Glory ,'Potential'
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
Heh. So true. Isn't it nice to know a lot? (And a little bit not.)
During my (short) break from smoking last week, I got in the car thinking "How in hell am I not going to smoke in the car?". Wesley, my iPod, brought up the twelve minute opening to Into the Woods. It was like a challenge. Got me all the way to work.
Life's more painless
For the brainless.
Ack! Firstly, it's "It's a LOVELY Day for a Murder", and it's not from Assassins, though I always think of it as such. It's actually from and Rodgers and Hart musical called Higher and Higher.
Dana, it completely frelled the flow of the end of the show for me, straight from "Hail to the Chief" into "Everybody's Got the Right". It doesn't really work thematically for me, either. The show's not about The People. It's about these people, sitting on the outside, and trying to get a piece of their version of the dream.
(Chi, I've been bouncing between songs from that show all month, but, not Sondheim.)
Dana, it completely frelled the flow of the end of the show for me, straight from "Hail to the Chief" into "Everybody's Got the Right".
I do agree with that. I missed the transition. But it seems like such a classic Sondheim song to me. It's "Someone in a Tree". It's any song where Sondheim has ever dealt with multiple viewpoints on an issue.
Dammit, now I have to listen to Wicked when I'm done with George.
Hate you all.
Oh, wait. Meant "Love".
Need to stop reading this thread and write my paper though. If I come back, beat me.
That makes sense, I just can't get past the-song-in-context, as the show hangs together so precariously, anyway.
Heh. We had an intense discussion Sunday night about Assassins and Tommy. I've not been able to sit through either of them, and Zach adores them. I like the Who's recording of Tommy, but the stage recording has the precise, bright qualities that make me dislike musicals in general (even Wicked).
This discussions reminds me to ask, Dana, where's your tag from?
Hee. Sondheim, unsurprisingly. It's a cut song from "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" called "There's Something About A War."