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[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/27/24 at 2:44pm

It wouldn’t be too surprising if some director someday tried to throw in a few reprises and a trunk song or two but I imagine it would be very difficult to find lyrics to match up with the book scenes.

[WindyNewYorker]

Posted: 4/28/24 at 11:12am

I have probably watch/listen to the exit music 100 times since it’s available. The orchestra sounds so good and so rare to see the first video of a cast album features the band. Wish I could play bassoon like that.

[MrBroucek]

Posted: 4/28/24 at 4:51pm

CATSNYrevival said: "It wouldn’t be too surprising if some director someday tried to throw in a few reprises and a trunk song or two but I imagine it would be very difficult to find lyrics to match up with the book scenes."

 

In the Vulture article, Ives talked talked about his responsibility to produce it as someday a 'Frankenstein' version will appear. Since seeing it, I've played around with the 'sensible' of including Silly People and Ah but underneath into the second half. In the 'silly' version, we have Sunday in the park with George, How i saved Roosevelt and The House of Marcus Lycus. 

 

 

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/28/24 at 5:38pm

I was thinking actual trunk songs we haven’t heard before not cut songs that have been used in Marry Me a Little or other revues or concerts.

[AnythingYouDo]

Posted: 4/28/24 at 8:39pm

Now that we've gotten Sondheim's score as he wrote it, I wouldn't mind if a lyricist wrote new lyrics for the second act to music based on the thematic material already established in the show. Sondheim's second acts are frequently based on thematic material in the first acts, so I think it could work if the lyricist is skilled.

When I saw the show, it didn't feel like the score was missing something. However, as others have noted, there are places where it seems apparent Sondheim would have added songs if he'd lived to see this production happen. I've sort of imagined a reprise of "Waiter's Song" when Windsor takes over the food and supplies after the group gets trapped in the room.

[WindyNewYorker]

Posted: 4/30/24 at 10:36am

https://youtu.be/c61mvUVgcoA?si=p74D8viDrUqfgfap

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by David Ives

Directed by Joe Mantello

Album Produced by Sean Patrick Flahaven and Bill Rosenfield

Conductor: ALEXANDER GEMIGNANI

Piano/Keyboard: MEGHANN ZERVOULIS BATE

Piccolo/Flute/Clarinet: JIM ERCOLE

Oboe/English Horn: KEVE WILSON

Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Alto Sax: LINO GOMEZ

Bassoon: PATRICIA WANG

Trumpet: HUGO MORENO

Horn: PRISCILLA RINEHART

Drums/Percussion: MATT SMALLCOMB

Violin: CENOVIA CUMMINS

Violin: RACHEL HANDMAN

Viola: ORLANDO WELLS

Cello: SARAH HEWITT-ROTH

Bass: MATT ARONOFF

Orchestrations: JONATHAN TUNICK

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 4/30/24 at 10:41am

AnythingYouDo said: "Now that we've gotten Sondheim's score as he wrote it, I wouldn't mind if a lyricist wrote new lyrics for the second act to music based on the thematic material already established in the show."

 

No.

[ljay889]

Posted: 4/30/24 at 11:04am

Why are people still fantasizing about another composer adding new material? It’s been produced, the show is final. Sondheim knew this would be the final version of the musical. For there to be additions not done by Sondheim would be the epitome of disrespect. 

I’m totally fine with the final version where the singing stops. The interludes and underscoring are stunning. I would’ve liked a reprise of the “The Road” theme in the finale, but I’ve accepted that won’t happen. Although, it is fascinating during one of the early previews, someone claimed there was indeed a sung reprise 
In the finale. Who knows if that really happened? 

[Kad]

Posted: 4/30/24 at 11:16am

Menken couldn't find a comparable replacement lyricist for Howard Ashman after he died, what hope do you think there is to find somebody who is comparable to Sondheim?