Sondheim on Sondheim
Opening Night: April 22, 2010
Closing: June 13, 2010
Theater: Studio 54
Through the use of exclusive interview footage, audiences get an inside look at famed composer Stephen Sondheim’s personal life and artistic process. A starry ensemble of Broadway’s best will perform brand-new arrangements of over two dozen Sondheim tunes, ranging from the beloved to the obscure.
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April 23, 2010
There are a lot of wonderful moments, some intensely personal, in "Sondheim on Sondheim," the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revelatory revue celebrating Stephen Sondheim’s theatrical career.
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April 23, 2010
The birthday fuss has indeed been getting out of hand. But no artist in the American theater deserves it more than Stephen Sondheim, who became an octogenarian this year and has been keeping a couple of other extraordinary eightysomethings in the limelight.
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Musical plays are easy; revues are hard. You still have to satisfy all those pesky Aristotelian needs, but you don’t have story and character to help you out. Fortunately, conceiver-director James Lapine has come up with a fertile premise for "Sondheim on Sondheim": the great man comes to us. Who wouldn’t want to spend an evening with Broadway’s musical-theater Shakespeare discussing his work and dishing about his experiences? Through the magic of Peter Flaherty’s video design, imaginatively integrated with Beowulf Borritt’s gorgeous abstract set based on rectangular shapes suggestive of Scrabble tiles, "Sondheim" engages and entrances as much through the songwriter’s chatty, intimate patter as through the top-drawer performances of the gifted eight-person cast. The resulting show is wise, warm, witty, and entirely wonderful.
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There are some things one never needs to see on a Broadway stage…like 82-year-old musical-theater grande dame Barbara Cook grabbing a costar’s butt. Granted, the ensemble of Sondheim on Sondheim is excerpting A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum — a show built on bawdy comic bits — but Cook’s goose is merely one of this schizophrenic show’s many flabbergasting moments. Here’s another: Tom Wopat romancing Leslie Kritzer, who’s young enough to be his daughter. Oh wait, she was his daughter — in the 2008 musical A Catered Affair.
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April 23, 2010
God has spoken on the subject of His existence. And you will be pleased to know that He seems resigned to and amused by the obeisance and sacrifices that are made in His name. Listen, O children of Broadway, to His own words, chanted by a chosen tribe of His disciples at the theater at Studio 54 (once a pagan temple to the gods of disco) as His sardonic image smiles down upon them.
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April 23, 2010
Thank God for Stephen Sondheim. Not just for his songs, but for his running commentary, which punctuates the new revue "Sondheim on Sondheim" at regular intervals.
READ THE REVIEWApril 22, 2010
What better birthday present could Stephen Sondheim receive than a chance to finally star in his own Broadway show? Musical theater’s greatest living composer and lyricist, who turned 80 in March, is getting just that with Sondheim on Sondheim (***½ out of four), the funny, affectionate and revealing tribute that opened Thursday at Studio 54.
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