#sondheim on sondheim

[atailof2kitties]

Jack Wolfe singing 'Finishing the Hat' from Sunday in the Park with George at Alexandra Palace for Sondheim on Sondheim October 21st

[likeimurloverr]

If anyone has a sondhiem on sondheim audio…

[sondheims-hat]

April 22, 2010: S on S opens at Studio 54.

[magefelixir]

SMART!!!! THE LYRICS ARE SO SMART!!!!! AND IT HAS HEART!! WELL IN PART WELL ITS GOOOOOOD!!!

[emmy-bue]

My favorite thing about Sweeney Todd is that Sweeney gets into the killing-and-baking people business because he’s a deeply broken man destroyed by an unjust and corrupt system that cost him his freedom and family and has been driven mad by revenge.

And Mrs Lovett does it because somthin wrong with her <3

[can-of-w0rmz]

I speak the truth.

[sparrowlucero]

Little alien "birds", about the size of button quails. They speak with a very melodic cantor, the holes along their "neck" forming a sort of biological flute that can produce a wide range of sounds. Human speech tends to sound confusing and garbled to them unless it's musical; they're big fans of sensible human media like Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats and Hamilton, though the really avant garde among them might even be into deep cuts like Glee and Phineas and Ferb

[godlessondheimite]

[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

[ghostlypawn]

BRANDON URANOWITZ as LEON CZOLGOSZ ASSASSINS | OFF-BROADWAY [2022]

[rosebunnys]

for what you have left undone

and, more, what you've left behind

[atailof2kitties]

Jenna Russell and Jack Wolfe sing 'Beautiful' from Sunday in the park with George for Sondheim on Sondheim at the Alexandra Palace October 21st

[olympain]

7th July final curtain call at Hudson Theatre

[sondheims-hat]

2010

[madisoncounty]

jonathan groff, daniel radcliffe, and lindsay mendez performing old friends from merrily we roll along at the 2024 tony awards

[weareallangry]

Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures, you should see it.

Unfortunately the original 1976 production (my fav) can only be viewed as a mildly crappy digitized copy that’s up on YouTube... the lyrics/dialogue are, at times, indiscernible.

All I want is for as many people as possible to watch it. I want you to see it, I want your friends to see it. And I want MY friends to see it.

So it came to this: I made subtitles for Pacific Overtures. The project took me approximately 30 hours altogether (AI transcription was no help at all). I’m hoping everyone who already loves the show will be pleased to have them, and more than anything I hope subtitles will build a bridge for anyone who has wanted to see the show but couldn’t get past the limitations of what’s available.

I’m happy to hear any feedback you might have. (I’m open to making changes and releasing another version if needed.)

Pacific Overtures Subtitles - .SRT file

Pacific Overtures Subtitles - zipped .SRT file

(This production is brilliant and beautiful and hilarious and magical and crushing. Plus it has the song Stephen Sondheim said was his favorite of all he’s written. And, as so many of us internationally are doing our best to tread water while Capitalism rots on its feet, the history and ideas in this show are as relevant as ever.)