrick Quentin.
SONDHEIM HAS CERTAINLY followed his own advice in this regard: His choice of subject matter over the last half century of work demolishes any notions of the kinds of stories custodia iphone 5 uguale 5c musical theater can tell. From a violent barber (“Sweeney Todd” with Hugh Wheeler) to ancient Roman farce (1962’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” with librettists Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart) to fractured fairy tales (“Into the Woods” with James Lapine). protective standing cover s9, JOHNNY DEPP FANTASTIC BEASTS Cover Samsung Galaxy S9 Within this vast terrain, he and his collaborators have also radically experimented with the musical theater form: See the diptych structure of “Sunday in the Park With George,” also with Lapine, in which each act takes place a century flip cover s9, KANSAS JAYHAWKS 3 Cover Samsung Galaxy S9 apart, or the unprecedented “Company” (1970), with a book by George Furth, a meditation on commitment and cover s9 , KATE SPADE LOVE Cover Samsung Galaxy S9 monogamy, which Sondheim describes as a “non plot” musical.” Here he is, arriving at the form of “Follies,” his legendary 1971 musical with librettist James Goldman about a reunion of retired performers from a 1930s Ziegfeldesque revue: “You start with the subject matter and some content and it takes form. And if you don’t give it a plot, what’s going to hold it together Uh oh. That’s what’s dangerous and that’s what’s scary about it.”
We gravitate toward the subject of surprise, both for the audience and for the playwright.
Sondheim: That was a big lesson from Peter Shaffer.9 We went to see a play once about the mad queen of Spain and in the first act there were two rapes, an evisceration, a fire and something horrifying with a child, custodia iphone bambini I don’t remember. And at the end of the first act I said, “This is so much my kind of thing. Why am I bored” He said, “There’s no surprise.” And marcelo burlon cover s9, GIVENCHY BAMBI Cover Samsung Galaxy S9 I thought, “Put that on your bathroom mirror.” Surprise: if it’s in the lyric, the unexpected word, the unexpected note, the unexpected incident. The unexpected, the unexpected, that’s what theater is about. If you had to patent one thing in the theater, it’s surprise. We were on the subject of “Finishing the Hat” from “Sunday in the Park With George,” one of Sondheim’s most celebrated songs, and maybe the greatest song ever written about the self induced spell of the creative process.10 samsung alcantara cover s9, GTR LOGO Cover Samsung Galaxy S9 In this excerpt from that interview, just as in his work, Sondheim’s collaborator brought out the best in him:
Weidman: Do you remember you called me the night you finished that song
Sondheim (smiling): Was I excited
And then for a moment you let in the depth and intensity and range iphone 5 custodia pelle of Stephen Sondheim’s feeling for the past half century. That Tony and Maria of “West Side Story” first fell in love as Sondheim sharpened his Blackwing pencils, finding the words for their doomed romance at age 25. That Mrs. Lovett of “Sweeney Todd” hatched her diabolical plans from this writing couch as Sondheim talked to himself. That within Sondheim, somewhere, is both Georges Seurat and Fosca, Pseudolus and Mama Rose, John Wilkes Booth and Madame Armfeldt, Charley Kringas and Little Red Riding Hood. He has served up vodka stingers for Joanne (“Company”) and chrysanthemum tea for the Shogun (“Pacific attivare flip cover s9, HARLEY DAVIDSON PINK LOGO Cover Samsung Galaxy S9 Overtures”). Sixty years of iconic theatrical moments, and they exist as a result of the specific way Stephen Sondheim feels. Line by line, note by note, surprise by surprise…
