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 GraceAnne
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Pics are starting to pop up!
http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/FrameSet.aspx?s=EventImagesSearchState%7c1%7c0%7c28%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c1%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c53203604%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0&p=7&tag=2
|  Rose
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Fav. BP Song: No One Is Alone and Some People
Fav. BP Show: Gypsy
Fav. BP Character: Rose/The Witch
Fav. BP CD: Gypsy
| posted: 7/9/2005 at 4:11:04 AM ET
What an amazing night! They started off with a clip of The Simpsons when one of the characters was singing Send In The Clowns, then they did a song from West Side Story. They did another I'm not sure of the name but Bernadette was pretending to audition and sang really high and badly it was funny. Then she sang Being Alive and Children Will Listen. She was also part of the chorus in the Ballad of Sweeney Tood. She looked beautiful. Her voice didn't seem to be as powerful as it usually is though. Angela and Len sang A Little Priest. During the curtain call Anglea fell I think it was over a wire and Bernadette had to pick her up then offered to hold her hand on the way out. Some of the other songs were Free, Move On (which I'm disguested to say Bernadette didn't sing), and Carol Burnett sang a song about a woman who didn't want to get married but did want to get married. I'm not sure of the name. Then Sondheim came on stage to accept his award and made a nice speech. There were videos of his early career. They didn't do anything from Gypsy except clips of different movies where they sing Rose's Turn. I tried to meet Bernadette after the show but apparently she went to a party and then left though an exit that was a tunnel. I saw Michael Wittenberg though he came out close to where I was standing. I tried to get a pic but my camera wasn't working right. I also Patty walking out with an elderly lady. I wonder who it was. I met Carol Burnett she was so nice to me. She signed a copy of her autobio. I met a few other people too. The woman who was in It Runs In The Family with Bernadette and the girl who played Princes Mia in The Princess Diaries. Sorry I'm too tired to get the program and spell their names right. I did get some pics of Bernadette on stage that I'll post as soon as I figure out how to transfer them from my digital camera.
"Oh no, you won't. No, not a chance. No arguements, shut up and dance." -You'll Never Get Away From Me
"And if it wasn't for me then where would you be Miss Gypsy Rose Lee?" -Rose's Turn
|  Jean
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I hope this is ok to do--here's the song list from "Christopher" on sondheim.com:
First Act:
Something's Coming [West Side Story]- Jason Daniely
What More Could I Need?
Opening Doors [Merrily We Roll Along]- Erick McCormick, Jason Alexander, Bernadette Peters as the first auditioner ("I can sing it higher")
Being Alive [Company]- Bernadette
Free [A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]- Adam Wylie, Jason Alexander
More [Dick Tracy]- Vanessa Williams (who dropped the "except all all all" and lost the joke at the end)
Buddy's Eyes [Follies]- Marin Mazzie (incredible)
There's Always a Woman [Anyone Can Whistle]- Marian Mazzie & Stephanie D'Abruzzio (I think)
Move On - Josh Groban and Barbara Cook (!)
Quartet [West Side Story]- Vannessa as Anita, Audra as Maria
Second Act:
Broadway Baby - Elaine Stritch
Joanna - Josh Groban
Pretty Women
Ballad of Sweeney Todd
Not a Day Goes By/What Can You Lose? - Audra McDonald
Getting Married Today - Marin Mazzie, Eric McCormack and Carol Burnett (I love Carol, but she sang it at that damn slow tempo again. I would have rather seen Marin do it).
Losing My Mind - Barbara Cook
A Little Priest - Angela and Len Cariou
Children Will Listen - Bernadette
Our Time - A bunch of kids
Babs sang "Happy Birthday" to Stephen, along with Warren Beatty.
http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?c4nvi=0&navtyp=GLS====126153&str=Bernadette+Peters
http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/FrameSet.aspx?s=ImagesSearchState%7c0%7c0%7c28%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c1%7c7%2f10%2f2005%7c7%2f2%2f2005%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c7%7c%22Bernadette+Peters%22%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0&p=7&tag=6
(I put the show that the song is from in italics
where I knew it off the top of my head--some are really obvious, like the medley from Sweeney Todd, Johanna, etc. But if anyone wants to know more, here is a list of all of Steve's songs:
http://www.sondheimguide.com/songs.html )
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The woman who was in It Runs in the Family--Audra McDonald, perhaps; Anne Hathaway I'd guess for the other.
| Rose
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Fav. BP Song: No One Is Alone and Some People
Fav. BP Show: Gypsy
Fav. BP Character: Rose/The Witch
Fav. BP CD: Gypsy
| posted: 7/9/2005 at 4:48:24 AM ET
Yep exactly. Thanks that takes the pressure off.
"Oh no, you won't. No, not a chance. No arguements, shut up and dance." -You'll Never Get Away From Me
"And if it wasn't for me then where would you be Miss Gypsy Rose Lee?" -Rose's Turn
|  Christine-NYC
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Fav. BP Song: With So Little to be Sure Of
Fav. BP Show: Gypsy
Fav. BP Character: Marie (insert last name) lol There's a few
Fav. BP CD: Bernadette Peters Loves Rogers and Hammerstein
| posted: 7/9/2005 at 7:05:45 AM ET
I love that you had fun, but I secretly hate whomever was there. lol
<3CMH<3
| Jean
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http://lang.dailynews.com/socal/gallery2/?folder=news/070905_sond
(Bernadette is at picture #13--in dress #3 by my count. Len Cariou is incorrectly identified as James Barbour)
| Rose
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Fav. BP Song: No One Is Alone and Some People
Fav. BP Show: Gypsy
Fav. BP Character: Rose/The Witch
Fav. BP CD: Gypsy
| posted: 7/9/2005 at 12:26:35 PM ET
Christine that's how I felt about everyone who saw the last Gypsy. I was thrilled they had a good time but I couldn't stand them for going. LOL.
"Oh no, you won't. No, not a chance. No arguements, shut up and dance." -You'll Never Get Away From Me
"And if it wasn't for me then where would you be Miss Gypsy Rose Lee?" -Rose's Turn
|  moljul
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Fav. BP CD: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Fav. BP Song: Dublin Lady
| posted: 7/9/2005 at 1:54:52 PM ET
Okay, I'm checking in quickly (yeah right) because I'm paying a ton for internet access in my hotel.
The concert was amazing. It's pretty much all been covered. Bernadette was hysterical as the auditioner singing very high and very bad. And her "I can sing higher" in a VERY peppy voice was hysterical. When Eric McCormack told her "No, really that's enough", she left the stage in a huff. I didn't get the best picture of this because I wasn't prepared for her to come out mid-song and unannounced.
Her Children Will Listen was stunning and a nice end to the program. It was done just before they presented SS with his award and the high school choir sang the finale. She sang a stunning Being Alive and I was so hoping she would sing Move On as well. As wonderful as Barbara Cook is, she just doesn't have the power left in her voice to do that song justice. It was beautifully phrased and presented, of course, but just not quite what it should have been. All the stars seemed to be coming back on in the second act and we hadn't seen Bernadette so I was thinking she just may do Rose's Turn but I was very happy with "Children". She looked stunning. I loved that pink dress (for Being Alive) and had not seen it since she wore it to the Tonys in 2000? 2001? And then the white dress is her current favorite but oh so glamorous.
I don't think Angela Landbury tripped on a wire, I think she tripped on her dress. Bernadette was the first one to react and reacted immediately. She bend over and after I think asking Angela if she was okay, offered both her hands to help pull her up. It wasn't working so Bernadette ending up almost sitting down (with her feet still flat on the floor and probably in VERY high heels) to give Angela the leverage she needed to get up but it still didn't seem to work. I think it really just boiled down to the fact that Angela (while very trim and fit) is much bigger than Bernadette and simply outweighed her too much. I really think if Bernadette had succeeded in pulling Angela to her feet, she herself would have fallen back on her butt and probably pulled Angela forward and down with her. I was VERY happy when someone else finally responded to the situation (was it Len Cariou?) and came over to help. Angela seemed okay and I'm sure was just trying to save face a bit. Though I noticed as both she and Bernadette turned to leave the stage, they pointed to Angela's hem and even Bernadette proceeded to pick her hem up quite a bit (she had a very long train) and walked out with it that way. Guess she didn't want to repeat Angela's fall.
I took lots of pictures (some pretty good, some really bad). I'll post them on Sunday when I get home. When I arrived on Friday I took a quick trip to Hollywood to find Bernadette's star as I had not seen it in my previous L.A. visits. I also noticed Mack Sennett's star was only a few feet down from hers so I got a picture of that too.
Well I'm off to Malibu for lunch (its 11 a.m and I haven't had breakfast so I'm getting VERY hungry) and then a walk along the beach and then back to LAX for the flight home.
| PTM
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Here's my not so short report:
OVERTURE [accompanied by video featuring photographs and footage from various SS shows. Audience members start to applaud as certain stars appear in the clips. There was a rehearsal photo of BP with SS and Lapine, clip from Sunday where George is leading Dot to her place in the picture, photo of the Witch at the foot of Rapunzel’s tower and clip from Woods of the Witch as she turns around after her transformation]
SOMETHING’S COMING [Danieley lead on stage by a group “Jets” sounds wonderful ]
ANGELA LANSBURY even before she is announced and the lights hit her, people recognize her silhouette as she walks out center stage and they rise to their feet. Angela talks about Sondheim’s ACW being her first musical and her audition, introduces the evening and thanks Sondheim on behalf of all the performers and people attending.
WHAT MORE DO I NEED? [I’ve never seen Hathaway and I thought she did a nice job with the song and as BETH in the following number. Now I can see why people were mentioning her for the part of Louise]
OPENING DOORS [I think this was a slightly abbreviated version of the song. McCormack was Frank, A. Gemignani was Charlie, and D’Abruzzo was Mary. At the appropriate point in the song, McCormack stops and brings on the “Producer” and Jason Alexander comes onstage and sings the part he originally did some 24 years ago. Somewhere in there Bernadette had snuck onstage, but the audience erupted when it became apparent who the Auditioner was going to be. She made a show of handing her music to the pianist and then struggled a bit to get the mike down to her height. She wore a leather(?) jacket. Don’t know if she was wearing much else under there because she didn’t have much time to get into her gown after she got off stage and as others said she was very funny]
BEING ALIVE [Bernadette got a rousing hand as she was announced. I’m not sure if the Bowl stage is twice the size of a regular concert stage but I noticed that Bernadette had to quicken her pace in order to get to the mike before the opening bars of the song finished and I don’t think she managed to get the mike exactly where she wanted it before she had to start singing. I thought her voice sounded a little tight not nearly as powerful as when I heard her back in March but she looked great]
CLIP of Sondheim talking about not liking many of the songs from WSS
FREE [wonder if Nathan Lane who was originally supposed to appear would have performed this number, but Alexander did a great job with Wylie]
MORE [This song from Dick Tracy was given the production number treatment with Williams dancing around the stage and out on the walkway with a bunch of male dancers. Unfortunately her head mike didn’t seem to be working that well, I think she losts some of the lyrics and sort of ran out of breath trying to sing and move around at the same time]
IN BUDDY’S EYES [Mazzie is introduced as being in the original cast of Passion and then sings this song, although very beautifully, from Follies]
DESPERATE HOUSWIVES video clip [I assume this was the same as the one used in the CHILDREN AND ART benefit concert in March with the songs appropriately and humorously matched to the characters.]
THERE’S ALWAYS A WOMAN [Someone on another board mentioned that Murphy was supposed to originally do this number with Mazzie, I think. I thought Peters and Kahn’s voices blended better than Mazzie and D’Abruzzo’s voices, but I think M & D didn’t mess up on the lyrics.
MOVE ON [I was sharing a box with one of the Groban fans in attendance so I knew that he would be singing this with Cook who got entrance applause but not much of a star’s introduction.]
QUARTET [Nice rousing finale to the first act. Williams started out fine singing solo as Anita but got overwhelmed when the bigger voiced singers came on -- Danieley as Tony, Barbour as Riff, and McDonald as Maria.
Second Act
FOLLIES Overture [or part of it if I’m remembering correctly]
BROADWAY BABY [Stritch makes the only other star performer entrance from center stage and receives a standing ovation from the crowd and after her number]
SWEENEY TODD [This sounded like the same medley that was used to open the Sondheim Carnegie Hall tribute back in ’92 with the orchestral arrangement from Symphonic Sondheim, Groban doing the Johanna part and Barbour and Jubilant Sykes doing Pretty Women.]
WHAT CAN YOU LOSE / NOT A DAY GOES BY [Sounded sort of like an arrangement that was designed for McDonald. Almost verging on the overwrought during What Can You Lose, but she sounded strong and the audience ate it up]
GETTING MARRIED TODAY [Mazzie sounded great, Burnett didn’t really sing the melody to her part and slowed the number way down but the audience could hear the lyrics and were laughing even though she messed up a bit and McCormack came in too early and then somewhat off key]
LOSING MY MIND [Cook was stronger here than in Move On and I think she got a standing ovation afterwards]
A LITTLE PRIEST [It was a real treat for me to get to see these two perform live and especially doing this number. I thought Lansbury in particular sounded good and Carious seemed to be having a great time and of course they received a standing ovation]
SONDHEIM ON SCREEN [rather lengthy video montage of various movie versions of Sondheim’s musicals and Sondheim’s songs used in movies – The Birdcage, Defending Your Life, Postcards from the Edge, Anger Management, Airplane, Jersey Girl, Camp, something with Robert DeNiro singing in a prison and something with what looked like green creatures in a tree singing maybe one of the songs from Gypsy, plus that line from the Mel Brooks movie where he says, “Sondheim, Bring in those Clowns” The segment ends with Warren Beatty hugging Diane Keaton in Reds which leads to Beatty coming onstage]
WARREN BEATTY [I can’t remember now what Beatty talked about maybe something about Sondheim’s underscoring or teaching us about humanity. He did concluded by saying what better person to sing this song than Bernadette Peters]
CHILDREN WILL LISTEN [I enjoyed getting to hear her perform this number with an orchestral arrangement rather than just the piano and her voice sound warmer here than earlier although her hair, at least on the big screens looked very red.]
STREISAND [walks out and receives a standing ovation, although not from me, I knew she wasn’t going to sing. I assume if she had, it would have been Children Will Listen which makes me wonder if Bernadette would only have done the one number in the first act since she was the only performer who got solos in both acts. Streisand says something about not having been to the Bowl since 60 something, talks about Sondheim’s gift to singers and introduces Marilyn Bergman who talks about the Stephen Sondheim Children Will Listen program of ASCAP which will enable young people to attend musical theater productions starting first in LA and NY.
SONDHEIM gets a standing ovation, we all sing Happy Birthday, says he new he could get Warren to sing in public one day and then Sondheim introduces the childrens chorus which closes the show singing Our Time with their parents/family member cheering loudly in the back bench sections as they spot their children’s faces on the huge screens.
This was only my second time at the Bowl, well fourth if you count the open rehearsal before Bernadette’s concert and the two performances she gave in ’96, and I’m glad they’ve added the huge screens on either side of the stage. Seating some 18,000 people one would need to bring a telescope to see any facial expressions if not sitting in the front box area. Except for when they had mike problems, you could hear the singers fine, but I don’t think the orchestra came off that well.
I’d be curious to see a comparison of the numbers performed at the other Sondheim Birthday celebrations this year. I know it must be very difficult to try and put one of these evenings together with stars coming and going and one maybe singing or not however, I thought it was odd that they didn’t include anything from Night Music in particular or even Gypsy since they did those WSS numbers. I loved the evening and getting to see all those stars perform live in that huge but fun venue even if the night seemed somewhat formless. At first I thought it was going to be somewhat chronological when Danieley opened the show with the WSS number and then when Alexander and Peters popped up in the Merrily number I thought it might be more like a repertory company with the evenings performers participating in more extended scenes/numbers which would have been different but then it just became more stars coming out and doing their numbers, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
There was a center screen on stage that was used occasionally to show video and I thought it would have been helpful for some of those 17,000 people who might not have been that familiar with Sondheim’s work to put up some show and song titles as the video clips didn’t necessarily relate or introduce the songs they preceded; however, great evening, great weather, great crowd and great traffic jam out of the parking lots.
PTM
| GraceAnne
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Found this through a Josh Groban message board!
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=7854126&uid=1251123
| moljul
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Fav. BP Song: Dublin Lady
| posted: 7/10/2005 at 2:04:08 PM ET
Forgot to mention that I practicaly bumped into Michael on my way to my seat and I also had the great thrill of seeing Holland Taylor enjoying her pre-show dinner in her box. 
PTM: Great and very thorough review. I agree that Bernadette's voice sounded a little off on Being Alive. Tight is a very good description. But Children Will Listen was gorgeous.
I just wish it was recorded so I could live it all again.
| Jean
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Great reporting, all. And I love those pictures from Groban's site. I feel like I was there.
Setting a very high standard.
| moljul
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Fav. BP CD: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Fav. BP Song: Dublin Lady
| posted: 7/10/2005 at 4:44:24 PM ET
Here's the link to my pictures. I labeled a few but I'm just tired and not in the mood to do anymore.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/kajmoljul/album?.dir=/1d47
| Karen
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Thanks everyone. Great photo documentation, moljul. And very informative reporting/commentary from you, Rose, and PTM.
|  GYPSY1527
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Fav. BP Song: With So Little to be Sure of
Fav. BP Show: Gypsy
Fav. BP Character: Dot
Fav. BP CD: Sondheim Ect.
| posted: 7/10/2005 at 7:04:12 PM ET
I went to the Wall-to-Wall 12 hour Sondheim event and from what I've read and seen (pictures and setlist wise) it was in my opinion the best put together. Unlike the birthday celebration at the Amsterdam (think Harvey Firstein) there wasn't any comedic moment. Purely music and discussion. The setlist was as follows:
WALL TO WALL STEPHEN SONDHEIM
SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2005
11AM – 11PM
Schedule (Artists and program subject to change):
11 am - 2 pm
Into the Woods Junior
Introduction by Freddie Gershon, CEO of Music Theatre International
Excerpts from Into the Woods Junior (1988, rev. 199
Some Early Sondheim
"I Must Be Dreaming" from All That Glitters (194
Debra Joyal, Telly Leung – Josh Rosenblum, piano
"How Do I Know?" from Phinney's Rainbow (194
Patrick Quinn – Thomas Murray, piano
A Very Short Violin Sonata (1951)
Christina Sunnerstam, violin
"I'm in Love with a Boy" from Climb High (1951)
Emily Skinner – Josh Rosenblum, piano
"The Girls of Summer" from The Girls of Summer (1956)
Freda Foh Shen – Josh Rosenblum, piano
"Small World" from Gypsy (1959)
(Music by Jule Styne, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim)
Angelina Reaux – Alex Rybeck, piano
"Truly Content" from Passionella (1962)
Becky Ann Baker – Josh Rosenblum, piano
"Anyone Can Whistle" from Anyone Can Whistle (1964)
Marsha Perry Starkes – Lanny Meyers, piano
"Someone Woke Up" from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965)
(Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim)
Andrea Burns – Tom Murray, piano
***
Jonathan Schwartz - The Saturday Show
Broadcast live on XM Satellite Radio and live on 93.9FM WNYC from noon – 4 pm
***
Company (1970)
Introduction by Barbara Barrie
"Sorry-Grateful"
John Dossett, David Staller, Richard White – Josh Rosenblum, piano
"Getting Married Today"
Sarah Rice, Alice Ripley, David Staller, Richard White – Josh Rosenblum, piano
"Marry Me a Little"
Gregg Edelman – Rob Berman, piano
***
"What More Do I Need?" from Saturday Night (1954)
"With So Little to Be Sure of" from Anyone Can Whistle (1964)
Liz Callaway – Alex Rybeck, piano
"Goodbye for Now" from Reds (1981)
Tierney Sutton – Christian Jacob, piano
***
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962)
Introduction by Jerry Zaks
"Free"
Michael Arden, Sheldon Harnick – Lanny Meyers, piano
"Everybody Ought to Have a Maid"
Harvey Evans, David Green, Jonathan Hadary, David Staller – Rob Berman, piano
"No One Is Alone"
Chip Zien, Tom Murray
***
The Art of the Cast Album
Jonathan Schwartz, Thomas Z. Shepard
***
“The Ladies Who Lunch" from Company (1970)
Elaine Stritch – Rob Bowman, piano
"Everybody Says Don't" from Anyone Can Whistle (1964)
David Green – Lanny Meyers, piano
"So Many People" from Saturday Night (1954)
KT Sullivan – Mark Nadler, piano
***
"Can That Boy Foxtrot?" cut from Follies (1971)
Emily Skinner – Josh Rosenblum, piano
"Another Hundred Lyrics"
(Music by Stephen Sondheim, Lyrics by Laura Mayer)
Ivy Austin – Rob Berman, piano
"Don't Laugh" from Hot Spot (1963)
(Music by Mary Rodgers, Lyrics by Martin Charnin and Stephen Sondheim)
Phyllis Newman – Sam Davis, piano
"I Never Do Anything Twice" from The Seven Percent Solution (1975)
Kate Burton – Josh Rosenblum, piano
"Agony" from Into the Woods (198
Jason Danieley, Gregg Edelman – Sam Davis, piano
***
The Ying Quartet
"Children" (themes from Into the Woods and Sunday in the Park with George)
Arrangement by Andrew Lippa
Timothy Ying – violin, Janet Ying – violin, Phillip Ying – viola, David Ying – cello
***
"The Miller's Son" from A Little Night Music (1973)
Kate Baldwin – Rob Berman, piano
"Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music (1973)
Karen Akers – Don Rebic, piano
2 pm - 5 pm
A Talk With Steve
Jonathan Schwartz, moderator; James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman
***
Sunday in the Park with George (1984)
"Sunday in the Park with George"
Michael Cerveris, Melissa Errico – Rob Berman, piano
"No Life"
Dana Ivey, Isaiah Sheffer – Rob Berman, piano
"Color and Light"
Michael Cerveris, Melissa Errico – Rob Berman, piano
"Beautiful"
Michael Cerveris, Mary Beth Peil – Rob Berman, piano
***
Concertino for Two Pianos (1952)
Stephen Gosling and Beata Moon, pianos
***
Follies (1971)
Introduction by Theodore S. Chapin, reading from his book Everything Was Possible
"Love Will See Us Through"
Michael Arden, Kate Baldwin, Lauren Kennedy, Thom Christopher Warren – Sam Davis, piano
“Follies Remix” (Arrangement by Jed Distler)
Jed Distler and Kathleen Supové, pianos
"The-God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me?-Blues”
Alan Campbell with Ayelet Arbuckle, Kate Baldwin – Sam Davis, piano
Pacific Overtures (1976)
"Poems"
Eric Jordan Young, Telly Leung – Sam Davis, piano
"Please Hello"
Evan D'Angeles, Alvin Ing, Francis Jue, Darren Lee, Sab Shimono, Scott Watanabe, B. D. Wong – Sam Davis, piano
"Pretty Lady"
Rick Edinger, Darren Lee, Telly Leung – Sam Davis, piano
***
Passion (1994)
"Loving You"
Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn – Sam Davis, piano
***
The Ying Quartet
"Night Waltzes" from A Little Night Music (1973)
Arrangement by Michael Starobin
***
Nora York
“I Remember” from Evening Primrose (1966)
“Being Alive" from Company (1970)
(Arrangements by Nora York)
Nora York – Charlie Giordano - accordion, Dave Hofstra - bass, Steve Tarshis - guitar
5 pm - 8 pm
Sondheim and American Popular Culture
Frank Rich, Moderator; Melissa Bernardo, Andrew Lippa, Stephen Sondheim, Joss Whedon
***
Between-Shows Broadway
"The Boy from . . ." from The Mad Show (1966)
(Music by Mary Rodgers, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim)
Joanna Gleason – Lanny Meyers, piano
"Silly People" cut from A Little Night Music (1973)
George Lee Andrews – Chris Fenwick, piano
"There Won't Be Trumpets" cut from Anyone Can Whistle (1964)
Carolee Carmello – Chris Fenwick, piano
"Not a Day Goes By" from Merrily We Roll Along (1981)
Myra Lucretia Taylor – Lanny Meyers, piano
"Move On" from Sunday in the Park with George (1984)
Carolee Carmello, Gregg Edelman – Chris Fenwick, piano
"Broadway Baby" from Follies (1971)
Judy Kaye – Lanny Meyers, piano
***
Assassins (1990)
"The Ballad of Booth"
Patrick Cassidy, Michael Cerveris – Chris Fenwick, piano
"Unworthy of Your Love"
Alexander Gemignani, Annie Golden – Chris Fenwick, piano
***
The Ying Quartet
"Fear No More" from The Frogs (1974)
(Music by Stephen Sondheim, Poem by William Shakespeare)
David Staller
"I Know Things Now" from Into the Woods (198
Kate Baldwin
"Losing My Mind" from Follies (1971)
Angelina Reaux
Arrangements by Georgia Stitt
***
Merrily We Roll Along (1981)
Introduction by Len Fleisher, Lonny Price and Daisy Prince
"Opening Doors"
Ivy Austin, Sidney J. Burgoyne, Danielle Ferland, Alexander Gemignani, Thom Christopher Warrren, Emily Loesser – Chris Fenwick, piano
***
My Favorite Lyrics
Joel Fram, Moderator; Jason Robert Brown, Richard Maltby, Georgia Stitt
"The Ladies Who Lunch" from Company (1970)
"How I Saved Roosevelt" from Assassins (1990)
"By the Sea" from Sweeney Todd (197
Freda Foh Shen – David Shire, piano
***
The Waltz King of Our Day
Introduction by David Shire
"The Sun Won't Set" from A Little Night Music (1973)
Hudson Shad (Mark Bleeke - First Tenor, Timothy Leigh Evans - Second Tenor, Eric Edlund - Baritone, Peter Becker - Bass/Baritone, Wilbur Pauley - Bass, Michael Fennelly - piano)
"Could I Leave You?" from Follies (1971)
Randy Graff – Chris Fenwick, piano
"Bowler Hat" from Pacific Overtures (1976)
Telly Leung – Chris Fenwick, piano
- intermission -
8 pm - 11 pm
The American Theatre Orchestra
Paul Gemignani, Musical Director
Ronald Sell, Orchestra Manager
PART I:
"Symphonic Sondheim - Sweeney Todd Suite"
(Arrangement by Don Sebesky)
"Invocation & Instructions to the Audience" from The Frogs (1974)
Patrick Quinn, Isaiah Sheffer, The Symphonettes
"Now/Later/Soon" from A Little Night Music (1973)
Laura Benanti, John Dossett, Danny Gurwin
"The Glamorous Life" from the film A Little Night Music (1977)
Mackenzie Mauzy, conducted by Jonathan Tunick
"A Weekend in the Country" from A Little Night Music (1973)
Introduction by Pat Birch
Kate Baldwin, Laura Benanti, John Dossett, Randy Graff, Danny Gurwin, Marc Kudisch, with Maren Berthelsen, Leena Chopra, Debra Joyal. conducted by Charles Prince
"Another Hundred People" from Company (1970)
Ivy Austin
"If You Can Find Me, I'm Here" from Evening Primrose (1966)
Neil Patrick Harris
"Happiness" from Passion (1994)
Jason Danieley, Marin Mazzie
"Symphonic Sondheim - Comedy Tonight" from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
(Arrangement by Don Sebesky)
"Giants in the Sky" from Into the Woods (198
Michael Arden
"The Gun Song" from Assassins (1990)
Becky Ann Baker, Michael Cerveris, James Clow, Merwin Foard
"The Ballad of Czolgosz" from Assassins (1990)
Patrick Cassidy, with Ivy Austin, Sidney J. Burgoyne, Debra Joyal, Thom Christopher Warren
"Being Alive" from Company (1970)
Patti LuPone
Piano Songs
"Saturday Night" from Saturday Night (1954)
Hudson Shad
"Take Me to the World" from Evening Primrose (1966)
Alvin Ing – Chris Fenwick, piano
"Merrily We Roll Along"
"The Hills of Tomorrow"
from Merrily We Roll Along (1981)
(Arrangements by Jason Robert Brown)
The Juilliard Choral Union, conducted by Judith Clurman – Jason Robert Brown, piano
"Children Will Listen" from Into the Woods (198
B. D. Wong – Chris Fenwick, piano
PART II:
Overture from Merrily We Roll Along (1981)
"Green Finch and Linnet Bird" from Sweeney Todd (197
Heidi Grant Murphy
"A Little Priest" from Sweeney Todd (197
George Hearn, Angela Lansbury
"Losing My Mind" from Follies (1971)
Donna Murphy
"Me and My Town" from Anyone Can Whistle (1964)
Debbie Gravitte, Hudson Shad
"Franklin Shepard, Inc." from Merrily We Roll Along (1981)
Lonny Price, Michael Cerveris
"The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened" from Bounce (2003)
Gregg Edelman, Michele Pawk
"Finishing the Hat" from Sunday in the Park with George (1984)
Neil Patrick Harris
"Waiting for the Girls Upstairs" from Follies (1971)
Michael Arden, Kate Baldwin, Harvey Evans, Emily Loesser, Michele
Pawk, Kurt Peterson, Marti Rolph, Thom Christopher Warren
"Not a Day Goes By" from Merrily We Roll Along (1981)
"I'm Still Here" from Follies (1971)
Debra Monk
"Too Many Mornings" from Follies (1971)
Jason Danieley, Marin Mazzie
"Someone in a Tree" from Pacific Overtures (1976)
Evan D'Angeles, Alvin Ing, Telly Leung, B. D. Wong, conducted by Charles Prince
"Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music (1973)
John Dossett, Michele Pawk
"In Buddy's Eyes" from Follies (1971)
Barbara Cook – Jeffrey Harris, piano, Pete Donovan, bass
"Sunday" from Sunday in the Park with George (1984)
(Arrangement by Jason Robert Brown)
The Juilliard Choral Union
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5/3/2002 | posted: 7/10/2005 at 10:12:54 PM ET
Thanks. I really appreciate being able to see the two line-ups together in the same thread, for comparison. Obviously, Wall-to-Wall Sondheim had a lot more time, and a more scholarly orientation, so they were able to delve into some of the more interesting obscurities. I'm sure they were both great events to attend, and I'm sorry someone wasn't able or willing to capture them for posterity for television and video/DVD. It's too bad that Bernadette had to miss Wall-to-Wall Sondheim in order to tape a dopey sitcom pilot that didn't sell anyway, but that's show biz, kids.
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