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ohrochester:

Or, two examples of Stephen Sondheim’s lyrical greatness in one song:

(Backstory: Bernadette Peters plays an ex-lover of George Seurat, and here tells him, shortly after their breakup, why she just loves her new boyfriend, a baker named Louis.)

And then in bed, George

I mean, he kneads me —

I mean like dough, George …

The comedy loses a little when you read it, since the kneeds/needs jokes doesn’t really land aurally until the next line.

And then, later in the same song:

Everybody gets along with him.

That’s the trouble,

Nothing’s wrong with him …

Critic Ethan Mordden called this “the greatest character damnation in all of Sondheim.” Louis is nice and sweet and popular…but he’s just plain ordinary.

ohrochester

thomasdestry: “It was time to do the scene, and Cary said, ‘George, why don’t we just go ahead? If you don’t like it, we’ll do it again.’ So, without a rehearsal or anything, we started the scene. As I was talking, it hit me that I’d had too much to drink. So, as I explained things to Cary, I hiccuped. In answer to the hiccup, Cary said-out of the clear blue sky-‘Excuse me.’ Well, I sort of said, ‘Umm?’ It was very difficult for me to keep a straight face, because his ad-libbed response had been so beautifully done….Cary had an almost perfect humor.” James Stewart, from Evenings with Cary Grant

thomasdestry:

“It was time to do the scene, and Cary said, ‘George, why don’t we just go ahead? If you don’t like it, we’ll do it again.’ So, without a rehearsal or anything, we started the scene. As I was talking, it hit me that I’d had too much to drink. So, as I explained things to Cary, I hiccuped. In answer to the hiccup, Cary said-out of the clear blue sky-‘Excuse me.’ Well, I sort of said, ‘Umm?’ It was very difficult for me to keep a straight face, because his ad-libbed response had been so beautifully done….Cary had an almost perfect humor.”

James Stewart, from Evenings with Cary Grant

thomasdestry

armfeldt: “Most of all, I want to talk to the kids at home watching.  I was a kid and I watched this show and it seemed so far from me.  And I want to tell you that all of us up here on this stage and in this audience, we feel the same way.  And with the world being so fast right now, I want to remind you to focus on what you love because it is the greatest passport, it is the greatest road map to an extraordinarily blissful life.  Just focus on that one thing, don’t listen to anybody else, and you will run into the right people, the right teachers, the right moments and circumstances.  And one day you will meet the one person that will share that love with you…”—Katie Finneran in her 2010 Tony Award acceptance speech Miss Precious Perfect

armfeldt:

“Most of all, I want to talk to the kids at home watching.  I was a kid and I watched this show and it seemed so far from me.  And I want to tell you that all of us up here on this stage and in this audience, we feel the same way.  And with the world being so fast right now, I want to remind you to focus on what you love because it is the greatest passport, it is the greatest road map to an extraordinarily blissful life.  Just focus on that one thing, don’t listen to anybody else, and you will run into the right people, the right teachers, the right moments and circumstances.  And one day you will meet the one person that will share that love with you…”—Katie Finneran in her 2010 Tony Award acceptance speech

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daisy-hilton

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withorwithoutwords:

joyce didonato — una voce poco fa

MIND = BLOWN. can i sound like this, god? pleaaaase?

4:56 <-DAMN!

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