Sondheim 90th birthday celebration wishlists
Sondheim 90th birthday celebration wishlists
#1Sondheim 90th birthday celebration wishlists
Posted: 8/17/19 at 7:03pm
* A 35th year reunion Sunday in the Park full concert with Mandy and Bernadette
* Tyne, Lansbury, Bernadette and LuPone all singing You gotta get a gimmick in a Bday concert
* Donna Murphy singing Roses Turn
* A special tribute for those lost recently: Hal Price, Marin,Stritch, Arthur etc
* Preview songs from the new show with appropriate talent
* Something edgy & topical from Assassins directed to point sharply at a current political issue: so the opening song or the gun song
* Bernadette singing something new. Worst Pies. Loving You. Best Thing That Ever Happened.
* LuPone Im still here
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3Sondheim 90th birthday celebration wishlists
Posted: 8/17/19 at 11:34pm
Would love to see Katrina Lenk and Donna Murphy involved.
#4Sondheim 90th birthday celebration wishlists
Posted: 8/18/19 at 12:24amLuPone did sing I’m Still Here on Pose recently.
