Favorite endings of Sondheim songs

[rattleNwoolypenguin]

Posted: 1/20/16 at 5:51pm

The two that come to my mind are

the end of "Buddy's Blues" where those insane horns come in doing this very fast descending line. It just is so wonderfully arresting, and practically every recording of that song gets that ending so perfectly.

also, "Being Alive" brings me chills every single time on that last line. It's like hearing someone sing the national anthem

[UrNotAMachine]

Posted: 1/20/16 at 6:03pm

I love the french horn part at the end of "A Weekend in the Country" as well as the ending of "Another Hundred People" in the Original Cast Recording.

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 9:04am

Not so much the "ending" of the number, but the line that Pirelli and the Beadle sing together in the Final Ballad is masterful. Hot tenor-on-countertenor action.

[Anshel2]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 9:19am

The end of Sunday makes me cry every time.

[Jshan05]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 10:32am

Anshel2 said: "The end of Sunday makes me cry every time."

I completely agree! Watching this song performed at the Sondheim Birthday Celebration is one of the most beautiful moments on stage in my recent memory. I always feel like the strings are ascending straight into heaven. Beautiful ending to a great song!

[uncageg]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 10:38am

Jshan05 said: "Anshel2 said: "The end of Sunday makes me cry every time."

 

I completely agree! Watching this song performed at the Sondheim Birthday Celebration is one of the most beautiful moments on stage in my recent memory. I always feel like the strings are ascending straight into heaven. Beautiful ending to a great song!

 

I third this!

 

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 10:39am

It's the ending to "Too Many Mornings" that gets me every time...

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 10:47am

"Maybe you could show me,

How to let go,

Lower my guard,

Learn to be free.

Maybe if you whistle,

Whistle for me."

[morosco]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 11:11am

Bernadette Peters last note in "Losing My Mind" (Follies revival)

Harolyn Blackwell's last note in "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" (Sondheim Celebration at Carnegie Hall)

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 11:14am

 

I'm Still Here.

 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 11:16am

I love the one that ends "Baaaaah bump", applause.

[Peter2]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 11:28am

The Ben I'll never be,

Who remembers him?

[broadwayboy223]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 12:03pm

The simply beauty of the ending of Stay With Me is heartbreaking and gorgeous. 

[TweetyPie2]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 1:45pm

Being Alive, definitely.

[Ranger Tom]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 3:54pm

A toast to that invincible bunch, The dinosaurs surviving the crunch. Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch--
Everybody rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise!
 

And the ending of Sunday.

 

[rattleNwoolypenguin]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 4:10pm

end of A Little Priest is so deliciously Bernard Herrmann

[TweetyPie2]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 7:16pm

"A toast to that invincible bunch, The dinosaurs surviving the crunch. Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch--
Everybody rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise!"

Ah yes, that one, too.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 7:41pm

"All of the endings. Because, thankfully, that means the song is over."

-AfterEight

[Mike Costa]

Posted: 1/21/16 at 10:35pm

The haunting flute riff that begins and ends Goodbye, For Now ....

Updated On: 1/21/16 at 10:35 PM