Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions [Second Edition] 0810874369, 9780810874367, 9780810874374

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Sondheim on Music Minor Details and Major Decisions Second Edition

Mark Eden Horowitz

The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Lanham • Toronto • Plymouth, UK In Association with The Library of Congress 2010

Published by Scarecrow Press, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 http://www.scarecrowpress.com Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PY, United Kingdom Copyright © 2010 by The Library of Congress All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Cataloging in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Horowitz, Mark Eden. Sondheim on music : minor details and major decisions / Mark Eden Horowitz. — 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8108-7436-7 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8108-7437-4 (ebook) 1. Sondheim, Stephen—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Musicals—United States—Analysis, appreciation. 3. Sondheim, Stephen—Interviews. 4. Composers—United States—Interviews. I. Sondheim, Stephen. II. Title. ML410.S6872H67 2010 782.1'4092—dc22 2010016747

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Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction

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Part I: The Interviews 1

Passion

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Assassins

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3

Into the Woods

81

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Sunday in the Park with George

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5 Interlude

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Sweeney Todd

125

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Pacific Overtures

155

8 Finale 9

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Bounce (pre–Road Show)

169

10 Encore

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Part II: Songs I Wish I’d Written (At Least in Part)

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Part III: Song Listing, Discography, and Publishing Information

255

Explanatory Notes

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Song Listing

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Primary Sondheim Recordings

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Music Acknowledgments

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Index

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About the Author

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Preface to the Second Edition

Stephen Sondheim became my teacher long before we met. His work taught me about psychology, behavior, history, language, ambivalence, and irony. It helped me understand the world, gave me a vocabulary to discuss it, and provided music to accompany it and add emotional depth. The work itself was also an example of the notion that art is most effective when coupled with craft. Given the opportunity to interview Sondheim, I became his actual student, though I thought of myself as a surrogate for whoever might someday have access to the interviews in one form or another. This second edition of Sondheim on Music features two new interviews with Sondheim. Unlike the first set of interviews, which had not been conducted with any intention that they would be published, I hoped from the beginning that these would be, and the most recent interview was done specifically for this edition and is its primary justification. Combined, they add about sixty percent to the interview portion of the book. The “Song Listing, Discography, and Publishing Information” section has also been updated and expanded. The first new interview focuses entirely on the show Bounce (2003), which subsequently found its final form in the significantly altered Road Show (2008). The interview was conducted to inform an article I was writing for The Sondheim Review on the show’s evolution and birth. Based on the real-life Mizner brothers, Bounce/Road Show has a long and complicated history. Sondheim first considered musicalizing the story in the early 1950s, but abandoned the project when he learned that Irving Berlin was working on a musical on the same subject—a show that never materialized. When he took up the idea again, it was first realized as a reading v

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at the New York Theatre Workshop in the fall of 1999 under the title Wise Guys (directed by Sam Mendes). Work progressed slowly, until the show, now named Bounce—and directed by Harold Prince—had a limited run at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in the summer of 2003. After a hiatus of a couple of months, that evolving production opened for a limited run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 2003. In preparation for my article and the interview with Sondheim, I attended the production in Chicago and exchanged emails with him about that version. I also conducted interviews with John Weidman, the show’s author, and Jonathan Tunick, its orchestrator (a frequently rescheduled interview with Prince never took place). The interviews with Weidman and Tunick informed my interview with Sondheim, and excerpts from all three interviews were included in the article. I also attended the Sitzprobe in Washington on October 16—a rehearsal where the musicians and cast play and sing the show together for the first time (held in this case, as is typical, in a rehearsal hall)—and saw the second preview on October 22. The interview with Sondheim took place on the afternoon of October 29 in his rooms at the Watergate Hotel, and the show opened the following evening. It had always been my hope that the interview with Sondheim would someday be published in full, but it has taken several years for that to happen. The Bounce version of the show was not well received and failed to reach Broadway as its creators had hoped. After some time, Sondheim and Weidman returned to work on the show, to a degree reverting to an amalgam of earlier versions combined with the New York Theatre Workshop one, now with John Doyle as their collaborating director. I first approached Sondheim about publishing the complete interview in 2006, but as he was already in the throes of reworking the show, he felt his comments about the earlier version were no longer relevant; I think he also feared that publishing it then might confuse or mislead. So I let the matter drop. After the show reached its final approved version under the title Road Show, I reexamined the earlier interview and, though the show was indeed different, much of the score remained the same, and Sondheim’s comments struck me again as not only instructive and fascinating, but unusually revealing about the process of putting a show together. Of all the interviews I’ve done with Sondheim, this is the only one to catch him in the middle of working on a show, which gives his responses a rare immediacy. And since a commercial cast recording was made of the Bounce version of the score, readers can follow this interview with that recording. In November 2009, I asked Sondheim again whether I could include this interview in this book, and after a quick reread he said yes. At the time he was working on his own book, and my sense from his response was that

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he particularly appreciated the value of an interview that was contemporary with the work being discussed. When Scarecrow Press asked if I was interested in working on a second edition of Sondheim on Music, my immediate thought was, only if Sondheim would agree to a new interview. A comment I had received repeatedly from readers revealed some frustration that the book only focused on Sondheim’s later shows. There was a reason for that (explained in the original introduction), but it seemed this was an opportunity to at least partially correct that imbalance. Also, Sondheim, ever the generous teacher, always gave me the benefit of the doubt in our initial interviews, saying things like, “As you know . . . ” or simply assuming that I did. The reality is (I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit) I didn’t always immediately understand or appreciate the significance of everything he said. A new interview would be an opportunity to follow up on some of our earlier discussions, and, I hoped, benefit from a clearer understanding of how Sondheim worked. He agreed to a new interview in January 2009, and we ultimately scheduled it for the afternoon of May 13, again in his New York home. Preparing for the interview, as I had the first time, I solicited input and suggestions from several musicologists and musicians. This time, presumably because people now had a better sense of the notion behind the interviews, I received many responses. I also received additional scans of some of his manuscripts from his archivist, Peter Jones. This new interview, here titled “Encore,” is in some way the mirror image of the initial interviews. Those sessions worked backward from Sondheim’s then most current show, Passion, going as far back as a chapter on Pacific Overtures (1976). For reasons that mostly escape me now, I skipped over Merrily We Roll Along (1981). (I’m not sure it was entirely conscious, but I think I was concerned that Sondheim’s experience with that show had been so disappointing that I feared upsetting him.) This new interview works forward from Sondheim’s first Broadway show as composer and lyricist, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) and, with a bit of skipping around, even touches on his latest work, Road Show. Of course there are tangents, so not everything is strictly chronological. After transcribing the interviews and performing some modest editing, I sent them to Sondheim for his comments and corrections. In addition to a few specific corrections and clarifications, one telling suggestion he made was, “You might comb out a few redundancies.” I’ve tried to do that, but it is a painful task. One of the things I like about these transcripts of interviews is that they reveal a mind at work. One reader pointed out to me how often Sondheim begins a response one way, only to immediately begin the process of refining and rethinking his answer, sometimes

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to the point of coming to an opposite conclusion. The fact that he puts so much thought and internal debate into his responses will, I hope, make readers take them that much more seriously. The expansion of the “Song Listing, Discography, and Publishing Information” has mostly been in the discography. Not only have there been many new recordings of Sondheim works since the initial edition of this book was published, but recent Internet and other resources have provided hundreds of additional citations for earlier recordings or reissues that were missed. Readers should be warned that inaccuracies abound at some major Internet sites (particularly where programs seem to automatically assume that identical song titles indicate identical songs), but with the benefit of audio clips and other clues, I have attempted to verify and correct all entries. When I conducted the original interviews with Sondheim, I had no idea that they would one day form a book, and when the book became a reality I assumed its primary readership would be musicologists, conductors, scholars, and fans of musical theater in general and Sondheim in particular. But I have learned that it has found another readership that I had not anticipated, but that makes me happiest of all—songwriters and composers. I hope that its influence there will be significant. And though it is perhaps presumptuous for me to suggest what lessons others should take from it, I feel compelled to make some comments. I wish more people wrote like Stephen Sondheim. Not to sound like him or to copy him, but to invest their work with the same kind of care and intellect. Some of his approaches are overarching, such as his interest in experimentation with form and style and structure, and in trying and finding different ways to use music and lyrics in a dramatic context. Still, he believes in certain fundamental principles, such as “content dictates form,” “less is more,” and “god is in the details.” He believes in the power of the subconscious to make connections and provide solutions, and for that reason tries to limit his work to the universe of one score at a time. Some notions are very specific, such as using the natural inflection of language to inform the rhythm and shape of the melodic line. Some goals are opposites in tension—structure versus looseness, surprise versus inevitability, clarity versus subtext. Yet, though each score is unique, his unmistakable voice shines through. Not cluster chords, changing meters, wide-ranging melodies, or unusual rhythmic entrances—things that are typically (if misleadingly) parodied. Sondheim has a rare combination of talents, not only as a composer and lyricist, but also as a dramatist. Although he does not author his own librettos, his musical numbers are character- and plot-driven, imbued with subtext, conceived to be staged, and invariably serve a dramatic purpose. A few others are also unusually talented as both composers and lyricists,

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and to some degree dramatists (Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Frank Loesser, Meredith Willson, Jerry Herman, Stephen Schwartz, and William Finn come to mind), but none, I think, at as consistently an impressive level with all three aspects. While talent, even genius, must account for much of what makes Sondheim’s work special, it is the degree of craft and intellectual rigor he applies to the process that truly seems to set him apart. At the Library of Congress, I have been the archivist for collections that include the manuscripts and papers of Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Oscar Hammerstein II, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Vernon Duke, Arthur Schwartz, Frederick Loewe, Leonard Bernstein, and Jonathan Larson, and have an intimate knowledge of several others, including Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane, and Harold Rome. All of them have impressed me, and I consider myself a fan of their works. However, none of them has shown evidence of the painstaking working out of ideas I have seen among Sondheim’s music and lyric manuscripts. For the music there are the long-line sketches; the page after page of accompaniment figures, alternative melodic lines, rhythms, and harmonic progressions to consider; the conceiving of themes and motives and how they might evolve or relate to one another. And though this book focuses on Sondheim’s work as a composer, it is worth noting that, while all lyricists seem to make lists of rhymes, lists of synonyms, and often generate page after page of draft lyrics, Sondheim’s lyric sketches also focus on the underlying ideas of the songs, their structures, and the psychology of the characters who sing them. Some might argue that this kind of attention to detail robs the works of spontaneity and tunefulness, but to this listener it creates scores of unparalleled depth and intensity. Whatever your purpose in reading this book, I suggest that you read it not just for the specifics—the how-tos and whys—but step back and read it for its view of a creative mind at work. Sondheim as a teacher provides guideposts not just for the writing of songs, but arguably for any artistic or intellectual pursuit. And how often do we have the opportunity to learn from the best? * * * There are additional acknowledgements and thank-yous to be made for this new edition. Many of the same people who were acknowledged in the first edition continued with their gracious assistance, but to be added to that list are the following. From Sondheim’s office, archivist Peter Jones provided invaluable guidance and scans of manuscripts. The most recent interview was recorded by sound engineer Ray Romano (recommended by my dear friend Amy Asch). At the Library of Congress, the current chief of the music division, Susan Vita, and the head of its acquisitions

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and processing section, Denise Gallo, proved unflaggingly supportive and encouraging. From the Library’s publishing office, neither edition of the book would have happened without the support and attention of Ralph Eubanks, director of publishing, while Susan Reyburn acted as an enthusiastic editor of the new material, and my new editor at Scarecrow Press was old friend and previous colleague Renée Camus. Also with Scarecrow Press, my production editor Jayme Bartles Reed. Brian Eisenberg was the copyist for the new musical examples and proved to be extraordinarily careful and caring. Several people suggested questions that I might ask Sondheim. Some were unasked because of time constraints and others because they didn’t quite fit within the parameters of this project, but among those whose questions I was able to use or adapt were Stephen Banfield, Rick Freyer, Charles Joseph, Andrew Killick, Kim Kowalke, Paul Laird, Carol Oja, and Bruce Pomahac.

Acknowledgments

There are many people to thank—people without whom this book either would not have happened, would have been less than it is, or would have been less gratifying to work on. They include: My wife, Loie Gardiner Clark, for her constant love and encouragement, her extraordinary skills as a grammarian and editor, and her gracious relinquishment of the dining room table. My parents, judy and Terry Horowitz, for raising me with the arts, supporting me in my choices, loving me unconditionally, and exemplifying a good and meaningful life. Steve Clar for his efficiency, hospitality, and insight. Copyist, Chuck Gallagher, for his accuracy, ingenuity, and care. My musician friends, who helped, explained, suggested, and understood: Rob Fisher, Jon Kalbfleisch, Michael Lavine, Bruce Pomahac, Larry Moore, Jeff Saver, and Russell Warner. Many at the Library of Congress who in various ways made possible and supported this project: Abraham and Julienne Krasnoff, members of the James Madison Council, for the grant that made the initial interviews possible; James W. Billington, Winston Tabb, Diane Nester Kresh, Jon Newsom, Elizabeth H. Auman, and Vicky Risner for being far-sighted professionals who genuinely care about the work the Library does and believe in the importance of projects like this one; Iris Newsom for being both a careful and caring editor; my colleagues and friends Raymond White and xi

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Loras Schissel who generously shared their knowledge and expertise; and Samuel Brylawski, a friend who has been my mentor at the Library and a touchstone in my life. I thank—fundamentally—Stephen Sondheim, for his work and the many ways it has informed and enriched my personal and professional life, and the precious gift of his time.

Introduction

While Sondheim and James Lapine were creating Sunday in the Park with George, the two went to the Art Institute of Chicago and stood with three of the museum’s curators before the miraculous canvas of Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grand Jatte. “What is that object up there?” they asked, pointing to an indistinct object in the middle distance. Instantly and simultaneously, the curators gave three different responses: a stove, a waffle iron, a . . . whatever. Sondheim and Lapine would eventually reimagine this comic incident in their musical’s second act. Similarly, such disagreements are common among musical scholars in deciphering composers’ manuscripts. What does this piece of marginalia mean? How should that symbol be interpreted? How was that chord supposed to function? Rarely do we have the composer’s direct commentary on how he approached his work and what his notes—both musical and textual—literally mean. After Stephen Sondheim generously agreed to bequeath his manuscripts to the Library of Congress, a series of videotaped interviews with the composer was proposed with the intention of anticipating the questions of future scholars. As such, and unlike the many, many interviews Sondheim has granted to date, these were never intended for publication but rather to serve as a complementary crib to the manuscripts. On that basis the project went forward with Sondheim’s cooperation and the support of a grant from the Library of Congress. What makes these interviews unique is their exclusive focus on Sondheim’s work as a composer. Even so, the interviews became far more wide-ranging than I had imagined, with Sondheim discussing not only the nitty-gritty of how to interpret his sketches and manuscripts, but how he goes about the process of writing and composing—in short, his xiii

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thoughts and observations about the art and craft of the musical. It was only after the interviews were completed and I began transcribing them that I realized they would be of interest and use to a broader audience; hence, this volume. Using clarity as my guide and goal, I edited the verbatim transcripts—eliminating verbal tics, false starts, and some repetitions; completing sentences where their endings seemed obvious; occasionally reordering clauses within a sentence and adjusting grammar accordingly. I am grateful for Sondheim’s willingness and care in going through this edition to clarify his meaning even further. After many months of planning, preliminary examination of Sondheim’s manuscripts, and consultation with scholars, musicians, and some of Sondheim’s associates, the interviews were recorded over three days in October 1997 in Sondheim’s Turtle Bay home—with his manuscripts close to hand. These manuscripts include sketches, drafts, and fair copies for individual numbers, and general sketches for each show where he experiments with thematic material, accompaniment figures, and other musical ideas. We began by looking at the manuscripts for Passion, at the time Sondheim’s most recently completed score. Assuming there to be an evolution in his work as a composer, I wanted to make sure we captured where he was at that moment as opposed to where he began. I also assumed the details of the later works would be freshest in Sondheim’s mind, and that many of the questions and answers would reflect backward on earlier shows. As a result, we spent far more time on Passion than any other score, though this first long chapter includes many digressions about other shows. From there we worked backward through Assassins, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, and Pacific Overtures—each show becoming a chapter here. Merrily We Roll Along was skipped because of limited time, but most of the questions raised by my examination of its manuscripts were effectively answered in the context of other shows. His earlier work, although often alluded to, was excluded by the constraints of tightly budgeted time and resources. However, the chapters “Interlude” and “Finale” cover a number of more general questions that I felt were important to ask but that did not easily fit into our discussions of the specific shows. The fact that we paused every half hour for the cameraman to reload tape cartridges might explain some seemingly odd breaks or disjointed moments. Also, this is the record of a freely flowing conversation; therefore, it is not as structured as an entirely scholarly book would be. Early on I decided not to attempt to direct the conversation too much but to simply enable one thing to lead to another. If Sondheim had something he wanted to say, I wanted to hear it. * * *

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The following chapters tend to start with details about musical composition and become more general as they continue. One of the benefits of this book over the videotapes is that it includes excerpts from the musical scores and sketches under discussion. Some of you picking up this book might be discouraged by the fact that it begins talking about music on a fairly technical level. Be reassured that there is much that follows that requires no musical expertise at all. And to those pleased by the initial focus, it too reappears throughout. For those unfamiliar with “figured bass” or “classical” musical notation who wish to understand more clearly those examples and portions of the discussion that deal with it, let me offer a few explanatory notes. Roman numerals are used to represent the various chords corresponding with each tone of a scale—I through VII. Thus, in the key of C, I is a chord based on C, II is a chord based on D, III is a chord based on E, et cetera. This allows progressions to be rooted in any key. While some composers who use this method differentiate the notation of major and minor by using upper case Roman numerals for major chords and lower case for minor, Sondheim does not. What he does do, which is more rare, is to precede most Roman numeral chords with an upper case or lower case letter indicating on which key (or temporary “tonicization,” as he puts it) the chord is based. Sondheim’s “gII7” indicates a 7th chord based on the second step of a G-minor scale, or A-C-E ♭-G. Subscript numbers 6, 7, 9, 11, and 13 indicate the color or type of chord, whereas numbers that begin in the superscript indicate the inversion. Thus, in the key of C, a I6 indicates a C-major chord with a 6th: C-E-G-A. And a I6 indicates a C-major triad in 6 1st inversion: E-G-C. A 64 is a triad in 2nd inversion, 53 is a 7th chord in first 6 6 inversion, 43 is a 7th chord in 2nd inversion, and 42 is a 7th chord in 3rd inversion. These numbers indicate the intervals between the top notes to the lowest note in descending order. Thus, an E-major 7th chord in second inversion reads down: G♯-E-D♯-B, B to G♯ being a 6th, B to E being a 4th, and B to D♯ being a third. All notes of a chord are not necessarily to be sounded, though that usually cannot be determined in the sketches. As Sondheim states clearly in these interviews, he views himself as a very tonal composer. The notations in his sketches are basically a shorthand for spelling chords quickly during the compositional process and do not necessarily reflect how he thinks of the chords functioning. The sketches often include alternate harmonizations that he wishes to consider, with alternatives either written below or in parentheses. Sondheim is a rare, if not unique, composer in the world of musical theater and songwriting. He creates a discrete musical language and vocabulary for every one of his musicals. He invests enormous intellect and effort into each melody, harmony, and rhythm; each spelling of a chord; the accompaniment figures and in which registers they are placed; and every

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dynamic. He plans how extended numbers will develop and evolve so that they hold together and are satisfying without becoming relentless or boring. As his own lyricist and as a dramatist who collaborates with librettists and directors, he writes music that is true to his characters and their situations. He is impeccable in his prosody, matching music and lyric in intent, inflection, and stress. Yet as individual as each score is, the unmistakable Sondheim voice sings through even his cleverest pastiches. One of the pleasant surprises of these interviews was Sondheim’s reflections on the work of some of the musical theater composers who came before him. No other composer has been more fortunate in his personal connections to the tradition. Sondheim’s mentor was Oscar Hammerstein II, and his musical collaborators included Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, and Richard Rodgers. Dorothy Fields was a family friend, and we know he admired and communicated with talents as diverse as Bernard Herrmann, Cole Porter, and Frank Loesser. Stepping back another generation, among Hammerstein’s collaborators were Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml, Jerome Kern, and Sigmund Romberg—his mentor, in turn, having been Otto Harbach. Sondheim is connected as directly as possible to the entire history of the musical—in far fewer than “six degrees of separation.” That unbroken chain makes his insights and perceptions all the more valuable and rare. During breaks in the interviews, Sondheim made two comments to me of which I am particularly proud. As these were not taped, I cannot swear to his exact words, but their sense resonates in my memory. First: “A lot of the questions you’re asking, no one’s ever asked me before.” And later: “I’m saying things in these interviews I didn’t know I thought, until you asked the question and I had to ask myself: What do I think about that?” I am grateful to Sondheim for the thought he put into these interviews and his permission to share them with you.

Part I

THE INTERVIEWS

Chapter 1

Passion

MH: I’d like to start with your sketches for the opening number of Passion, “Clara/Giorgio I,” which in the published score is “Happiness (Part I).” You wrote “Big X” above this sketch and it reminded me of Gershwin writing “GT” for “good tune” on his sketches. Is there any similarity in meaning?

Example 1.1

SS: No, that mark usually means that I want that idea to go with an accompaniment. This is from a sheet of vocal ideas for Clara and Giorgio, and probably the “X” means that it corresponds with an “X” someplace else in an accompaniment figure or a few bars of accompaniment. So that I know that I want this to go with that accompaniment figure as opposed to another. The “Big” means it’s to be the big statement. Each of the lines is a separate vocal idea. I separate them, as one does, between staves, with little parallel lines. And I sketch in little words that come from the lyric sheet to remind myself that this theme is for that particular set of lyrics. MH: If you’re working on the same section, why would you have alternate sketches in different keys? 3

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SS: I probably have outlined a harmonic scheme someplace else. And sometimes I change because I realize that it’s going out of a vocal register or that it’s something that’s awkward. For example, suddenly the melody will get too low, and yet if it’s still within an octave-and-six or an octaveand-five—something that a singer can do—I’ll leave it in that key. But if the tessitura gets too low or too high I’ll switch the keys around before I get the key that I’m working in locked in my head. So, if I’m writing something in E-flat, and I realize the melody’s getting too low, before it gets too entrenched in an E-flatness in my head, I’ll take it up to a G major and rewrite the accompaniment in G major (or sketch out the accompaniment in G major) and then start the melodic flow going in G major. MH: Once you’ve completed a song, and it’s in a show, and the key has been changed to suit the performer, do you still think of it in the original key? SS: Yes, if I’m asked to play it at the piano, I’ll play it in the key I wrote it. Often, I will write in a key that I can sing. You’ll notice in the manuscripts over the years the keys get lower. I used to be able to sing up to an E, even on a full stomach, and now I cannot get up above a C and my voice has darkened. I can sing lower now, but I’m essentially a bass-baritone. So, for demonstration purposes, I have to write in something that I can play and sing—to play to producers, directors, collaborators, et cetera. MH: Do you think of different keys as having different feelings? SS: There are a number of things I feel about keys. Flat keys are easier to read and play in; I don’t know why, but that’s generally true—you’ll find most musicians will say that. I switch keys from song to song—I try to, unless I’m deliberately making a large scheme of key relationships which I did in some of the longer pieces in Passion. If I’m just doing a score of songs, I will deliberately write in a key that I haven’t written in for a while. I write partly at the piano and partly away from the piano. In the early days, particularly my first six or eight shows, I would write mostly at the piano, and my fingers would fall—my muscle memory getting too habituated—I found myself writing the same chords. I’m not very good at keyboard harmony. I never took keyboard harmony, I only took theoretical harmony. That serves me well, because if I have to make a modulation from C to E-flat, I have to find my way, and in finding my way, it gets some kind of personal statement, some freshness, in it. It may not be the way that other people would do it, and sometimes its very clumsiness will become part of that. Somebody who’s got keyboard harmony can just glibly (that’s both good and bad) get from one to the other in sixty-four

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different ways. But, if I want to get from C to E-flat, in the key of E-flat, and I write another song in E-flat and I want to get from C to E-flat, then my fingers are likely to go in the same places. So I deliberately will write it in E major. When I feel I’m getting stale I go into sharp keys because they’re so foreign and scary. MH: When you were writing these sketches for Passion, would you have been at the piano, or could you have been either at the piano or away? SS: Generally I feel my way into an accompaniment figure at the piano. I know in this case (this is the opening of Passion) I wanted to use bugle calls throughout the show because it takes place mostly in a military post, and a bugle, as you know, is just the triad. So I wanted to start with that. Since it starts with Giorgio, who’s an army man, in bed with his mistress, it also has to be a romantic piece—a post-coital piece. In order to do that and not make it just sound military, I put in a dissonant accompaniment in the left hand, but I kept the bugle idea in the right hand. So you get this, which

Example 1.2

doesn’t sound like a bugle exactly, but it becomes a major motif during the whole show. But I had to find with my fingers, as opposed to my head, the dissonant pattern in the accompaniment in the bass in the left hand. Once I found that, I could then proceed to write melodically about it and against it. What’s very interesting here is I see it’s in A-flat (it’s deceptive because it sort of starts with an E-flat tonality, but it’s in A-flat), so that once the

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accompaniment gets going I will then start working out the melodic idea. That’s generally the pattern. Sometimes a song will start with a melodic idea; particularly the more pretentiously composed pieces start with an accompaniment. MH: What do you mean by “pretentiously composed”? SS: What I mean is ambitious. “Pretentious” has a pejorative flavor to it, though not in my head. What I mean is extended—extended writing. Passion is composed not so much of songs, but of arioso passages that sometimes take song form. The opening is sort of a song form, but it’s fairly extended, and it’s fairly loose. The idea of Passion, for those who don’t know, is that nothing comes to a conclusion. MH: Musically? SS: Musically. Musically the idea is to make it one long rhapsody so the audience will never applaud. There are some perfect cadences in it, but not very many. The audience is never encouraged to think that something is over, because I didn’t want the mood broken and the audience being made conscious it was in a theater. MH: In retrospect do you wish you had? SS: No, I’m glad. It’s right for the piece. Applause would be entirely wrong for it. The piece is a rhapsody; a rhapsody is what it is. It’s just wrong to break the flow with applause; it was always conceived as a long song. MH: On this sketch, you have “penult.” and a natural above with the question mark. What did you mean?

Example 1.3

SS: I’d want to do this at the piano, but this is the climax before the end— that’s what “penult.” means—and this is the harmony I wanted to reach. And I think, although this is written in five flats, I didn’t know whether I

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wanted an A-flat on top or an A-natural, because there’s a B-double-flat in the bass. Obviously, I wanted a clash between what looks like a B-major triad over what looks like an A-major tonality in the bass. MH: And things in parentheses indicate an alternate? SS: Everything in parentheses indicates an alternate. For example, in this first chord, I didn’t know whether I wanted the C-flat in or not, so I put two D-flats in as an alternate, which makes essentially the same sound, but makes it much more of an F-sharp minor chord. Because— look at that—it’s a first inversion of an F-sharp minor chord if you read these notes from the top as C-sharp, F-sharp, C-sharp, A, C-sharp, A. And I suspect I found that . . . because obviously I didn’t want it to end (that’s why it says penultimate), I didn’t want it to feel as if it really reached a cadence, but I suspect I settled for that. I’d have to compare this sketch with the final manuscript, but I suspect I did not settle for something quite so bare. MH: If you were working on this away from the piano, would you then take it to the piano to make the decision? SS: You got it exactly. Usually I’ll check it at the piano and say, ugh, no, that’s not what I meant. But most chordal stuff I work out at the piano. If I have a chord, and a chord, and a chord, and I want to work out some contrapuntal passage, I might work on the couch and then take it to the piano and check it. But if I’m looking for the chordal structures, I’ll generally do that with my fingers at the piano. MH: What do the red arrows throughout your sketches mean? SS: That means what I like. As you’ll see, there are a lot of pages of accompaniment figures, and after I’ve written down as many ideas as I can, and I feel as though I’m ready to give birth, I’ll go back over it and decide what it is that I really want to remember and try to preserve. When something is the basis of the piece, I don’t need a red arrow for that, and it may be surrounded by variations on it. But where I had another idea, I wanted to be sure that I considered it. MH: Do you mean another idea for the same moment? SS: Well, for the same piece, though perhaps another place in it. MH: After you’ve done all the sketching, is that when you play everything through and decide what to arrow?

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SS: Yes, when I think I’ve exhausted the possibilities—at least for that moment. I’ll have a set of ideas, and I don’t want to bore the listener. Then I will look through and see, because all of these are related to each other, either harmonically, or in terms of melodic outline, or in terms of rhythm. So it isn’t like it’s an idea for another song—it comes out of the same network of ideas, but it does offer contrast and variety. The trick always— well, in any art, I guess, but particularly in any art that takes place over a period of time—is how to give it variety yet make it hold together. How do you prevent it from becoming an add-a-pearl necklace? At the same time you don’t want to just repeat ideas. It’s the whole business of longline development. MH: Has it become any easier? SS: I recognize the dangers of boredom more now than I did at the beginning. MH: With an audience? SS: No, I can’t judge. The reason a lot of people complain the music is difficult is because it does tend to change. It’s something I picked up partly from Cole Porter and partly from Leonard Bernstein. One of the things about Lenny’s music that I like is he keeps surprising you— particularly rhythmically. Just when you think something is going to be a 3/4 bar, it turns out to be a 4/4 bar, or when you think it’s going to be a four-measure phrase, it turns out to be a three-measure phrase. So you rarely get a chance to get ahead of the music, and that keeps the music fresh—because it’s full of surprises. He used to say—it’s not his phrase, but he’s the first person I heard it from—that music should be inevitable but fresh. And when you listen to Jerome Kern, you know exactly what he meant. Anybody who studies a Cole Porter song is due for a lot of surprises, because what looks like a simple AABA form, turns out to really be A-A prime-B-A double prime—he does not repeat the A section. It’s almost repeated, but not quite. And the result is the ear is constantly freshened, and that’s what keeps music alive over a period of time. People who like my music and say they discover new things in it the more they listen to it, it’s because there are these little surprises scattered throughout. So that what is jolting on first hearing, on the second hearing you start to see more how it’s part of the pattern—even if it’s not a conscious process. MH: But Porter wouldn’t do it through the rhythmic changes that Lenny would?

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SS: No, Porter did it melodically and harmonically. You look at “Just One of Those Things” and see the tiny variations, and yet, it’s so close to the standard form that it could become popular. He’s the great experimenter from that point of view. Kern is the great harmonic experimenter. With Porter, it’s really in terms of melodic line and how he keeps spinning it out in little tiny variations and, of course, the harmonic sophistication. And Lenny has a lot of harmonic surprise, but primarily the thing that surprises you is rhythmic structures, I think. MH: Did you ever talk to him about that, or do you just know? SS: No, I just know. MH: And you actually did write “long-line” in this example.

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SS: Ah, well. These two chords represent the entire progression of this passage, so it’s the spinning out of these two—they’re written as whole notes, but that means nothing. I write long-line stuff in either whole notes or half notes; a whole note could represent four bars, eight bars, twelve bars, sixteen bars. And the half note underneath means: say you have a C on the top—there’s the “C-ness” of it. (I’m beginning to sound like Lenny—Oy.) There’s the C-ness on top, but then there’s a G and an F, which means that for the first couple of bars it will have G as a tonal center, next F as a tonal center. And to be able to visualize that is of great help when you’re writing extended pieces—as opposed to a song form, which, as I say, is either AABA or ABAB. I rarely use long-line stuff when I’m just writing a thirty-two-bar song, although there is an aspect of that. I know in “Too Many Mornings” I did that, but that’s a longish song. Usually I don’t bother, but if I’m writing extended passages like this—most of the stuff in Passion is extended—then to hold it together, the glue has to be harmonic and has to be spinning out the triad and spinning out the harmony. MH: But the reason you would actually write “long-line” there?

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SS: Is to remind myself where I’m going. One of the things I loved when I went to the Library of Congress and saw the Gershwin sketch for the trio at the end of Porgy and Bess was he knew where he was going. He would just put little thumbtacks all along the way to remind himself: Okay, I gotta reach the C-major chord over here. And he’s spinning out the melodic line and then he thinks: I’ll fill in the harmony later, I won’t worry about how I get from here to here, I just want to be sure that I get there. That’s, in a sense, what these are—these are bedposts. Oscar Hammerstein used to talk about “thumbtacks” in terms of lyric writing—laying out the carpet, and then putting in the other tacks along here: Here’s point A, here’s point B, here’s point C. You can see it in his lyrics, they develop like little plays because of that. It’s not just repetition, there’s development. He gets from point A to B to C. I’m not talking about it in terms of dramatic action, I’m talking about it in terms of idea. I thought: Well why not do that musically too? And then when I studied with Milton Babbitt, I found out there’s a nice tradition dating back at least to Mozart that spins things out that way. MH: When you start “spinning out the melody,” do you ever get to a point where you realize, because of what the melody’s done, that you want to go back and change a “thumbtack”? SS: Usually what happens is that I’ve worked on it so much that the unconscious takes over, and I arrive where I want to arrive. I’m sure there are times when, of course, I bend it. I’m not rigid about it, and I realize that the melody itself will imply something. But since I’m somebody who believes that the heart of music is harmony, as opposed to melody, it’s very important for me to have the sense of where the harmonies are going. And the harmonies imply the melody. And quite often the long-line will turn out to be of melodic value. I’m sure at a certain point I took this opening business and the lower voice, and used that, because what’s implied here is you have here an E-flat tonality in the left hand and a C-major tonality in the right hand. I’m sure I used that juxtaposition throughout. Even if it’s not C major and E-flat, but that relationship. And the E-flat isn’t entirely resolved because it’s got an unresolved fourth in it. So again, it will hold the piece together. MH: What also interested me in this sketch, is that it looks like you divided what was originally one measure into two measures—15A and 15B. How do you decide the amount of breath or time that a moment needs? Is it for the actor? SS: I have an instinct, and it may not be accurate, but it’s true, that when Lapine heard this he said to me: I would like to have a little more time

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Example 1.5

there. Not necessarily for staging, but emotional time, because this looks to me like it was squeezed in later. However, it may be that I just decided that I didn’t want to get to what would have been bar 16 so quickly. It just may be that. There’s this whole thing: I wanted so much to get that postcoital sense of relaxation, and that means that there should be pauses. Everybody has a different way of dealing with that moment, but in this case, I wanted Clara to be both a little coy with him and at the same time she’s relaxing—the balloon is deflating. And that meant that I put in little passages of rest that ordinarily I wouldn’t do. If this was just a ballad I would try to keep it going, but being a post-sex ballad, I wanted to have places where she would just breathe. I do know there was some place in this opening number where Lapine asked for more time, but it’s probably later on. This is only the sixteenth bar, and the music starts with an orgasm. She’s only been singing four bars here, and I just didn’t want it to go on so quickly. That’s why that extra measure’s there. And I think what happened was I played it over and I thought: No, no, she needs more breathing space here. MH: There’s so much thought behind your choices, do you ever wonder how the performances of actors in future productions might be affected by not having information about the intentions that were behind these decisions? SS: I wish they would be. I had a nice experience with Alun Armstrong. He played Sweeney in the Declan Donnelan production we were doing of Sweeney Todd at the National Theater in London. I was rehearsing Alun and the quintet in the letter-writing scene in the second act. I worked out with him when he dipped the pen in the inkwell, and when he wrote and

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when he signed, when he grunted and when he giggled—all that to go with the quintet singing—because I work out everything in detail. He’s an aggressive fellow, and he actually turned and he said: “You mean you thought these things out when you were writing this down?” He thought that that kind of stuff—when you dip a quill pen—is worked out during rehearsal. I said: “Yes, of course, every single dip.” Now the director may change it, but I know exactly when I want him to dip the pen in and when I want him to cross out a word and repeat a word. There are moments during “The Letter” where he writes a word, and then he thinks, and he kind of slavers over the word because he likes it so much because it’s going to draw the judge into his trap. That’s all worked out. I don’t know what a director who doesn’t know this will tell an actor when he asks: “Why does he repeat that word?” I know why he repeats it. MH: Do you write it down anywhere? SS: There’s no way to do that. Though, actually, I do write stage directions down. I think probably on that one I wrote something like “He muses.” So the answer is: Yes, I work out all these things in detail. It’s a knee-jerk reaction from an experience I had with Jerome Robbins when we were writing West Side Story and I played him “Maria.” Lenny was off someplace, and I was the one who played it for him. And he asked me: “Well, what do you see happening on the stage?” I said: “Well, Tony is singing this love song. . . .” Jerry said: “Well, what’s he doing?” I said: “He’s singing . . . he’s full of emotion.” He said: “You stage it!” We started talking, and I learned then that it is of great value to a director to stage every song you write within an inch of its life. They can use it as a blueprint, or depart from it entirely, but they have something to go from. So I stage everything. And I tell my collaborating director what I intend, but he doesn’t have to, and often won’t, pay any attention to it. I worked out the whole opening to the second act of Sweeney—the beer garden scene, “God, That’s Good!”—where Mrs. Lovett is serving twenty-seven people at once. I worked out what each customer was doing—the one that was underpaying, the one that was drunk, the one that was a glutton, et cetera—and I had them at different tables. And Hal Prince said: “I think it would be much better if they were all at one table.” So Hal completely changed my basic scheme, but the details are still there for him to tell the actors. I had the guy who’s sneaking away with trying not to pay at that table while Mrs. Lovett’s back is turned over here, and I had him trying to sneak out and Tobias catches him. Hal had them all at one table, so he had to work out how someone could try to sneak out—because at a big table everybody sees everybody—it’s not so easy to work out. But he wanted a big table because he wanted that sense of Dickensian stomping. When it

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was done in a revival at the Circle in the Square, there were different little tables, and that was the way I intended it. Hal’s production had much more of a kind of vigor, but that production had much more detail in it. MH: Did you have to change the score because of it? Did Hal need more or less time because of the changed staging? SS: No. That sometimes does happen in revivals. That happened just recently for the concert of Into the Woods. Somebody said: “Could I get some more bars here?” And I said: “Absolutely.” We needed more time to get people onto the stage so I allowed extra vamps. MH: In some of your sketches and drafts for “Happiness (Part II),” you have it opening with the word “Christ” instead of “God.” What was behind your decision to change it from one to the other?

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SS: I love the word “Christ.” I love the sound of it. It seems to be more agonizing. “God, you are so beautiful” has a kind of sentimental feeling to it. “Christ, you are so beautiful” has a sense of shock. “Christ” is a shocking word. I prefer “Christ” and my guess is that Lapine persuaded me to change it, not to make him a villain or anything like that. It also has to do of course with the fact that “God” can be extended as a note, and “Christ” cannot. You can’t go “Chr-i-i-ist”; it loses all its value. But you can go “G-aaahd.” You can sing a love song with that single word. So I can’t tell you definitely what the reason was, it may have been Lapine, or I may have heard this sung and I thought: It’s a little too shocking. To say “God” on the stage forty years ago was a shock. Now it’s not such a shock. To say “Christ” still is a shock. It

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really is, to quote, taking the Lord’s name in vain. I’m not just talking about to the Christians in the audience, it just has that feeling—it’s a real [loud clap]. MH: Would the fact that Passion takes place in Italy—a Catholic country— have anything to do with your choice? SS: I didn’t even think of that. Of course James and I talked a lot about that, so it’s conceivable that character wouldn’t have said “God.” I don’t know what the Italian word would be that would be an equivalent. When you say “God, it’s hot outside,” you’re not really swearing. But if you say “Christ, it’s hot outside,” that’s got real force. I just wanted one of those expletives that isn’t an expletive. MH: Would you elaborate on the erasures in your sketches? SS: When I start writing a piece out in detail—making real copy—and then I turn against it, or I decide to change something, but it’s not worth erasing most of a page, I’ll rewrite the bars I want to keep on a fresh page. Then on the original I’ll lightly erase the page and bar numbers, but not so thoroughly that I can’t see them. Then I know that this was a discarded page, and I don’t end up with two page twos with two bar eights, and say: “What . . .?” Because erasures don’t mean anything, I erase all the time. And often, my so-called completed copy will have a lot of erasures in it. It’s not a fair copy. I have the luxury of giving it to a copyist who will then write it out in neat form. She often gets a manuscript from me that’s full of erasures. Incidentally, one of the small, practical problems of writing music today is that in the old days I used to have a messenger come to the house and pick up the manuscripts and take them to the copyist. Ever since the fax machine was invented, we send faxes. But if you send faxes of erased notes, you get a call from the copyist asking: “Is that an E-natural, or is that a D-natural?” You can read my manuscript okay in person, because I write very heavily with a pencil (and I write also with Blackwing pencils, which smudge very easily). I try to write very dark for the copyist to understand it, hoping that she won’t have to call me. MH: Do you always work with the same copyist? Do you request someone in particular? SS: For many years I worked with a well-known copyist around town named Mathilde Pinchus. After she died I worked with her assistants for a while, and now I work with a woman named Peggy Serra. She’s very quick and very smart. Because of the kind of harmony that I use, she

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doesn’t make assumptions. She doesn’t assume that just because I’m in F major, that a note’s an A-natural. MH: In this sketch, I’m struck by the layers of harmonies that you’ve indicated and the way that you use Figured-Bass—the fact that for almost every harmonic change, you also imply a key change. So, as I read it, it looks like you’re starting with a II chord in the key of G minor, going to a I chord in the key of A-flat.

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SS: Well, if you have an A-flat chord, how are you going to notate the A-flat if you’re in a G-minor tonality? You can’t, because in G minor, the bass of the II chord’s going to be an A-natural. So, if you’re going to go to an A-flat chord you have to change the tonality first. If all the notes are going to be within the G-minor tonality then I’ll just go: II-III-IV-V—whatever it is. But if you’re going to change, how else would you notate it? There’s no other way to do it. I was not brought up on Guitar Notation; I was brought up on so-called Figured-Bass, or Classical Notation. I find Guitar notation useless because you don’t get enough information about the positions of the chords and the building of the notes. You get what the notes are, but not what the bass is and what the basis of the chord is. So I use this rather elaborate form of notation, but also to remind myself. Here I have an idea for an accompaniment, and now I want to carry it out harmonically, and I know I’m going to use this little passage in bar 10, which I’ve just sketched in. That’s going to be the rhythm of the accompaniment. So, quickly, while I’ve got the harmonic scheme in mind, I will write out the harmonies. What’s interesting here is these are all alternates for the passages.

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MH: So you don’t mean this to be read as chords superimposed on each other? SS: No, not at all. Because you have so many choices. Particularly if you’re using any kind of dissonant harmonies—in terms of musical theater, not Alban Berg. Since there are so many choices, and since, whether you use E-flat-G-B-flat and D, or E-flat-G-B-flat and C is an enormous difference. And those have entirely different notations, I have to have the alternates. There isn’t an awful lot of difference between E-flat I6 and E-flat I7, but there is a difference. And I want to remind myself: Don’t settle for one without examining the other very carefully. And then when you see them on a level—if it’s going to be a G-minor I6 it’s going to go to an F-major I6. 6 If, however, it’s an E-flat I7 it’s going to go C-minor I42. So that when they’re on a horizontal line it means: If I choose this then that follows, if I choose this other one then that follows. Usually the top one is the one that’s going to work, and I probably ended up using the E-flat, C-minor, et cetera. I was also screwing around with the melodic outline and deciding whether I wanted to use four sixteenths or an eighth and two sixteenths, and sometimes that makes a huge difference. MH: You asked: How else are you going to notate those chords? But in your mind are you also thinking of it as a modulation to that key? SS: No, no, no, no. First of all, I never think in terms of modulation, particularly in this kind of music. It’s constantly changing—within chord to chord—keys, so to speak. No, I know what the tonality is—I write very tonal music. But to go from chord to chord, where there are changes of the center of the tonality? No. This just means for these four notes, that’s going to be an A-flat tonality. Even though one could notate it, if you wanted, as C minor. That could very well be a C-minor-VI6, but it’s an Aflat chord simply because in between I’ve gone to something else. So, it’s much easier for me to refer to these and read each chord as a separate chord. Rather than think: All right, shall I write this in A-flat with a flatted fifth? No. I’d rather write it in whatever other notation I want to use— depending. An F-minor I6 (if that’s what I was doing), if it’s going to be Aflat-C-D-F, as opposed to an A-flat chord with a sixth on top and a flatted fifth. That’s all. It’s just whatever’s easier for me to read. MH: The inversions that you chose here—what is it about them . . .? SS: Well, I learned a long time ago, and I try and use it more and more, that—particularly in music that you want to keep moving—most composers of songs and in musical theater tend to use block harmonies. That

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is to say, everything’s based on the root position—generally. And certainly that was the tradition, with the rare exception of Kern and sometimes Porter. Rodgers wrote mostly root positions. And yet, inversions are exactly what gives something variety while you’re holding it together with glue. Assume you’re in C major and you want to get to a I chord. You know a lot of stuff is written over a pedal point in musical theater; I write with a lot of pedal point, but it isn’t just a matter of writing wrong notes in the right hand while you constantly have your ostinato bass; it’s a question of how long do you want that bass to pound into your listener’s ears? Musical harmony, as you know, moves by bass line. That is the motive that changes things. And it doesn’t matter how you screw around with the notes on top; if the bass remains solidly consistent, it’s going to sound that way throughout. So, if you want to stay in C major, and you want some variety, why not go to a C I6? Now the instability of first inversions is something that’s very hard to deal with when you’re so used to block harmony. I get scared sometimes when I use a I6 that it’s all going to fall apart. Because, you know, it’s so easy and satisfying to pound away at the I-V-I-V-I-V, as most songs do. But when you get to the I6 chord, it becomes a little more interesting. Because the I6 chord tends not to want to go back to the V, but to lead to a IV or even, sometimes, to a VI chord. So, if you’re in C major, the E will pull toward an F in the bass or pull toward an A in the bass. I’m talking in the simplest possible chordal terms. But at least you’re getting away from that C-G-C-G-C-G. So, that’s why I try to give myself as many opportunities as I can. I see there are a lot of first inversions in this passage, and clearly I wanted the passage to move—I wanted it to be liquid—and one way of doing that is inversions. Look at that, for two bars you’ve had a pedal tone underneath, and it’s about time to get off the pot, so to speak. That’s why I try to use inversions. MH: Do you go for a bass line that you think will give you melodic counterpoint? SS: That’s what long-line composition is: What’s going on on the top, and what’s going on in the bottom, and how they do that, and how do they then make the music stay within F major, before you get to the second movement, so to speak, which goes to the A-flat major. I often will make long-line with just two lines—the top and the bottom—because that’s how you make music move. And sometimes, if I’m trying to be clever, the melodic line will be the inversion of the bass and vice versa. There are all those kinds of things. But they’re more than being clever, they really hold the music together. I’m a firm believer that the ear hears things that the mind does not know, particularly in non-musicians, but

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even in a musician. That, if it’s there, it’s there. You look at a sidewalk, you don’t see the grouting, but the grouting is there. If you’ve built sidewalks, you see the grouting. You say: Gee, that’s bad grouting over there. (This is a terrible metaphor and I’m going to pound it into the ground.) The whole point is that what cements music is a musician’s business, and the idea is not to make it effortful for the listener—to make it effortless for the listener. But that cement is what makes the piece hold together, and if you put too much cement in, it absolutely rigidifies it and it becomes boring. Actually, “grouting” is a very good metaphor now that I come to think of it, because it holds it together, but allows it to expand and contract and prevents it from breaking. That’s exactly what should be going on with the business of an inversion: An inversion is to allow the music to expand a little bit—instead of just going I-IV, why not go I-I6-IV? I remember, there’s an inversion in “Losing My Mind”—which is an absolutely traditional thirty-two-bar song— but I used an inversion, and when I got to it, I thought: Gee, that’s good, that’s something Kern would have done. It’s very simple, the song’s mostly based on root position harmonies, and then there’s this one inversion—I think it’s in the sixth bar of each eight—and it just

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gives real . . . air. It’s a tiny thing, but it gives real air. You have this desert and a tiny little oasis in the middle. I think it pays off in terms of letting the listener off the hook, and giving the listener a breath—the ear a breath—to go on and not fall asleep. Unfortunately, in musical theater, particularly in the last forty years, audiences like to fall asleep—they like to know what’s happening next, they don’t want to be surprised. But I think what makes a song last—or music last, or art last—is surprise; particularly narrative art—music, in the sense of narrative art that exists in time. MH: When you hear other people’s work, can you hear those subtleties consciously?

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SS: No. Absolutely not. All I know is that my ear is surprised. I’ve been around the block so many times that I tend to be ahead of the chordal structure of most music that I hear in the musical theater. So when it surprises, it really surprises. Sometimes, as in a score like Adam Guettel’s Floyd Collins, which I think is a great score, I want to study the music when it’s published. I really want to see how he did it. I’ve heard the recording three times. The music’s not all that dissonant, it’s just that he’s got a fresh mind; he doesn’t go where you expect him to and yet it sounds inevitable. You know that’s what Lenny meant: It mustn’t sound “dump-bump-be-um-pump, ump-eem” [sings “shave and a haircut” with a wrong final note]. It shouldn’t be arbitrary, it should be inevitable. You get that in Kern, and you get that in Adam Guettel’s work too. And that’s the mark of a good composer, because he’s surprising without going: Nyah nyah, nyah nyah; you thought I was going to G, nyah nyah, I’m going to F-sharp. Anybody can do that, and they do it all the time. Lenny criticized the score of Forum. He said there was a lot of wrong-note music in it, and I bristled when he said that, but he was right. A song like “Pretty Little Picture” has absolutely unnecessary dissonances in it because I was so afraid of writing a triad. When you’re young and you’re trying to make a style for yourself (it’s true of every composer I know), you decorate the music so that it doesn’t sound like anybody else’s. And, of course, the real point is, if you try to make it sound like everybody else’s and it’s yours, it’ll come out your own. So, it’s ironic, but every young composer has to go through that. I went through it with Forum. There’s some stuff in Forum that is natural to me, but there are other things where I can just hear myself being ashamed of what I was writing. MH: Ashamed at the time, or subsequently? SS: It was unconscious. It was: How do I make this interesting? And one of the ways you don’t make something interesting is adding a tritone on the top, and yet everybody does it—you write: C-E-G-F-sharp. MH: Do you feel restricted writing for musical theater? Based on what you’ve been saying, do you wish you had pursued other types of music? SS: That’s a hard question. As you know—as you know—I don’t like opera, but I have a feeling that I wish I did. Because, I’ll tell you something, it’s much more satisfying and easier to write something like Passion than it is to write something like Merrily We Roll Along. To write a thirtytwo-bar song that has freshness and style to it and tells the story is really

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hard. And nobody does it anymore. Everybody writes so-called “sungthrough” pieces, and it’s because anybody can write sung-through pieces. It’s all recitative, and they don’t develop anything, and it just repeats and repeats and repeats. And that’s what most shows are. I don’t even go see the shows; it’s so boring to me. But it’s really hard to write a song, and nobody writes songs anymore in the musical theater—they write extended pieces. And I know from Passion, it’s much easier to write extended arioso stuff than it is to write songs. MH: Then do you have more pride in Merrily as a musical accomplishment? SS: I don’t want to compare, because I’m very proud of Passion, but, yeah, I’m very, very proud of Merrily. Merrily was the hardest score I ever had to write, and it was partly because I was trying to recapture what I was like when I was twenty-five without making a comment on it. It’s about two young songwriters, and I wanted to convey what they would have written back in the late fifties, early sixties, without making it a takeoff or a parody. And they’re supposed to be talented. Writing it was like pushing a pea up a hill with your nose. What I like about it is it sounds effortless to me now—it just sounds like a nice score—and I know what went into it. And it tells the story in thirtytwo-bar songs. I mean some of the songs are 108 bars, but they’re sections of thirty-two bars—and by thirty-two bars I mean the whole thing is based on modules of four-bar and eight-bar phrases. Whereas Passion is all: Oooh, I think, yes, she’ll sing a little longer here, now . . . Aaah, I’ll give her a little rest here . . . Now maybe I could bring that theme back in here. I see why opera composers had a good time: it’s much easier. MH: What about non-vocal music? SS: I haven’t written enough to have any wisdom on that. MH: The desire? SS: I would love to write ballet music. I’m square enough that I like the “Dance of the Hours.” When I first played my music for Jerry Robbins, he said: “You ought to be writing ballet”—that I write dance music. It had never occurred to me, but he was right. If I wrote any concert music it would be ballet. MH: We’re looking at “Fosca’s Entrance I, 2.” I was just intrigued by these few notes here.

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Example 1.9

SS: When I write—when I start—if I have an immediate idea, before I start a sketch sheet, I’ll put down some kind of basic idea. Where it says “Chopin in C” alludes to how I was imitating Chopin for Fosca’s piano piece. “Bar 19, bar 14, bar 26” looks to me like a later notation. But the point was the range was going to be from C to G. MH: The vocal range for that character? SS: Yes, exactly. And here I’ve written “verse” over the E-natural. MH: Why would you think that? What would make you say her verse should be in E-natural? SS: I have a feeling this is her actual entrance. And the numbers in circles mean bar numbers—in this case, bars 5 and 7. So, let’s see if there’s a Dsharp in bar 5 in some remarkable way . . . and of course there isn’t. This is the Chopin thing. Clearly, what I’m doing is I’m trying to figure out how to have her sing against the Chopin. Because there are two things going on here: there’s the piano piece and her vocal. That’s what I obviously am trying to work out. Let’s see, we’re in the key of . . . we’re sort of in the key of D, but not really. MH: Usually, the audience thinks it’s her playing piano upstairs. SS: I’ve established that earlier, so I know that I want to use that. What goes on before the entrance is that we hear the music earlier. And now this is in the orchestra, and it’s an echo of what we heard before. So this is the orchestral version of the piano, which I’ve done with sustained chords and with an occasional whiff of the accompaniment figure from

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Example 1.10

the piano piece. What’s interesting here is the flat signature above where it says “4th letter.” I remember vaguely now, I was making a transition from Clara’s song—you know she has this sort of waltz “. . . our little room. . .” et cetera—and against it, in comes dissonant music which is Fosca. Clearly what I was doing was making a relationship between F major and D major. D major being what Fosca’s going to get into here. This may be the long-line of it, because look, it returns to F major. MH: Fosca’s keys became lower in the actual show, so how do you deal with key relationships for different sections with different singers when the keys change with the casting? SS: Unfortunately, unlike opera, in musicals you cast for the people. In opera you force: it’s a five-hundred-pound soprano and she’s forty years old and she’s playing Juliet—that’s what you do. Because the suspension of disbelief that audiences bring to opera is so much greater than what they bring to so-called musical theater. I’ve rarely had to change musical structure to suit voices. Fosca’s entrance, for example, is a solo; Giorgio’s is speech, so it doesn’t matter what key it’s in. There is no over-arching design to the score of Passion—it is not one long piece like Wozzeck or Lulu.

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Sections are done that way, but I’m too practical to force people into some kind of scheme that. . . . MH: There’s no score like that of yours? SS: No, none. There are sections, there are sections. But where the individual sections are set is arbitrary in the sense that you accommodate the singer. So I never think in terms of an overarching musical structure. One of the reasons I don’t like opera is it’s so full of longueurs and recitative; in musical theater what you want is the ability to cut things. If you’ve built an entire structure, and you suddenly decide that the center, the capstone, which happens to be this beautiful aria in E major and it’s what everything has accumulated to is E major, and then you decide it’s boring and you want to cut it out, there goes your structure. I argue: You know operas have intermissions, so what the hell’s the point of writing one—unless it’s a one-act opera like Wozzeck. Would Tosca really suffer if the entire second act were a half-tone lower? Would the design go out the window? Would we be bored to death? Would we feel a thing wasn’t working? I don’t think so. MH: In an ideal world, say, fifty years from now, somebody’s doing a production of any of your scores, as opposed to going to the published pianovocal scores, would it be preferable if they went back to your original manuscripts and used the keys that pieces were composed in? SS: That would be fine. I don’t think it would make any difference. It’s all in the color of the voice. As long as they don’t change anything within the piece I don’t think it matters, I really don’t. I once had to change the structure within a piece. It was Mrs. Lovett’s first song in Sweeney Todd—”The Worst Pies in London.” I had it quite worked out in terms of its own harmonic design and the long-line, and Angie couldn’t handle it. Because, though she can sing in head, it has an entirely different effect—it’s a comic effect particularly—and so I had to take the whole second half of it and switch things around to accommodate her voice. I think the song turned out fine anyway, but ideally it would have been the other way, because I had a specific harmonic plan. MH: So when New York City Opera did their production of Sweeney Todd, did you think of going back to the original version? SS: It never occurred to me to go back. Also, that would mean to reorchestrate. All those practical considerations.

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MH: This is a moment that’s just impressed me a lot because of how quickly yet subtly it changes the mood.

Example 1.11

SS: It’s probably by chance. MH: It’s the end of the first section, where Fosca has the breakdown, and then very quickly the transition to the “have you explored the town” section. What do you try to do musically to create a transition like that—for both the audience and the actor—and to give them something to play? SS: It’s an hysterical woman who has realized that she’s talked too much, and she may be chasing away the man of her dreams whom she theoretically just met, but whom she’s been spying on, and she suddenly decides to become charming. But Fosca’s idea of charming is our idea of hysteri-

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cal. And so that’s what’s behind the change in music. So what I want to do is find something that’s chattery and chirpy and slightly annoying. That is the intention musically. Now, if you say: Why did I choose chords like that? That’s all it’s doing—to echo the moment. MH: Do you do things musically to help the actor make emotional transitions? SS: No, make the character. When Donna Murphy auditioned for us we gave her this piece. Her audition performance could have gone on stage that night. She’s intelligent. There’s something in her that identified with the character right away, and I write careful scenes. I say this with no modesty at all: When I’m writing dramatic stuff, I’m a playwright. This is a worked-out scene, and I can instruct the actress how to play this scene, and the music is part of the dialogue. I can tell her why the music gets quick here, why it gets slow here, why there’s a ritard there, why there’s a so-called key change here, why it suddenly goes up and down—all of that—because I have reasons. Now the actress may choose to ignore them, but Donna, who was just auditioning, did not have a chance to ask me, but she understood it. And this piece is psychologically very well laid out, and all it takes is a good actress to understand it exactly. It’s one of the reasons why actors like to sing my stuff—because I’m essentially a playwright in song, and I’m not asking them to sing songs, I’m asking them to play scenes. It doesn’t matter whether they’re in thirty-two bars, or thirtythree bars, or a hundred-and-nine bars, or six minutes. One of the reasons it convinces you is because psychologically it’s true. If I were writing this as a play—as a monologue—I would do the same thing: She would get grinding, grinding, and suddenly start stirring her coffee and get chirpy without any music at all. That’s all. And notice there’s only one bar where she gets to breathe before she changes tone. MH: Why would making it one bar be noteworthy? SS: Because ordinarily when you go into a new rhythmic section you give the audience a chance to hear the rhythm for a couple of bars. Not in opera obviously, but in a musical. MH: Why didn’t you give her the chance here? SS: Because I think she’s too hysterical. I think everything’s got to be offbeat. I think Fosca’s one of those people who, when you think she’s going to be quiet, she screams; and when you think she’s going to scream, she’s quiet; and when you think she’s going to cry, she laughs. She’s completely

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out of control—she’s a loose cannon. What I wanted this opening number to do was to make the audience really frightened of her—to say: Oy, there’s a bundle. And I think it does. I think at the end of this song they’re ready. Because, you know what happens right after this song: she has this screaming, hysterical fit, which is one inch away from making the audience laugh, but because of the song that precedes it, they don’t laugh. There was a tendency to giggle a little bit—to have a woman watching a funeral procession and suddenly scream and have an epileptic fit—because they’re not prepared for it. But they are prepared for it because of this—because of that transition. MH: My assumption is that this is one of your “long-line” sketches.

Example 1.12

SS: It sure is. I have to refresh my memory on this. Obviously I wanted to start with a nice B-flat. I must have had an idea, because this is odd—going to an A and an E there (or a B-double-flat and F-flat as I wrote it.) When I do a long-line sketch, I divide things into sections. The first section is clearly the “intro” before she enters. And obviously this B-flat either comes from the Clara section or from the Chopin music, but the point is this is where she comes in. Now I had devised a 7/4 arpeggio [see m. 12, Ex. 1.13]—and from what that implied, I started to work out the harmonic structure. The second section leads up to the lyric about the flower—”There is a flower . . .”—where there is a change of music both in texture and in register: it goes up into the upper octave, and also has a light waltz flavor which I wanted to use later at some point. So the second section of the sketch is really the first section of the song. Now,

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where you see the half-notes, it doesn’t really mean a half-note, it’s just for notation purposes—half note, C-sharp-half note, D-half note, F-sharp, and then to G-natural—and means that these sections are functioning as an outline. MH: Is that melodically or harmonically? SS: Harmonically. Because you notice all the thirds. And what interests me here is why I put the B minor at the bottom, because it doesn’t really . . . with

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the A-natural above, it doesn’t really sound, but that’s what that means. I wanted the Bs to be here. Obviously the scheme is to go from B-flat to B-natural to B-flat. So it has some kind of arc effect that way. And then, you think: What do those notes have in common? You see it leads to a G—it’s G minor, but in fact G minor/major—and G minor has B-flat and G major has B-natural. So, that the whole passage is built on the alteration of B-flats and G. The “recap” I put in G minor for some reason, and went from G minor to B minor. Half-notes represent the inner motion of the harmonies. Quarter notes are sections within that. Let’s compare this to the later manuscript and see if I’ve written it in a key where we can make some sense of what I intended. Oh dear, the later manuscript is in D minor. Obviously what I did was I worked this out and then I transposed it. I must have done that for range or register purposes. So, unfortunately, what we have is D minor. The way the sketch went from B-flat to B minor—the full copy goes from D major to D minor, I mean B-flat to B-flat minor, but . . . MH: I thought it was a B-natural minor. SS: B-natural minor. Sorry, in the sketch it is B minor. But the progression in this later version is from D major to D minor. D major being the verse. Now why did I change it? Let’s see: it clearly opens with the Chopin—it starts out with a nice triad. And then it goes into D minor, but look, it’s got a G-C-E [see m. 10 of Ex. 1.13]. And in the sketch it’s B minor, but it’s got an E-A-C-sharp. It’s the same thing, it’s just transposed. In other words, the first three notes in the arpeggio outline D minor, but on top of it I’m laying in another chord. If you hold your foot on the sustaining pedal down and play those first six notes you’ll get that chord. It’ll be transposed, but you’ll get that chord. So clearly what I want to do is relate the major chord in the Chopin to this minor version of it. It softens it by bringing in the flatted seventh. I’m sorry it’s transposed, because otherwise we could watch how the thirds move in the accompaniment figure. . . . I’m moving those thirds up and down, and the C and the E become a D and an F. The C-sharp and A become a D and B. They’re parallel. The whole idea is to build it on thirds. MH: To relate back to the military figure? SS: No, I don’t think so. I think it’s because it’s my favorite chord. MH: What is? SS: The kind of chord in which you take a triad and lay on top of it another triad and it’s all within the same key. It’s sort of a jazz chord is really what

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it is. And it’s unresolved which is what’s nice about it. Ordinarily, in D minor, that would be a C-sharp, but by making it a C-natural it has a softer more fluid sound. And it’s just something I like a lot. MH: Do each of those subtleties—whether it’s a C or a C-sharp—do they mean something to you intellectually, or is it emotional feel? SS: It depends. Sometimes it’s because of the way I’ve worked out the longline, and sometimes it’s just I like that sound better. A lot of music’s chosen, I think—at least by me—just because I like it better. Because it fits the emotion better. And when you talk about: If you’re writing the character, and I’m writing the character, a chord that suits you might not suit me and vice versa. A chord that conveys to you the essence of her character might not convey it to me. It’s Rachmaninoff melancholy; this is a chord you find all the way through his music. It’s that kind of Russian melancholy that has an “Oy . . . oy . . . oy” kind of feeling. And Fosca’s feeling sorry for herself. As a matter of fact, I remember, I was worried about this becoming sentimental, because I wanted her to feel sorry for herself, but to be fierce. And that is why (if you want to talk about intellectual) I chose the melodic line to start with sixteenth notes instead of something slower. And this is against the eighth-note accompaniment. Ordinarily, one would match the melodic idea to the rhythm of the accompaniment. But here, I deliberately did not, because I wanted her to have these stuttering phrases over this melancholy Russian music. Now I didn’t mean it to be Russian of course, but that’s my idea of melancholy. So, that’s the reason for the choice of that kind of stuttering melody as opposed to a flowing melody. Because she’s sorry for herself, but she’s pretending to be angry—not pretending, but she’s sharptongued and short, and she’s being contemptuous of him. And she says: “I do not read to think” because it’s the only way she knows how to behave. She doesn’t want to get soppy, I think. And she’s fierce. But as the song goes on and she becomes more and more passionate about what she’s saying, you’ll notice the melodies change from sixteenth notes to eighth notes . . . as it gets to “search for truth, I know the truth” as opposed to “I do not read to think,” which is the way it starts. And then, when she gets to “I read to dream. I read to live,” she starts to become kind of Puccini-esque, expansive, because she’s getting passionate. And it’s precisely by falling into that that she realizes what she’s doing. That’s why she does that second part in that chattery attempt at charm. So what the long-line sketch is is a scheme of how I’m going to get from point A to point B—these transitions in her. Because when you make an emotional transition, it probably—I don’t want to say that this is dogma—it should probably be accompanied, I think, by a harmonic transition of some kind—whether it’s a transition from major to minor, or to a whole other key; what you call a modulation. It’s interesting, Mil-

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ton Babbitt never uses the word “modulation,” he uses the word “tonicization.” It means: We’re going to make a new tonal center. And it’s a much better word than modulation. There’s something transitional or temporary about modulation. And maybe that’s the way to use the word. For instance: We’re going to modulate to E major before we go back to C major. But if you tonicize E major, you’re really making a whole new statement in E major. I know this kind of harmony, which I’ve used before for a kind of melancholy, is something I like a lot. It’s very pleasant and it’s still sad. MH: What would be behind the specific choice of the B-flat to the B-minornatural to the B-flat to the G? SS: It’s because, if you look at the whole passage, all those bass notes are in a key and one passage even has an F in the bass. Some things I put in parentheses because I don’t know if I’m going to state the note. But the point is it’s a B-flat-V chord, and what I’m doing is alternating between Bflat and B, B-flat and B. The G is an attempt to find an accumulation which encompasses both those notes. Now, if I wanted to end the piece earlier— if I didn’t want it to go on—I would have ended up with the B-flat. But I didn’t. At the same time, I just don’t want to go to another key in an arbitrary way—to go to A major or something like that. So the G is an attempt to sum up the statements in B-flat and B-natural. It’s related—it’s inevitable (well, I like to think of it as inevitable), but fresh. The point is, it is related, but it’s new. It’s not arbitrary. The fact that it goes into G minor is also not arbitrary. It somehow relates to the scheme—at least that’s the intention. It may not work, but that’s the intention. MH: So, for instance, to go to C-sharp would not be related? SS: No, of course not. Because C-sharp doesn’t relate to both B-flat and B-natural. If I say: Include B-flat and B-natural. What do they have in common? MH: But it could have been a D. SS: It might have been, but a third is so much more powerful a statement than . . . well, a fifth would be okay, but then it would have to be . . . and then if you have D and D-flat you would have had a tritone in there—implicit. So that it wouldn’t make the G quite as satisfying, I think. MH: But if it’s B minor and B-flat major, they share the same D.

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SS: Oh, I see, you’re suggesting that the D be the bass that it goes to. I suppose you could make a case for that. Sure, I see what you’re saying. The trouble is the key of D minor has both an F and an A in it. The key of G minor has the B-flat. The key of G major has the B-natural. So the bass has both those notes in it. I hasten to add, it’s only in extended pieces like this where I work things out in such detail. MH: This is a sketch for “Scene III, Part III—Fosca,” and what intrigued me here was the rhythmic notation above.

Example 1.14

SS: That’s an alternate for whatever I was writing there lyrically—it’s not a basic rhythm, it’s a melodic rhythm. MH: So it’s just an alternate way of writing that same moment? SS: That’s an echo of Fosca’s entrance theme—what leads into “to feel a woman’s touch.” What I’m doing here is trying to develop the melody and deciding whether I want it to be one way or the other. In other words, do I want a melodic grouping of notes to be at the end of one bar or the other? I think it comes out to the same number of notes so that whatever lyric I was writing would fit either of these schemes. The rhythm above is merely an alternate for me to consider. Obviously, whatever the lyric is, if I want it to be more pushed, I would use the rhythm which is a beat less. If I want it to have more breathing space, not for the singer, but for the emotion, I would use the other. But, you’ll notice, they’re really the same rhythm—rhythmic groups—it’s just that one has been shoved over. MH: How would you would make the final decision? SS: I would have to see what the lyric was, and it would be based on: Does the thought really push itself ahead, or does the thought need a little air?

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MH: So these are not primarily musical decisions? SS: But based on the emotion of the lyric. MH: Do you ever want to do one thing musically, but something else for the lyric? SS: Yes. If that happens, then I change the lyric. But here, because this is a very arioso, very free passage, it’s just as satisfying musically, I think— whether it comes in a beat earlier or not. It’s still the same downbeat feeling—I mean when the downbeat occurs, I don’t mean downbeat as an adjective. Whenever the downbeat occurs, it’s still the same feeling. And also, sometimes it has to do with the emphasis on a word, because if it comes in on the second beat of the bar, it’s a much weaker beat. So, if I don’t want to emphasize that word, I would use one; if I do want to emphasize that word, I would use the other. So, sometimes it’s determined by emphasis. Bear in mind, this is always in terms of arioso writing, it is not in terms of songwriting. Because songwriting has many more rigid rules— or it doesn’t feel like a song. You can’t just keep changing rhythms in a song and expect it to maintain its shape, because it is only thirty-two bars. MH: Increasingly, I’ve noticed that you tend to change meters more frequently within a song than you used to. SS: But that’s because most of the shows I’ve written recently aren’t song shows. The last song show I wrote, really, was Merrily. Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods have songs in them, but they’re not primarily song scores. Into the Woods is full of fragments that drift off. Sunday in the Park has extended sections. Assassins has a lot of songs in it. MH: The “Ballad of Booth” includes a lot of meter changes. SS: Really? I wouldn’t say there are a lot of meter changes. Are you talking about the sentimental section or the Balladeer’s section? MH: Where the Balladeer sings “Johnny Booth was a happy fella . . .” SS: I guess there are. But the feeling of that is square. Even though there are some meter changes, the feeling is fairly square. I know it changes occasionally from four to three, and maybe even five. But the feeling is square, because it has that steady rhythm in the accompaniment. MH: Next is your sketch called “Scene IV,” which is “I Wish I Could Forget You.”

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SS: When you said “Scene IV” it confused me, because ultimately this became “Scene VII”— which is how I think of it. MH: What interested me here was the evolution of the melody, and I’ve done a chart that tracks your various sketches through to the final version.

Example 1.15

SS: As you know, this melodic idea is the basis of the show. That includes: “I do not read to think”; and that whole thing, rhythmically of [sings] or [sings] exists all the way—”to feel a woman’s touch”; and in the opening lyric with [sings] “I’d die right here in your arms.” I use this melodic motif, this germ, this cell, as they say, throughout the show, in many, many guises. Both rhythmically and in terms of the outline of the melody. Sometimes the note goes up and sometimes the note goes down, but, essentially, it’s stepwise motion with a third at the end [sings] or [sings]—”To feel a woman’s touch.” Essentially, these opening notes are the same all the way through the show. Much of the score is a study in variations on those six notes. And it was conscious on my part to do that so that there would be some sense of repetition without its being repetitious—some sense of development, some sense of holding it together so it wouldn’t just be a tapeworm—because I loathe recitative—so there would be some sense of melodic cement, or glue, holding the thing together. So much of what Fosca sings, and much of what Clara sings when they are in their love moods, is based on that motif. And Giorgio too. There are significant differences in harmony, but not in melodic outline.

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MH: Going through the sketches, I was interested to note that the first three versions were in 6/4, which changed, alternating between quarter notes and half notes, before you got to the final version, which is all eighth notes. I assume that final decision relates to the kind of thing you were just talking about. SS: I think I decided to relate it more closely to the opening and to “I do not read to think.” MH: And it wasn’t until the third sketch that you got the F-sharp on “my.” SS: Oh, that’s interesting. . . . MH: Do you remember how you found that note? SS: Sometimes one does that just because a melody sounds boring. MH: But that’s not the “wrong-note” thing? SS: No. I just think it makes it a better tune. The whole idea of melodic writing—for me—is similar to what I was talking about earlier regarding harmony, which is: How do you keep it inevitable but fresh? How do you say you think this is going to be the next note, but at the same time it isn’t arbitrarily out of the ballpark? MH: How do you do that? SS: I don’t know. It’s a matter of personal decision, and there would be other composers who would solve it differently. One composer who would say: Gee, I think that’s a very boring way to end that little tune. And another composer would say: Gee, I think that’s perverse. But for me, it’s the right combination of perverse and non-perverse. But it requires trying out all these versions—the reason for all these sketches is precisely that. It’s also: How do words sit on the music? Let’s not ignore lyrics here. If you take this line: “I wish I could forget you,” and sing it in that rhythm: [sings] “I wish I could forget you.” It doesn’t work quite as well as: [sings] “I wish I could forget you.” Also, look at the difference in tone, even if I keep the rhythm exactly the same, just by taking the “you” down instead of up: [sings] “I wish I could forget you.” It has a finality to it, as opposed to: [sings] “I wish I could forget you,” which prompts us that something further is going on. At least to my ear. A lot of it has to do with being very careful not to end your melody before you want it to, or not to darken a tone of a lyric, because just the direction of one note can

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completely change the tone of a sentence (although this is not a particularly vivid example). Even when the lyrics fit, even when they sit on the notes the way they should—and inflection is all-important to me, all-important—so it really is what the emotion’s about. It’s another reason actors like to sing my stuff; I inflect for them very well. Inflection’s everything. Stress is another aspect: It’s very hard to make things so they’re not misstressed. I’m hardly impeccable on this, but I try to be. Most lyric writers, except for the very best, don’t even bother—it doesn’t bother them, it doesn’t bother the audience—but it bothers me terribly when things are misstressed. You don’t sing “nightmare” you sing “nightmare,” and if the accent’s on the mare it just bothers me dreadfully. But inflection is a subtler matter and very much a choice of course, because, again, there would be another composer who would say: Gee, I think this is exactly the wrong way to set “I wish I could forget you,” I think that last note should not be a stepwise motion; I think it should be “I wish I could forget you” [sings a leap up]. The minute you go off stepwise—even if it’s on an offbeat—you give a distinct emphasis to the word. If I go up a third: [sings] “I wish I could forget you,” right away there’s more accent on the “you” than [sings] “I wish I could forget you” is different than [sings alternate melody] if you set those words to it. It delays the rhythm by making those quarter notes. I think the reason I changed the meter from 6/4 to 4/4 was to echo more the sixteenth notes when she sang: “I do not read to think.” And by making them eighth notes—instead of a quarter, two eighths, and two quarters—it relates the themes. And, I think, it’s more conversational. It did mean that there was much more space between because the illusion of space in between those two bars is greater than just holding a note— even though this may be the same number of beats—when the tune is stretched out that waaaaaayyyy, and then the next phrase comes in there, it’s much closer than [sings phrase], even if you hold the note [continues singing]. There’s more air there, so you have to be sure that the lyric is going to accommodate that. In other words, you don’t want a run-on sentence. Actually, each one of those phrases, ideally, should have almost a period; each one should be a separate sentence. But these clauses, “I wish I could forget you, Erase you from my mind” for me, tremble on the brink of too much space between a subordinate clause and a main clause. But I wasn’t able to get two sentences. It fits the music much better if you come up with something like: “I wish I could forget you. I wish you’d go away,” as opposed to “I wish I could forget you, Erase you from my mind.” Where’s the subject of the second one? Gone with the wind. So suddenly it’s songwriting, as opposed to conversation. And for this show, particularly, I want it to seem conversational. It’s a subtle thing, but it’s things like that that lose kingdoms.

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MH: How do you approach the whole process? If you’re writing a song or an extended piece, you have your script pages, you know what’s supposed to happen there. Do you then start with your harmonic long-line outline before the lyric, or does something else come first? SS: It depends. I would say two-thirds of the time, maybe three-quarters, I will sit with a lyric pad first and just jot down notions that could, but not necessarily, be refrain lines but are central thoughts or things I want to say. Then I will often take the dialogue—because I usually write after the librettist has written the scene—and I will often set the dialogue on the piano and “let my fingers wander idly over the organ keys.” [Note: Sondheim is referring to a poem by Adelaide Ann Procter (1825–1864)—’Legends and Lyrics: A Lost Chord’: “Seated one day at the organ,/I was weary and ill at ease,/And my fingers wandered idly/Over the noisy keys.”] More often I will get a melodic shape in my mind from what I’m writing lyrically, and that will often be the first musical notes on that piece. It will often not end up to be the actual tune that I use, but it has a set of stresses and inflections which echo or support what I’m trying to do. I am very helped if I can find either a harmonic accompaniment or a rhythmic accompaniment that will evoke what I’m trying to say. That’s the reason to sit at the piano. And sometimes it’s harmonic and sometimes it’s rhythmic. The long-line is really about the harmonic progression. I don’t really use that unless I have a long piece and I want to hold it together—something like the opening of the second act of Sweeney Todd or the opening of this. MH: But the final melody comes from the lyric? And to get to that point, do you speak a line of lyric to get the inflection that you know you want, and do you use that to determine whether you want your melody to go up or down or whatever? SS: Absolutely. Quite often, if you listen to the musicality of the language—the melody: “If you listen to this sentence. If you listen to this sentence. If you listen to this sentence,” right away there’s a melody. [Sings] “Badadadadadadum.” You don’t go: “Badadadadadadum.” [Sings with downward inflection] “If you listen to this sentence?” It’s: “If you listen to this sentence.” Right away that phrase suggests a melodic outline and it suggests a rhythm. And if I were trying to set that—if I decide that that’s an important line: “If you listen to this sentence”—I’ve got “Badadadadadadadum,” and I try to work out something from that. It’s the musicality of the language itself that suggests the music—for me. The land of opera is filled with the reverse, in which you take: [sings with wide leaps] “If you listen to this sentence.” But that’s not for me.

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MH: There are the various “Soldier’s Scenes”—numbers 2, 4, 8, 10, and 11. . . . SS: The idea was to use one tune over and over and over again. MH: But I was intrigued by this one sketch for “Scene 10 for Soldiers.”

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SS: “Scene 10” was my attempt to give some variety to this repetitive joke. This is where the soldiers are gossiping about what happened on the cliff when Fosca and Giorgio were caught in the rain. (Incidentally, the bugle calls I used throughout the show are authentic. I got the music for some Italian Army music bugle calls, and I also stole one from the movie because I figured that was authentic too.) This sketch shows a series of sixths, and a seventh and a fifth. What is that? This does not look like long-line to me. What this does look like is a series of chords over a pedal point. Let’s see what I did here. I don’t think I ended up really using this. This scene leads into the nightmare and I think what I did was, knowing from previous soldier scenes that they included these sustained whole-note chords, I wanted somehow to break them up so that we could fragment them and suddenly get into the nightmare which follows. This segues immediately into the nightmare music. So instead of going [he sings] “dum-baum-baum,” it’s “dau, dau, bau, dau.” By holding the half notes over the whole notes you get dissonances, so that you know we’re going to something dissonant. It starts off fairly consonant with sixths, and suddenly there’s a seventh there, and then the fifth which is very dissonant with what’s around it. So this is merely a sketch for an idea I had. MH: To become more and more dissonant over the pedal point? SS: Absolutely, yes. It starts with a sixth, goes to a seventh . . . And notice how quickly it goes out of the key—we’re in G major, and there’s an E-flat minor in the middle of it. MH: You raise two points. First, authenticity: When you’re doing period pieces, how much research do you do?

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SS: What do I know about Italian bugle calls? Nothing. And granted the audience wouldn’t know the difference either, but why should I invent them when they’re in public domain? When they’re authentic, why make one up? I listened to a lot of bugle calls—a lot, three dozen. I got a recording of military bugle calls by the Italian Army. Don’t ask me how; I think Paul Gemignani, the show’s conductor, might have gotten them for me. And there are four or five different bugle calls in the movie, and I figured if anybody knew what the bugle call for retreat and the bugle call for reveille would be, it would be Ettore Scola who directed the movie. So I assumed that he had done research and gotten some military advisor to say, “This is what you want.” So I figured why not use them? And they became valuable because I utilized them; I didn’t just use them as decoration. I took little rhythmic ideas from them and little melodic skips from them. Granted, it’s always 1, 3, 5, and 1—I mean it’s just triadic—but it’s very useful. [Sings] “Bump-ad-y-ump-ump-ad-y-ad-y-ump.” I wouldn’t think that up, but that becomes useful. It suggests things. Not necessarily that I echoed that in a melody, but to use that against a melody. To know that that’s the rhythm: “bump-ad-y-ump-ump-ad-y-ad-y-ump” is important or useful. So authenticity not for the sake of authenticity, but because it gives me something that I can steal from that is part and parcel of what I’m trying to do. I wouldn’t take a Sousa bugle call; I would take an Italian bugle call. MH: When you have a show that’s set in a certain time and place, do you worry that certain chords or harmonies wouldn’t have been done then? SS: It depends. Pacific Overtures is a perfect example. I went and I studied for two weeks in Japan. I also got some records of the various Japanese instruments that I knew nothing about. From that I decided that we’d use the shakuhachi, the sho, and the samisen. And I listened to them, and listened to the Japanese scales which are essentially pentatonic minor scales—as opposed to the Chinese which are major. And then I tried to devise music that essentially used those elements, but was, of course, tonal music—Western tonal music. You can’t imitate Japanese music, because the intonation is everything in Japanese music—it has nothing to do with the notes. So in the first act of Pacific Overtures—when the music is, for the most part, Eastern—it feels like the music belongs in that show, in that milieu, in that country, as opposed to a show set in New York in 1960. That’s my idea of the uses of authenticity. I think authenticity is useless otherwise. If I were writing a novel, that would be a whole other thing. In preparing for Pacific Overtures, I got a sort of daybook of various Japanese customs, traditions, and superstitions from John Weidman, some of which I used in the lyrics. They are authentic, such as a spider on the wall being a sign of success. At least it’s authentic according to this daybook which

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was printed in the early twentieth century, or maybe even later, by somebody who lived there, and so I have to assume it’s authentic. And that’s useful. It doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not, it suggests something exotic—in the real sense of the word. I think that’s how authenticity can be useful. When I’m dealing with the old tunes from the Ziegfeld era, as I did in Follies, you listen to authentic Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern and utilize what they were doing. The same thing is true with language. One of the things we did with Sunday in the Park with George was that James Lapine very carefully wrote it so it sounds like a translation from the French. There are very few contractions in it—people usually say “cannot.” It’s slightly clumsy, and it’s slightly stilted, and it seems to me just right. It prevents it from being colloquial in the wrong way. MH: Did you follow that through with your lyrics? SS: I tried to. Again, if your ear is sensitive, and mine is, to the nuances in the language, you can tell when something sounds twentieth century and when it doesn’t. And I’m not talking about “ain’t,” I’m talking about something subtler than that. There are aspects of the lyrics that are slightly stilted—and deliberately so. MH: In the song “Johanna” in Sweeney Todd there’s a surprising blue note. Was it a tough decision to use that sound?

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SS: Yes. And I’m not sure I made the right decision. Sometimes, you make a choice, because all the other choices seem less good. It may not be ideal; and maybe, if I’d searched longer, I would have found the right note there. I was aware of that blue note, but everything else sounded either repetitious or boring or expected—expected in the wrong way, meaning flat, meaning anti-climactic. That note sounded slightly startling, and you’re not the first person to point it out. It may have been a mistake. MH: It’s my favorite moment. SS: Maybe that’s because you’re perverse. Seriously, can you explain why it’s your favorite? MH: I remember sitting in the theater the first time I saw Sweeney Todd (the recording hadn’t come out yet), and I literally got chills up my spine at that moment. SS: That’s great, but it’s partly because you were startled. If you’d heard a saxophone in the middle of it, it might have done the same thing. MH: But for that point in the show too, it made me nervous—it just played out with everything else that was going on on the stage. SS: One of the things that blue note does is it makes the next phrase really telling: [sings] “da-da-da-da-da-da DAH-dah, da-da-da-da-da-da DAH DAAHH.” Suddenly the sun comes up with the change from minor to major (or “major to minor” as Cole Porter said, better than I). Incidentally, that happens in lyric writing quite often: you know that you’ve got a really good third line, and you can’t make the second line so good, but it isn’t so bad, because the second line’s being a little weak makes the third line stronger. There’s a lyric of Cole Porter’s in Kiss Me Kate in “Where’s the Life That Late I Led?” where he says: “It’s lucky I missed her gangster sister from Chicago.” That line simply doesn’t belong in any way, shape, or form in that lyric, and I thought: I wonder if he deliberately did that to make the rest of the lyric brilliant? Which is by having one terrible line, all the other lines say: Wow! I don’t know. I don’t think he was that devious, but I wouldn’t put it past him—that he might have written that and thought: Gee, that line doesn’t belong in this song, but what the hell, it’ll make the ones that are really elegant sound more elegant. MH: When you write something that’s intentionally startling, do you ever worry about the fact that over time, it won’t be startling anymore?

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SS: No, I never think about that. And incidentally, I didn’t use the note to startle. It’s because I was looking for something warm and something that wouldn’t anticipate the B-natural. (I remember it was a B-flat.) [Note: The published version is a third lower.] I didn’t want to use the B-natural in front of it. And at the same time, if I used an A it was too flat; and I wanted it to be below the note that was coming. You know you don’t have a lot of choices. You’ve got a B there you want to get to. Well, you’ve got a B-flat and an A and then you’ve got an A-flat and a G. What else? Now you know Kern was notorious for finding exactly the right note. (Was it Flaubert or Stendhal who talked about le mot juste?) Oscar Hammerstein used to describe listening to Kern play the first eight notes of the chorus for “All the Things You Are” and trying each possibility for the ninth note. Kern would try every single note of the scale, and once he hit it, go on to the next phrase. And that’s what I did, I tried every note and I couldn’t find one. Kern might have found a way of starting the phrase differently so it could have a different resolution. MH: Do you often do that? SS: Oh, yeah! Absolutely. Every possibility. First I look at what the scheme is that I’m using and what belongs. Usually the scheme will dictate it. But sometimes it’s just dramatically unsatisfying—it’s the right note, but it’s not fresh. It’s inevitable, but it’s not fresh. MH: So in “Opening Doors,” in Merrily, when you have the character of the composer trying out the thirty-two different harmonizations of his theme, is that really how you approach it? SS: You got it. That’s what I do. That’s my big autobiographical number; everything in that number is me. That’s exactly what he’s doing—he’s trying everything out until he gets it. I don’t know how many other composers work that way (I’ve never talked about it to any other composer of my own generation, and I haven’t read enough about composers in the past), but I’m sure that Kern was not the only one to do this. He can’t have been. I remember Oscar describing how it would drive him crazy, being in the next room, trying to write lyrics, and he just kept hearing this thing go over and over again, day after day after day, until it sounded fresh. Which is what’s so great; you hear “All the Things You Are,” and you can’t imagine that he worked on it at all! MH: Getting back to the “Soldier’s Number,” there’s one other thing I want to bring up: It seems that as your work evolves, your textures

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seem to be becoming thinner and thinner. Obviously not all the time, but this is a good example of a number where the textures are very thin. I know “less is more” is one of your favorite quotes, and I wonder if that idea is behind it. SS: I think the older you get, the fussier you get about “less is more.” I think that’s why so many classical composers end up writing string quartets. It’s called: I don’t need the oboes and I don’t need the trumpets; let’s just do the music. Let’s do a piece and limit the colors to black, white, and blue—no reds and no greens and no oranges. I found it happening to me. In the score I’m writing now for Wise Guys, I’ve got my usual five- and sixnote chords in there, and I’m thinking: Do I really need five notes? How about four? How about a triad—just D, F-sharp, and A—no C-sharp, no inner voice—just D, F-sharp, and A? I’m not the first person to use it, but it doesn’t matter. How about a little less? And it’s hard, because (I have to speak for myself) the older I get, the less confident I get in what I do. And yet, I think: Don’t cover it up with either wrong or extra notes. What’s necessary? Don’t have so many wrong notes. What’s wrong with a straight V chord? It doesn’t have to be a V7. I just made a third revision on a song to make it simpler—simpler in this sense of taking out the underbrush, or the overgrowth, whatever you want to call it. I think that happens in a big way over a period of time. At least it has to me. MH: How does it affect how you think of your old scores? SS: I like the old scores fine. It seems right to me that Sweeney Todd is thick, whereas Sunday in the Park with George is very spare. And that seems right, because look what Seurat did—the score echoes the subject. MH: When, because of the dictates of character and script, it calls for you to write music that doesn’t call for 7th chords, is it as satisfying to write without them? SS: In a way not. I like 7th chords—I live on 7th chords. (Ravel gave us that gift.) And when a piece doesn’t call for them I try not to use them, but it’s hard. If you’re writing something like Passion, you can afford to have all these big dissonances and these big 9th chords and 11th chords and 13th chords, because it’s all about huge stuff. But if you’re trying to write lean. . . . MH: Of all the numbers I’ve looked at, at least for Passion, I saw more alternate versions of that very simple melody—what you called “Train

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Song, scene 11” in this sketch, but is what we now think of as “Loving You.” [Note: The following examples were selected from eleven pages of sketches, ending with 8 measures from the final version.]

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SS: This was written late in the show. The older I get, guess what takes the most effort in the world? Simplicity. It’s what we were just talking about. This is really simple, and it cost me an arm and a leg to get this simple. The problem with simplicity is it’s really hard to do. There’s this awful term “simplistic,” and I’m not sure I even know what it means. There’s simple-minded, and there’s simple, and there’s a big difference. Most pop music is simple-minded, and most show music is simple-minded—when it’s not pretentious and over-complicated, or long-winded. “Simple” is really hard to do. That’s what makes me admire the best of Kern so much—how “simple” it is. The best of Rodgers, how “simple” it is. Cole Porter’s never simple, and when he tries to get simple, like “True Love” or something like that, it embarrasses me. I think it’s terrible. He needs to be fussy, because his lyrics are fussy. But with the simple composers like Harold Arlen, it’s really so admirable when a song is simple but still has character, like “Sleepin’ Bee”—when it’s not bloodless, when it’s not just simple. And that’s very hard to do. It took me a long time to accept this song because of that. With “Loving You” I thought: Oh, come on, there’s so little going on in this song. But I was really encouraged because Lapine loved it, and Scott Rudin, who produced the piece, loved it. And I thought: All right, we’ll put it on the stage if you like it that much. I thought: Oh gee, they like it because they can hum it. But what they liked was that Fosca was making a simple statement simply. And I tend, like many composers, not to be simple. Because it’s hard—it’s much easier to hide behind a lot of chocolate sauce—and I kept thinking: I’m trying to please people instead of do the right thing for the character. And I realized that’s what she’s doing—it’s right for her. This is not right for anybody earlier in the show. This is right for her at this point, because she’s been reduced to this. And it is the simplicity of what she says that starts to change Giorgio’s heart. This is the key moment in the show. I used to think it was “I Wish I Could Forget You.” And it isn’t. It’s this moment. It’s this moment where Giorgio first starts to hear her and hear what she’s really saying to him. And as such, it’s very moving. And I thought: Well, that calls for simplicity. It doesn’t call for an aria, and it doesn’t call for 9th chords (although it does have plenty of them in it, but you know what I mean); it doesn’t call for decoration. But it’s really hard to write. Not all moments call for this kind of thing, but when they do. . . . MH: Did you always know there was going to be this song there? SS: No, originally it was a song for Giorgio, as I remember it. I don’t remember exactly, but there’s a history to this song. I may have written

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something else—for her, or something for Giorgio, or a duet—and then James (as I remember it) kind of pushed me to write something simple for her. Ah, here in my notes, here’s what was cut. This is Fosca explaining herself with a repeat of that “They hear drums . . .” melody, but against it the little musical theme from the garden. And here she is explaining herself: “You were right, I was wrong, I must learn to wait. You were right all along. Now I know, and I shall be there waiting, day and night. . . .” That’s not simple. That’s called “explaining yourself,” instead of just saying what’s in your heart. Now I’m talking about the lyrics, but that echoes

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itself musically. Ah, and here’s Giorgio, he sang in the train: “Do you know what I feel?” This was a whole duet between them—a discursive duet—and it never got into rehearsal. I don’t even think this got copied. As you can see, it’s a fair copy, but I don’t think it ever got to the copyist. I think that this is what the song evolved from. I don’t know if James used the word “simpler,” or if he said, “I would just like something for her to sing to him at this point in the scene.” But that’s what it was. MH: It sounds like the story about the inspiration for “Send in the Clowns.” SS: Exactly. It came out of the scene. It came directly out of the scene instead of being discursive. That’s really what “less is more” is about—it’s about being less discursive both musically and lyrically. MH: When you were talking about other composers, such as Arlen, I was reminded that you’ve done a lot of pastiche work in some of your shows. Do you study their scores first, or is it just that you know them so well? SS: I listen to the records to refresh my memory. On Follies, I just listened again. I had, as a kid, of course, played all their songs. They each have a distinct harmonic style, and that’s what you imitate—the harmonic style. Arlen’s harmonic style is immediately recognizable, so is Gershwin’s, so is Kern’s, so is Porter’s, so is Rodgers’. If you play me a song that I’ve never heard from their mature years, I’ll tell you who wrote it. Not from their early years, because in their early years everybody sounds like everybody else. But if you give me middle-period Arlen, or middleperiod Rodgers, I’ll tell you which is which. MH: In Follies, how did you decide which composers to emulate? SS: I just wanted the gamut—just everybody I liked. MH: “Losing My Mind” is obviously Gershwin . . . SS: “The Man I Love.” MH: But why wasn’t it based on Arlen’s “The Man That Got Away,” which would seem to have made as much, if not more, sense there? SS: First, “The Man That Got Away” I wouldn’t believe in a Ziegfeld Follies—that’s too sophisticated a song.

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MH: And in Pacific Overtures, as part of “Please Hello,” you wrote your own version of a Gilbert and Sullivan song and a Sousa number, but in Assassins, instead of doing your version of Sousa, you decided to use an actual Sousa piece? SS: Because that’s what they were playing when the assassination attempt on Roosevelt took place. That’s authentic—that’s exactly what they were playing. MH: Also in “Please Hello,” what’s the Dutch Admiral’s music based on? SS: It’s just a clog. I did thought association. What do you think of when you think Dutch? You think: the boy with his finger in the dike with the clog shoes and the little hat and the tulips. And you think clogs, and that’s what you think of. That’s all, so I was doing a clog dance. MH: In the liner notes you wrote for Paul Weston’s Jerome Kern album, you wrote one-sentence descriptions of the music of Rodgers, Kern, and Porter: “In Rodgers’ music, deceptive simplicity is the trademark. Sudden surprising shifts of spare block harmonies under essentially diatonic, often repeated note melodies with occasional unexpected chromatic leaps. The impressive feature of Porter’s songs is their sophistication, the frequent use of Latin-American rhythms, the lush chromatic harmony and the lengthy extensions of standard chorus forms.” How would you describe your . . . style isn’t exactly the right word. . .? SS: I don’t know how I would describe myself because I’m so eclectic. People say they hear my style. I’m not sure I would recognize something I’d written. I’m not sure—musically. I know there are certain chords I use over and over and over again, but I’m not sure I would recognize something I’d written. Because I write in a lot of styles, because often I’m imitating a milieu or something like that. And yet, people I respect say they can tell something of mine; and people I don’t respect say it. But I’m not sure I would recognize it. I do recognize when people are imitating me, but usually it’s an imitation of my lyric style. And I recognize when they’re doing a takeoff on my music by using lots of wrong notes, and thick chords, and that sort of thing—I recognize what they’re parodying. But I’m not sure that I would recognize a piece of mine that I hadn’t heard before. MH: Certainly, in the same way you described Porter’s lengthy forms, I can’t think of anyone else who’s done such extended musicalized scenes as you have.

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SS: Ah, but you’re talking about form now, I thought you were talking about musical style. MH: But that’s one of the things that you mentioned. SS: Okay, fair enough. I think I could tell that—as a musical-dramatist, I think I could tell my style. But as a composer, I’m not sure I could. I’m not sure. MH: What do you look for in other peoples’ work? How do you judge it? SS: Surprise. MH: That’s it? SS: Surprise. Just don’t tell me something I already know. And I’m not talking about lyrically, I’m talking about musically too. Let me hear a voice, and let me be surprised. (As well as, of course, because I’m interested in theater music, somebody who knows how to dramatize things.) Very few people know how to make people laugh, but that I always admire—when somebody makes me laugh. Freshness and an individual voice. Somebody you haven’t heard before. That’s rare. MH: Is there anything you can suggest for people of how they can get to that point—how they study, what they look at? SS: Oh sure, of course: keep writing. How do you tell somebody to become a grown-up person? That’s all. You develop. If you don’t develop, you don’t become a grown-up person. The same thing is true of an artist. You find your voice. One of the most startling and thrilling things I ever saw in a museum was a Mondrian exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. In his early days, like everybody else, he was imitating others and that sort of thing. He was drawing representative things, and then, you turn the corner, and there was a painting of a cow, and a second painting of a cow, and it started to break apart, and a third painting of a cow, and by the time of the fifth painting, he was almost at Broadway Boogie Woogie. He had found his voice. And the same thing happened in a Matisse exhibition a few years ago. You turned the corner, and you saw where and with what painting he found his voice. But prior to that he imitated other people. And you could see all the influences coming in. He found his voice. It was always very clear in Lenny’s music where his influences are. The one influence in Lenny’s music that nobody ever acknowledges, including Lenny, is Paul Bowles. That’s really who he was influenced by. But

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you can hear the Copland. But you can hear Lenny! It’s Lenny. I don’t care if you can hear strains of the other people. He had a voice. And that’s what you listen for in music, is a voice. Even if you hear where it comes from. I’m eclectic the way Lenny was eclectic. But I’ve a voice, I’ve a voice. MH: Was there a score where you found your “cow”? SS: Curiously enough, you can hear it as early as Saturday Night. (You know, that’s finally going to be done.) It’s just little peeps through the marshland, but you can hear the voice starting to sound. And then in Forum you can start to hear it develop more. Company is the first full-blown score I wrote that’s really me and nobody else. When I say “nobody else,” it’s everybody’s influence, but it’s me. MH: Have you ever solicited musical help? Did you ever go to Lenny and say: I don’t know how to get from here to here. SS: No, not in terms of composition. I did that when I wrote the background music for a play called Invitation to a March, because I was orchestrating for the first time in my life, and I had never studied instrumentation, and he helped me with that. And he helped me make transitions from instrument to instrument. But I don’t ever remember going to him with a specific piece of music and saying: What do I do here? I don’t remember that. MH: In your sketches for the “Flashback Sequence,” I was struck by a musical quotation from the “Emperor Waltz” you wrote at the bottom of one of the pages. I assume for some reason that piece resonated with you at that point in the score. Do you remember why?

Example 1.20

SS: No, there must have been a specific reason. Obviously it was meant to be source music of some sort. Originally, Jim Lapine wanted this whole flashback sequence to be done as a mini-operetta. He wanted somehow to encapsulate and perhaps make it of a different style. When he used the word operetta, it must have had something to do with that. I don’t know why I picked the actual “Emperor Waltz,” except there is the little sequence in the flashback where Fosca dances with the Count. And it may have been that,

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thinking of it as a mini-operetta, I wanted to use a waltz that would suggest the period. I don’t think I chose it for its melodic value, but for something that would immediately suggest a costume operetta. That’s the only thing I can think of. I had no intention of utilizing it as music, but merely as source music. I was brought up on movies, and what do you associate with when you see costume dramas that take place in the late-ish nineteenth century? First of all, it seemed to me that what she would be doing would be waltzing with him, because that suggests the period—whether it’s in Italy or France or England or America. But particularly in Italy and France—I don’t mean that they waltzed in Italy, but just that feeling of costume. MH: I’m curious about your musical memory. How you store other music and are able to write it out from having heard it. SS: Well, in this case the tune is so well known that it is in my head. This is obviously some free association; that’s why it’s written at the bottom of the page. I usually start writing at the top of the page when I’m collecting thematic ideas, and I usually put at the bottom, either something that need not be stated—except that I want to write it down—or a quotation from something. MH: I came upon this letter with your manuscripts—a letter to Jeremy Sams in 1996, presumably as he was preparing to direct the London production. You wrote: “J is under the impression that you intend to cut the echo chorus of ‘to feel a woman’s touch’ after the train sequence. If so, I hope you’ll reconsider. It may not be necessary to make the scene change in your version of the staging, but I like the sonic texture of it in the place.” I found the concept of sonic texture fascinating. What did you mean by it? [See example 1.21 “Transition (Scenes 10–11)”; note: It is clear that Sondheim’s letter is referring to “Transition (Scenes 10–11)” as published in the piano-vocal score, although this precedes rather than follows the train sequence. According to Sondheim, this discrepancy is because the placement and order of some of the transitions changed over time.] SS: It feels like a lonely solo. It feels a cappella (even though there is, in fact, orchestra going on) and it feels distant, and there’s an ineffable sadness about it when it’s sung that way. And I didn’t want to lose that color. So perhaps I meant color rather than texture. But the texture is about a very vehement beautiful solo voice against a simple vocal chorus—vocal set of chords. It’s a color and texture—it’s a texture really, that’s not used elsewhere in the show. I think, as a matter of fact, that was not my invention, I think that was the invention of Lapine and Paul Gemignani, the music director in New York, when James was looking for a scene change. I think he conceived that, because I don’t ever remember utilizing that.

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MH: But there are a fair amount of them through the show. SS: Yes, but that’s very often the director and, particularly, Gemignani, who has a first-rate theatrical imagination for the use of music. Much of the connecting material in shows I’ve written, meaning scene-change stuff, has been devised by Gemignani and either Hal Prince or Lapine. Then I go over it and maybe make emendations. But the feeling is something that arises during rehearsals. Lapine will say: “I’d love to have something very kind of distant and mysterious here.” And Paul will come up with something. Or, for some of the percussion used in Pacific Overtures, Hal would say: “I’d love to have something harsh here.” And Paul, who had a massive array of percussion instruments, would devise something on a percussion instrument. That’s quite often how it happens, because directors don’t really like to have writers around while they’re making. Lapine is less self-conscious about that than most, but Hal is quite fierce about it. And I can’t blame him; he doesn’t want someone looking over his shoulder while he’s making, and Lapine’s the same way. So I stay away until they’re ready “to show me something”—which is usually one act. In order to make the act hold together, they have to devise some kind of what film composers call a scratch track. Gemignani’s

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instincts are so much like mine, and also so sharp, and he works so well with his directors, that I rarely change things—except, maybe, picking a different piece of music. But the texture of this, I think, was devised by them. MH: As long as you’ve brought up the role of musical directors, for future generations of musical directors, are there general points that you’d want to make about how your work should be conducted, and how it should be taught to performers and musicians? SS: No. The older I get, the more meticulous I am about notation, in terms of things like metronome markings and dynamics. In the first few shows I wrote, I would just put mezzo forte and just leave it alone. But when I started working with Jonathan Tunick, who orchestrates most of my shows, he always wants me to play the score, no matter how meticulously notated it is, because he says he gets so much, both dynamically and in terms of tempo and rubato and all that, from the way I play it. And quite often it’s different than what I’ve written, because I don’t realize that I’m getting louder or softer. When I’m preparing the manuscript for rehearsals, I’m quite meticulous. Once we’re in rehearsals I don’t do anything until the show is open; and then, when I’m ready to get the score published, I add further details that arose out of the performance. I will realize that the singer slowed down, because I told her to, but I hadn’t notated it in the score. So, by the time it goes to the publisher, it’s fairly meticulously notated, and I would like people to follow those notations as much as possible. MH: Do you use a metronome when you’re composing? SS: Yes, absolutely. And sometimes it’s off because, when I’m playing at home and singing to myself, it often is faster—sometimes it’s slower, but usually faster—than the metronome marking I meant. In other words, I make the metronome marking, and then, when they get it into rehearsal, it’s too fast or too slow. MH: Do you find that once something is orchestrated, the tempos need to be changed because of differences between the orchestra and the piano? SS: No. It happens during rehearsal. You know, orchestrations in musical theater are done during the rehearsal period, so if Jonathan hears something that’s too fast for a certain texture of instruments, he’ll adjust. In other words, the cast doesn’t adjust to the orchestra, the orchestra adjusts to the cast.

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MH: When your work is orchestrated outside the original production of the show, or when—as with the recording Symphonic Sondheim—people do things with the music, what are your wishes regarding what they should or shouldn’t change? SS: When they’re going for free interpretation, let them do whatever they want. I remember when I was working with Dick Rodgers on Do I Hear a Waltz?, and he heard a recording of “Lover” that was played in four, and, of course, it’s a waltz, he was berserk. And I could understand it, but that was an interpretation—everybody knew what the song was. When a song is first heard, I want it done exactly the way I intended it. When it’s heard a second time, in another arrangement, another singer, something like that, fine, let them do anything they wish with it. You can’t ask performers not to interpret. I don’t like them changing lyrics, and I don’t like them changing notes. But if they want to change tempi, if they want to even sometimes change from three to four, that’s . . . MH: When you say “notes” you mean melody, but what about harmony? SS: I don’t want them to change the harmonies either. But they do, they do. MH: And you never find their changes intriguing, or interesting? SS: No, it’s awful. “Send in the Clowns” was made popular by two singers: Judy Collins, for whom Jonathan Tunick orchestrated it, so the chords are correct, and Frank Sinatra, for whom Nelson Riddle* orchestrated it and who made one chord change. It was unwitting, but, of course, Sinatra’s recording has been copied by everyone. People who make records, I fear, do not look at the sheet music, they listen to other recordings. And the result is, that chord has been copied—it’s in the middle of the release, where he dropped a suspension—and it just kills it for me, it just kills it. But because that was such a popular record, most people do that, and it’s awful. You know, you spend hours choosing a chord, or working something out contrapuntally. And to have it dismissed like that, because somebody has a tin ear, is awful.

*After the first printing of the text, it was determined that the actual arranger for the Sinatra recording of “Send in the Clowns” was Gordon Jenkins.

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MH: Moving on to Assassins. SS: Or moving back. MH: Or moving back. I guess this is the Merrily version of This Is Your Life. SS: Right—This Was Your Life. MH: We’ve discussed your long-line plans a bit already, but there are a couple of them for Assassins, and I’d like to start by talking about them a little more. SS: Assassins is very much a collection of songs. Some motifs are used over and over again, particularly “Hail to the Chief” and a couple of others, I think. This is really, in the old-fashioned sense, a musical comedy— whether people think it’s a comedy or not, it’s a collection of songs. There’s no attempt here to make a “score” except insofar as it relates to the characters. It’s eclectic—different kinds of styles, reflecting the periods and reflecting the characters. So if there’s any kind of long-line stuff, it’s within some of the pieces themselves. MH: I only meant for individual numbers. In particular, these sketches for the “Ballad of Booth” are intriguing for the kind of work you were doing.

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SS: Wow! One of the things about the “Ballad of Booth” is, I have a feeling it didn’t end up this long. But my guess is that these are two different versions (mostly because one is in B-flat, and one is in G), but it may have been—you know, what he sings is in two sections. As I remember it, the “Ballad” itself is in B-flat, and I’m surprised that I made a longline out of the Balladeer’s version, but apparently I did. The problem with this number, or the task I set myself, was that I wanted to combine two entirely different songs and yet make them feel as if the Balladeer’s version—which is supposedly a kind of banjo song—would act as a framework for a very romantic middle section and that they should

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somehow be related. And my guess is that’s why I worked out these various long-line things, but it would take me a while to go back over this and figure out exactly what I was doing. I notice, however, that there’s a great deal of interplay between the fifth note of the scale and the sixth note of the scale, and I see that’s both in the harmony and in the melody. And I see that it’s reflected in the bass line in G major—the D-E-D-E—so, it looks like I was hovering around the relationship between five and six. You’ll notice that, at least in the first part of this,

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there are very few accidentals, which means this must be the Balladeer’s section, because he didn’t deal much in accidentals. The reason there’s so much work on this is that I knew that I had to somehow keep these two songs separate but glue them together in some way. I suspect the long-line of the Balladeer’s section both reflects and is reflected by the long-line of Booth’s section. And yet Booth’s section is rubato and free-flowing, and the Balladeer’s is rhythmic and steady. MH: Most of your manuscripts are for piano accompaniments, but this one was obviously conceived for a ukulele or banjo. SS: I know. Once we invented the character of the Balladeer, we figured he would have a guitar or banjo slung over his shoulder—sort of Woody Guthrie style. When I say banjo, “Oh Susannah” was what I was thinking of. Those repeated chords at the beginning are much more banjo chords,

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or banjo-style, than guitar-style. I rarely think instrumentally, but in this case it seemed important that the Balladeer always have some sort of guitar or banjo accompaniment. MH: So when you write those chords, what are you thinking? SS: I’m thinking of three notes that can be strummed on the banjo. That’s all. MH: This is your only show I can think of that didn’t have a full orchestration until the recording session. SS: Yes, this show was done with three instruments originally. MH: What was that process like—since you didn’t get to work out the orchestration in rehearsal? SS: I just trusted Michael Starobin by then because he’d done such a sensational job on Sunday in the Park with George. When it came time for the orchestra rehearsals, I went there and went over some stuff with him— whatever objections I had. It was taking a big chance, but I didn’t mind taking it with Michael at all. You always want to hear the orchestrations in advance in case there are any egregious, I won’t say errors, but choices that you disagree with. MH: For the Hinckley/Fromme number, “Unworthy of Your Love,” there are a lot of fairly significant differences among your sketches. For instance, in this version it has a much higher tessitura.

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SS: I don’t know why I wrote it so high up. I have learned over a period of time not to take singers over a D or D-sharp, even if they’re sopranos. The soprano sound is not my favorite sound anyway, and you get up around an F. . . . When I’m singing, I’m singing an octave below and it doesn’t matter, but boy, when you start to hear them up there it gets hard to understand the lyrics and, for my money, it’s not a pleasant sound. There are, of course, exceptions—if you have Barbara Cook singing an F, that’s a different matter. My guess is here I started to work

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out everything, and I thought: Oh dear, it’s all too high. You’ll notice I wrote “transpose as needed.” Instead of putting it into another key, I’m sure I said to Paul Gemignani: Tell me what key you want it in, and if there’s any problem with the relationship of the two voices, I’ll fix it. That’s my guess, because ordinarily I would never give this to a copyist without a specific transposition saying, “take this down,” before handing it to the singer. MH: This song is an example of what Stephen Banfield calls, “diegetic music”—meaning in the show, the character of Hinckley is actually writing and performing it as a song. And it’s my understanding that you did some things musically in this song to indicate a naive composer. SS: There’s one place in the opening vamp—in the accompaniment—that is like he’s making an error while he’s playing. That should be another F-sharp in bar 6.

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MH: Is that hard for you to do? SS: No, I thought it was fun. I was wondering if anybody would catch it. It’s for me. As I told you before, I think that an audience’s ear, no matter how uneducated it is, I think they sense it—I think they sense that something’s out of the pattern there. It’s as if he made a mistake playing the guitar.

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MH: Would this be a rare example of, if somebody does do a pop recording of the song, you would actually prefer the F-sharp be used? SS: I probably would, but it doesn’t matter because it’s merely an eleventh in the chord instead of a third. I never think about pop recordings. If I published it as a separate number I suppose I would prefer it with the F-sharp. Something else that I notice is that I had an earlier percussive accompaniment that would have had the orchestra come in more heavily. MH: Do you remember why you changed it? SS: My guess is that either it happened before the notion that he actually was writing the song, or I didn’t think of his actually playing and writing on the guitar until the second thought. That’s all I can think of, because there’s a complete piano copy that I wrote with the percussive, orchestral accompaniment, so there must have been a real reason to change it. I must have thought better of it. I know it never went into rehearsal—it was always guitar in rehearsal. MH: In your sketches for “Another National Anthem,” you’ve written out these series of chords that are labeled “cadences.” The piece begins with that choral sequence; am I right in assuming that’s what these sketches were for?

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SS: That’s what these are. I’m trying out different cadences, because that whole lament idea is two chords, but I also knew that this was going to be a dissonant piece. Originally, I must have intended for the song to end, as opposed to fade out, because usually when I write cadences I really am talking about stopping points—usually at the end, or sometimes in the middle if there’s a demarked section. But since this is one continuous piece, interrupted by the Balladeer, my guess is those cadences are the choral sections. On the other hand, those vocals were set fairly early, so

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it’s possible that these were cadences that I wanted to use to end, let’s say, a section of “Another National Anthem,” and then to transition into the Balladeer’s section. That’s another possibility. MH: And where you’ve written “final cadence”? SS: That means, obviously, I really meant the piece to end. But now that I look at it, that’s not really a very consonant chord, so maybe by that time what I meant was: That’s the last chord I wanted to hear before the fadeout as people wander off the stage. But certainly that’s the last chord I wanted to have.

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MH: So when you refer to cadences, in some cases it’s literally the end of the song, but sometimes there are internal cadences that you’re talking about. SS: Yes, usually to end a section. And it’s sometimes to avoid a straight V-I, but without, again, being “wrong note”—something that’s built into the harmony, or a variation. If I’ve used another cadence before, then I want to use that. MH: Why did you think the vocals at the beginning should be prerecorded? SS: Just to give that distant effect. I wanted it disembodied—I wanted that disembodied lament. MH: A number of twentieth-century composers have worked extensively with using pre-recorded sounds, and I’m curious if that’s something you’ve explored, or thought much about. SS: No, not at all. These are usually practical matters. The cast in Assassins is made up of the Assassins plus the group that plays the bystanders— five people. The five people are the ones who did that choral part, but it was taped, so it became part of the orchestra. But that was to keep it regular; I wanted to be sure that it was absolutely regular. MH: Is it mourning?

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SS: Absolutely. That’s exactly what it’s supposed to be. MH: The added number for the London production, “Something Just Broke,” also utilized that choral effect.

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SS: In fact, that’s why I had written it originally. I’d always intended to write “Something Just Broke,” and there just wasn’t time. We opened the show off-Broadway, and we thought we would have it transfer. I assumed by the time it transferred I’d be able to write this extra number, but then it never transferred, so I wrote it for London. It was always intended that there would be a moment in Assassins about what happens to the country when a president gets assassinated. Most people don’t know, but the country went into just as deep mourning for McKinley and Garfield as they did for Lincoln. Kennedy was different because, by that time, the communications revolution had happened, and everybody knew it all at once. But in Lincoln’s case, McKinley’s case, and Garfield’s case, it took a while for the news to get across the country. But the trains carrying the bodies of the presidents were greeted with just as much weeping and wailing in the case of two minor presidents as in the case of Lincoln. It’s a constant when the country goes into a convulsion like that, and that’s what that number’s about—the country’s convulsion. “Something Just Broke” deals with the deaths of all four presidents. It starts with one, but then you gradually realize you’re hearing from a farmer in 1893, and then somebody’s talking about Dallas, Texas, in 1963.

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MH: It seems one of the through lines of your work has been history through the eyes of the bystander. Such as the numbers “How I Saved Roosevelt,” “Someone in a Tree,” and “Four Black Dragons.” SS: It’s more than a coincidence, those are shows with John Weidman. The socio-political shows I’ve written are all—all: Pacific Overtures, Assassins, and the one I’m writing now with him, Wise Guys—they all involve that double facet of the observer and the observed. I don’t think any of the other shows do. MH: Is it a technique that intrigues you musically? SS: No, it’s John’s doing. “Someone in a Tree” is his invention. He gets full credit for that notion of history as prisms through different time zones. That’s absolutely his. And “Something Just Broke” is something we discussed. I thought: How do I get the whole country onto the stage? “How I Saved Roosevelt” is a good example of one of the things that’s nice about Assassins: Everything in it is actually true and happened—not when people meet across a hundred years, that didn’t happen—there were five bystanders, each of whom claimed that they had saved Roosevelt’s life. MH: Of all of your shows, Assassins is the only one I can think of where there are not only characters who really lived, but who are alive today. How did that affect your writing for them? SS: Well, the only one who’s alive is Gerald Ford, isn’t it? MH: Well, Squeaky Fromme and Hinckley and Moore. SS: Gosh, you’re absolutely right. No, it didn’t occur to us. I ran into a lady who was a great-niece of Czolgosz, and unfortunately told me that the family pronounced the name “Solegosh,” and we’d gone through the whole show pronouncing it Czolgosz. I told John, and we just cocked our eyebrows and left it as it was. As a matter of fact, it was even farther away than “Solegosh,” it was “Solegoak,” or something like that, but really a different pronunciation. And we didn’t know whether it was Bick or Bike—B-Y-C-K—and we had no way of finding it out. I still don’t know. MH: Do you have any sense that, from now on, the history of how these things are viewed will be affected by the show? SS: No, the show wasn’t that popular.

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MH: In the MTI piece that you did on Assassins you say that you “chose to emulate Stephen Foster for his poignancy,” and you described Booth’s section of the “Gun Song” as “seductive, almost evil.” Can you talk about what it is in music that makes it emotional—that makes a piece of music poignant or evil? SS: It’s impossible. That’s like talking about programmatic music and saying: Oh, that’s the sea. And then you say: No it isn’t, it’s the sky. You can’t use literary terms about music—that’s the whole point of music. The whole idea of the MTI piece is to give an indication to people who are going to put on the show. (I think that whoever is listening or looking at this should know that MTI is the firm that leases these shows to groups that want to perform them, whether they’re amateur or professional. And in order to give an indication of how the pieces should be approached from the author’s standpoint, Freddy Gershon of MTI had the bright idea—and a very bright idea—of having the authors videotaped talking about the works.) So I’m on that tape demonstrating things at the piano in terms of tempi and approach, but also trying and give them a color that they can relate to. To say “Stephen Foster” immediately sets up some kind of algorithm in the head, and they’ll go ahead and at least try to approximate it. If I said “Cole Porter,” they would do it a whole different way. “Poignant” is a word I would ordinarily never use, because it has to do with reaction, not with the piece itself. What strikes you as poignant might strike me as laughable, so I don’t think you can give affect to music. If I say a piece is poignant, all I mean is, it’s poignant to me. In this case I was saying: The notion behind this has the plaintive quality of Stephen Foster. But it’s strictly “music appreciation” guidelines—it’s to be taken seriously, but not too seriously. MH: Are there certain obvious things that you do when you want to generate certain emotional reactions in an audience or character? Things like: tritones mean this. . . . SS: No. There are people who associate keys with emotions—the way Seurat associated colors with certain emotions. I don’t. There is a tendency— and I don’t know whether it’s because of the relation of the fingers to the eye to the brain to the piano—to think of sharp keys as bright and flat keys as romantic or, I don’t want to say sad, but soft. Whereas there’s a kind of bright (no pun intended) sharpness about sharp keys—at least in my mind. If I were writing a lament it would occur to me to write it in a flat key or a white key; it would not occur to me to write it in a sharp key. MH: What about major keys, minor keys, or the modes?

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SS: Well, you see, it took a long time for me to write in minor. I happen to love minor modes, but for some reason I wrote show after show after show without writing a song in a minor mode. I can’t really remember the first time I did it consciously, but I do know that Pacific Overtures was full of minor modes because the Japanese pentatonic scale is a kind of minor pentatonic. But prior to that, you’d be hard put to find a lot of minor stuff in my work. It’s hard for me to think of any. I mean I’m sure I did write something in Forum or Follies or Company or Whistle in a minor mode, but offhand I can’t think of them. I do know that the verse of “Miller’s Son” I remember as one of the very first times I thought: Oh look, I’m writing in a minor mode. MH: So it wasn’t a conscious decision to write it in the minor? SS: No, it wasn’t. I don’t know why that is, because as a kid I used to play “Aase’s Death” and lots of things in minor keys. For some reason I didn’t write in them for some time. Most people associate minor with sad, and I think there’s a reason probably; I don’t know what it is, but one generally does. But “Losing My Mind” is a sad song, and it’s in a major key. MH: Looking through the Assassins manuscripts, I was surprised—particularly given the smaller scale of the show—how many song ideas you worked through. There were eight pages just listing possible titles and ideas for songs. SS: Well, there were also many other scenes. The show first started with the idea of assassination through the ages, starting with Julius Caesar. Then we realized that was unwieldy, so we decided to restrict it to American assassinations, but we included ones like Harvey Milk. John wrote a whole Harvey Milk scene. Then we decided that was unwieldy and we would restrict it entirely to presidents, which was a wise choice. Because the incubation period was a long time, many of those ideas were for other versions of the show. I’m reminded of one idea that John had—a wonderful idea and I’m sorry we never did it. It was a trio for three of the vice presidents—Lincoln’s vice-president, Garfield’s vice-president, and McKinley’s vice-president—when they get the phone call (we took the liberty of having phone calls): “Excuse me, sir.” “What! Me?!” You know, three people totally unprepared for what’s been thrust on them. It would have been very funny. But there were a lot of ideas. MH: Tell me about the process of making those choices and decisions. I know you work very much from what the librettist gives you . . . SS: Very much.

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MH: . . . but do you subtly pressure them, and say: “I’d really love to write this number”? SS: It’s not what they give me, it’s what we work out together—what we decide would be effective musically. Obviously, in talking about the scenes I get lots of ideas and I jot them all down. Sometimes I will try an idea and I can’t make it work, so I’ll go on to another idea. That happens frequently, where, given a situation, I will have four or five central ideas, and if I can combine them and make them one piece without packing the trunk too tightly, I will use them and just find a refrain line that is the central idea. But if it comes to: Shall we have a song for the three vice-presidents, or shall we have a song for the three presidents’ widows? Then I have to decide, do I want a comic song or do I want a serious song? (Because I don’t think you can make a comic song out of the widows.) That would be one way of making the decision. And then I would probably think to myself: Well, maybe I could use the same music and have the three widows at the beginning of the show, and then, two-thirds of the way through the show, the three vice-presidents with the same music with a comic lyric. All those ideas, you start to juggle them. Ideas are fun to think of, the execution is: Oy, Got in himmel! But getting the ideas is always fun. MH: It raises the question of plotting the score. SS: “Routining.” MH: How does that process happen—where the up tempos, the ballads, the . . .? SS: I don’t think as much about up tempos and ballads as I do about—a word we used earlier—textures. That is, I don’t mind having three ballads in a row, but I don’t want three ballads sung by a male voice in a row. Because by the time of the third song, the male voice has outstayed its welcome. So if I were writing a show, for example, that only had men in it, I would just see to it that one number was a solo, one was a trio, and one was an ensemble, or something like that, to give it variety. There used to be an old rule that you don’t put ballads back-to-back, but that dates back to the Rodgers and Hammerstein era. Nowadays you can do anything. It’s a question of how the dramatic arc of the show progresses and where the music is required. And it’s a matter of where is music necessary to the show? The really hard part about routining a musical is where is music necessary. You can sing about anything. We could sing this conversation, but does music enhance it? Is music necessary to it? Or is music merely a decorative way of our talking to each other? And you have to decide if decoration—I mean generally I’m against decoration, but every now and then. . . . In Forum, for example, I had a terrible time

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writing that score (Next to Merrily, it was the hardest score I ever had to write.) because I had been brought up by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as being little scenes and necessary to telling the story. And Burt Shevelove said: “But there’s a whole other way to write songs—the way the Greeks did it, and the way Romans did it, and the way Shakespeare did it— which is, to savor the moment.” And that, in fact—up until Rodgers and Hammerstein—was precisely the way all songs in the musical theater were written, except for Oscar’s. Take, for example, “Let’s Do It”— it’s taking an idea and playing with it for four minutes. It doesn’t move from A to B, it’s certainly not necessary, even to the light texture of the show—to that kind of story. But, the point is, songs had a different function in those days. I like to say Rodgers and Hammerstein spoiled it for all of us, because you can’t write those frivolous songs anymore. But Forum was one of the last gasp attempts to do this. You can take the songs, most of them, if not all, out of Forum, and you haven’t hurt the story at all. I used to complain to Burt and grumble that: “The script is so brilliant, these songs are just going to hold things up.” He said: “No, this script will be relentless without the relief and respite of songs that just take little moments and play with them and give them air.” And so I gradually got to accept that. But, with that exception, in all the shows I write, the songs are plotted based on where they are necessary to tell the story and where the story can be told better by song. There’s an old cliché that when a character reaches a peak of emotion, and it’s too great for speech, he has to sing. There’s some truth to that, but not a lot, because characters don’t often reach that peak of emotion. Yes, for “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” the character reaches a peak of emotion where she can’t contain herself anymore. But for most of the songs in most shows, it’s not the peak of emotion, it’s where does music explode the emotion? Where does the music enlarge, or even sometimes, I suppose, diminish and make crystalline, whatever the notion is, at the same time it carries the story forward? MH: You’ve been using more and more underscoring in your shows. How is that music used? SS: It’s interesting you say that, because the person who’s fondest of underscoring is James Lapine, and if you trace it back, the underscoring plague started with Sunday in the Park with George. MH: I thought that in Sweeney you consciously used continuous underscoring. SS: Ah, but that was for a different reason, which is that I wanted to write a horror movie, and the way a horror movie gets written is that you keep the music going all the time. John Williams is responsible for Jaws, not Steven Spielberg. That’s not to put down Spielberg, just that I remember sitting in

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that theater, and the screen lit up, and there was this underwater shot, and those double-basses started, and I was terrified. I didn’t even know what I was looking at. Music can do that. Music doesn’t have any particular literary context, but it does have the ability to stir a certain kind of emotion. Also we associate things with music—we’ve been exposed so much to instrumental colors defining things, particularly in movies. You always hear a bassoon accompanying a drunk coming home in the movies of the thirties, forties, and, I suppose, into the fifties too. And growling double-basses do suggest a beast of some sort. We have those thought associations that I don’t think a nineteenth-century audience would respond to in the same way— they wouldn’t hear a bassoon and associate it with a drunk. You hear a saxophone, it’s usually a sexy girl. It’s from years of inculcation through the movies. So there are connotations that come with music, but it’s usually instrumental colors. All I know is that John Williams frightened me to death with that. Horror movies and suspense movies are very much co-created. Bernard Herrmann is Alfred Hitchcock; that’s why Hitchcock used him all the time. What happens in Psycho in the orchestra is just as frightening as what happens on the screen. And not just the shrieking birds, but those unresolved chords that keep going on so that nothing ever reaches a cadence, and so you’re constantly upset, because it’s all a kind of—”irresolution” is the best I can say. But it promises something else: You’re not through yet . . . you’re not through yet . . . something else is going to happen . . . it’s not over yet. Herrmann was the master of that, but many composers do it. I tried to do it in Sweeney. Sweeney is an homage to Bernard Herrmann. I even used a chord in the show that’s what I call my Bernard Herrmann chord, and that is one of the basic building blocks of the whole piece. But I realized that as soon as the music stopped, I didn’t want to give the audience too much of a chance to remember where they were—which is watching a lot of stage blood, and a lot of over-acting—that’s not a criticism of the actors—but larger than life. What makes Sweeney effective—if it’s effective—is that everybody is over the top, because if they’re not, it’s really silly. But if they’re over the top, it’s silly unless you can keep the tension going, so I wanted to keep the music going, so I wrote a lot of underscoring. And that’s a case where all the underscoring is mine—that was not devised by anybody else but me. MH: And underscoring that you’ve done subsequent to Sweeney? SS: I did a lot of underscoring for Lapine consciously, and a lot of underscoring for Into the Woods. MH: How do you approach it as a composer? SS: Usually you’re developing themes and vamps—rhythmic ideas—that are associated with either that character. . . . I’m very much a leitmotif

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man—I really like the notion that an audience will register certain tunes, or rhythmic ideas, or even harmonies, with given characters. And you can build on that. It’s very convenient. I don’t know why more people don’t do it. If I have a theme for you, and a theme for her, then when the two of you get together, I don’t have to wonder about what I should write: I’ll take your music and her music and combine them. So you’re building up a bank for yourself. I made motifs for Sweeney, and for Mrs. Lovett, and for the Beggar Woman; and when everything starts to collide towards the end, I have all the material to build on. If you set those things up, it’s effective for the audience. That’s what dictates the underscoring. When Sweeney comes on we get the Sweeney motif. I try to keep it a little less obvious than that, but I’ve got the motif to work with. Also, again from Bernard Herrmann, I picked up how to create suspense. I don’t know that I can really articulate it, because it’s more of a feeling than anything else—when you use skittering music to create nervousness and that sort of thing. It’s fairly literal stuff, it’s not very subtle, but then in a melodrama, subtlety is not what you’re after. Incidentally, underscoring is easy and fun to write, and if I were not in musical theater, I would enjoy writing movie music. The trouble with movie music is you’re not in charge of it—eventually the director or the producer throws half of it out, or changes something. But given autonomy, I think it would be really fun to write movie music. MH: How was writing the Stavisky score? SS: Alain Resnais, who directed it, really respected it, but half of it is not in the movie, because he decided to take everything that had to do with Trotsky out. MH: How did it open you up musically—the fact that you weren’t limited by the range of the voice? SS: It’s great. That’s why I talked before about how I’d like to write ballet music if I ever wrote so-called concert music. Lyric writing is, for me, hell. It’s genuinely unpleasant, even though I often end up proud of what I’ve done. But it’s really, really, really hard. Particularly with this language, which is a great language, but there are certain aspects of it that are hard to sing— as opposed to Italian, where virtually every word is singable. And when I don’t have to write lyrics, I feel it’s really fun; it’s a picnic. Now working out music involves a lot of hard work, and choosing and trying to make things fresh and trying to be inventive. That’s true of lyrics too, but you’re free, you’re not restricted by a language; you’re only restricted by the fact that there are only twelve notes in the scale, that’s all you’re restricted by. MH: When you were talking about having motives for different characters before, I started thinking about the score for Anyone Can Whistle.

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You’ve discussed before that the score is about the real music as opposed to the show business music—that is, the music for Fay versus the music for Cora. So when you then write a duet for those two characters— ”There’s Always a Woman”—how do you approach the music? SS: That was just musical comedy. I didn’t take it that seriously, I didn’t think that deeply. The thing was to distinguish between the two styles, that was all. I think when it came to the duet—well; it’s a show-biz duet, in the sense that there are punch lines. MH: And it was cut. SS: It was cut. It was cut because it wasn’t very good. MH: There’s one last long-line sketch from Assassins—it’s the “Opening Shooting Gallery.” [Note: When asked about this example later, Sondheim explained: “The lines under the whole notes are the equivalent of double whole notes in printed music—that is, they indicate demarcation points more important than the plain whole notes.”]

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SS: Unfortunately, this is undiscussable because this is the original version of the number. The original “Shooting Gallery” number was a good deal longer than the Mahler Resurrection, and complicated, and, oh my God, the counterpoint, and. . . . Anyway, this is the sketch for that, and it’s literally now a third of what it was, and much better, and it’s still pretty long. But I like it very much now; I think it’s the right proportion. “Less is more” is a hard lesson to learn. You know, I’ve discovered recently—to my horror (and I think I’m going to have to do it on Wise Guys too)—that my opening numbers tend to be much too long. Now I know that it’s because I’m setting all the ground rules up—for the rest of the show, for myself—and so it’s harder for me to be economical. And I wish I could say I’m just letting myself go and intended to draw back, but it’s unconscious. I’m surprised when I end up with a twelve-minute number that should have been four minutes long. I’m surprised, and they’re not only long, but they generally tend to be overly complex at the beginning, which is, of course, exactly the wrong message to send to an audience. Wise Guys opens with four songs—four vaudeville songs—that then start colliding with each other. At the moment, I suspect that it’s about a quarter too long. It may not be, but I may have to reconceive it for three vaudeville songs. This is something that recently occurred because we had a reading two weeks ago. I finished the number a couple of years ago, and we had a reading of the whole show in March, but with only two of the numbers. But now that almost half the score is written, and now that I really heard it at the recent reading, it didn’t stand up. Because the second number is also quite long. So it just sounded like a show with a lot of long numbers. But it shouldn’t be. And even though it’s a medley of four numbers, it just started to feel a little overweight and overlong. And I realized: Oh my God, I do this all the time. You know the opening number of Sunday—Dot’s number—is also quite long. I set up almost all the music in the show in it, but it holds together okay, and I don’t think I cut much of that from its original. It is long, but I don’t think it’s too long. But this was much too long, much too long. MH: Do you tend to think it’s important to compose a score chronologically? SS: Absolutely. For me it is. I almost always do it. There are exceptions in the composing, but it’s hard for me at the moment to think of a score since Forum that I haven’t composed from the beginning to the end. Company is an exception, and I remember the last song I wrote was “You Could Drive a Person Crazy,” because I couldn’t figure out how to make a song work in that scene. And I remember that I wrote “It’s Hot Up Here” almost right off—I think it the was the first number I wrote, maybe the second, for Sunday—because I just thought it was such a good idea, and I couldn’t wait to write it. But otherwise, Sunday was composed chronologically. I know Sweeney was, and I know Into the Woods was, and I know Assassins was.

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MH: I have the impression that Follies was composed by the chronology of the musical styles of the pastiche numbers, rather than the chronology of the show—that you started with “One More Kiss.” SS: No, you have to remember, Follies’ gestation period was over a period of five years, so there were a lot of things that were replaced, and the characters changed, so there’s no way to tell. When I started to write Follies, I wrote it from the beginning, but then it got interrupted by other things— another show, and then Hal came in, and we decided to change from realism to surrealism. That meant some songs had to be thrown out—so the whole process was screwed up. Luckily it doesn’t matter so much in Follies, because there are the two styles, as you say. The first song I ever wrote for Follies was “One More Kiss,” but that was because I was feeling my way around pastiche, because I wasn’t sure I could do it. Certainly with a real plotted show, absolutely. Follies is a sort of revue, and so is Company. But Company was pretty chronological. Follies was less so as it turned out. But the storytelling shows from A Little Night Music and Pacific Overtures on, all were composed chronologically. MH: We won’t discuss your sketch for “Opening Shooting Gallery” in detail, but could you tell me what the A, B, and C mean? SS: Those are sections. Remember this number is introducing various people. The A is probably the proprietor. It’s preceded by “Hail to the Chief.” The B is introducing Czolgosz. The second A is the proprietor again. I knew that I wanted to hold the number together by having the proprietor keep coming back in the scene to sing the refrain. MH: Do you remember what the “Coll.” stands for? SS: It might be one of the characters, but it also might have been a bit of business. I don’t know what that is for sure, but if what it is is something to remind myself of what that section deals with, it may have been “collecting money”—it may stand for “collection.” It probably indicates an action, and I wanted to remind myself that that action occurred during that section. [Note: A later examination of the manuscript led me to believe the abbreviation is actually “call.,” standing for “calliope.”] MH: When I was looking at the MTI videotapes for Assassins and Into the Woods, I noted that in both of them you ended up talking about the importance of getting the audience’s attention right away in the opening number. In Into the Woods you do it musically with the “I Wish” on the offbeat, and in Assassins it’s with the lyric, “Come here and shoot a President.” How do you think of an audience and how do you write for them?

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SS: To get their attention, the thing is to surprise them—not to let them get ahead of you. “Once upon a time—BOOM!” takes the wind out of them. Because an audience hears “Once upon a time” and by the time you’re on the third word, already they’re starting to relax—”Once upon a time there was a little girl.” But give them “Once upon a time—SMASH!”—with a chord, and it’s “Uh, oh,” and then they know not to expect anything—that their expectations are going to be upended. They’ll never know when music’s going to come in, and they’ll never know when it’s not going to come in. Whereas with Assassins, I was trying to shock them with the lyric idea. “C’mere and kill a President”—for an audience who doesn’t know what the show is about—is a shocker. And then they know. It’s, again, setting up ground rules—what Oscar taught me—set up the ground rules. It tells them: This is going to be a shocking show.

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MH: When you’re working, you’ve spent so much preparation time thinking about the show and talking with your librettist, how do you back out of the process when you go to write and think: What does the audience know at this point? What don’t they know? And how am I trying to tell them? SS: That’s an unanswerable question. And more shows have foundered on the shoals of that, and I’ll give you one: Anyone Can Whistle. One of the reasons for its failure—if not the major reason—is that we never made clear to the audience in the first fifteen minutes what we were talking about. Are these loonies? They’re called “Cookies,” but, in fact, they’re non-conformists. But they’re in an asylum. What is going on here? Now, I think, it wasn’t clear to us. We could talk about it, but that’s not the same thing as being clear. And the result is the audience never felt settled. Now granted, they might not have liked the show anyway because there are aspects of archness in the show and things like that, but I do know that we didn’t have a chance, and it’s because of that opening. It’s hard to gauge. One of the major things one does during what they call previews or outof-town tryouts is you sit with the audience. If you’re real smart, you pay no attention to applause, you pay no attention to coughing. You pay attention to concentration. Are they getting what you’re saying? If they don’t like it, there’s nothing you can do about that, because you can’t, at least, I don’t believe in pandering (you don’t just go up a half-tone and make a bigger second chorus; some people do, but I don’t). But are they getting it? And are they understanding, not only what you’re about, but what the story is? Do they know that he’s her father? Do they know that she is this? You’ve got to be very careful about exposition. Now you don’t want to just lay it out dully, but you want to make absolutely clear to an audience what the ground rules are—what kind of a show it’s going to be—and who these people are. The opening of West Side Story is wonderfully effective because you see six juvenile delinquents standing around and then they start to dance, and you say: Oh, I see, it’s about ballet delinquents! You’ve got to know that. Really. There’s an anecdote I like to tell, so I’ll tell it here for posterity. West Side Story was my first Broadway show and, even though I got slammed in the reviews, I was very pleased to have a show on. It was the second night, and I was standing in the back, and the curtain went up and you saw the guys standing there, and they start snapping their fingers, and you hear “Da dadada da, da dadadada da-da” and suddenly they went into what Jerry called “the sailing step,” where they spread their arms out to show they own the turf (which is about a minute into the number). Three rows from the back a man got up in the middle of the row, put his coat over his arm, and said: “Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.” And he made his way out of the row,

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came up the aisle and, of course, I was standing there, aghast. And he could tell from the fact that I was standing at the back, and I was slackjawed, that I was connected with the show, and he just looked at me balefully and said: “Don’t ask.” And I got the whole picture: This is a guy who’s had a hard day at the office, he’s on his way home, he thinks: Maybe I’ll stop and see a musical, there’s this new musical that just opened. So he sits there. He thinks it’s going to be a musical—there’s going to be a lot of pretty girls, and there’s going to be lots of lively music— and he sees six ballet dancers being juvenile delinquents to dissonant music, and he thought: Oh, no, no, no. I suspect he went to the nearest bar and poured himself three martinis. But this was not what he wanted. And I thought: That makes the opening—we told him what it was going to be like, and he knew he would hate it. And he would have hated it. And that’s why I know that’s a good opening—he knew he would hate it. MH: Today, after we leave, presumably you’re going to go work on a number for Wise Guys. SS: I hope. MH: Do you try and see it from a fresh perspective? Do you imagine it from the audience’s eye? SS: I’ve discovered over a period of years that essentially I’m a playwright who writes with song, and that playwrights are actors. And what I do is I act. So what I’ll do is, I’ll go upstairs, and I’ll get back into the character of Wilson Mizner, and I’ll start singing to myself. It’ll take me a while to make that transition, because it’s been a couple of days since I’ve been Wilson, but I’ll get upstairs, and I’ll be Wilson.

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MH: I’d like to start with this series of motives that you had sketched out. [Note: See Examples 3.1 and 3.1 (continued).] SS: Right, these are absolutely traditional leitmotifs. Before you even ask your question, let me tell you: Originally I was going to have each character personified by an instrument and by a theme. So this is literally my master sheet. You’ll notice how neatly this is written, even though it’s got some erasures; that’s because this is a compilation of things I’d worked out on other sheets. And this is my master list, with each character notated at the left hand, or over each motif. So that “B & BW” means Baker and Baker’s Wife. (“BW” were also my initials for “Beggar Woman,” so every now and then I look at that and think: Wait a minute!) But that’s what these things are, and “W” is Witch, “CM” is Cinderella’s Mother, et cetera. So I determined I was going to have a whole series of themes and then utilize them, so that’s what this sheet is. MH: Aside from the bean theme, which we’ll talk about a little later, what surprised me when I looked through all of your motifs, I realized that virtually all of them started with an interval of a major second or, in a few cases, a minor second. It struck me as rather extraordinary. SS: It all came out of “I wish.” I just decided that okay, you’ve got ten characters here—I’m making it up, there may be eleven, there may be nine—and each one’s going to have a theme. And then there’s the bean theme, and so how do you utilize these—in tandem—and why bother to write themes unless they’re going to somehow relate to each other? So, just as most of the 81

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themes in Passion relate to those first five notes, or the bugle call, in this case, again, it seemed to me that I could relate the themes by beginning them each with the same motif. It makes it easier to write if you have a character come on and a theme that you’ve heard starts and then goes into another direction—it holds it together. So, if Cinderella goes “da-dum,” and the next character goes “da-dum, da dah,” and the next character goes “dadadadadum,” you can then interweave them so much more easily—as opposed to having to change the opening interval. Because the opening of a theme is like the opening of a show—it’s the identifying moment. It’s: How do the notes start? In Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, the octave leap in the slow movement says everything, and then everything comes out of that.

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MH: So, rather than restricting you, it opens you up in a way. SS: Yes. It also makes it easier. It gives you a bank to draw on when you get stuck. MH: Why did you chose a second—why not a fourth, why not a fifth? SS: How would you set “I wish”? MH: “I wish.” [said with an inflection and a shrug] SS: Ah, well, that’s the Jewish version. Yes, and for the Jewish Cinderella it would actually be a minor second—”I wish.” Or it would actually go down—”I wish.” But it is about inflection. I mean, if you want to get pretentious about it, I suppose I picked a second because she’s a repressed girl. She’s too repressed to sing a third, or a fourth, or a fifth. That’s one way to look at it, isn’t it? “I wish.” Cinderella would never raise her voice, she would never go “I wish”—that’s raising. . . . MH: But in a way then, Cinderella’s the key character, not the Baker. SS: The show begins and ends with. . . . Ah, no. Everybody in the show has a wish—wishing is the key character. Of course the Baker’s the key character,

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but wishing is the key character. James didn’t want me to end with “I wish.” James wanted to end with “Children Will Listen” and have me build it up into a large kind of vocal ode. I thought that was too sentimental and I said this is a show about wishing—whether it’s wishing for a child, or wishing for freedom, or wishing for the world to be better. So, that’s why. At any rate, it was my choice to have this inflection—a step up. And once you do that, it dictates a lot. And I found the most useful motive, although it’s used mostly in accompaniment, to be the one that Jack’s mother sings: “ba dum, ba dum, ba dum, ba dum. . . .” [see motif labeled “JM”], which relates, of course, to the title tune: “dadada dum da dum da dum da dum.” [see motif labeled “Woods”] They all have little echoes of each other. This turned out to be a very valuable decision, because Lapine really wanted many of the songs not to end, but to drift into dialogue. So to prevent a truly frustrated feeling of coitus interruptus, when you hear something you’ve heard before there’s a certain satisfaction, even if it doesn’t end. At least that was the rationale I had. MH: So it was a rationale, but not from the beginning? SS: No, it wasn’t, but that’s what I mean. This was a valuable choice, because when it turned out he wanted to truncate numbers and to keep them fragmentary, the fact that they all were related meant that you weren’t listening to a new tune truncated, you were listening to a variation of an old tune truncated. And that made it less unpalatable. MH: On the subject of the “bean theme”: You said on one of the MTI videotapes, “The story is in a sense about the bean theme.” You go on to explain that the story is, to some degree, about how the bean theme evolves through the course of the show, and that in “No One Is Alone” the bean theme finally becomes calm. SS: Again, this is for the MTI thing. Talking about intervals of a second is not going to be of much help to somebody doing the show, but to indicate to people: Look below the surface and see how this theme is twined into the show throughout, and how it’s reflected in so many ways. That will help not only the musical director, but the director, I hope, and maybe even the actors, to understand the process of the composition of the show. So what I said is an exaggeration, although not entirely untrue, because the bean theme is the most prominent theme, except for the title theme which evolves out of these others, and is, in fact, utilized as a theme in different disguises. These things we were just talking about are all variations of one idea, but the bean theme remains the bean theme whether it’s in an inversion or not, or whether it’s an augmentation or not. It remains the

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bean theme. Whether it’s used in the accompaniment, or in a melody, or as a piece of underscoring, it’s always: Yump, bump, bumbum, bump. Obviously, anybody who’s in any way sophisticated musically is going to understand this and hear it, but the MTI videotapes are for people who are not musically sophisticated. But once they understand some of these things, their eyes open, and they say: Oh!, and they start to become aware that everything is related. And just that awareness will affect how they approach the show, even if they don’t utilize it in any way. I mean, how are you going to utilize that knowledge if you’re an actor, or whatever? But to know it is very important. They then know that things are not arbitrary in the show, and I’m going to guess that it helps them unify the show in terms of acting styles, in terms of scenic approach, whatever. If they know the music is conceived, not “bitsy-piecy,” but that it has some kind of overarching notion—or set of notions—maybe that will reflect itself in the work they do. I really believe that. Now I may be full of it, that may not happen at all—but it can’t hurt, as they used to say in the old Jewish joke. MH: You mentioned just now inversions of the theme, and I know there’s one in “No One Is Alone” during the lyric “People make mistakes.”

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SS: That’s the big one. MH: What was behind the decision that that’s a place to hear an inversion of the bean theme? What does that say? SS: Nothing. Thanks to Hammerstein, I had a nice moment with Richard Rodgers—this was in my late teens before I worked with him, maybe it was later. I went up to his office and I said: “One of the things I admire so much is how the release of `People Will Say We’re in Love’ is the inversion of the main theme.” He looked at me as if I were crazy. He had no idea that it was—it had been instinctive on his part. It was something Milton Babbitt taught me when he analyzed “All the Things You Are” and went through all the subtleties of what Kern had done. And I said: “You mean he thought all these things up?” Babbitt said: “Some of it was conscious, but some of it was unconscious, like when you learn to drive a stick-shift car—eventually all that coordination becomes unconscious.” Or riding a bicycle, which is my version of it. It becomes unconscious— all that coordination. In Rodgers’ case, he instinctively went for the inversion. In this case, I just went for it because I was looking for a release—it was conscious—and I knew that I was using the bean theme constantly in this song, and I thought it would be fun to invert it here, and it makes for a nice chordal effect—that kind of Ravel chord there—that’s very nice. MH: But too much shouldn’t be read intellectually into that decision? SS: Intellectually? No. But certainly the utilization of the bean theme in that song, even when it’s not an inversion, is certainly deliberate. MH: Have you discovered later that you’ve done things unwittingly that you had no idea you had done? SS: Only during the writing. Not later, but during the writing I will make sudden discoveries. I believe that the unconscious is what writes and that the way to write a song—or anything, I suppose—is to live, eat, and breathe it all the time, and that when you go to sleep the work is done for you. For me, if I interrupt it too much with social life, with distraction, or with other work, it dissipates and I have to get back into it. That’s why I work on one thing at a time. I believe if you inundate yourself with what you’re working on, the brain starts to put all these things together. So I find it not just a coincidence that the next day I will write a new passage of music and say: Hey, that has the same relationship harmonically that the first section has; isn’t that interesting? It’s because of what’s going on in the back of your brain unconsciously. Now sometimes it’s a conscious

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decision, but often it’s unconscious, and I have these little moments of delight where I realize that I’m still holding the piece together, that something is not irrelevant, that the idea—whatever musical idea came—was not by chance. You know, the fact that I took the melody from E to C, instead of C to E, means it’s an inversion of something in the first section, and I didn’t even know what I was doing, but the mind is doing that sort of stuff. Often, if you’re stuck on something—everybody who ever writes and, I’m sure, paints or anything else creative, knows this—when you go to bed, in the morning, you suddenly have “fresh” ideas. It’s what happened overnight that makes those fresh ideas. And if you’re working on one piece, those fresh ideas are germane to that piece. I do not get a late idea for Follies while I’m writing Passion. No, the ideas all belong in the Passion score—they belong in that style, and they belong with those characters. I’m a firm believer in that. MH: When you do go back to revise Follies, or something like that, how hard is it to get back into that world? SS: Very, very hard. I wrote “Country House” for the 1988 Follies in London, but it belongs in Company. It’s not a bad song, but it’s the wrong style. I knew what I wanted to say, but I couldn’t get back into the Follies style. The other three new songs for that production were pastiches, and they were easy to get back into, because you can say: All right, instead of this composer, I’ll pastiche that composer. But “Country House” was a book song, and I couldn’t get back into the style. I just couldn’t do it. MH: How did you try to do it? Did you go back and look at your sketches? SS: I listened to the score again, and I tried to inculcate myself into it. I couldn’t do it. It’s very hard. But it’s partly because I’m one of those people who writes an entirely different show each time—as opposed to a Rodgers and Hammerstein who, if they wanted to, could recycle stuff. Lenny recycled stuff all the time, and a lot of stuff from Candide went into West Side Story, and a lot of West Side Story went into Candide. It fools the eye and fools the ear, but I can’t do that; I just can’t. The shows are too different in my own head. What is useful in one show, is not in another. And therefore, it means, that if I’m working for a year on Passion, and then I suddenly have to do a revival of Follies, I can’t do that—I can’t get back into it, it’s going to come out like Passion. MH: In looking at your sketches for Into the Woods, I noticed that some of your thematic material was not just melodic but harmonic; you even have chords that are themes.

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SS: Absolutely. And they generally relate to the title song, because, again, I wanted a kind of “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” to go through the show. Because Into the Woods presents the problem of three or four major plots going on at the same time, and eight or nine major characters going on at the same time, you have to be careful. How do you carpet tack it— how do you keep the score from just riding madly off in all directions, like a Stephen Leacock character? And one of the ways to do it is to keep reminding the audience through chords. Again, because the characters have different themes, you can’t use reprises very much, so I reprised chords. But most of those chords show up in the title tune. MH: There are some chordal sketches that are labeled “bean theme.” What does that mean?

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SS: I’d have to see the sketches, and my guess is that if you take those five notes—which can be harmonized in many, many ways, at least as many ways as a Bach chorale theme—and so my guess is I was trying out different harmonizations. You can take that and it can go into at least three keys that I can think of offhand. So right away you’ve got three entirely different territories. And within those territories, you’ve got a I chord, and a I6 chord, and all that sort of stuff. There are a lot of variations you can do there. I wanted a theme that was versatile, that’s why I picked it. MH: I think my favorite song from Into the Woods is “On the Steps of the Palace.” It may be a little obvious to comment on, but it seems to me that the constant back-and-forth between two notes in the bass line reveals a lot about the character of Cinderella. SS: Well, but it really comes out of “Very Nice Prince”—that’s really what this accompaniment figure is from. So it’s really for Cinderella and the Baker’s Wife. I wanted something liquid and running—it’s two

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girls getting together and dishing a ball. I wanted something that felt like conversation flowing. That’s really what this sort of vamp is about. Also, that bass blurs the harmony, so you’re never quite sure where you are. You don’t know whether this is a tonic chord or a dominant chord, and the unsettled quality was what I was working for. I thought: All right, two ladies have differing reactions to the ball—one is jealous because she would love her life to be more tidy and glamorous, and she thinks the other one is a princess of some sort; and the princess has just had both a wonderful and terrible time and feels like a fraud. They’re two very unsettled ladies. It’s like “Lucy and Jessie”—each one wants the other one’s life. One of them says: It must be wonderful to go home to a baker every night and know where you are. And the other one says: It must be wonderful to be a princess and go to a ball. And each one says: Yeah, but. . . . So that unsettled quality, I’m sure, is what suggests it. I don’t even know if this was conscious, but it’s my instinct as to why I chose that. So what you get is this blurred, not demarked, uncertain, harmonic flux. In “On the Steps of the Palace” I don’t know if you ever know where you really are until bar twenty-three when it says: Oh, I see, we’re in D major. In “Very Nice Prince” I don’t think you ever know where you are. MH: How do you compose a song where the harmony itself is so uncertain—if you can’t be sure if you’re in the dominant or the tonic. . . ? SS: I just think it’s up to the audience—let them worry about it. There was a nice phrase in my counterpoint book in college—it was a very

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conservative little book on counterpoint—and the author disapproved of a certain technique and said: “This is the refuge of the destitute.” And I think this is the refuge of the destitute—it could be viewed that way. I don’t think I felt that way, but. . . . Actually, it’s easier not to make up your mind, isn’t it?—as Cinderella points out. It reflects her state of mind.

Chapter 4

Sunday in the Park with George MH: Sunday in the Park is an extraordinary score, and unlike anything else. SS: It’s an extraordinary show—it’s a show that’s unlike any other. MH: I wanted to start with one page of your sketches that you’ve labeled “George Painting,” but in its final form is known as “Color and Light, Part I.” You’ve written yourself a little note at the top of the page. [See example 4.1.] SS: “Pointillism is in the instrumentation and accompaniment.” Originally, I had a schematic idea. I’m German by ancestry, and I have a Germanic neatness sense, and I make lists. So, just as it had occurred to me to assign a different instrument to each character in Into the Woods—an idea which I jettisoned fairly quickly—in the same way I thought: Isn’t it interesting that Seurat had, on his palate, eleven colors and white. And I thought, eleven and one make twelve. And how many notes are there in the scale? Twelve. And I thought, ooh, isn’t that interesting. So I thought I would utilize that in some way, shape, or form. You know the way he never mixed a color with a color that wasn’t next to it on the color wheel—so he would never mix yellow with blue; he would mix yellow with yellow-orange, or he would mix blue with blue-violet, but he would never mix yellow and blue. MH: When you say mix, do you mean literally, or next to each other? SS: Literally. That is to say, if he was to make a dot, he would either use a color—augmented, or mixed with white—or a color mixed with the color 91

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next to it. But he would never mix the two colors, because the idea was to let the eye mix the colors. If the painter mixes the colors, then the eye doesn’t get a chance to, does it? If you take yellow and red and make your own orange out of it, it’s not going to be the same thing as putting a yellow dot next to a red dot then letting the eye mix it. So I thought, wouldn’t it be nice to do the musical equivalent, and then I realized it would make all the score minor seconds. This is not a good thing, because I would never be able to mix C with E; I’d have to mix C with D-flat, or C with B. I realized this was a dead end fairly soon, so I didn’t do it. But this is clearly early on, and this is the first painting song from George. So then I thought, what I would do is use pointillism—and that’s what this is about—in the rhythm. I looked at the painting; you know everybody

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thinks that Seurat painted in dots—he didn’t, they’re dabs. And there’s a big difference. If you look at the strokes closely in the painting, he could only have applied them fairly slowly and meticulously. Well, that’s fairly boring on a stage. People think of it as dots, so I thought: I will take the liberty of having him do it like that—stipple. You know he never used lines: all the outlines in all the pointillist paintings that he did are the result of putting a line of yellow dots next to a line of blue dots, and the eye mixes them and makes its own illusion. You get up close to it, there are no lines! It’s a series of dabs next to a series of dabs. It’s a complete illusion. And that was his point—no pun intended. But I thought, on the stage you can convey that—this is called taking liberties—by having him applying dots fairly rapidly and rhythmically. And I thought: Okay, if I’m going to do that, then I’m going to have a rhythm in the accompaniment that’s going to echo that, so it’s [sings “Color and Light” accompaniment]. You know he had a square palette, not the usual free-flowing palette, because he was very organized and every color had to be next to every color with a little white or not. And if you listen to the alternation—which becomes very important in the score—between the major and the minor [sings phrase], it’s because I was holding on to that notion of the minor second. The alternation between a major third and a minor third, if you juxtapose them, is exactly like juxtaposing yellow with yellow-orange or red with red-orange. It’s exactly the same thing. And that juxtaposition is the point of this score. The opening arpeggio is two major chords, one juxtaposed with the other. In the same way, this is the juxtaposition of major and minor. And it pays off in “Move On.” You know, “Move On” is a compilation of all the themes in the show in one song. You hear that alternation of major and minor in the accompaniment there; it’s an echo of this. And it comes from that notion that I had and threw out—of two notes right next to each other and the ear would blend them into one note. And you want to know something? I really believe that in “Move On” when that alternation occurs—[sings phrase] that little major/minor alternation—that the ear blends those two things and it comes out to be this unsettled, but very poignant chord. At least it does to me. I really hear it that way. Not here, but in “Move On.” MH: Why not here? SS: In “Move On,” because it’s legato. Here it’s staccato, so you hear very distinctly the separations. But when you’re hearing “ . . . you have to move on,” under the “on,” after the cadence there, you hear the major and the minor and they alternate. And what you get is a sense of moiré. And I think it tells. I think it makes it satisfying. Because, ordinarily, that kind of uncertainty between major and minor would unsettle the audience. In

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“Move On,” I think it feels like a cadence. And I think it’s because it’s been set up here. MH: Did you think of that at this point, before you started to write “Move On”? SS: Oh, no. When I got to “Move On,” I thought: Okay, here’s the culmination, what’ll I do? I know, I’ll take all the themes and put them together. And that’s what I did. No, I had not planned it. When I started to write “Move On,” I thought: Hey, how about using that opening arpeggio as your accompaniment arpeggio? And the minute I thought of that, the doors flew open. Once I knew that [sings arpeggio phrase] would become [sings accompaniment phrase]—that it would become the whole pillar, and all the building blocks of the accompaniment. Once I knew that, it started. Everything feeds in. This is what I mean by the unconscious—all these things coming in, all those themes, all those rhythmic themes, the moving thirds that she does with George and his painting in her solo, and it becomes the moving thirds accompaniment of “Finishing the Hat.” That all plays into it. Everything. It’s because for a year I’d been in this one country, and I’d spoken this one language. When it came time to write “Move On,” I used my entire vocabulary. I hadn’t quite finished it when we had our first reading for the Shuberts. I remember they were sitting there, and I thought: Oh, I’ve

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got to play an unfinished song, but I’ve got to let them know there’s gonna be this big love song at the end of the show. I still had a couple of songs to write, but I wanted to get the climactic song done. My memory is that it was not hard to write—nothing’s easy to write, but not hard compared to uphill struggles I’ve had before. And it was because of all of this. I tell you, if you prepare your table, the meal is easy to cook. MH: I’m embarrassed to say that it wasn’t until you were talking a few moments ago that I realized the lyric is “red, red-orange,” I’d always thought it was “red . . . red . . . orange.” SS: Have you ever seen the painting? MH: No. SS: Go! First of all, it’s the most magical experience. I can’t talk about it without crying. It has such stillness in it. All the colors are faded now. He got bad advice from his good friend Pissarro. The only nice one in that entire group of Impressionists was Pissarro—as you probably know, they were all awful people, particularly to Seurat—but Pissarro supported him. Pissarro, in fact, did some pointillist painting. Pissarro said: “Listen, there’s this new kind of paint and it has a real shimmer to it.” And that’s what Seurat was always after—shimmer. What he didn’t know was it was the kind of paint that fades. By 1891 when Seurat died, the painting was only eight years old, and the colors had already started to fade. It’s now behind glass at the Art Institute of Chicago so that no sunlight’s hitting it and all that sort of stuff. It’s still pretty vivid, but when you go up close and see what this man did, it’s thrilling. Each one of those is a choice. Three million choices—however many dabs there are. It’s a transitional painting; it’s not pointillism entirely. He started to paint it with the kind of short strokes that he’d used on Bathing at Asnières, and then halfway through somebody—I think it was Pissarro—said to him: “Why don’t you use this technique you’ve been trying these seascapes with—the little dotting techniques?” And he said: “All right.” MH: Getting back to “Move On,” I’d like to talk about my favorite, remarkable page from the score. SS: As you can see, all this stuff you’ve heard before is in the score. The big harmonic change—which I suspect is what you like—the big, rhapsodic, harmonic change has no intellectuality behind it at all. It wasn’t thought out, it sort of came to me, and it’s because of my admiration for Rachmaninoff.

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It’s a Rachmaninoff change. I don’t mean it comes from anything specific, but if I heard this passage, and didn’t know I’d written it, I’d say: I know who wrote that. It seems to me to be his harmonic style. I guess my favorite piece of his is the “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.” His rhap-

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sodic style and his rhapsodic harmonies are . . . Though I’m not a Russian, I feel like a Russian when I listen to him. All the figuration is from other places in the score. There’s nothing on this page that you haven’t heard before, in terms of the way the notes [sings a phrase] . . . you’ve heard all that before. This is a case of where an inversion counts for a million bucks—at bar 119 at the lyric “and the care”—the fact that that’s an inversion makes that whole chord work. If you put the root position under that, it lands like a wet washcloth, and I thought: I’m actually using an inversion—great! And because of the inversion—which is a first inversion of a B-flat chord, so you’ve got a D in the bass—what it does is lead to a dominant G. It’s a fake dominant which leads eventually—because that’s really a five of C—leads eventually to a huge C-major climax in bar 127, and it just feels like you’ve entered a new kingdom—which you have. And I did something smart: When I entered the new key, I reinstated the [sings alto line from m. 127]—because that’s a very sweeping theme when it’s arpeggiated legato that way. And, of course, “life” is a great word to sing. I’ll tell you another thing, you’re asking a singer to leap up to a high G there, when he’s been singing fairly low: Mandy Patinkin’s voice helps that a lot, too. But I must say, when I sang it to myself, I thought: Hey, that’s good. I remember thinking: I hope I don’t have to compromise on this because of whoever sings it. No, I take it back, Mandy had been cast already. I initially wrote George as a bass-baritone and I wrote Dot as a soprano. And, of course, it turns out we cast Bernadette Peters, who has got a bass-baritone, and Mandy, who’s a soprano, and the duets didn’t quite work. You’ll notice, throughout the score, there are very few times when their voices actually go together, because their ranges are quite different. Though there are many notes that overlap, their tessitura’s are so different that where you’re hitting one person’s strong voice, you’re hitting the other person’s weak voice, and that makes for very bad duet writing. If you’re asking both of them to give a real zest, and only the man can do it because she’s in her wrong register or vice versa, you’re in trouble. There are notes in the scale where the two of them have equal power—because they both have strong voices—but not all the way through the register. Mandy is a little wider than Bernadette, but Bernadette is really powerful in the low notes. MH: So would you have written “Move On” as it is, if you hadn’t cast Mandy? SS: No. It’s just that in writing it I thought: Well, if anybody can handle this, Mandy can. Actually, the range for George is not that great. It’s a wide range, but this G-natural is the top note, and he may go as low as B-natural. An octave-and-six is not a lot to ask of somebody singing a semi-operettaish score. But there aren’t an awful lot of singers on Broadway who have enough

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strength so that the low notes sound like something more than a pickup. Anybody can have a two-octave range if the low notes are just pickups. MH: Would this song have been as exciting written down a fourth? SS: Gosh, I can’t tell you. I think what makes it exciting is what happens with the harmony, I don’t think it’s about the register—I don’t think it’s about the highness of it. It’s just when Mandy does that it’s so thrilling, because when he takes his baritone and puts it in the tenor range it’s really terrific. I love this page too. But it’s because of that Rachmaninoff change, and that’s not analyzable, that was merely I got the idea, and I just did it. MH: And your use of thematic material—because you’ve prepared your palette, you have the option of so many choices. SS: Absolutely. It’s just that that particular chordal progression is something that’s not used elsewhere in the show; that just happened that Thursday, that’s all. MH: One of the things about the score of Sunday that hasn’t received much comment is the set of parallels between the first act and the second act. I’ve tried to plot them out, and according to my eyes and ears, “Sunday in the

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Park with George” in the first act is closely related to “It’s Hot Up Here” in the second. SS: Absolutely. And they also both deal with the same subject, which is posing. MH: “Color and Light” and “Chromolume #7.” SS: Absolutely. MH: “Finishing the Hat” and “Putting It Together.” SS: Are the same tune. You’ll be happy to know that Mandy had been in the show about a year and a half, and we were having a farewell party. I don’t know what it was that I said, but he replied: “What do you mean they’re the same tune?” I said: “Mandy, you’ve been singing it for a year and a half. You didn’t know that ‘Finishing the Hat’ and ‘Putting It Together’ are the same tune?” And he looked at me as if I had taken his Christmas away. He had no idea that for a year and a half he’d been singing the same tune in both acts. MH: I must confess, it took me a while to realize it.

Example 4.5

SS: It’s vaguely disguised. And also, as we say, the tone is different. In fairness to Mandy, he sings other stuff in between. It isn’t like one song follows the other. On the other hand, the entire “Day Off” sequence is mirrored in the entire art gallery sequence. MH: It looked to me like “The Day Off” and “Children and Art” share similarities. SS: No, really? Well, yes, there’s a little thing. “Children and Art” really is a sui generis. There may be parallels. Again, when you’re thinking in one

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language, it comes out there are going to be similarities. I usually have one Arlen song in every show, and “Children and Art” is my Arlen song in Sunday. And there’s a reason for it; George’s grandmother is talking about how she was brought to America into the deep South, and that’s where she grew up as a child. So I wanted to echo that, and when I think of the deep South, I think of Arlen. It’s unfair since he comes from Buffalo or someplace in New York State and was the son of a cantor, but still, he wrote those bluesy songs. You listen to “Blues in the Night” and you think: Gee, that guy must have been born in Georgia. But he wasn’t. So because she is brought over from France as an infant and is brought to Carolina, or somewhere in the deep South, I decided to use this sort of blues structure. I know you’re talking about the actual tune of “The Day Off,” and there is a relationship there, but I think of the whole “Day Off” section with all the little vignettes in it and the art gallery section with all the little vignettes in it are more related to each other. “Finishing the Hat” comes at the end of the “Day Off” section, and “Putting It Together” operates through the entire art gallery section, so the parallel is not absolutely rigid. But then I’ve learned not to make rigid parallels, but to suggest them. I think it would have been a mistake to just have “Putting It Together” at the end, the way “Finishing the Hat” is. MH: When you were working with Lapine on the score in general, was there some plotting out that there would be certain parallels between the two acts? SS: No, because the second act was entirely different. The second act was originally supposed to be what happened to the painting and how it affected people’s lives after it left France. There’s a mystery about what happened to that painting for about twenty years. It was rolled up in Seurat’s studio, and you can tell it when you look at Les Poseuses, because he’s got the canvas leaning in the corner. Then, according to what I know, it ended up rolled up in a room over a café in Paris. Somehow—I think it was a rich American woman—she found it there, or it got into her hands, and it didn’t cost that much, but she brought it to America and presented it to the Art Institute of Chicago in, I think, 1924. I had thought it would be fun to do a contemporary “Sunday in the Park” by going to Central Park and having a replica, so to speak, of “The Day Off” at the opening of the second act—only today it’s Sunday in Central Park, with kids skating and baseball players and people strolling and Joe Papp’s theater, and all of that—a parallel of the whole “Day Off” section. I think we started the second act with that, as opposed to “It’s Hot Up Here”—although we may have started with “It’s Hot Up Here”—and James kept shifting back and forth in time. The central section in the second act was the painting hanging in the museum and people

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coming up, and how it affected their lives. And James had couples, and single people, et cetera, to parallel the whole “Day Off” section—a flirting couple, a married couple. We spent two days in Chicago looking at the painting and sitting and listening to people saying such things as, and I quote exactly: “Why, it’s all made up of little dots.” Another woman came in and said: “It looked so much better in the other gallery.” All kinds of reactions. And we just stood there looking. We also had a nice moment when we went to the curators—there were three of them—and asked them to tell us whatever they knew. And we asked: “What is that object up there?” This is in the show. And the three of them had different answers, and they all looked at each other as if they’d been betrayed. Nobody knows what that object is. Is it a stove? Is it a waffle iron? Nobody knew what it was, but it was hilarious to have three scholars all saying completely different answers at the same time. And James echoed that. And then he had a really interesting idea; the penultimate climax of the second act was a flashback: Dot came up to George’s studio to say good-bye, and he was painting. He had persuaded the two Celestes to pose for him—they were thrilled—and then they discovered they had to pose nude, and they wouldn’t do it. So he got Dot to pose nude, and he used three visions of her—which is, of course, what Les Poseuses is. It’s the same model from three angles, with the painting of Sunday rolled up in the back. That was the farewell scene. I remember James offered the script to Bernadette when we did it at Playwrights Horizons and she read it and she wanted to do it. I met her over the phone; she called me, saying she was thrilled. She said, “But I have to tell you one thing, I don’t do nude.” She thought she was going to be asked to pose naked on the stage. Which, of course, she wouldn’t have had to do. The whole thing was more surreal and almost documentary-like. So there was no musical plan for the second act. I just wrote the first act, and then we changed it and made the act the way it is now. And I thought, okay, these two acts are so different, and I know people are going to be discombobulated by the fact that the first act seems like the end of a play; and then we’ve got this whole other show to give them. And I thought one way to tie the two acts together would be to make—this is a word I learned from Milton Babbitt, and I loved it—architectonic similarities. And that’s what it is. So that’s the reason for this—to make two disparate acts hold together. In Into the Woods, which has a similar structure, there’s a story—there’s a real plot that goes on—which is a result of the first act. So the two acts string together because the second act depends on the first act. But in Sunday, the second act is an entirely separate entity—it’s another ship—so the way to link them together, it seemed to me, was to make it some kind of parallel structure. So “It’s Hot Up Here,” even though it may relate to Dot’s opening number in the fact that it’s posing, and she’s also central to it, is essentially a prologue to a reiteration of the structure.

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MH: There were a lot of things I noticed in the show that I’ve never seen referred to in the reviews. For instance, the fact the Boatman wears an eye patch, and in the painting you never see that side of his face. There are a lot of cute, fun things like that. And there’s the man with the horn or trumpet, and I always assumed that the sixth of “Sunday”—the bugle call—absolutely grew out of you seeing that character in that painting.

Example 4.6

SS: Absolutely correct. And, in fact, in the Playwrights Horizons production it was a trumpet. We had only three instruments: we had rhythm, keyboard, and trumpet in the original. And that trumpet was used for just that purpose. You’re absolutely right, that’s where it came from. MH: And the Celestes? SS: The two Celestes? That’s James’s whim. I’ll tell you another one that’s really interesting is the lady who we have as the mother—the lady sitting next to the nurse. If you look closely, you don’t know whether it’s a lady or a man. It could be an old man. In fact, Randall Jarrell wrote a whole poem about this man who’s sitting under the tree. To Randall Jarrell that was a man, to James it was a woman. And he made her George’s mother. I remember vividly when we first got the notion. James went home, and he took a piece of tracing paper, and he made little outlines of the seven main characters—the ones in the foreground. And he drew an arrow—George’s mother, question mark; George’s mistress, question mark; painter, question mark; and boatman, and all that. Some critics—critics, meaning commentators—have thought that the boatman is a jockey. Nobody knows, nobody knows. What interested Seurat is in that painting, and apart from the technique and the geometry of it, it’s the social commentary. He was also a social satirist. You know, he’s almost like a Daumier. And he was very interested in how costume delineated character. There are many clues in the costumes—the fact that a monkey was often the symbol of a whore; so it tells you that a gentleman has a whore with him, that sort of thing. MH: I heard Lapine give a talk in which he said that he found out after the show that the fishing rods associated with the women meant that they were prostitutes; and if he’d known before the show it probably would have changed the characters of the Celestes. SS: Absolutely. But who in the audience knows that? But you think about “fishing,” and what that means. Which brings up the Mizners, as a mat-

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ter of fact, because Addison Mizner always referred to his evening clothes as his fishing costume, because he wore them when he was fishing for dowagers and money. So it persisted in the twentieth century. But everything in that picture is completely calculated: the colors are calculated, the geometry is calculated, the costumes are calculated. There’s not a single spontaneous thing in that picture; that’s called: “I’m working something out,” and also, “I’m making a comment, and this is what this means.” It’s full of codes, some of which I’m sure we don’t understand. MH: As a composer, how much did you identify with Seurat? Did you want to try and emulate that intellectualism? SS: No. In the design of the show, and the design of the music, sure. But you know the point is music—whether it’s frozen architecture, or architecture is frozen music, it doesn’t matter—it’s about structure. And, of course, this is the perfect painting for somebody like me to musicalize because it is all about design, and it’s all about echo, and it’s all about the effect of this next to that, or this apart from that. It’s so musical. The more I got to know the painting, the more musical I felt. Anyway, you must go to Chicago to see the painting. You’ll just die. It’s great. MH: Back to your sketches for “Color and Light.” On this one you wrote a note “alternate pointillism”; what does it mean?

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SS: This looks like something I never used. These little fragments of two sixteenth notes next to each other separated by space [sings phrase]. And what I’m doing is: George is deciding [sings phrases, mimes painting]. These are all echoes of what he’s doing with his hand. The whole number is about what he did with his hand. When I say “pointillism,” I’m talking about his hand motions exclusively. MH: Did you actually plot out where on the painting each stroke was supposed to be—so when George sings “red, red-orange” you knew where on the painting that was? And, if so, did you tell Mandy? SS: Every single one. When the lyric says “diagonal,” I really mean he’s doing a diagonal. Because I looked at the painting and I saw these demarcations that are made entirely by complimentary colors. I mean, you look at that painting—I could not believe it—there is no line. That’s a painting without a single line in it! And yet you see everything—there are fifty people in that painting. Fifty people! The other thing Lapine pointed out is, nobody’s looking at anybody else. Nobody! Fifty people are not looking at each other. Why? They’re very clearly people, and yet there’s not a line in it. I was clearly trying to find a rhythm here. This is obviously one of the early sketches. Before this I thought: All right, if this gets too boring, or [sings phrase], then maybe I’ll use that. In other words, let’s say the first section will be [sings phrase]. And then George thinks: Gee, maybe that’s not right. So he goes [sings phrase]. And I tried to think: How did he do it? Well, I’m sorry to say, unfortunately, because they’re not dots, he did it more deliberately and slowly, which doesn’t have a lot of rhythmic vitality to it. MH: This fascinated me, where you have a note that says the “colors are talking.” [See example 4.8.] SS: The “colors are talking” may have been a lyric I wrote. The little “x”s instead of notes relate somehow to—I’ve never done anything like that before—it looks to me like those are chordal structures and I don’t know what the notes are going to be. Usually when I do that I put stems on the “x”s. This may be a time when I didn’t put stems on the “x”s. It says “strokes”; this is entirely about painting strokes. So clearly what I’m doing is relating these as chordal structures. Or, conceivably, these are different rhythmic ideas. Maybe I wanted to go [sings rhythm]. I ended up going: [sings phrase]. This is obviously what I chose to do. And here’s “Sunday” [sings phrase]. One line here is clearly what I ended up with, but in between I’m suggesting alternates. These may be accompaniment rhythms, in other words I’m going [sings phrase]; but I’m going [sings phrase while

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knocking in a different rhythm]. Those could very well be rhythmic ideas, and, why I didn’t put stems above them, I don’t know. Usually when I do that kind of sketching, and I put an “x” with a stem above it, it means: I don’t know what the notes are, but I do know what the rhythms are. MH: I showed a copy of this sketch to a musicologist, and his assumption was that you were working out possible patterns. That, if you have a melodic theme, you would then select the different notes that correspond with the rhythms above as a way of evolving your thematic material. SS: No, it’s more likely simpler than that. I’m sure it’s about rhythmic emphasis. If I was doing what you suggested—which, curiously enough, I

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have done—I wouldn’t notate it that way. I’d write an alternate line; I’d actually write the notes out. I’d write: “G-B-G.” I wouldn’t go: “X, X, X”— that’s what I think I would do. No, I know what I’d do. I’d write stems down—I’d write a quarter stem there, two eighth stems there. So I’d say it’s gonna go [sings phrase]. And I do that quite often—when I don’t know whether I want all the beats spoken or not—I’ll do an alternate with the same notes with a stem down. If it’s a different tune, I’ll write it on a different line. MH: Can you think of an example? SS: You’ll find it throughout. You’ll find many sketches where there are stems down as well as stems up. They might not be here, because in Sunday—you can see how clean these pages are—I pretty well knew where I was going and what I was doing, so there wasn’t an awful lot of alternate stuff. But that’s how I do alternate stuff: I put stems up and stems down. Another thing I might do is put parentheses around notes. Here we have G-CB-G, and if I didn’t know whether I wanted all four, and just the first, third, and fourth, I would put parentheses around the C. That’s what I usually do. MH: In the song “Sunday,” what you did chorally is unlike any other choral writing that I’m aware of that you’ve done, and I can’t think of a work by another composer in which the vocal lines build with the accompaniment. What brought you to that point—how did you find that? [See examples 4.9a and 4.9b.] SS: I don’t know. Of course, the notion of dropping the orchestra out for that one bar is a steal from the end of Candide, because I think that is one of Lenny’s greatest moments when the chorus takes over and the orchestra drops out. But, as for the build, it’s just a build. With the possible exception of “Our Time,” I think “Sunday” is the only anthem I’ve written. By anthem I mean one of those choral things. Usually when I have a chorus they’re all treated differently, because I don’t like that kind of convention. I love the sound of a chorus, but it’s hard for me to justify eighty people singing the same thought. Here, because they’re all figments of George’s imagination, I can justify the fact they’re all singing the same thing. So this is one of the few anthems I’ve written, which may be what’s causing your comment, but maybe I’m not understanding your question. MH: For instance, on the word “trees,” the way the voices fill in the chord over time. SS: My guess is that Paul Gemignani did that.

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MH: Really? SS: Yes. Because my guess is I just wrote “trees” as the melody. I’m not sure, because, of course, that descending line is very important. Often I will write choral stuff and then Paul will call me and say: “Listen, we’re a little low on sopranos, a little heavy on basses, so do you mind if I invert . . .?” I say, “No,” because his ear is very good. This particular bar I don’t remember whether I wrote that or not. My guess is that Paul did that, but I’m not sure. I hate to take your Christmas away, but I’m always honest.

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Example 4.9b

MH: How do you approach choral writing? SS: I approach it with great trepidation because I know nothing about it. For somebody who’s been around the block as long as I have and who has made a living out of it, I know less about the human voice and how singers produce the sounds they produce than I should. I could have joined the choir in college, and I should have, because Jonathan Tunick once told me that the way you learn orchestration is to sit in an orchestra. I could have learned something about the human voice by sitting in a choir. But I don’t sing particularly well, though I sing vaguely on pitch. And I had no interest in being in a choir, and now I’m sorry, because I thought songwriting was: You wrote a melodic line you sang, and you had an accompaniment. It never occurred to me that one day I would be writing choral stuff. The first choral stuff I ever wrote was the opening of Company. I was terrified, and I said to the conductor, Hal Hastings: “Here’s this, do anything you want with it; this may sound ghastly.” Because, you know, I had canonic entrances and it had choral bits. To my

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surprise, he said: “No, most of it works very well.” He did say: “Here’s a passage where I think there’s too much spread in the voices,” et cetera. So I got a little more confidence as a result of what he did with Company. So now I write my choral stuff, but I always tell Paul: “Do anything you want.” This, what you call the “spread” there, that is unusual, but he knew what I was going for. But it may be mine, I would have to take a look. I do not have enough confidence in choral writing, so I write very simple choral music. I thought, if I just gave Paul the tune at the climax of Sunday, that it would end with the orchestral accompaniment spreading—which I had written—and that would work. And Paul devised a line that goes down, that follows the harmony, for the lower voices, that gives the chorus the feeling of spread, and that’s the thing you love so much. That’s his doing, not mine. What I do chorally that has some sophistication to it is the contrapuntal stuff—like the opening of Company. I remember, for example, writing the barbershop chorus in “The Gun Song,” and I literally got a book of barbershop songs to see how they created that kind of close harmony. My only instrument is the piano, and the spread on a piano and the spread of four voices are entirely different; and you have to understand how a baritone and a tenor interact vocally. I had no experience doing that, because I’ve never sung in a group. As I said before, Jonathan Tunick said you learn orchestration, not just through books, but by sitting in an orchestra. That’s how he got to be what he is—he played the clarinet in an orchestra. In the same way, if I’d sung in the choir at college, I would know more about how Gustav Holst creates his effects. I did listen to choral music, but until you’ve done it. . . . I now know more than I used to, just the way I know more about registers than I used to. I wrote this elaborate chorus for The Frogs, and it sounded squeaky and thin, and yet there were like twenty-five voices; and I said to Jonathan Tunick: “There’s no point. . . .” And he said: “No. First of all, the key was a little too high, and you’re doing it in the swimming pool at Yale, and the reverberation’s muddied all the harmony. It’s not your fault as much as you think it is.” But I should have known: if you’re writing for a chorus in a swimming pool, you’ve got to thin out the harmonies. It didn’t occur to me. I thought, if the notes are there, they’ll come out. Wrong. The same thing here. I thought if I just have a crescendo on this line—holding up before the orchestra drops out—it would work. And Paul just enriched it by taking the harmony, and taking the lower voice down, and that’s exactly what thrilled you. MH: You write a lot of numbers for large groups of people. They’re not always singing chorally, but how do you plot out the structure of a number like, in Sweeney, where Tobias is singing “Ladies and gentlemen . . .” and then Todd and Mrs. Lovett are interjecting comments and asides?

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SS: That’s crossword-puzzle work. That’s the kind of thing I can do. That’s what I mean by contrapuntal writing—I can look at a page and I can work out lines so you can see the patterns on the page. It’s texture. What Paul did was, he took a texture, and he spread the texture of the voices. That’s what I don’t know how to do. I can make a choral piece for all the people in this room with everybody having a different line. I can do that, because that’s working things out. But I can’t tell whether it will be a full sound or a thin sound. I mean, I can tell, but I may be wrong. I don’t have enough . . . the way someone who’s experienced can say: “No, you’ve got to get them all together on this moment, and then you’ve got to have the basses go this way and the sopranos go that way.” That’s where it would be guesswork for me. I just don’t know. MH: When you have different things happen vocally on top of each other, like the layered sections of “Opening Doors,” how do you decide: These are the key things I want the audience to hear and pick up on, and the rest of it is just texture? SS: It’s problematical. Generally, if you want things heard by an audience, it has to be solo or tutti—all together. Audiences cannot distinguish between two tunes, two melodic lines, or two different lyrics going together—unless they’ve heard each one before. MH: So why do you do it? What’s the point of those moments? SS: Well, it’s usually a mistake, but sometimes it is a case of: They don’t have to understand the details of what’s going on, all they have to understand is what’s going on. So, if we decided to have a riot in this room, it’s not necessary that they hear every individual line; all they have to hear is all the different kinds of anger and the different kinds of hysteria. MH: Do you try and make sure that certain words are the ones that get telegraphed through? SS: Sometimes you clear the undergrowth and somebody comes through specifically. But when all the people are singing at the climax of “Opening Doors,” and they’re excited because they’re going to put on the show, the audience doesn’t have to understand anything, because the number has built up to that. By that time, we know what it’s about, so no, details are not important. But generally, I’m getting cleaner about that, because it does tend to unsettle an audience if they can’t distinguish what’s going on. Even if they know what the general idea is, it’s not quite as comfortable as if they really understood. That’s,

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again, justification. It’s a lot easier to just put all the lines together and say it’ll work. MH: Knowing that there are those people who will get the recordings and the scores and follow the lyrics they couldn’t catch in the theater, and they will get some gratification at finding that out, does that play at all into what you do? SS: I suppose. But I’m afraid it’s all justification. And I think sometimes it is justified. Sometimes they don’t have to understand what’s going on, but I think you have to be careful about that. It’s very hard for me, because I really hate the “peasants on the green” form of operetta and opera writing, where suddenly everybody is singing the same thought. But, no, they’re not. Unless it’s revolution, of course—if it’s “up the Democrats, down the Republicans”—yes, you can do that. MH: “Wintergreen for President”? SS: “Wintergreen for President.” That makes sense doesn’t it, because it’s supposed to be the entire country. But if, as the case with “Opening Doors,” everybody has a different agenda and they’re all singing at once, I don’t know how to make them all sing the same thing. MH: “Please Hello”? SS: No. Because each one has a different agenda. But also, in “Please Hello,” by the time all the voices go together, you have just heard the individual things. In other words, you hear an individual admiral, and then a second individual admiral overlapped by the first individual admiral, who, even though the words are different, you know what he’s doing. It’s just important to know the two people are arguing—just to know that the two are each asking for a specific kind of treaty. And then the third admiral comes in, and he gets an entire solo, and then he asks for a treaty, and we know. . . . It probably would have been more comfortable for the audience if, each time there’s an overlap, I’d repeated the same lyric, but I get bored doing that. It’s wrong, because that is a convention. But I think: Why would anybody repeat themself? It’s foolish thinking—it’s realistic thinking in an artificial form, and, even as I’m speaking, I think: Well, what’s the point? But, it’s what I do. MH: On this sketch for “Sunday,” below the D-I6 chord, you’ve written “progression up.” What does that mean?

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Example 4.10

SS: I want to keep the progression going that way. I had an alternate—see above where it goes from I6 to B-flat V? Here it goes to an entirely different harmonization. So, obviously I wanted to keep a rising line going, because that’s an A-natural—so G, A-natural. Then there’s the I64, which would be, again, an A-natural in the bass. I think what that means is a rising line in the bass, but I’d have to look at it again. I use dotted lines when I have alternates, but I notice there’s a double line, and I’m not sure what that’s about. A double line usually means the end of. . . . I think this G didn’t go anywhere, I think that’s the end of whatever I wanted to do. MH: One of the most fascinating sets of sketches for Sunday were the ones marked “Miscellaneous Notes.” I’d like to start with what you wrote on the cover. SS: This “long-line” is the opening. It’s a juxtaposition of two triads, and those are the two triads—in this case, an A-major triad and a D-major

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triad, all in the same key. But if you look: [sings] “dah-dah-dah-dah, dum; yah-dah-dah-dah, dum, ya-da, dum.” If you look at it, it’s always A major and D major juxtaposed together. That became the basic idea—to go from A to D to A, but juxtapose them. MH: Speaking of the figures that begin the show, it surprised me that there wasn’t a different figure associated with of each the words: “order, design, composition, balance, light, and harmony.” Is that too obvious? SS: No, it just didn’t occur to me. There’s no particular pictorial idea of this juxtaposition; it really has to do with the notion of what he did—which is juxtapose one color next to another. So I’m juxtaposing one major triad next to another, and here, these are what the results are—those are the “baskets.” That is to say, you take these six notes and then you put them together, and that’s what you get. And those are distillations of the opening arpeggios. The trick in the opening arpeggios of Sunday is that the bass is never stated. The first chord goes C-sharp-B-E-A-E; the bass A is never stated. The second one goes C-sharp-E-D-A (that’s where the D major comes in). Again, it’s either the third of A major or the seventh of D major that’s in the bass. So that none of the chords feels like a cadence until we get to “harmony.” And then—

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boom!—an A comes in in the bass. So the idea again is to keep putting the colors together and juxtapose them until finally they lock in on the word “harmony” and it becomes very clear what they are. [See example 4.12.] MH: Were those Seurat’s real words or was that a creation of yours? SS: Oh, no. That’s all James. MH: In the little sketch for the “Sunday” theme, when you get to the second measure, is that a chord, or are those possible alternate notes of where the melody might go? [See example 4.11.]

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SS: Possible alternates—and it’s not that I “got there.” The double line means the first idea is over. I wanted to use this and this and this; probably to juxtapose them together, I’m not sure. MH: D and C, against E and B? SS: Exactly—D and C-sharp. MH: Right. Sorry.

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SS: Well, that’s important, because the seventh is what counts. The fact they’re in between these double lines means that’s the end of one idea; here’s another idea. It’s possible—and there’s no way of knowing—that I meant this as an alternate. I usually put parentheses around an alternate, but I might not have. The fact that they’re all whole notes, and they’re not close together, implies that it is an alternate, but I’m not sure. I probably would have put a stem if I meant them to sound together. MH: On this page of the sketches, it looks to me like you’re trying to come up with a tone row.

Example 4.13

SS: Yes it does, doesn’t it? This is probably for the Chromolume. MH: But it also surprised me that you had two E-flats in it. SS: That is odd, isn’t it? Also, there are only eight notes there, so clearly something happened. I have no idea what I was doing there.

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MH: This brings up the subject of different musical techniques and theories: atonalism, twelve-tone music, Schenker, et cetera. What musical theories have you looked at, thought of, studied? SS: I haven’t studied atonal music. When I studied with Milton Babbitt I asked him if I could study atonalality, and he said: “You haven’t exhausted tonal resources for yourself yet, so I’m not going to teach you atonal.” And he was absolutely right; I’m still in tonal. MH: Do you listen to atonal music? SS: Oh, I listen—the same way I listen to all kinds of music—but I’m not particularly fond of atonal music. I’m very tonally oriented. I’m very oldfashioned—I’m about 1890. I’m still early Ravel—that’s my idea of terrific. I know something about these things, but I rarely use them. I have no idea why I would use the tone row this early, because I don’t think the Chromolume thing was ready. I can’t tell where this is, but the fact that this says “4th Sunday” implies that I was thinking of the second act. I’m not sure what all these notations mean. MH: Well, that was my next question. Obviously the initials are the different characters—”G, D” is George and Dot, and “G, OL” is George and Old Lady. But how do the initials relate to the music to the left of them? SS: These are various variations of the arpeggio, and I guess I wanted to. . . . What’s interesting is—I’ve checked off the two Celestes twice and George and Dot once. You know, what I may have been doing is taking variations on that opening arpeggio—four sixteenths and a dotted half note—and utilizing different ones for different characters. It may have been that I was trying to make leitmotifs for each of the characters based on the same rhythmic figure. That’s what it looks like to me, but I have no memory of this. MH: Did you ever have the idea—we sort of touched on it earlier—that during a number like “Color and Light,” the twelve tones and the twelve colors on a palette would be linked? So, for instance, when George says “blue,” there’s a note that’s blue; when he says “green,” there’s a note that’s green. SS: Exactly. Absolutely right. MH: But it didn’t end up working? SS: I realized that I would straitjacket myself.

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MH: Not necessarily through the score, but in one moment. SS: In that moment—in that number. I think it’s for that number where that notion occurred to me. I may be wrong—it may have occurred to me early on—but, absolutely. MH: On the next page, it looks a lot like you were taking thematic material, and working a lot with inversions and rows.

Example 4.14

SS: Clearly, what’s above are in diatonic moments. Below, however, is some kind of attempt at a row. I think this is exactly what you just asked me—which is—I was experimenting with using tone rows to respond to the colors. These are early sketches where I’m feeling my way into the score. I think I’m doing exactly what you just asked about—I’m trying to find a way of utilizing twelve colors equals twelve notes.

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MH: Since we’re of running out of time today, I just had some generic questions I’d like to get in; first, the dating of your manuscripts as they come from your copyist. I notice that there are a lot of dates throughout a work. SS: It means revision. Each page that has a date has been revised. There is the date at the top of the manuscript, or, if there’s no date, it means this is the first version that the copyist has copied. Then, if you turn to page three and there’s a date on it, it means this page was revised on this date. I do that, because I do revisions all the time as I’m writing—even before rehearsal, or sometimes during rehearsals, but mostly before rehearsals. I make my fair copy, and I give it to the copyist to copy, and it comes back, and it’s printed; it has a whole different thing to it—it’s like a writer when a piece comes out of the typewriter. And I prop it up on the piano, and I go over it to proof it, and in the proofing I think: Geeze, did I really write that? I’ll check my original manuscript and say: I really wrote that; it sounds awful. Or: That sounds flat; I’m going to change that to a D-flat. But it’s already been copied! So I’ll tell her: Change the D-natural in bar thirteen to a D-flat; and take the quarter note . . . change this rhythm. . . . Sometimes I’ll dictate whole bars over the phone; I just did a lot of this last week to a song in Wise Guys. So, when she prints it out again, it’s going to have a different date. Then, as in the case with Wise Guys, I’m on my third revision of some pages. I played it over again after a two-week hiatus and I thought: That’s not good, that’s not right. So each page tells when. If you went through my—what they call rehearsal copies—you would find the original versions, but you’ll also find the April 3rd version of page thirteen, and the April 9th 119

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version of page thirteen. And each one has some red pencil—and I always do it in red pencil—because that’s the only way you can tell, from the ink marks. And the reason I save each of these is, I may say after the fourth revision: You know, the first one was better; what was it? And I can then go back and see what the earliest version of that passage, or that chord, or even that note was, because I may have forgotten. It’s a diary. MH: To me, who’s not a singer, your music is hard to sing. In terms of writing for voices, how does that affect your choices—knowing that it’s hard for somebody to come in on the “and” of the fourth beat or to sing the major seventh in a chord? SS: I’ve had mixed reactions about that. Some singers say: I don’t know why people say your stuff is so hard, because for me, anyway, it’s very logical. I’ll have others say the opposite—particularly when melodic lines skip, particularly when they go down a seventh, or something like that. That’s quite hard for people to get. Also, throughout everything I’ve written, I have too often—and I think the key word is too often—utilized something in the accompaniment that directly clashes with the voice. And part of the reason for that is I work at the piano. And at the piano, that hidden C-sharp sounds okay when you’re singing a D. But when it’s exposed in the orchestra, and that C-sharp is played by a clarinet, and the singer’s supposed to sing a D, they get really upset, because they tend to sing the C-sharp if their ear hears that particular instrument. On the piano—particularly when you put your foot on the sustaining pedal— God forgives you everything. Anything works—anything. You can sing any note and, no matter how dissonant, it’s fine against the piano. But I’ve learned. And that’s why I say: I’m taking out the wrong notes in Wise Guys. I catch myself. A passing tone will go: F-E-flat-D-flat, but the singer is being asked to sing an E-flat when the F sounds. Now I hear the E-flat in the passing tone, but the singer hears the F, and I thought: No, don’t do that, have the E-flat in the accompaniment occur when the singer sings Eflat. Well, it completely screws up my figuration, so I have to rewrite the figuration. It can no longer be [sings one version]. I’ve got to start on the second note [sings second version]. And that’s a whole other thing. I have to rewrite the passage so that the E-flat in the accompaniment will fit the E-flat in the melody. That’s what I’ve been doing lately. I’m trying to learn to do that. The older I get, the more I try to do it, and the harder it gets, because you’re screwing things that really struck you. When you write at the piano, and just to go [sings figure], and somebody has to come in, it’s different than when you sing it yourself. Because I don’t have to sing on pitch, and nobody’s listening to me, and it’s a piano, and I have a sustaining pedal. You have to get on the stage, sing it, sing it accurately, and

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the clarinet is playing an F while you’re singing an E-flat. On the other hand, I remember Larry Kert telling me, “Someone Is Waiting” from Company was the hardest song he’d ever had to sing—and he’d sung many difficult songs. Now, on the surface of it, “Someone Is Waiting” uses stepwise motion—there are very few leaps in it—and I didn’t know why it was so hard to sing; and he couldn’t tell me why either. There’s something about the movement in that song, because there are no open dissonances like I’ve been talking about. It’s a mystery. But I know, when he told me it was difficult, that it must have been difficult to sing. And of all the songs in Company that people sing, that’s the one they never sing. There’s got to be something hard about that song, but when you look at it on paper, there are almost no dissonances, and there are virtually no accidentals. I don’t know what it is, and neither did he, but something is wrong. But I’ve had mixed reactions from singers, so I don’t know. I think there are times when my melodic lines have leaps in them that are hard for people, and perhaps they could be written better. Maybe the melodies shouldn’t leap the way they do. MH: I don’t think of it as being melodic difficulties, I think of it as being either the clashing or rhythmically knowing when to enter. SS: Well, generally when there are rhythmic tricks—if I’m not writing a kind of standard thirty-two-bar song, say, where I want the melodic line to be fairly even and strike the mind as a melodic line—I will use my rhythms according to the rhythm in the inflection of the speech. And when I say the rhythm and the inflection [sings]: “Rhythm and the inflection of the speech.” It’s that. It’s to echo the rhythm of how we talk. And that sometimes means that you have a dotted eighth note, and then a sixteenth rest, and then you come in on the downbeat. It’s all about the rhythm of the lyric. I try, when I’m writing, to make those rhythms as easy to read as possible, but I will always be pulled toward the rhythm of the speech. And that makes for some very peculiar notation. MH: Quote: “I also hear registers; I spend a lot of time at the piano choosing registers.” SS: That has to do mostly with accompaniments. I find it very difficult. (Milton Babbitt claimed that I think orchestrally, but I think I think pianistically.) And it’s a question of where do you put the register? Do you have the accompaniment figure in the middle octave, or the octave above, or two octaves above? For somebody who writes orchestrally, those choices become much more clear-cut, because—if you choose a flute, that means a flute; if you choose a bassoon, that means a bassoon. But it’s hard

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for me because if you’re on the piano, you can go anywhere. And it’s also variety, because I have a tendency, again, to choose piano registers that are in the middle and are compromised—just the way I tend to write mezzo forte instead of really taking a stand and saying either forte or piano. There’s nothing like mezzo forte to cover all territories. Similarly, if you put all the accompaniment in the middle two octaves, who can throw stones at you? But it’s not always the best. And over a period of time it becomes oatmeal—it blands out. So, I think registers are very important for accompaniments. When it comes to registers for voices, of course, that’s just a matter of choosing a voice. MH: To what degree can people, looking at your manuscripts, use cut material to inform their characters? SS: Fine, if they want to study it. Just don’t put it in the show. There’s a very good reason we’ve cut everything. Every time I’ve ever cut anything from a show there’s a good reason. I can’t stand when people restore stuff and want to restore stuff. There’s a very good song in Night Music called “Silly People,” sung by Frid, the servant. It says what the show’s about—and I like the song a lot—but the reason we cut it is because it’s a character you don’t care about at that point in the show. And, of course, I get requests quite often from companies asking to restore this song—partly because it gives the actor who plays this tiny part a chance to sing, and partly because it’s a pretty song and it seems relevant. But, no—one of the reasons that George Furth and I have never—until last year—allowed the script for Merrily We Roll Along to be published was that we were not satisfied with it. Then, because of Jim Lapine’s production in 1985 and then our subsequent changes—not very many, because that was the big change—we finally combined two scenes into one. We did it in Leicester in England; we looked at each other and said: Okay, that’s the best we can do now; this is good now; this is what we want it to be. And then we allowed it to be published. When I publish a vocal score, it means: All right, I’m willing to let this go for posterity, which is why I insisted that the Judge’s song be in the vocal score of Sweeney Todd—because I wanted it for the future. It’s in the appendix, where it becomes optional, but I wanted it printed. Meaning: If you want to do this song, here it is. I think I may have put the tooth-pulling sequence in too, but, again, it says, “optional.” MH: “Marry Me a Little” is back in recent productions of Company. SS: Right. And so we’ve been talking about the reprinting of the vocal score.

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MH: So you feel good about that? SS: Yes. I think Company is better with “Marry Me a Little” at the end of the first act, and no “Tick-Tock” dance in the second act. I think it’s better. So I would love to republish that. MH: The two Follies? SS: Oh, I prefer the first one. And there’s going to be a big production out at Paper Mill Playhouse this spring, and it’s the original. There are some changes in the script, but it’s the original score. MH: How would you feel about the original, except for “Ah, But Underneath” instead of “Lucy and Jessie”? SS: Leave it the way it was meant to be. All that stuff was compromised. Musicals—this will sound terribly kind of self-serving and modest, but— you write a show with your collaborators. I didn’t want to change Follies. I always liked Follies. I liked the book of Follies better than Jim Goldman did, and so did Hal. Jim Goldman and Cameron Mackintosh wanted to change it for London, and make it more real and less surreal, and have all kind of changes. I didn’t want to do it, but I think it’s unfair to stamp your foot when somebody offers you another production and say: No, no, I won’t let you try something new. Who knew? It might have turned out better. It didn’t. And when it didn’t, I said: I don’t want this show ever shown in America, and I made it legally certain that the London version can never be shown here. I don’t want it shown again in England either, but Cameron has the right to do it. But Cameron’s given in now too, and there was just a production in Leicester last year, and it’s the original. MH: And in the new Night Music, they’ve put in the “Glamorous Life” from the film and inserted portions of “My Husband the Pig.” SS: Yes. That’s for England. I don’t want to change that. It was perfectly okay, but I prefer the original.

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MH: As we’ve been talking, you’ve occasionally mentioned how you’ve started pursuing an idea but then couldn’t figure out how to get it done. I’ve also read quotes from you discussing Sweeney Todd—that there were eight scenes that originally you couldn’t figure out how to musicalize, and then later you figured out how to musicalize five of them. What is it you figured out? Does that reflect your growth as a composer? Have you figured out any of the other three yet? SS: No. I sort of figured out the five, but I’ve never gotten around to doing them. I thought I would do them for the National Theatre production in London, but Julia McKenzie said: “Oh, please don’t give me anything new to learn. Please don’t give me anything new to learn.” That was all the incentive I needed not to work, so I didn’t do it. One of the scenes involved the trio in the second act, which I’d always wanted to do, where Mrs. Lovett tries to poison the Beadle. It’s the scene, in the original, that Hugh Wheeler avoided. But I think it’s a wonderful scene and would be very singable: she gets a packet of rat poison with a great big skull and crossbones, and you see her pouring it into the beer, and then she puts the poison away; and while she’s doing it, he switches the beer unknowingly, so we know she’s going to drink the poison. Meanwhile, he’s singing the parlor songs, and she’s coming on with him and shmeicheling him. It’s a really funny trio scene. I’m sure Rossini would have loved it. The dialogue passages in Sweeney, for the most part, are fine, but there are aspects of them I would change—the whole scene in which she sings the song I like least in Sweeney, which is “Wait.” It doesn’t work the way I intended it to, and I don’t think it’s the actor’s 125

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fault; I think it’s mine. I would like to have another go at musicalizing that whole scene, because there are things Sweeney could sing that echo things he’s sung before; and then she could have a moment in the middle where he goes crazy, and she calms him down, and it would work very nicely. MH: But your mastery of techniques—do you see an evolution in what you’re able to accomplish because you’ve done it so much and tackled different things? SS: No. I think each show is equally hard and equally easy. It’s easy, when you’re not writing thirty-two-bar songs, and you’re just pouring the sauce all over the place, and just having people go in to a kind of semi-recitative; as I say, I loathe recitative. But a semi-recitative like the “There’s a hole in the world” section of Sweeney Todd—that kind of thing. MH: It’s never been clear to me whether the final version of the “Prelude” for the organ is yours—the recording and the score are different. SS: I wrote different kinds, but they’re all mine. And they’re all clumsy, and they’re all academic. It’s funny, because I was trained on the organ when I was ten years old and went to New York Military Academy. I just loved the gadgetry of it. It was a four-manual organ, and a very large one. In fact, I think at the time it was the second largest organ in New York State—second only to Radio City Music Hall’s, and bigger than the Roxy’s. I was so small, my feet could hardly touch the pedals. But I loved the whole thing. I took one year of organ when I was there, so I thought I’d be able to manage this, but, in fact, I really don’t know the organ— what makes the textures, and what makes effectiveness. So it’s quite an academic overture, no pun intended to Mr. Brahms. I was really sorry that I didn’t study the instrument more before writing the piece. It just doesn’t have . . . all I wanted was mystery. What I intended was that the theater should be covered entirely in black—like the inside of a coffin— and that all the seats and all the upholstery should be in black; and that on the stage you would see, with his back to the audience, this sort of Phantom of the Opera organist playing. And at various points in the story he would pound away with all stops open—something I used to do to scare people at military school and at college also, where there was a chapel and you could make it dark and scare people. Then Hal Prince had the idea of the steam whistle—which turned out, I think, to be a much better idea. The grating sound of the whistle is much more unnerving and upsetting than just big, loud, sting chords. So the organ idea

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eventually was scrapped as a presence on the stage, and, of course, the theater was never covered in black. But we wanted some kind of nonoverture music, the way, again, a horror film would have—just to get the audience into the mood. Unfortunately, what I wrote is about as scary as an academic exercise—it doesn’t have any atmosphere. I just failed. The sketches are attempts at utilizing themes from the show to make a prelude that would get an audience in the mood. It’s no good; I prefer the show just starting dry. MH: So for future productions, you’d prefer no organ prelude? SS: It’s not that. If people feel they can do it, fine. If not, not. Maybe there’s a way that utilizes certain stops so that it would sound better. It’s too thick-textured; it’s too contrapuntal; it doesn’t have enough sustained chords in it. I don’t know. MH: Do you think the fact that you played the organ when you were younger affected you as a composer? For instance, do you use more pedal points than you might do otherwise? SS: No, not at all. I don’t think that had any lasting effect at all. MH: In this set of sketches, you’ve labeled a chord as the “Sweeney chord,” but it’s not what I think of as the “Sweeney chord”—among other things, I don’t see the minor third.

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SS: No, it’s a slightly different one. What now says F-flat would ordinarily be a G-flat—that’s what I mean by the “Sweeney chord.” However, this is the Bernard Herrmann chord, and I used this elsewhere in the piece, but I don’t remember where. MH: The chord that I think of as being the chord that’s wedded through Sweeney is a minor chord with a major seventh, in an inversion. SS: That’s right, with the seventh in the bass. That’s why I say, if you change that F-flat to a G-flat you’ll have exactly that. You’ll have the Dnatural, and then E-flat, G-flat, B-flat. MH: But it also appears in other inversions, at times. SS: Absolutely, but I don’t want to make too much out of it. I didn’t use it as consciously as I have said. It’s just that the sound of it underlay the music, and so it informed the music. I mean, if you look at the “Ballad of Sweeney Todd” and the way the harmony moves in there, that chord— not this one—occurs in many variations. As I said earlier about how something lodges in your head while you’re working on a given show, it just kept turning up. But you’re absolutely right. It’s fascinating to me that I changed that F-flat to a G-flat. MH: Still looking at one page of your sketches for “Opening I-I,” which begins with Anthony’s “I have sailed the world . . .,” there’s a note that reads “memory of ship bells.” [See example 6.1.] SS: Oh, yeah. I was going to use that. I didn’t, eventually. Look, there’s that “Sweeney chord” again—I was obsessed with it. And that doesn’t look very bell-like to me—that’s what I call my “Stravinsky motif”—so I think what that must have meant is that I was going to overlay bells on it. MH: When you say “Stravinsky motif,” what do you mean? SS: The kind of eighth-note motion that usually occurs when Sweeney is about to murder somebody. It’s a series of seconds alternating with fourths, fifths, and sixths, all steady eighth-note motion, and it’s chromatic. In fact, it arises out of the opening vamp of the “Ballad of Sweeney Todd”—that sets up all the stuff. But then I had developed that, in the opening, into thirds. It presages Sweeney’s madness. And I call it “Stravinsky” because it has a Stravinsky texture—it has a high, woodwind, dry, dissonant texture to it. It’s not that it’s taken from Stravinsky or has any kind of Stravinskian particularities—either motivic or har-

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monic. But it feels like Stravinsky to me. I associate a lot of Stravinsky with dry, woodwind chromaticism. MH: When you gave the score to Tunick to orchestrate, did you say: I want a dry, woodwind, Stravinsky sound? SS: No, I rarely say anything—particularly to Jonathan. But here is an example of where register counts. The reason it’s up there is precisely because I hear it in my head as woodwinds. When Milton Babbitt said I hear orchestrally, he wasn’t entirely wrong. I think I hear pianistically, but I knew that the color of this had to do with that skittering thing—I knew that this was not a string sound. And when Jonathan says that he likes to hear me play, I can assure you that when I play that, I don’t play it legato. I don’t play staccato, but I play non-legato. And that tells him, without my saying it, that I don’t hear it as a string sound. So if you heard me play this, you’d know it wasn’t strings; and yet it’s up in the string register, and it seems like strings. MH: Another thing I noticed in the sketch was that the lyric reads “But there’s no place like home,” as opposed to “But there’s no place like London,” which is the final lyric. Why did that change? SS: I think it’s because “no place like home” is so American—that’s the old sampler song. I think that’s why I did it. I like “London” a lot better. MH: It also gives you two syllables. Does that play into it? SS: That’s interesting, because, yes, it makes it less square. With “there’s no place like home,” there’s a finale to something like that. But not, “no place like London.” Also, one of my favorite things about British music is where you hit the downbeat and then follow it with an eighth note; I don’t

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know if you’d call it an appoggiatura on the downbeat. That, to me, is characteristic of British music, and it shows up a lot in Walton and in Britten. So when I heard “London,” I thought: Yeah, that’s very British. MH: We touched on this a little earlier; this is your original manuscript for “The Worst Pies in London,” and the interesting thing is the difference in the modulation and the melody here, as opposed to the final version.

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SS: Well, you see, the original version would take her up to an E-flat. And when Angie gets up there, she has to change into her head voice. You’ll notice in Anyone Can Whistle, there’s a place in the “Miracle Song” where she uses it for comic effect. But here, I really wanted her to say: “These are probably the worst pies . . .” in the same chest sound. That’s why I changed it. This song, as originally written, would be within Angie’s range. It’s just that she would have to switch, because her chest range is really only about an octave-and-two; and I’d rather have her cheat on the low notes than cheat on the big ones. If this were written as an opera for opera singers, I wouldn’t bother, because opera singers know how to ne-

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gotiate that sort of thing, but this is going to be sung mostly by musical theater people. MH: When it was done at New York City Opera, do you remember which version they used? SS: The compromised version is the published version; that’s the one that’s orchestrated. MH: And it’s because of the orchestration? SS: Yes. Two things occur to me. One is the climax of Sweeney when Mrs. Lovett sings “I love you,” just before he kills her. Angie could not hit that in chest, and when you hear it, her voice thins out. Dorothy Loudon, who took over for Angie, virtually has no head voice, but she has a large chest voice that goes up high enough. And when she belted “I love you,” it was horrifying. When Angie did it, it thinned out and it made Mrs. Lovett less desperate, and less crazy, and less—I want to say menacing, except she isn’t being menacing at the moment—less, well anyway, less. So it’s nice if it can be all a mezzo sound up to there. Another mistake I made, or a mistake I made, was in A Little Night Music. I wrote the part of Anne for an octave-and-six. But Anne has to be beautiful, young, and be able to play a selfish girl without being a bitch, as well as have an octave-and-six. Victoria Mallory, who played the part originally, could handle all of it. Her voice is light, but she could handle all of it, and she was beautiful. So I used her low register and I used her upper register. Ever since then, there’s never been a girl who could do all that, until the girl who just did it in London, Joanna Riding. But all these years: either they can act, and they’re not pretty, and they can negotiate it; or, they can act, and they’re pretty, but they can’t negotiate all the octave-and-six throughout the show. She’s got to go real high in “A Weekend in the Country,” and she’s got to go real low elsewhere. I really utilized the versatility of Vicky’s voice, and screwed myself by doing that, because it meant that I straitjacketed all subsequent singers into this rare combination. MH: But did you really screw yourself? That was what you wanted, and that was the premiere production. SS: Yes, but for that one production. That’s the advantage of writing an opera for opera singers. Unless, of course, operas do the same thing. I’m sure there are operas where the coloratura can only be handled by the Joan Sutherlands of the world—one every generation. And I think those operas probably suffer as a result. Because they’re either done with people who

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are inadequate, or aren’t done at all, because they can’t find a soprano— she’ll say: “I’m not going to sing five high E-flats in a row.” MH: On to “My Friends,” and your sketch with the arrows and “strum” written above. Obviously, those are where the accompaniment chords are to be struck. What was the decision-making process behind that?

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SS: If you look, it’s periodicized every seventh beat—after every seven beats it occurs. What I did was, I wanted to take the squareness out of it. I didn’t want a regular emphasis on the downbeat, so it would keep a little surprise going in the bass. MH: Why seven, as opposed to, say, five? SS: Well, I don’t know. But if you take five, you’re doing it on a sustained note. In that sense, it’s an arbitrary choice. There’s no mystique to the number seven in this; nor does it come in seven-note phrases or anything like that. It’s just, that’s what I chose. Nor is it consistently seven, but that’s the way it starts. The point is to keep it off the beat. I utilize this technique all the time—it’s all the way through Sunday—because I’m so self-conscious about being square. I will deliberately do that sort of thing in the bass, and deliberately do syncopations in the accompaniment figure, even though I’m writing in four-bar phrases. I don’t change meters that much, and this is my way of keeping things fluid and liquid. And this is a perfect example of that. MH: With “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” the first question is about the bird calls and where they came from. Did you research them? SS: I listened to birds up in Connecticut and jotted them down. I sat there and I listened. I thought: Where am I going to hear birds?—I know. Where I live in Connecticut, there are a number of songbirds. Not too many, and they don’t screech a lot, and they’re the same birds—because they have little homes around there—and they call to each other, and they really are doing it. Hugh Wheeler was a birder, and he once came up there to visit, and he’d listen and he’d say: “That’s a wren, or a starling”—whatever.

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You could hear one calling to another, so the motifs are quite consistent. And there aren’t that many of them, so I was able to discern one from another. So these are all mostly authentic; not all of them. MH: Do you know if they’re authentic for Britain, or that didn’t matter— it’s too pretentious? SS: Oh, Mark, no! There’s a limit to research. Although, I’ll tell you something about this show and Britain. I wanted the Beggar Woman to have a lot of dirty Cockney slang. I have a couple of books on language that involve Cockney and slang, but I couldn’t find what I wanted, because, unfortunately, they’re dictionaries, and it’s hard to look it up and find things. So I made things up—this is in New York—and I gave it to my friend, the playwright Peter Shaffer, and I said sort of smugly: “Listen to this, and tell me what you think is authentic and what’s inauthentic.” And he picked every single inauthentic out! And I said: “Please don’t tell anybody.” And that’s the way it was on Broadway. When I got to London for the London production, I spoke to somebody there who was brought up Cockney, and he gave me phrases out of his own experience—although he’s now a big music publisher—and I was able to incorporate those. Because the score was not printed until later, the stuff that’s now in the score is the authentic Cockney. MH: The accompaniment to “Green Finch” has always intrigued me—the last eighth note of most measures is always where the change happens— does that relate to the bird calls? SS: No. MH: Do you know how that figure evolved? SS: I have a feeling that’s a little trademark of mine. This may have been the first time I’ve used it, but I have a feeling that has occurred a lot in subsequent things. But maybe not. If anything, it echoes the opening. At the moment, you know my stuff better than I do. The whole idea of the “Ballad of Sweeney Todd” is: [sings accompaniment figure]—it’s that leaning. You know there are stress notes, and you lean into the piece and come back [sings]. So everything has this little yearning, wavelike feeling. And I think this is an echo of that [sings]—so there’s a little dying fall at the end of each of these things—so the phrases have a little yearning and a little leaning. If you don’t change the chord, you’re not yearning for anything, because you’re not looking for resolution. Incidentally, this is the kind of thing I was talking about that’s—it’s probably unconscious—but it’s knowing that this

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is a girl who’s yearning for something. So this is characterizing by music. It’s very hard to talk about how you musicalize character. When people talk about characterization in song, they’re really talking about lyrics most of the time. It’s rare—I mean, we could sit down with a Puccini score, and I swear he knows how to characterize musically—but there are not many composers who know how to characterize musically. The characterization usually comes from the lyric. This kind of thing is musical characterization. This would not be the right accompaniment for the Beggar Woman; this would not be the right accompaniment for Mrs. Lovett—even at one of her most balladic passages. It’s wrong for her, because it haaas a kind of ooohhh, ooohhh, oohhh feeling. And that’s why I chose it. MH: When you do write for character, do you find that you write more complex textures in the accompaniment, the more complex the character is—somebody like Ben or Giorgio, as opposed to a Petra or Anne? SS: No, it’s just that the moods vary according to what the scene is. In the case of Ben: there’s the glib Ben; and then there’s the heartbroken Ben; and then there’s the regretful Ben; and then there’s the bitter Ben. When you have scenes that have that color, you can put that color in the music. So you don’t use a light-hearted waltz when he’s bitter—unless you’re— MH: —doing “Could I Leave You?”

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SS: Yes, which is not his song. I just said “light-hearted waltz,” out of the blue. Obviously, one of the reasons he sings “The Road You Didn’t Take” the way he does, is that he’s trying to be charming. But he’s actually falling into the pattern. As opposed to singing it contemplatively, he could sing it contemplatively: “Oh, it’s interesting, you grow older, and these things pass you by.” You could write that kind of song, but the kind of feverishness that’s in that song is, it seems to me, very important for the character of Ben. That’s something I’m good at and that I’m sensitive to— musical dramatization, musical playwriting. MH: You’ve commented that the Witch in Into the Woods is the one character in that show who doesn’t lie. Would you do anything musically to reflect that? SS: No, that’s all in the lyric; I wouldn’t know how to do that. What I wanted was to make her always either very fierce or very tender. MH: Here’s what I assume is a long-line sketch for “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” but it struck me that this long-line is virtually the melody of the song, which is unlike other sketches of yours I’ve seen. [Note: When later asked about the meaning of the fermatas in this example, Sondheim said that “they signify echoes, not the main note.” See example 6.6.] SS: Wow, right. Well, the other long-lines haven’t been worked out in such detail. Look how many notes there are in this line. Nothing you’ve shown me so far has this many. But you see, that is exactly what Milton Babbitt and I did with the Mozart 39th. He was showing me the long-line structures of the 39th and how it reflected itself in the shorter sections, and even in the little melodic motifs. That’s what holds the piece together. That’s exactly what happened here: in working out the long-line, and working out the melody, they came together, so that they reflect each other. So, in fact, the melody is the long-line. This is a very good synthesis. And my guess is, if you really took apart the other long-lines I had—the ones we’ve been going over, which are sort of shorthand—if you really examined the melodic structure, you would find that they do echo what’s going on; it’s just that I haven’t put the details into the long-line sketch. Here, I was putting in the details. MH: What surprises me is that this is a fairly standard song, as opposed to one of your more complex musical scenes. SS: Yes, I know. It may be—I’d have to really analyze this and go over it— but maybe this was too long, and it turned out to be shorter. But as I look

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at it, it is a standard song, but it’s fairly long. It’s hard to remember the creative process. MH: Judge Turpin’s “Johanna.” SS: This song is often cut. MH: Yes—which, I understand, is something that upsets you. You feel strongly that it should be kept in the show. SS: Yes—he’s the only character who’s not musicalized. If this song isn’t in the show, he doesn’t have anything to sing that is his alone. All he sings is the duet of “Pretty Women,” and it seemed to me very important. Hal Prince was extremely offended by this song—or he thought the audience would be, anyway—because of what seemed to be a kind of masochistic self-flagellation. But in Victorian terms, and considering the Judge, and his guilt about his lechery, it’s far from it. And I tried to incorporate a certain comic aspect into it, in the fact that he couldn’t take his eye off the keyhole, looking at Johanna on his knees. I think it works very well. And

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when we did it at City Opera, I persuaded Hal to reinstate it, because by that time the show had reached its shape. There’s another reason, too. When we started previews, I thought the show was in very good shape— Hal says to me that it wasn’t in as good shape as I think it was, but I thought it was in fine shape—but there was a sense of longeur in the middle of the first act. It was because we had just gotten interested in Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett, and then we went to “Green Finch and Linnet Bird” where we got involved with Johanna and Anthony and the Judge, and then we went into the town square—which is really about Pirelli and Tobias, although Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett are on the outside—and then we went to the Judge’s chambers, and it was the Judge and Johanna, then we got back to the pie shop. In other words, there were about fifteen to twenty minutes there where we were separated from our main characters, and then picked up the thread of the story. And the story is about Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett—it’s not about Johanna and Anthony; that’s the subplot. So we felt we should cut something. The first thing I cut was half of the challenge song between Pirelli and Sweeney—well, it’s Pirelli’s song—”The Contest.” I took out all the tooth-pulling stuff. And, I think, with the same fell swoop, we took out the Judge’s song. Hal, I think, was very relieved to take out the Judge’s song, but there was a dramatic reason to take it out. Once the show had found its shape—it seems like a paradox—reinserting the Judge’s song after all this time didn’t interrupt it as much. I don’t know why that is, but somehow, the globule that held it together still held it together, even with the insertion of the Judge’s song. So in future productions, I hope the Judge’s song is included, because I don’t think it breaks the tension. When we did it in London, the guy playing Pirelli thought he would be singing both parts of “The Contest.” When we decided to cut the second half—because, again, we thought, maybe now it would work and the shape would be okay—it still seemed we were spending too much time with Pirelli. The actor wanted to quit, but Hal persuaded him to stay in the show. There’s a BBC documentary that shows it. MH: I’m curious, were you making any parallels between the Judge and Sweeney, with “My Friends” and the Judge’s “Johanna,” in that they’re both ritualistic, self-hypnotic numbers? SS: No. I see what you’re saying, but no. This is merely a musicalization of the Judge. Every character in the show gets a moment when you get to know that person. So this is the equivalent of “My Friends,” the equivalent of “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” the equivalent of “Ah, Miss” or “There’s No Place Like London,” the equivalent of “The Worst Pies in London”—those are all solo numbers. I determined that in a piece like this, because it’s so much about plot, I better give each one a solo.

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Ordinarily, I wouldn’t put so many solos in a row, just because I would worry about texture. But if you really look at the first twenty-five minutes of this show, it’s a series of solos. Even though Johanna and Anthony are on the stage at the same time, she sings a solo, then he sings a solo. In the square, there are a lot of people, but Tobias has a song—with a lot of people—then, essentially, Pirelli sings a solo. Mrs. Lovett sings a solo. And even “My Friends” is mostly Sweeney. And then, “Poor Thing”— solo! And I thought: Oh god, this is going to be a series of—you might as well have people come out in “one” with a microphone and do a concert. But I determined that it was much more important, for the audience’s sake, that everybody should be very clearly characterized. MH: I found this sketch for the Judge’s “Johanna” confusing—with the Ds in parentheses, and the lines between them, and then the dots on top.

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SS: Well, the dots at the top just mean staccato. The lines are a repeat of the chord; that’s just my shorthand. I write a four-note chord and I repeat it three times. Instead of writing the four notes every single time, I write out the four notes and then I draw vertical lines. The D that’s in parentheses, I would have expected that to be D-natural or something—in other words, I would have thought it would be an alternate choice. But I think, maybe, I was deciding whether it should be quarter-note rhythm or eighth-note rhythm. Except that I ordinarily would have put little eighth stems there. I don’t know. The other thing it may be is: Maybe I want the D on top—maybe I don’t want the F. The point is, it’s an alternate. In the second measure, the first quarter-note D is in parentheses, and then there are only three beats left, so it looks like I was considering having a rest there. MH: Just below it, where your sketch has “(augment?),” what does that mean?

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SS: That just means take each rhythmic duration and double it. In other words, it’s an alternate accompaniment that, instead of going: [sings], I might go [sings alternate]. MH: In your sketches for “Todd’s breakdown”—”Epiphany”—there were a number of things in just these four measures that intrigued me. First, where you’ve written “(or D-flat V for exaltation).”

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SS: We’re in the key of D-flat, and in the second measure what I have is a II chord. The II chord is like a mild version of a V—the II chord doesn’t have that immediate need to be resolved into a I; it usually goes to a V. But a II chord, particularly as it’s used in a lot of songwriting, is really a V on the second inversion. So, in this case, instead of being an A-flat bass for a V sound, it’s an E-flat bass, but it’s the same chord. I’ve got some dissonances there, but essentially, the bassline, if it’s the II, then it’s not as strong a pull as it is to the A-flat. Usually, for exaltation, they use 6/4 chords, but, over the years, I’ve used 6/4s less and less and less, because there’s something slightly corny about hitting a climax on a 6/4. So I tend to hit it on a V now—going straight to the V—instead of going 6/4-V. When I plot a piece like this, which requires a certain emotional journey for the character and the performer, I like to know where I’m going to end—not just lyrically, but musically. Will it be a big statement of the theme at the beginning? Will it be a chordal hold? That sort of thing. You’ll notice that at the top I’ve written: “The work The work!,” because I thought his insanity would be wonderful if I could somehow make it so that Sweeney thought that he now knew what he should do in the world—which is to kill everybody—and that, in his mind, it was work. Like Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel, it was his calling. And the word “work” is great—if it’s a speech—but sing the word “work,” and you are in serious trouble, which is why there are rests there. It doesn’t have a feeling of climax. If it was “The wooork!” you could do it, but holding that “e-r” sound in “work” is not a good thing. So, obviously, I opted not to do that. But clearly what I’m trying to do here is to arrive at the climax of the piece. I had this little counter theme [sings], and I could feel that,

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because that’s the kind of motif that you can build and build and build, and think of how you can get [sings]. It’s like Ravel—it’s like “Dawn” in Daphnis and Chloe. Obviously, I try to find what kind of chord I wanted to reach for the big statement of his yearning for his dead wife that would lead into “The work, the work, the work!” All for naught. MH: And “(urgent)/March theme”? SS: The whole point of this piece at this time, is that you’re dealing with a schizophrenic personality: He alternates between his fury at the world and his yearning for his dead wife, and his frustration at just having been cheated of his revenge. And since the show is about revenge, it’s the major thing. It’s like Othello discovering the handkerchief—it’s the same thing. So I thought: What I have to do is find a way of holding a piece together where a guy is going to go through the Three Faces of Eve. He’s got to keep switching personalities, and yet somehow it’s got to hold together and not just be a tapeworm. And this theme turned out to be extremely useful throughout; I’m not sure whether this arises from an earlier theme or not. I thought: All right, what is the climax? It’s his determining that he’s going to kill everybody. And it should be a passionate declaration—like Love or something like that. But for the anger, I wanted to use a chugging sound. And that’s what the second idea is— an attempt to find a chug. And then I got the idea of utilizing the Dies Irae here, so that you get the Dies Irae in the accompaniment [sings again]. And once I got that, I didn’t need this. But this is an attempt to find it. I just thought of the urgency as a march. It’s not really a march— I mean you can’t march to it—but it’s a chug theme. It’s a steady four, and every beat has the same emphasis so that it’s locomotive, or something like that. “March” is not really the word for it, but I’m doing shorthand here to get the ideas on paper. But that’s the idea; and what that became is the Dies Irae statement. [See example 6.9.] MH: In a case like this, is the music internal or external? Does the music help drive him mad, or is it a reflection of his madness—as if he’s hearing voices or something? SS: Reflection. It never has occurred to me that music affects the character. I’ll think about that now. But to me, always, I’m characterizing mood. I’m characterizing urgency, then I’m characterizing tenderness, then I’m characterizing anger, then I’m . . . it’s playwriting. In a scene, the character does not get affected by the words, the words get affected by the character.

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MH: One of your sketches for “Ladies in Their Sensitivities,” at the top has “V-G/Ch-D,” et cetera. I assume that means: “Verse in G, Chorus in D.” SS: Absolutely correct. MH: But do you remember your reasoning behind the plotting of that? SS: No, I don’t really know why I want to go from G to D, because that sounds to me like one of my reductions—where I’m reflecting something in the theme and vice versa. In other words, the tonicization of G, and then the tonicization of D, and then each one of those going up a tone, has some kind of significance. “Ladies in Their Sensitivities” doesn’t have a very tonal feeling to it. MH: Do you remember how you came up with the 5/8 meter for this song? SS: No, I don’t. I don’t write a lot of fives and sevens. Probably what happened was the score was starting to feel square to me—that’s a guess— and starting to feel like it was compounded too much of twos, fours, and threes. This is instinctive reaching for variety. It certainly has no dramatic significance. I’m very concerned, always, with writing conversational songs. And conversation tends not to be as square as two, three, and four. Conversation tends to divide itself up into units of two and three and four and five and six and seven. And since this is a very conversational song— as opposed to a statement song—I think that may have led me to that. That’s the best I can offer.

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MH: I understand dramatically the point of the song is to get the Judge to go see Sweeney, but I’ve often wondered why this particular song, “Ladies in Their Sensitivities.” Why not, for instance, have the Judge have a toothache and have Beadle say: “Oh, I know this great guy to pull teeth.” What was it about the idea of “Ladies in Their Sensitivities” that made that the topic of the song? SS: Oh no, no, no, no, no. The Judge is trying to make himself attractive to his ward—he’s trying to be sexy. It’s all about: “You don’t look delicious enough, sir.” The whole thing starts with the Judge announcing that he intends to ask his ward to marry him, and the Beadle says: “Oh, but sir, you look a little slovenly and you need a shave.” A toothache wouldn’t have anything to do with that. MH: So, it’s more than just plot for getting the Judge to Sweeney? SS: Well, there’s more to it than that. The real plot is that Anthony and Johanna are making love—or about to make love—in the Judge’s house. Unfortunately, because of the abstract nature of the set, there was no suspense. I wanted to put the audience in suspense and watch him going home, and be about to enter his house when they’re making love— or about to make love—and then be diverted by the Beadle—to go that way and go to the barbershop. If this were a movie (and I hope it will be), I would try to convince the director to make this a suspense sequence in which you have the young couple about to be discovered by the villain and killed, and, at the last moment, diverted because of vanity. The Beadle is harping on the Judge’s vanity, and the Judge has that opening speech that Hugh Wheeler wrote: I’ve decided to offer my ward marriage and I’m going to bring her a little gift, and strange. . . . He intends to marry her, he’s already proposed to her, and she’s been horrified. So the whole aspect of the Judge’s attractiveness to a young girl—this middle-aged lech’s attractiveness—is the key, so that’s why it’s there. MH: Along the same line, the Parlor Songs—”Sweet Polly Plunkett” and the “Tower of Bray”—why those songs? SS: That’s the scene in Chris Bond’s script that I wanted to transform into a trio—into a duet—where she’s trying to poison him, and she’s going to poison herself. The point is, the plot calls for him to come into the place when she isn’t there, and then she discovers him and gets completely panicky. So I thought: All right, what’s he going to do? And, of course, he would go into the room and sit around, or yell for her, or something like

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that. But it’s a musical, and there’s the harmonium there. Also, there wasn’t anything for the Beadle to sing in the second act, and that’s an important character. And, I thought: Here’s a chance to get him to sing. At the time, I didn’t know we were going to get a countertenor like Jack Eric Williams—it was just going to be a high voice, but not a countertenor. I’d already written the songs, but particularly after we’d hired Jack, I was glad, because I wanted to give him a chance to show off. MH: My question is not so much the fact of the songs, but why those songs? For instance, did you choose the “Tower of Bray” because there’s a sort of bell motif that goes through the score, and you wanted to echo that? SS: No, I went through a book of English folk songs and tried to figure out: All right, do one about a maiden; and then do one about something that has many choruses—like “Oranges and Lemons, say the Bells of St. Clemens.” That’s really what that is. I thought the fun of it is, it’s got to be a song where he gets her to agree to sing with him, and then there turn out to be endless verses, and she doesn’t know how to get rid of him— that’s all. Also, there was to be much more of a scene. When I said trio earlier, if I’d written that she poisons him, the idea was that it would also be a trio with Toby in the basement, so that we would have the three voices going at once. I still wanted to use Toby in the basement. I thought: All right, the way to make this more functional is to have them sing a song that Toby knows. So Toby starts to sing from the basement, and in the distance the Beadle hears this other voice joining in and says: “What was that?” “Oh, it was just the wind.” You know, one of those scenes. It’s got to be a classic melodrama scene. I wanted something that sounded like the kind of song that you sit around singing, and you go to verse after verse after verse after verse after verse. That’s why it called for two songs: the Beadle comes in; he sits and sings something for himself; then, he says: “Why don’t you join in?” And she says: “Oh, all right,” because she’s trapped. And, of course, it’s now a song that Toby knows. So the second song is the danger song, in which she’s panicky because he’s going to hear the voice in the cellar and then go down and discover and blah blah blah. And then they get interrupted by Sweeney just in time. MH: You mentioned the idea of a film of Sweeney . . .? SS: Apparently, Tim Burton fell in love with the show when he was in London in 1981 and saw it ten times. And so he wants to do it. At the moment, it’s been optioned by, I think, Columbia, and Burton still wants to do it. Although I now hear he’s doing Superman Twelve, so. . . .

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MH: You stated before that you think film musicals usually don’t work, unless they’re the Astaire/Rogers style, or something like that. SS: Absolutely. MH: Do you conceive of Sweeney as being something that could work? SS: I don’t think it’s going to work for two seconds. (This is not to be shown until 2099.) No, I don’t know. The only time a musical on the screen’s ever been sung through, because it’s a whole opera, is The Medium. No, there’s the Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which I don’t think works for a second. It’s just Burton’s enthusiasm; and I thought: Well, why not try it, what’s to lose? I used to think that if you put out a bad movie of a show, it’ll hurt the show, but it doesn’t. I won’t mention chapter and verse, but there have been many, many bad movies of musicals, and the musicals still keep playing in summer stock, and it doesn’t hurt. I can mention one, because all the people are dead and it won’t hurt anybody: Guys and Dolls. It’s a terrible movie musical. It hasn’t hurt the show one ounce. So, if this works, then I’m wrong; I’ll eat my words—happily. And if it doesn’t work, I’ll say: You see—well, I told you so. So I can’t lose. MH: The “Final Scene.” You’ve discussed before that part of the point of the score is Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney’s themes clashing, which happens in this number. On your fair copy for this number, there’s a note. SS: This is to the copyist who was a sweet lady, but very square. Her name was Mattie. I wrote: “Mattie, I know this looks weird, but it’s the clearest layout I can think of.” The idea was to have two songs that have nothing to do with each other going together. One is one meter, and the other is in another, and, in order to make it clear to the singer, I arbitrarily divided things into 5/8 and 6/8, so I could draw lines down so the singers would know where to come in. Actually, it did not take Angie very long to learn this. Angie is very musical, but she’s not really an experienced singer of stuff like this. I thought: Oh my God, it’s going to be so hard for her to learn. Not at all. And it’s partly because, if each singer sticks to his or her part, it’s very clear. You have to turn your ear off to what the other person is singing—that’s the trick. So, actually, this is not a very complex passage; it’s the rhythmic equivalent of polytonality—it’s Milhaud putting the right hand in E-flat and the left hand in E—each one is simple in itself; it’s just, when they clash, it makes for dissonance. So this is very simpleminded business. It’s just, on paper, Mattie, having copied so many scores in which, if the vocal is in 4/4 then the accompaniment is in 4/4, I just thought: If I do it the way I would ordinarily do it—which is dotted lines

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(well, there is a dotted line here; that’s to show where the downbeat is)— she’ll go crazy. So I devised this method. MH: A friend of mine conducted the show and told me it was a nightmare to conduct this section. SS: I don’t know why it should be, because the accompaniment is fairly square. MH: I think it was trying to cue in the singers for their entrances. SS: Aaahh! That’s the point. If the singer is insecure, of course there’s a problem. I don’t think Paul Gemignani ever had to cue Angie—once she started, once she got the downbeat, she went. I don’t think he had trouble. First of all, he would have told me. He would have come to me and said: “Look, can we simplify . . . ,” or something like that, because you would always defer to the performer in something like that. Not that he would distort the music, but, as he does with registers, he would come to

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me and say: “Look, this is difficult for her; is there anything you can do— have you considered this?” or something like that. And, of course, you’re writing for performers—I almost always defer, which, incidentally, is not true of Lenny. For example, when we wrote West Side Story, he was bound and determined that Tony should sing a high C in the obligato section of “Maria.” The only people we could find to play Tony and could sing a high C were fat tenors, who were forty years old and from operetta and opera. Lenny actually tried to push one of them on us; it was just ridiculous. We ended up with Larry Kert, whose top note, when he started to sing the show, was an F. He was primarily a lyric baritone, not a tenor, and Tony had been conceived as a tenor. We could not find any. Tenors tend to speak on the stage like capons; it’s difficult to find one, particularly if you’re going to ask him to be a gang leader. So we ended up with a lyric baritone. And Larry, when he entered the show, sang up to an F, and when he finished, he sang up to an A. The high C is still written as an alternate in the score, but Lenny agreed to relax and let Tony just go up to an F or an A. He did not do the same thing in “A Boy Like That,” and Carol Lawrence was forced to sing higher than her voice because he wouldn’t make that compromise. You can hear on the record, she goes into a squeak at the top of “I Have a Love.” Now granted, in subsequent performances, in subsequent productions, they find ladies who can do that, which is great, so maybe Lenny was correct in doing it. The same thing is true here. I could have simplified this, but I thought, if Angie can handle it, then she can handle it. How much do you demand of a performer? If Angie couldn’t have handled this, I would have simplified it; I would, because you’ve got to defer to the performer. MH: Since you write chronologically, and this is the very end of the show, did you know from the very beginning that this moment was going to be about the clash of those themes and meters? SS: No, I just knew that I was going to have a clash. Actually, I think I conceived of it as a sort of duet. And I decided: You know something, if it’s a duet, then they’re together—just the fact the two voices are together implies that they’re together. But the whole idea is she’s thinking one thing, and he’s thinking another, and they have different agendas. He’s intending to kill her, and she’s intending to marry him, and those are called . . . in some instances, the same, but not in this one. Also, I wanted to echo her nervousness. She knows something’s wrong. She knows she’s made a slight mistake by not telling him that the woman that he killed was his wife. She knows she’s made a slight error, so she’s a little nervous. And he is focused and rigid. Well, if you have a guy who’s like that, and a lady who’s nervous, how do you put the two things together? Answer: you

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don’t! You just have them occur simultaneously. This was so easy to write, because I didn’t have to do any work! It’s just: You sing your part, darling; you sing your part, darling. I don’t care whether you’re together or not. The whole point is, don’t be together. It was hard to notate; it was not hard to write. MH: And worked like a . . .? SS: Oh, it worked like a dream! Incidentally, it worked like a dream because of the two hours that preceded it. MH: I’d like to discuss “City on Fire” and the “Asylum Song,” because your sketches include a fairly lengthy section here that’s been cut. SS: Yes, this is part of a whole chase sequence I had going. It actually comes from something else—Hal got worried that the audience had nobody to “root for” in Sweeney Todd, so he wanted to make Johanna and Anthony the people the audience would identify with. So I devised a chase through the cellars when Sweeney is after them with a razor. And I said to him: “You know, if people aren’t rooting for Sweeney, then there’s no show.” But I wrote this extended chase anyway for “City on Fire.” And Hal did stage it. This was actually in, at least, the first preview, where they ran across the bridge. So that’s what this is, but I haven’t seen it since. MH: It makes Johanna less of a heroine. It makes her more ditzy and crazy.

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SS: I still have that one line where she says: “You said you’d marry me Sunday, that was last August”—I still got that. The interesting thing to me about the plotting that Christopher Bond did is that she’s the one who shoots Jonas Fogg. Anthony’s too tenderhearted, so she said: “Oh, come on, let’s get out of here, enough of this.” And she takes the gun and she shoots him. I love that idea of a heroine—that she’s ditzy, but she’s capable of killing people. That struck me as a really swell idea. This is also an echo of Johanna’s “Kiss Me.” MH: There’s a cut section of “By the Sea” where Todd has various counterlines, such as: “God the woman’s mad/This is very bad/Anything you say.” Obviously, you cut it because you didn’t want it there, and that’s fine, but an actor playing Todd who looked at that would say: At this point in the show, Todd is just agreeing to agree, but he really thinks this woman is mad. SS: Right. MH: Can he look at your sketches and think that? SS: He can, but you know, that’s in the stage directions. It’s very clear that Todd is completely distracted. The whole point of the song is Mrs. Lovett is trying to wake him up, so to speak. It’s very clear that’s what she’s doing. And he’s a guy who’s got to be distracted. There are still shards of that left in, where he sings: “Anything you say, anything you say.” And that’s enough, that’s all. Originally, I was going to make that a fullblooded duet, and I thought: No, the idea is, when you are brooding, you don’t talk; you think, and you brood, and you’re sullen, and you’re glum, and you’re glowering. And she’s trying to make you cheerful. And you don’t want to rock the boat, and say: “Yeah, yeah, it’s fine.” And that’s the way the scene should be—it calls for silence. MH: I have a couple of general questions about Sweeney. One of the things that surprised me is, it’s such a huge score, and yet there is much less sketch material proportionally than there is for the other shows. SS: It was such an easy show to write, I can’t tell you. It just wrote—as Barbra Streisand would say—”like buttah.” The first twenty minutes, the first seven songs—right up to Pirelli—I just had a good time, because I was writing a horror movie and that’s one of the things I love. Then the Pirelli sequence was a little more difficult. I was afraid that the show was going to get too long. When I started it, there was no Hugh Wheeler; there was just me and the Christopher Bond text. Then I real-

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ized, Christopher Bond’s entire play was thirty-five pages long in acting form, and I was only up to page three—or something like that—and the show was twenty minutes long. The point was, it was going to turn out to be the Ring if I didn’t cut it down. And I got panicky. I wish I hadn’t—I wish I’d stuck to my guns and just done it myself, but I couldn’t. And Hugh had written murder mysteries under a pseudonym for a long time; and we’d worked together very happily; and he was British—he knew what Sweeney Todd was as a legend and all that. And I’m very glad, because he made some changes that are very important and very good for the show. But it was at that point that the show became not quite so easy to write because I got worried about length. Then, with Hugh aboard, I felt confident again, and it was fine until I got to the “Epiphany”—or to that moment. In Bond’s script, it’s the one weak moment: I never believed why Sweeney would turn from frustration at an individual killing, to wanting to kill the human race. In Bond’s script, he literally just says: “I have tasted blood.” I may be paraphrasing, but it’s about tasting blood and wanting more—that’s all it said. And I thought: Boy, in something as operatically melodramatic as this, that’s not enough. Hugh wanted to make it a religious turn—he wanted to bring in the whole religious thing. And I said: No, let me think about it. And so, it took me a month to write the “Epiphany,” and ordinarily a song of that length takes me—if I’m writing at my top speed—about two weeks. But the real problem was to find: What is it that turns him—exactly what is it? Working that out was difficult. Hal always used to complain—and, I think, with justification—that I wrote so much at the last minute. I have this reputation for incomplete scores. They’re not that incomplete—Night Music excepted, and there are reasons for that—but the fact is that I do tend, as the deadline approaches, to write more and more. So the director and the choreographer don’t get a chance to digest the material. And Hal had never really made it clear that by shoving him three songs in the last two weeks, I was hobbling him, because he doesn’t get a chance to think about what he wants to do with them. Hal recognized my rhythm on this, so even though we went into rehearsal without the final scene—without, really, the last fifteen minutes—I said: “I’m sorry, but. . . .” He said: “I’m not worried; it’s fine. I know where I’m going. I know where you’re going; it’s no problem.” The show wrote that easily. So the answer is: This was an easy show to write. MH: I noticed musical similarities between “Not While I’m Around” and “No One Is Alone”—the use of seconds and things like that. They’re also similar in that they’re lullabies and used by one character to calm another. Any reactions or thoughts about that?

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SS: No. The thing that makes them different is what’s going on in the bass. In “No One Is Alone,” the bass goes [sings bass line], as opposed to [sings other bass line] in “Not While I’m Around.” Otherwise, they are similar. One of the things I notice here is that the melodic line is four eighths and then a half note, and four eighths and then two quarters, although one is on the downbeat and one is on the third beat, but still. . . . Actually, when you come to think about it, you just said it: the function dramatically is similar, isn’t it? It’s an older person calming a younger person. MH: But the use of seconds, for instance; do you think of that as being a calming sound? SS: No. I’m a fan of suspensions and, rather than use thirds, I’ll always use a second and theenn resolve it. MH: Among your manuscripts, I found a copy of a letter you wrote to Declan Donellan for a London production of Sweeney. You wrote, in part: “I’m working on an accompaniment to ‘Wait’ that will be a little less Sergio Mendes.” And here’s a copy of your revised version.

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SS: I always fall into South-American rhythms. I don’t know why. In every show, and quite often, whether the songs are relevant or not. Here, I just thought: What are South-American rhythms doing in the middle of Victorian England? So I made something with less [sings rhythm]. Actually, there’s an influence in “Wait”; the chord structure is influenced by a South-American lullaby—Montsalvatge’s “Lullaby to a Negro Baby.” I stole those chords from him, and first used those chords for “Don’t Look at Me” in Follies. And then I used them here, and I’m afraid that the rhythmic idea crept in while I was asleep, while I wasn’t noticing. It’s always bothered me. This is the song that’s the least satisfactory in Sweeney (and it’s not because of me and Montsalvatge), it’s because I wasn’t able to find the proper expression of . . . again, you talk about lullabies; this is Mrs. Lovett trying to calm a completely berserk person. He’s not younger, but it’s a lullaby. It’s: How do you calm somebody down who’s having a hysterical fit? Well, his hysterical fit is he’s jumping up every time the doorbell rings and grabbing his razor. And she doesn’t want him going berserk waiting for this guy to come so he can kill him. It’s not the right song; and if the movie goes ahead, I’m going to find something else for this. This

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will be on tape, and the movie will go ahead, and it’ll be the same damn song, but. . . . I would like to find something else. I would like to find a way of expressing it. This was another scene that I intended to rewrite. Maybe it should be a duet—maybe it’s: He says something rash, and then she calms him down, then he says something rash. Of course, that’s going to be the same rhythm as the “Epiphany,” which is coming up—where it’s rash and then calm, and then rash and then calm. Maybe I can make capital out of that—it didn’t occur to me until just this minute. Maybe there’s a way of echoing that—that the changes he goes through in the “Epiphany” are the changes he goes through—or that they go through— in this song. But something’s got to be done. At any rate, this is an attempt to take out the South Americaness of it. Although, I notice I’ve still got the dotted rhythm in the bass. MH: If one does do this song, is this new accompaniment the one you’d prefer them using? SS: I’d have to hear it again. Probably, but I don’t know how I would do that now—with the score published the way it is. Also, this was reorchestrated for London; in this version, it’s for a nine-piece band, so it’s impractical. MH: One of my favorite memories, from the original production, was when Angela sang the line: “Now goes quickly. See, now it’s past!” Never had I seen time so concretely expressed. I saw that moment. It was breathtaking. SS: Mark, you’re the only person who got it. That moment justified the song for me, and I don’t think anybody but you ever got that moment. You’re the first person. And when I realized that nobody was getting it, I thought, it doesn’t work. MH: Well, for me, thank you. SS: Thanks for noticing, because I thought that was a terrific moment. MH: You’re quoted as saying: “‘A Little Priest’ is going to be too fast forever and ever, and it’s my fault for not slowing it down.” I believe you were talking about the road company production with Angela Lansbury and George Hearn that was videotaped and shown on PBS. SS: It is conducted too fast. There are aspects of the conducting that I didn’t pay enough attention to when we were out there taping the show.

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We didn’t have an awful lot of time, because the budget constraints were terrible. So I let this too fast version go by. On records, it’s different. On records, Goddard Lieberson—the father of the show album—said: “Generally, on records, you have to speed things up because there’s no eye interest as there is on the stage.” I remember, I was in charge of the West Side Story recording, because Lenny was away conducting, and when he came back he was shocked at the tempi, because many of the songs were much faster than they were on the stage. But they’re exactly right for the listener. MH: How much work do you do on the recordings? How do you prepare for them? SS: A lot. When you have a record producer, you sit around with the record producer and determine: What are you going to cut? What transitional material are you going to cut? Are you going to include any dialogue, et cetera? And the most important thing to do is to determine what is the shape of the recording. MH: Do you determine specific new timings? Do you sit with a metronome and say: “Okay, for the recording we’ll do this number at . . .”? SS: No, the producer will come to me and say: “Okay, here the total score is eighty-four minutes; we’ve got to cut seven.”

Chapter 7

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MH: Pacific Overtures. SS: Same period. Different country. MH: In your lyric sketches for the opening number, “The Advantages of Being Set in the Middle of the Sea,” in the upper right hand corner of the first page you wrote a little note to yourself which fascinated me: “Hymn to order/(nature).” Did you mean that as a continuum? As opposites? SS: No, as a continuum. Japanese haiku so often deal with things like plum blossoms and moon through the willows, and stuff like that. They’re almost Oscar Hammerstein poems, now that I come to think of it. The order of nature is basic to Japanese philosophy. Nature tells you what to do, and nature is the overriding spirit of everything—it’s what is natural. It isn’t just pretty flowers, it’s order. The whole Japanese structure—just until the last forty years—has been all about order. And it’s the orderliness that they get from nature. The passing of the seasons is key to the way they think. And I tried to cover that in the lyric of the opening number. MH: How would this note help you in the writing of that number? SS: When I start a lyric sketch—as you can tell from all these little sketches here—you get the philosophy of the number. In this case, it’s the philosophy of the country, because that’s what I’m trying to set up in the opening number. I often start my lyrics with just making a list—free association—of what the song is about. Not necessarily the point of it, but the 155

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atmosphere of it, and what it’s dealing with. Here I’m trying to, in one song, establish an entire culture—for an audience that’s completely unfamiliar with that culture. Not just the culture that they may know from anti-Japanese movies of the war, but the culture that existed in 1852 when things were in order—before chaos arrived in 1853. MH: The West. SS: Right. So the idea here is to paint the picture—like a Japanese screen— that is completely calming. Or a Japanese rock garden. If I were doing a movie, I would show a Japanese rock garden first, because that’s the ultimate of simplicity and order in nature—but then how man adapts that and makes a kind of tranquil art out of it. It’s also a way of living—a way of life. I happen to admire it, too. MH: Before you started this show, were you aware of Japanese culture? SS: No, not really. I was brought up on movies, so I thought the Japanese were a lot of little people with buck teeth and glasses who tortured Americans. It was Weidman—being a sinophile, and having written this play—who introduced me, in that sense, to Japanese culture. Although, I think, he’s really more interested in the socio-political aspect of it. It wasn’t until I went over to Japan with Hal for a couple of weeks and that I saw it for myself. Not that it was in any way an epiphany, but just to be there, and see the ladies with obis in the department stores, and see the contrast between what was and what is now. To see a Japanese woman in an obi buying Chanel in a department store is something very weird. And you think: Oh, I see, this is a show about discombobulation. We tried to do that with an image at the end, during “Next”— the big contemporary number where the vaguely rock music occurs— and in the middle of it comes, from a hundred years ago, the samurai and his wife. That is what I was trying to capture. The whole point of an opening number is to not only lay out the ground rules for the audience, but to tell them where they are. Just like Oklahoma! did—famously, “the shot that was heard ’round the world”—when Curly comes on, singing that solo, and you see a woman with a butter churn, and a cyclorama with a windmill on it, and a prairie, and nothing else. You know where you are. You know you’re not in New York. The same thing is true here. So it seemed to me that the thing to emphasize . . . actually, I was probably thinking of singing a hymn. When I put something on a yellow sheet, up in the right-hand corner, that is usually the key idea. Following that are lists of ways to carry it out. I just start filling stuff out on the yellow pad that way. I always write on lined paper.

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Up in the upper right-hand corner—if I’m writing a song particularly— is: Keep this in mind; this is what the song’s about. MH: And it never changes? SS: Well, sometimes it does, of course, but we’re talking about the initial impulse. This is probably the first yellow sheet I wrote for Pacific Overtures. MH: Actually, this is the second version of the opening number. SS: “The Advantages” is essentially the same number with a different lyric. For some reason, Hal didn’t like the original. I happen to love the line: “The advantages of being set in the middle of the sea/Some advantages of being set in the middle of the sea: Kings are burning somewhere . . .”—but he missed the sentence structure. I mean those as paragraph headings: “Some advantages of being set in the middle of the sea:” Colon! And he couldn’t accept that, so I had to change it. And I changed it to: “In the middle of the world we float/In the middle of the sea . . .” And so it now has a statement to make. It’s the same song. It’s interesting that I see I was going to make something of the “four”—there are four islands and four floating cherry blossoms. “Floating” was always in this. That’s what happened. I still prefer “Advantages,” but that’s one of those compromises. [Note: The first draft of the lyric begins with “Four islands, four floating cherry blossoms/Let us paint a picture for you. . .”] MH: Regarding “Someone in a Tree”—there’s very little that happens harmonically in that number. SS: Until the so-called chorus. MH: So, how do you sustain interest in the listener with that kind of relentless music? SS: What I discovered about Japanese art, what I finally cottoned on to, is they’re the ultimate culture in “Less is more.” They are the minimalist culture—look at a Japanese screen . . . You know, fortuitously, I went to an exhibition of Japanese art at the Met. And I remember stepping out of the elevator, and there was a three-panel screen. And I couldn’t believe it! The first panel was absolutely blank; the second panel was absolutely blank except for the end of a bird’s tail; and the third panel had the rest of the bird and a tree. And I thought: I can’t believe it—two blank panels, and a third, and it’s a three-panel screen! Click. I thought: Ohhhhh, it’s all about less is more. So I wanted to echo musically the whole cultural idea of less

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is more. Meaning, we’re just going to take this one chord and, by making tiny little variations on it, we’re going to gradually build it up and sustain it so that the audience never gets bored. But it’s sixty bars of one chord. But the rhythm keeps changing, and the texture keeps changing, and where the chord keeps getting placed just changes a little bit at a time— maybe every four bars, or every eight bars. It is not insignificant that, when I met Steve Reich, he told me how much he loved this show—not just because he had a lot of training. It’s similar to his own music, because so much of it is influenced by oriental music, which is influenced by oriental art. It’s all part of the same cycle, isn’t it? And that’s what the verse of “Someone in a Tree” is—it’s minimalist music. Nothing’s going on, but everything’s going on. It’s phase music—in a very, very, very simplified form, of course. His version is far more sophisticated, but it is the same thing. And it works very well, because when you finally settle down to the chorus, and it finally hits the tonic chord, there’s that sense of, pheeeww! I think it’s terrific. So that’s what that is: It’s an attempt musically to echo the visual—and the literal—of Japanese art. What do you think haiku are about? It’s called: How simple can you make a poem? Simple. Simple, meaning less. Less is more. Think of shoji screens. Think of tatami. There’s only one size for a tatami mat. Only one size! You just gotta make your floor out of that size. You can make any kind of domino setup you want. One size! But within that, infinite variation—depending on how you place them. But six-by-three is six-by-three. MH: Talking about “Someone in a Tree” and the harmonic speed of it, it occurs to me that a lot of your work is very language-based and ideabased—there’s a lot of lyric there—and that must have an impact on your music. By necessity, your harmonic changes have to take place over a longer period of time—more subtly—because you have so much lyric to get through, your chord changes are more subtle over time. SS: It’s true that when a lyric hits a different tone, or I want to bisect something or demark something, that I will change the harmonic structure. But I write a lot over pedal tones—the way a lot of people do in the musical theater—and have ever since time immemorial. But it’s less reflective of the lyric than it is of, maybe, lack of invention. Or, maybe the fact that there’s a wonderful tension that occurs, both in ostinato rhythms and in pedal points—the waiting for the release. (No pun intended, but that is, incidentally, why the middle parts of songs are called releases.) “Someone in a Tree” is an extreme example of that—where the ear is held in a certain amount of suspense for sixty bars, as opposed to four, before it’s released into the resolution. In the same way, for example, I use pedal tones in “Send in the Clowns.” Almost all of it is over this tonic drone, but there

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are, as you say, subtle chord changes, but it’s to keep the kaleidoscope going while you’re anchored. Because a pedal tone is like an anchor—you’re always there, tethered, like a goat tethered to a pole. The goat can wander around, but always, in the center, is this immovable tonic chord. I was experimenting with it, deliberately, in Pacific Overtures—in which I made the chord smaller, so there was less territory to go away from the center. In the same way, I use that often, and I’m afraid that it’s a reductio ad absurdum if you studied most music—certainly most music since the fifties. . . . I’m not sure that this would be true of the composers in musical theater in the thirties and twenties and forties; I think their harmonies were more fluid and richer in terms of where the harmonies moved. The business of pedal tones came very much into vogue in the fifties, I think. I haven’t actually articulated this before, but it occurs to me—and I bet I’m right—that if you look at the scores of the fifties and the sixties, the scores of my peers and contemporaries, you’ll find there’s much more pedal tone than there was in the thirties and forties, and twenties before that. I can think of specifics about Kern’s stuff. You know, often a song will start with I-V-IV-II-V-II-V-I. And Kern went: I-V-I-V-VII-V-VII-V. You don’t find that in me or my contemporaries—we always go to II. And that tiny little variation makes for a big difference. Now, again—I shouldn’t speak for my contemporaries, so I’ll speak for myself—I tend to go I-V-I-V-I-V-I-V, but over it things are changing. Things are becoming liquid and there are little dissonances. You can get away with a lot of murder when you’re over a pedal tone. You can put in a lot of dissonance because the audience’s ear—the listener’s ear—is firmly anchored in that basic first step of the scale, so they don’t feel lost—they don’t feel Schoenberged into anything. They just feel set in cement. It makes for more static, less interesting music, but it also makes for tenser music. And, as I’m spouting on now, it occurs to me that, because of the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution— when songs had to tell more of a story—that that tension becomes dramatic. In other words, it may be more poverty-stricken to utilize a pedal tone over and over and over again, but it makes for more drama— or helps to make more drama. I think I could make a case for that, but I better not this afternoon, because I may be skating on thin ice; but I have an instinct that I’m right. MH: “Prayer.” SS: “Prayer” was the first thing I wrote for this show, to find a Japanese . . . I’ve told the story before, but I’ll tell it for posterity if you like. I discovered a style. This is like the “Enigma Variations.” This is the tune on which the show was based, and I threw it out. But it’s also a technique. I had my little revelation on this show. I was up at Lenny’s for dinner. It

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was just the two of us, and he was called to the phone. While he was on the phone, I had nothing to do, so I started to fiddle with the harpsichord he had there. I don’t know how I got into it, but there were two manuals to the harpsichord, and I folded my arms across one another, and I started—because of the plucking thing—I started very, very, very gently to lean on the manual. And I heard this oddly rhythmed series of “plink, plink, plink, plink-plink-plink, plink, plink.” Perhaps because I was working on Pacific Overtures at the time, I thought: Gee that sounds oriental. Wow, there’s a texture here, now I’m getting—it may be Hollywoodized— but I’m getting an oriental feeling here. So I decided to write a song with a prepared piano—à la John Cage. And I wrote this song called “Prayer.”

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When I played it for Hal, I put paper and thumbtacks into the harp of the piano, and then proceeded to play these kind of vaguely pentatonic things, although there’s a good deal of dissonance in this song. And, sure enough, it sounded right. Then, it turned out, at least for me, that dramatically “Prayer” would hold up the action. That what we wanted was an opening number, which said: This is the milieu, this is the territory, and now we’re going to go to Kayama and Tamate—the samurai and his wife—and we’d better get into the action. “Prayer” held up the action. So that’s what happened, and this is what started it all. I was able to utilize, however, some of this for the sequence in “Chrysanthemum Tea,” where they try to pray the Americans out of the harbor. MH: But musically, the score grows, to some degree, out of that number? SS: Right. MH: This page of your manuscript is labeled “Miscellaneous Ideas, Numbers and Notions,” and it struck me that this page is probably the heart of your working out the score. [See example 7.2.] SS: I bet I wrote this the day after I got back from Japan. I bought some records in Japan—a three-LP set which illustrated all of the Japanese court music, particularly gagaku. Within the album was a booklet which was, unfortunately, all in Japanese, but I had it translated. It explained everything about Japanese scales and Japanese intonation—all the specific technical stuff about how Japanese music is produced. And the scale turned out to be this minor pentatonic. Usually, when one thinks of oriental scales—when you do your sort of Charlie Chan/”Chopstick” music—you just play on the black notes. It’s 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6, and it’s [sings clichéd Chinese-sounding phrase]—you know, that sort of thing. That’s major pentatonic. But I discovered that the Japanese seem to be about minor pentatonic. In this case, it’s C, D, E-flat, G, and A-flat—as opposed to C, D, E, G, and A, which it would be if it was Chinese. I thought, whether this is authentic or not, it makes a big difference. So I made a list here of various ways to utilize that. Here, for example, these are chords that you can play on the sho. The sho is the little instrument that looks like a gourd with little pipes. It’s like a little mouth organ, except the base of it is round and it has little pipes coming out of it; it looks like a planter. You blow into it, and it makes these various sounds with these five-note, six-note, seven-note chords, all of which are chord clusters. I love chord clusters, because, again, as with pedal tones, you can get away with anything with a chord cluster. It doesn’t matter what the notes are and it sounds great. This is clearly out of this booklet, because here’s stuff about Japanese drumming—rhythms

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that the Japanese use. Here are the biwa tunings. I never used a biwa, which is a plucked instrument. I ended up with a shakuhachi, which is a flute; a shamisen, which is plucked; and the sho, which is blown. Clearly these rhythms and the patterns are from this booklet, because it literally says “patterns.” I wouldn’t write “patterns” unless it was out of some particular scholarly or analytical text. This says “dom” for dominant, I guess.

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These are all patterns and scales. And here are tonal systems that obviously I came across. Because, as in Greek modes, the Japanese have tonal systems—different ones for different court purposes, for different times of the day, for different emotions—just the way the Greek modes worked, but they’re Japanese modes. MH: I love this at the top: ”Noise + music.” SS: Exactly. I’m not sure what I meant by that, but there is that whole thing of whistles and bells and the fact that the intonations are not Western intonations—you don’t hit a note exactly. In fact, part of the art of playing instruments and singing in Japan is how the performer hits the notes. It also says “Noh”—meaning Noh theater—”prolonged beats.” So clearly I was listening to some Noh underscoring. Ah yes, look, it says even here “first, confero, side 3,” so that means side three of the record. That’s what this is; this is my distillation of what I learned from the pamphlet. MH: Have you ever wanted to go back and write an Asian score? SS: No. A large Asian conglomerate tried to get John and me to do that last year. But, no. MH: I noticed in the lyric sketches for the Admiral’s number—”Please Hello”—that the word “extraterritoriality” was originally part of the British Admiral’s section. Do you remember how it got changed to the Russian? [Note: The lyric sketch for the British Admiral began “Extraterritoriality/I think that we can guarantee/Your territoriality/You mustn’t think it sinister/If we should send a minister . . .”] SS: No, I don’t. Clearly, it’s such a British word. One of the things I like very much about the Admiral’s number is that it’s accurate historically. That is exactly how things happened—the order in which the countries came and what they demanded. And it has, I am proud to say, been used as a history lesson in schools. And the notion of extraterritoriality, I think, was a Russian idea. But it’s such a Gilbert and Sullivan word, that is probably why I was thinking of using it there, although I don’t think the British demanded extraterritoriality. They may have; maybe every country that ever goes into another country demands that, because it’s a subset of diplomacy—of diplomatic immunity. I don’t remember now, having read the history, why it was so heavily emphasized in the Russian section. MH: In Banfield’s book he says, and I quote: “Sondheim’s masterly way with repetitive accompaniment figures and the ’Hymnos’ from Frogs is

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tremendous in its cumulative effect—an achievement without which the still greater achievement of Pacific Overtures, written the following year, would probably not have been possible.” SS: I have no idea what he’s talking about. I really don’t know. Do you know what he’s talking about? MH: I think it’s something we touched on earlier, which is, how you grow as a composer and how your ability, by tackling something once, enables you to go further the next time. SS: I see. It’s certainly possible, but that’s an overview, and, as you know, overviews are anathema to me. MH: Here’s a quote from you. . . . SS: Uh, oh. I’ve changed my mind, whatever. . . . MH: “But if people can’t hear the romance and passion of say Pacific Overtures, they’re not listening. There’s a lot of anger there too. There’s a great deal of lyrical music in that score.” What particularly interested me is the use of the word “anger,” which is something that I wouldn’t have associated with that score. SS: No, I’m surprised, it doesn’t sound relevant to me. I wonder what I was referring to. I think of a number like “Four Black Dragons.” . . . You know what it is? I think I know what it is; it’s the anger of the reciter. The reciter is outraged at what happened to the country, and particularly as played by Mako who is such a fierce personality. I think it’s less in the score than in the attitude of the show. This is a man who is telling us without ever saying it: “We were raped.” And they were, though it was highly controlled and ritualized. When Meiji becomes the emperor, at the penultimate moment—you know, when the puppet grows, becomes a person and breaks the sticks—and he becomes a real emperor and he says: “We will do to the West what they have done to us.” That’s anger. And they did it. And they were right. They were wrong, but they were right.

Chapter 8

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MH: I’d like to end with some general, quick questions. In Forum, there’s really no “Free” song at the end. SS: Oh my God, it never occurred to me till now. Why didn’t you tell me in 1960? Jesus, you’re absolutely right. No, he just comes out and sings a happy ending. That’s interesting. Incidentally, he does have: “Free, Free, Free,” and so it did occur to me. . . . But it wouldn’t have occurred to me— no, you can’t stop the action at that point. You know, when all the plot elements are tied together neatly at the end—with the brother, and the sister, and the marriages, and all that sort of thing—you just want to get out of the thing, just get out. MH: Overtures. Very few of your shows have them, but for the few that do, did you actually arrange them, or make the decisions about what would be used? SS: Let me think. No, I think I consulted with the orchestrator. Certainly, I consulted with Jonathan on Merrily. I’m trying to think, which ones have overtures? Follies doesn’t. Company doesn’t. Night Music has a vocal overture, which was Hal’s idea—the idea of a sung overture. MH: But you wrote the vocals? SS: Yes, but the notion. . . . Usually, overtures, in the standard and traditional musical comedy sense, are put together by the arranger. The most famous—Gypsy—was put together by Red Ginzler. That’s what they do. 165

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MH: Did you look at Schillinger at all—did you ever study him? SS: No, but I bought the books when I was seventeen. I was so fascinated by the idea of the systematic composition. MH: Did you read them? SS: Oh, yeah. I still have them. MH: Did you understand them? SS: No, I didn’t understand them. And I didn’t read them all the way through. I just looked at them and I thought: Gee, the idea of graphing music—what a great idea. MH: Another quote from you—this one is about the interrogation scene in Whistle: “It holds up very well. It has one severe, and not quite fatal, flaw in it, which is the tune isn’t good enough. . . .” SS: It’s terrible! It will haunt me forever. It’s a real jerry-built tune. It’s just a functional tune, that’s all. I still feel the same way, if that’s what you’re going to ask. Or, that’s not what you were going to ask? MH: I guess, I’m asking about inspiration, or the idea of a “good tune,” and what that means. SS: Ah. For me, a good tune is a tune I like to listen to. You might not consider it so. A tune that I like, you might not like it. And that tune is a tune I don’t like and I just couldn’t find a better one—one that I liked more. So much of this now blurs in that territory about not what is good, but what one likes. And music is full of that. I don’t like it. MH: So much of what we’ve talked about here is “craft.” SS: Yes, exactly. MH: But to what degree does inspiration play a part? You’ve mentioned before, the concept of the “muse sitting on the shoulder”—that it doesn’t happen that way. But every once in a while, does a tune, does a phrase . . .?

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SS: Oh sure, absolutely. That page that you love from “Move On”: that’s exactly the “muse sitting on the shoulder.” I don’t know where that came from. It just is right and terrific, and I knew it when I wrote it. MH: “Windows.” I may be crazy, but it’s the one recurring image in your scores where that word not only recurs, but every time it recurs, it’s a musically significant moment, which makes me want to read something into it as it relates to you. SS: I don’t know. It is about observation, isn’t it? The first time I used it was in a song that I never put into Forum, called “The Window Across the Way.” Now, of course, that was literal, because Hero is looking at Philia through his window to the house next door, but no. . . . The word I use most in my lyrics is “little” because it’s a great. . . . MH: But that’s functional. SS: Yeah, that’s functional. No, I understand what you’re saying. No, I don’t think it has any specific thing. In the case of Sweeney, again, it’s a literal window; in the case of Sunday in the Park with George, it is a metaphorical window. MH: In Passion, it’s a literal window. SS: Yeah. They tend to be. It’s also a great word. It’s one of the great words of the language. The sound of it is so terrific—it’s romantic, and it’s sad. No, that’s for archaeologists. MH: Okay. I wanted to give you a few moments to respond to a couple of quotes of yours. “You can sweat a lot over music, but it’s very fulfilling. I was trained and started out as a composer, and I fell into lyric writing, so to speak. I wanted to do both, but music was my joy.” And then: “Oh gosh, the privilege of being able to write music is just—that’s a gift from God.” SS: I still feel it. No, I can’t go beyond that, that’s just it. Every musician knows what I’m talking about—anybody, even non-musicians. Music . . . it’s a magical art. I don’t know how the human mind ever got to it, because everything else is somehow representational and literal, including painting. But not music. How did that happen? Is it from the birds? What is that from? How did we learn—how did we make music? I can understand, vaguely, how man learned to speak because he had to communi-

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cate things; but what is this? How did man learn to whistle, and where does the twelve-tone scale come from, and blah, blah, blah. I’m ill-educated this way, so you could probably answer, but it seems to me miraculous. To me it’s as mysterious as astrology but, unlike astrology, completely believable. I don’t know, I don’t get it. MH: Does it surprise you that you’re a composer? SS: Yes, because it really isn’t in my family. My father was musical in that he played the piano by ear and he loved music. But I think what he really loved was musicals, because there was no music in my house—there were musicals. He was in the dress business and came from a world of entertaining buyers and taking them to shows. But there was no classical music or anything like that. My mother wasn’t musical at all. And I never knew my grandparents, but I asked my dad, and he didn’t seem to think so. So I don’t know where it comes from. I do think it’s genetic. I think it’s not a coincidence that Mary Rodgers is a composer and Adam Guettel, her son, is a composer—Mary Rodgers being Dick Rodgers’ daughter. I don’t think that’s a coincidence. I don’t think it’s because they were brought up with the sounds in the house; I think it’s a genetic matter. MH: Is there anything you want to say to posterity about your music— listening to your music? SS: No, no, of course not. It’s just, like all art—it’s to be discovered by sampling, by listening. No, there isn’t anything, except this: The way for writers who want to write is just listen to a lot of music and figure out how people wrote what they wrote. There is a lot of craft, and it’s underestimated, even in a frivolous—I shouldn’t downgrade it by saying frivolous—but even in a commercial profession, like musical theater, there’s a great deal to be learned. To analyze a Kern tune or to analyze an Arlen tune is not more than a rung below analyzing the Mozart 39th; it’s the same process. And without craft, I think art is nonsense—it’s a sort of masturbation. Whereas, with craft, it’s a form of teaching, which, I have said innumerable times, is the noblest profession on earth. What’s nice about these interviews is it’s about the craft, instead of about: How did you get to be a composer, and what was your education? But it’s noble stuff. And the great thing about music is, if you’re a musician and you’re a composer, it’s just fun—particularly if you’re a piano player. It’s just fun to sit and make sounds and say: “Ooh, that’s good.” And, if you have a purpose, to write them down, it’s really fun. MH: Thank you for teaching us. SS: Thanks, Mark; my pleasure.

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MH: I’d like to ask you about specific songs from Bounce in show order, alternating with more general questions. But first, are there any broad things you can say about the character of the score, such as your use of thematic material—building blocks—the harmonic language—that kind of thing? SS: It’s a 1950s score in the sense that it’s primarily in eight-bar, sixteenand thirty-two bar chunks. Many of the songs are, in fact, thirty-two bar songs, or variations thereof, in AABA or ABAB form. The harmonic language is very tonal, with the kind of moderately simple key relationships that I was writing in the late 1950s—before Broadway—and when I was writing things like Forum in the early 1960s. It’s what I was recapturing when I did Merrily We Roll Along—it’s a Merrily We Roll Along kind of score. I wanted it to be crisp and bright and simple and direct and made up of primary colors. We first started to write the show in a rather cartoony style. It was to be a Hope–Crosby kind of musical like the “Road” pictures, and that suggested to me this kind of music. It has turned out to be a hybrid of Hope–Crosby and a more serious kind of musical play. But the tone of it, though halfway between, is still primarily that of a musical comedy. By traditional, I mean post–Rodgers and Hammerstein. And swiftness is a major element—not that all the songs are fast, but all the songs make their point and get off. At least that’s the intention. There are very few extended pieces in it. MH: When we did our interviews in 1997, you were working on the show—then titled Wise Guys—and you were describing the songs as being 169

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in a vaudeville style. You elaborated that vaudeville numbers don’t call for, in the most part, sevenths and ninths and thirteenths, and, as a result, they tend to be less gratifying to write. The score now seems richer than that. Has it been more enjoyable? Has it been more gratifying? SS: Yes, it is richer, and it has been more fun writing, because writing vaudeville numbers and vaudeville-style numbers, you’re always flirting with pastiche—which I enjoy writing—but writing pastiche also gets fairly boring after a while—not necessarily to listen to, but to write—because you’re constantly using other people’s musical language. As it is now, there’s only one vaudeville number in the show—it’s the title number, which opens and closes the first act, and closes the second act. Everything else is in a musical comedy frame, even when there are thirty-two bar songs, they’re not vaudeville. That is to say, they don’t intend to be a pastiche of anybody else’s style; they’re my own. MH: Starting with the overture: I spoke to Jonathan Tunick recently, and he said you told him which songs to include and the order in which you wanted them. I’m curious, why those songs and why that order? SS: Because I wanted to announce to the listener—to the audience—that it would be the kind of a show we’ve just been talking about. Which meant I wanted to pick four songs. Because I figured what I really wanted was to open with something fast, then something light and not quite as fast, then a ballad, and then something fast. It’s not unlike a symphonic outline, except that I put the scherzo second. I also wanted them to be traditional songs, not the extended pieces in the show, but the ones that had very recognizable forms. The major difference between what we did in Chicago and what we did here is some of the songs were truncated in Chicago, and I expanded them so that every song gets a full statement in the overture as it stands now. Last night we added an entr’acte of one number that occurs in the second act. MH: I have a couple of questions about “Addison’s Trip.” First of all, in the lyric, do you remember how you came up with the word bilious? SS: No, but I had heard the phrase bilious green before. Curiously enough, as far as I know, green is the only color that the adjective bilious applies to. And whether that has to do with the digestive system or not, you never hear anything described as bilious red or bilious blue. Bilious green, however . . . MH: Did you have green first, and then you were looking for an adjective to modify it?

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SS: Yes and no. I was rhyming, and I wanted to get a triple rhyme in there with the stuff he picked up in China; so I thought of Ming tureen, and Coromandel screen (I ended up using lacquered screen instead). Using my trusty rhyming dictionary, green popped out at me, and I thought: Okay, he’s talking about decorative household objects, something that has a color in it would be suitable as opposed to magazine, I guess. MH: Just that one word seemed to me to say a lot about Addison’s character. SS: It’s nice that you think so, but it was not a subtlety I intended. MH: I know you very, very rarely reuse material from one show in another, but didn’t “Addison’s Trip” grow out of the number “Lunch” from Singing Out Loud? SS: Yes, it did. As far as I know, that’s the only time I’ve consciously taken that much material from something else I’d written. “Addison’s Trip” uses the same thematic material (although with a different structure) as a number called “Lunch.” It occurred because I was looking for a nervous theme to start the whole thing out, not a song theme (which is the fivenote phrase that, in fact, introduces the song now) [see example 9.1], and as I started to work with it, I thought: Well, I can’t do better than aspects of that tune I wrote for the movie, and since the movie is unlikely ever to get made, why not go ahead with it? MH: So it immediately came to mind? SS: Well, I was fiddling to try to find something as an accompanying theme, and that’s exactly what occurred to me. MH: You have arguably written more numbers for this show than any other. SS: Not arguably. MH: Based on the research I could do, this is the list I came up with, although I think some of these titles probably represent the same song. [See example 9.2.]

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“Addison’s City” “Addison’s Trip around the World” or “Addison’s Trip” “Alaska” “Benecia” “The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me” “Boca Raton” “Bounce” “Brotherly Love” “Damon and Pythias” “Dowagers” “Florida Land Boom” “The Game” “Get Out” “Get Rich Quick” “Gold!” “The Good Life” “I Love This Town” “Isn’t He Something!” “It’s in Your Hands Now” “Last Fight” “A Little House for Mama” Example 9.2. Wise Guys)

“Make It through the Night” “Matrons & Patrons” “My Two Young Men” “New York Sequence” “Next to You” “On My Left” “On My Way” “Opening” “Opportunity” “Paradise” “Paris’s Dream” “Potpourri” “Someone to Trust” “Souvenirs” “Stay Right Where You Are” “Talent” “What’s Next” “What’s Your Rush?” “Where Have You Been All My Life” “Willy—King of New York” “Wise Guys” “You” “You Don’t Want Me to Go”

Songs Written for Bounce (and Its Previous Incarnations as Gold and

SS: Some of them are variations. But no, I’ve never written this many shows to get to one show. We’ve had four absolutely distinct scripts and scores for this show. Some of the songs have obviously been maintained and even some moments in the scenes. Although I daresay if you went to John Weidman’s first draft, and then compared it to this draft, my guess is there are probably less than two or three pages that they would have in common. There are maybe two to four songs that have lasted. I’ve never counted them, but not many. Because the show has gone through four radically different incarnations, it’s also gone through four radically different scores. And if you consider that the average score has thirteen to fifteen numbers in it, it could be as many as sixty songs. Some songs have persisted from the second to the third draft, and then from the third to the fourth, so I’ve probably written a total of about forty songs. MH: You’ve told me in the past that you like to compose a score chronologically. Obviously with these four different incarnations you haven’t been able to do that here. Has that aspect been difficult or frustrating?

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SS: Not really. The sequence of events has generally remained the same because it’s a historical piece. And though the first draft was interrupted by a number of vaudeville numbers, nevertheless it started out in Benicia, California, and went to the Gold Rush, and went to New York, and then went to Florida. That structure was always there. So even when a number would be replaced, it would be in a similar spot. And so, even though one could hardly say it was composed chronologically, it was essentially composed chronologically, and merely the spots changed as the tones changed. The number called “Gold!” in Alaska was always there (though in a different form than it is now) and was the second number. What I had originally written as the opening vaudeville was four separate songs. It’s now one song, which is not one of the four originals that were in a group. Three of the four originals lasted through the third incarnation of the show, which was the workshop in New York, but now they have all been replaced by the title song. It’s still a vaudeville number, and the tone I wanted to be in the show remains the same. So it hasn’t been as disruptive as it might seem. MH: In the workshop the two brothers were played by Nathan Lane and Victor Garber, and now they’re being played by Richard Kind and Howard McGillin. When I interviewed John Weidman, he mentioned that you really sparked to something in Richard Kind’s audition—that you seemed inspired. Has the new casting affected your writing, either for their voices or their personalities? SS: John’s memory is much better than mine, so I suspect I said something, but I don’t remember it now. MH: You’ve said before that it’s easier for you to write when you know who you’re writing for. SS: Absolutely. MH: So has that happened with the new leads in Bounce? SS: No, I don’t think so. As a matter of fact, going through the score, I’ll be damned if I can think of anything I wrote for Addison that wasn’t in the Nathan Lane version. MH: I know “A Little House for Mamma” was in that version. SS: No, but I’m talking about what’s in, not what’s out, and offhand I can’t think anything except the reprise of “Bounce” at the end of the first act.

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MH: Were “Last Fight” and “You” in it? SS: Yes, those were all in the New York workshop. And no, I don’t think I wrote anything for Richard that hadn’t been there before. MH: And Howard McGillin? SS: Well, “The Game” was in the workshop, but in a different place and in a different form. And the last song was there. The Boca Raton sequence has a new song called “Get Rich Quick,” which is a song that wasn’t in the Nathan Lane–Victor Garber production. No, I don’t think there’s anything else. MH: To the best of my knowledge, the musical director, David Caddick, and the dance arranger, Robert Lindsey-Nassif, are new to you. Did you audition or interview either of them? SS: No, I know David’s work because he was Cameron Mackintosh’s music director for so long. Rob Nassif writes shows and songs, and I know his songs and like his stuff very much. There isn’t that much incidental or dance music in Bounce—just a few additional passages—so Rob didn’t have that much to write. MH: Did you find that you had developed a shorthand with Paul Gemignani over the years, that makes this new collaboration different? SS: No, it’s exactly the same. A smart conductor is a smart conductor. MH: Steve Swayne, in his article on Bounce in the Sondheim Review, described “The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened” as your Arleninspired song from the score. Do you agree? SS: No, it has one blue note in it. Beyond that, it’s an absolutely standard 1950s romantic ballad that, I daresay, could have been written by Bock and Harnick, or Kander and Ebb, or anyone of my generation. That’s my generation’s type of ballad. MH: It’s a beautiful song, but having seen the show in Chicago, at the Sitzprobe here in Washington I was pleasantly shocked and surprised at the lyric changes—where Nellie now responds to Wilson’s line with “Bullshit.” SS: Well, that was because we decided to restructure the first act and take the song out of the “morning after” sequence in New York. Initially, it was

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Hal who wanted the morning after sequence—where Wilson and Nellie wake up in bed together—and John and I didn’t. Then, as John and I got used to it, Hal turned against it, and then John also. We wanted to shorten the first act and make the action swifter, so we didn’t know what to do. I felt that if they sang the song in the Belmont sequence, which is where it is now, you’re going to get increasingly bored with it. Whereas, what it used to be is a kind of musical coitus interruptus, in which every time Wilson started to sing it to Nellie, they would be interrupted by either the reporters or the prizefighters or the playwright or the jockey. And then eventually, on the morning after, as their marriage was consummated, the song would be consummated. That was the notion. But the act was too long, and even though everybody loved the song, the consummation just seemed to be, “Come on, come on, let’s get on with the story.” And though I offered to throw the song out, Hal didn’t want me to. We had another song in the Belmont sequence called “Alaska.” It was essentially spoken to orchestral accompaniment, and it was very elaborate, and it took me a long time to write, but it seemed long-winded and it never quite worked. And then I got the notion of how to use “The Best Thing That Ever Happened” in that spot, by making it essentially a comic ballad. And I knew it would get a straightforward statement when it was reprised in the opening of the second act, so I wasn’t going to lose it as a straightforward ballad. And so I was able to adapt the song to the attitudes that they have when they first meet each other, which is very laconic and sarcastic. So that’s how that came about. But I was despairing, because I thought I’d have to write another song for the Belmont sequence and throw out “The Best Thing That Ever Happened.” The other problem was, if I threw it out of the show entirely, then I couldn’t use it at the opening of the second act in the bar, where the whole idea is to be nostalgic— it’s supposed to be a moment they’ve shared together. So it was a real dilemma. Then I got the notion of bullshit, and as soon as I got that response to the line, I knew what I could do with the song. MH: And your collaborators immediately understood? SS: Yes, they loved it. I called Hal, and said, “I know how to do it.” MH: A friend of mine—who saw the show here recently—was curious about the moment in the reprise when she sings: “You are the best thing that ever has happened to me. Still are.” He wondered what moment it was that he had been the best thing that ever had happened to her—what justified that in her mind? SS: Well, there’s a logic question, there. If he believed it in the first act, then he’s got to believe it in the second act. Why would it have changed?

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If she feels that way in the first act, then of course she would still feel that way in the second act, because all she’s done since then is go to Paris and sleep around with a lot of gigolos and that sort of thing. Nellie hasn’t had any serious relationship since their brief marriage, and she has a thing for Wilson, which is why she permits him to stay in her house in the second act. If your friend accepted it in the first act, then I don’t know why he wouldn’t accept it in the second act, because nothing has happened in the interim that would cause her to change her mind. That’s my logic anyway. MH: You mentioned before that one of the inspirations for the style of the show had been the Hope–Crosby “Road” pictures, and I’m curious whether you looked at any of the Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen songs? SS: No. That’s a different style. That’s a movie-pop style, which is not the same as musical comedy style. MH: Do you like Jimmy Van Heusen’s music? SS: Very much. MH: But not, I assume, Sammy Cahn’s lyrics. SS: Some of the Cahn–Van Heusen stuff is terrific. I’m not a Cahn fan per se—he’s too glib for me, and nothing seems really felt. However, it’s a pop style. But I love Van Heusen’s music. MH: Some people have mentioned that this show has epic qualities, if nothing else, because it covers thirty years and wide geography. There aren’t many musicals like that, and probably the most notable one is Show Boat. Did you do anything in this score to show the evolution of musical styles over time? SS: No, not at all. I’ve often thought: Gee, I want to do a Citizen Kane musical. And John pointed out when we got the vaudeville idea that, coincidentally, vaudeville started in the 1880s and died in the 1930s, and the Mizners started in the 1880s and died in the 1930s. And so it was curiously appropriate, although that wasn’t the reason that we chose to do it that way. But it was never meant to be an epic sweep, à la Gone with the Wind. It was meant to have an epic sweep in that it covers a number of eras. Show Boat has much more epic feeling to it, because it’s a big show with many people in it, whereas this is an intimate show, and one doesn’t think

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of an intimate show as being epic. I mean, one doesn’t think of The Fourposter as being an epic, but it’s the same kind of show. MH: Watching the number “I Love This Town” (also known as the “New York Sequence”), I think it’s functioning in two time zones simultaneously. For Wilson and Nellie, it’s sort of in real time on their wedding night, while for Wilson and everybody else in New York, it covers several weeks or months. Did you do things in the structure of the song, or in the music, to make it clear to the audience what’s going on? SS: No, I just hoped that the audience would get it. It’s a surreal number, and we just hoped that the audience would get it. Interestingly, it’s different now than when you saw it. We made a big change last night, and much for the better. We cut out the reporters, except for their third entrance, so that the first interruption is the prizefighters. And somehow it conveys and makes much clearer what’s going on. I could rationalize as to why that’s true: because reporters bursting in on two people who have just gotten married implies that that’s the action that happens next. And that’s what you would expect: a very famous rich lady marries a penniless upstart and, of course, the tabloids are going to go and interview them. So that when the reporters came right in as the first interruption, it implied a time continuum—implied but didn’t state. So that when the prizefighters then entered, you thought: What’s going on here? Now, the prizefighters enter immediately, so right away it’s surreal, and you set up the two timeframes right at the beginning. For me, as a member of the audience last night, it was very clear what was going on—much clearer than it had ever been before. And when I thought about it, I thought, that’s why. I cut the reporters out, which had been a holdover from our very first script. We had taken it from the fact that Mizner had courted the press a lot. He made a lot of wisecracks for the sole purpose of being quoted in the newspapers. And that had been a major part of the New York sequence. I even wrote a song called “Journalists.” But as time has progressed, the real point of the New York sequence changed. When it was originally done, it wasn’t really about a marriage. Mrs. Yerkes was there, but she was a joke character and a drunk—closer to what she was in real life. But now that it’s a character you’re supposed to take seriously it makes for an entirely different dynamic. So now what the sequence is really about is how Wilson doesn’t pay any attention to his wife and just uses her money for all these enterprises. And his relationship with the press is absolutely minimally important now. That’s what prompted me to make the cut, because it had always bothered me and, I thought, they’re not meaningful anymore. And yet, since I like structures of three, I used them as three punctuations. Also in the version that played in

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Chicago, Addison kept coming in on all of the more flamboyant and bad incidents—the murders and things like that. That’s no longer true. We cut back to him, but he doesn’t enter their world until the final moment. And by taking the reporters out, I think it somehow makes what you call the two timeframes much clearer to the audience. MH: Did you sense that the audience was responding differently? SS: I would like to say I did, but I sense that I responded differently. But I’ve got to tell you, before last night, I never felt they were confused. MH: “Talent” is my favorite song from this score. SS: Most of the people who like my stuff, that’s their favorite song. MH: Do you know why? SS: Sure, it’s the one that doesn’t belong in the fifties. MH: Just style-wise? SS: Yeah. MH: What were you doing in the accompaniment? SS: [sings] “Bromo-Seltzer . . . Bromo-Seltzer . . . Bromo-Seltzer.” It’s just a train. [See example 9.3.] MH: And it was just because they were on the train that you echoed that in the accompaniment? SS: Of course. Nothing more complicated than that. That’s exactly what I meant by the simple approach to the score—it’s on the nose. MH: Have you known people like Hollis, and did that make the song any easier to write?

Example 9.3.

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SS: No, it’s just a character. MH: I’m curious whether you did things with the language in the show. For instance, four of the characters are from the same family. Or did you use language to differentiate class or education? SS: No, I followed John’s styles. I would like to have used more period slang throughout the score, and even in the script. But you’ve really got to be familiar with the argot. Things like, in the twenties they’d say, “That’s the kind of hairpin I am.” It’s hard, but I know if we really put our minds to it, we could have found substitutions to words and phrases that would have been more turn-of-the-century, and then, more twenties, because the colors of the language are entirely different. When I see old movies, meaning from as recently as the thirties, they use all kinds of slang. I have an entire page of words and phrases to use that I picked up from looking at the movies of the period—say 1930 to ’35—because that kind of language was also used in the twenties when there were silent films. But it didn’t make its way into the script. MH: We were talking just briefly before about audience reactions. When the show played in Chicago, what did you learn from the audiences and the reviews? SS: Nothing. I just spoke to a couple of friends. It’s very hard. The audiences enjoyed it in Chicago. And they particularly enjoyed it by the end of the run. We all left immediately after we opened—just after we’d had a couple of previews and the actors were still finding their footing. By the time John and I got back, two months later—at the end of the summer— the performances were sure-footed and the audiences were enjoying it. An audience always smells confidence from the stage. I think it happens from the minute they enter the theater, but certainly once the curtain goes up—everything from the way the lights work to the way the orchestra sounds, but particularly the way the actors perform—the audience either feels that they’re confident or they’re not. And if the actors aren’t completely confident, then neither is the audience—whether they like it or not. They feel better, they’re more receptive, and they enjoy it more when they sense they are in a show where everyone on stage knows what they’re doing and is pleased with what they’re doing. So the audiences at the end of the Chicago run were more receptive it seemed to me. And that’s certainly true here right now. The performances right now are confident, and they know what they’re doing, and they’re having a good time doing it. And it conveys itself to the audience.

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MH: So the changes you’ve made subsequent to Chicago weren’t based on audience responses, but things you had already noticed or intended to work on? SS: Absolutely. We knew before we opened what we needed to work on, but we didn’t have time to change it. The problem was we had no rehearsal time in Chicago after the opening because of the limitations of the budget. So there was no point in rewriting while we were in Chicago, because there was no time to rehearse it. All we could do is what we did, which is get it in as good a shape as we could by opening night. And then we looked at it, and we knew the Boca Raton sequence was endless and wore out its welcome in about one-third of its length, and we knew the New York sequence was completely confusing. Those were the two major things that we set our minds to over the summer. I thought the most important scene—or moment—to fix was the scene with Papa’s death that starts the show off. That’s usually where a show gets in trouble—right at the beginning. The opening number worked fine, but as soon as the story started, you didn’t know what the story was about. A friend of mine said in Chicago: “The problem is, I don’t know where the train is going, and it makes too many stops.” And I thought, that’s a really smart remark. The way it was written and, particularly, the way it was performed in Chicago, you didn’t know what kind of show you were in for, because the father was played as a completely comic-strip character, but the mother and the boys were not. So you’re off on the wrong foot already. Now, it’s all of a piece, and it makes a huge difference. There has been a little rewriting of the scene, and I cut about a quarter of the song, and I took out the silly jokes I had in there—things like having the father saying “tooneroppity” when he meant “opportunity,” because his mind is going. That kind of stuff, it’s all decoration. It’s what George Kaufman said: “Take out the improvements.” Take out everything that isn’t necessary. And that’s what we did. And as far as I’m concerned, that makes more difference to the show than anything else we did. MH: And in Washington, has it just been a matter of making those changes? SS: Oh, we’ve made them. The Boca Raton section has even changed from what it was when we opened here. What we’ve done with the end of the Boca Raton sequence is really good now. And that was the final touch. I had a really good idea on Sunday, and we did it last night. MH: A lightbulb just went on? SS: Absolutely. Simple. But you’ll see. I actually had done the cutting in the New York sequence by the weekend, and we just had to wait until we

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had a day to rehearse it, which was yesterday. The New York sequence was in pretty good shape even before last night. Now it’s in first-rate shape. MH: With a show that has changed as much as this one has—both over the years and over the last few weeks—how do you keep track of this is the current version of the script; this is the current version of the score? SS: You don’t keep track. On Sunday, we all just looked at each other and agreed: this is the show we mean. There were still those two changes to do, but Sunday we put in most of the changes to the Boca Raton sequence, and last night we did our thing with the New York sequence, and now we’re just an inch away from smug. But if the critics kill us, they kill us. There’s nothing we want to do to the show. I mean, there are tiny details, but nobody knows them but me—there are some lyrics I want to change. But this is the show we meant. After Chicago it was not—it was on its way to being the show we meant, but it wasn’t the show we meant—yet. And now it is. And we’ll see on Saturday, when they all tell us whether they like it or not. MH: At the Sitzprobe, I overheard you say to David Caddick, and I think it was referring to the opening of “Boca Raton,” that the accompaniment was too much like “Losing My Mind,” and you wanted to change it. Is that something that you’re conscious of, listening for signs of earlier scores? SS: It rarely happens. The whole point was I didn’t write that accompaniment. I had a sustained chord accompaniment to that. Then we decided to change the whole number and started, not with the solo vocal as it was in Chicago, but with the four girls coming out. So I told them to ad lib a vamp and when I get down there I’ll find you one. Meanwhile, it was much more important to fix the end of the number, and that’s what I was working on all last week. So by the time the Sitzprobe came around, I really didn’t want to turn my mind to that, because sometimes writing an accompaniment, you can get it in a couple of minutes and sometimes you can’t. I knew what I wanted, and I described that to the pianist (I don’t think it was Rob who did that accompaniment, I think it was Kristen [Blodgette], the rehearsal pianist). Then when I heard it, I thought, oh, for God’s sakes, it’s the same harmonic chord progression. It’s actually only two chords, but in my mind it’s distinctive as “Losing My Mind.” But Jonathan had to get something to orchestrate, so I said, “Do it and I’ll change it later.” So that’s what it is now. It’s on my list of things (perhaps) to change. I’m less bothered by it now, because I’m used to it.

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MH: I know you don’t tend to do musical jokes, or inside jokes in your scores . . . SS: I don’t. MH: . . . and this might be my fantasy, but . . . SS: Before you ask the question, I can assure you it is. But what’s the question? MH: During “Addison’s City,” there’s the lyric “Not so much a city, a parade!” and I thought the accompaniment might have been intentionally reminiscent of when Miles Gloriosus sings “I am a parade!” in Forum. SS: No, it wasn’t. But I gotta tell you, every time I hear him say that, I’m immediately thrown back to Forum. (As you know, that’s the only line from Plautus in the play.) It is a great word, and it comes at the end of a phrase, and it comes at the end of a rising phrase. I haven’t even looked at whether the music compares or not, but I’m sure that’s what sparks you. Your memory of it, and the way that the word is used at the end of a phrase, and the way it rises—there’s a similarity in feeling. MH: The idea behind “Boca Raton” surprised me—the fact that it focuses on the public’s gullibility and crowd psychology, instead of Wilson’s manipulation, and his getting carried away by his own schemes. SS: Guess what . . . Now, wait till you see how we’ve changed it. The whole point was to do both. What was wrong with it in Chicago was that it was about Wilson, but it wasn’t about the crash. I said, “We have to explain to the audience what happened down there, and that means we have to use numbers.” I wanted to have a thermometer on stage to mark when they sell things—something to give a visual representation. I talked with Hal about this a lot, even before we went to Chicago, and Hal couldn’t figure out any kind of visual representation of the balloon . . . BALLOON . . . BALLOON . . . BURST! And we actually talked about a big balloon at one point. So it had to be done verbally. And then once we’d done that, as of last week, we realized that Wilson dominated it only up to a certain point and then the people took over. I’ve restructured it and you’ll see. So now we think we can have our cake and eat it, too. It certainly seemed that way last night. He became Elmer Gantry, and he went completely hysterical. MH: In the songs “The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened” and “You,” it may just be the emphasis on the word you in both songs, but I wondered

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whether you were trying to make parallels between the two couples or their relationships? SS: No. You’re stepping on a nerve, because I thought, Oh, Christ, they’re too similar. But each song is exactly what I wanted it to be. So what am I going to do? I’m sure there will be people who criticize me for that—who say that’s just a repetition of the other song—but there’s nothing I can do about it. But no, there’s absolutely no intention whatsoever to connect the two. It’s called: I didn’t know how to get out of using the word you. MH: There’s something about the finale, during the reprise of “Bounce,” that made me wonder whether you believe that Wilson and Addison are better off by being in each other’s lives? SS: Oh, gosh, I’ve never thought about that. No, they’re stuck with each other, is what it is. They’re two sides of the same coin. It’s the two sides of America—the destroyer and the builder—they go together, they’re linked. I don’t think it’s better or worse, they just are. I suppose one could make out the case that Addison would be a lot better off if he weren’t in love with his brother. But if you’re in love with somebody, you’re in love with somebody. You’re stuck with them. So I don’t think it’s a matter of better or worse. I could make out a case for both sides, I guess. It never occurred to me to even consider it before, if you want to know the truth. They’re just stuck with each other. The symbiotic relationship they had is what interests me. When I first started the show (thirty years ago) I was interested in Wilson, and Addison was part of the story. John became interested in the piece because he became interested in the relationship and in that symbiosis. And how can you say whether a symbiosis is better or worse? It’s a symbiosis. Period. MH: Between you, and Hal, and John, you have something over one hundred years of experience. [SS laughs.] Why do you think it isn’t easier? SS: I don’t think it’s about experience. I don’t think it gets easier for anybody, whether you’re a writer, novelist, painter, composer, whatever. If anything, it gets harder because you’re so much more aware of the dangers. You’re worried about repeating yourself; you’re worried about your inventive powers deteriorating (which they do with age); you’re worried about being out of touch with the zeitgeist. There are sixty-four reasons why it gets harder as you get older. Shaw was too arrogant to admit it, but his late work is not very good either. Verdi is an exception, but I don’t think his late work is any better than his early work, but that’s just me. There are rare, rare examples of people who really flower in their old age.

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Shaw and Verdi kept working right up until the end, but most people’s output diminishes in quantity and, perhaps even always, in quality. Certainly anything that relates to commercial art, anything like musical theater, where so much has to do with what else is going on in music and in theater. Keeping up with the young folk is hard. And it’s virtually impossible. Nothing’s more embarrassing than Lenny trying to write rock in Mass. Burt Shevelove had a wonderful phrase (I can’t remember who he was describing; it may have been Lenny), he said, “He’s Rip Van With-It.” And we’re all in danger of that. That’s one of the things that makes it harder the older you get. Particularly if you’re in commercial art. MH: Are you still enjoying the process? SS: Yes. I like sitting down at a piano and writing. It does get harder, because I think: I’ve used that chord before . . . I’ve used that chord before . . . I’ve used that chord before . . . and I’ve got to find . . . One of the difficulties is trying to write this kind of score. Don’t forget, I started this in the fifties. And just like Merrily, which is probably the hardest score I ever had to write, maybe with the exception of Forum, trying to recapture something that was already thirty years old, and even I had moved beyond that, is hard. And that’s what this is—trying to get back there. And, of course, as soon as you go back, you’ve written it before. So you’re trapped. It’s a circle. The more honest you are about the score, the more you’re likely to be repeating yourself. I’ve finally decided the only thing is to try not to repeat myself in the score—chords and words. But there’s a lot of repetition in this score, I’m sorry to say. MH: I’ve been a bit haunted by a comment I heard you make. At the end of the Sitzprobe, David Caddick said, “Steve, are you happy?” And at first you said, “Yeah,” and then you replied, “Never!” It was obvious you were making a joke, but I wondered if there was an aspect of truth to it. SS: I’ve made that joke all my life. No, it has no seriousness to it at all. However, if you want to take any serious aspect of it, nobody is ever completely satisfied with their work—that I know, anyway. As Valéry said, “A poem is never finished, it is abandoned.” That’s what that reflects. It also reflects the Jewish gloom that I like to make fun of. You know: Oy, God, life is so difficult. That’s also in there. But it’s also a joke on my tendency to see the dark side of things. No, not the dark side, that’s not fair, I actually don’t, I tend to see what is problematic and what is flawed, rather than what is good about my own work. Curiously enough, not about other people’s work. I’m a very good receiver of other people’s work, because I really look for what’s good, and I respond to what’s good. And if

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what’s good is good, then I right away forgive the flaws. If it’s all bad, or I don’t like it, if it’s bogus, that’s a whole other matter. But that’s what that means. You know what I should have said is, “I’m pleased with Jonathan’s work.” That’s what I should have said. MH: I wonder not just about the work, but life. Are you a happier person than you were as young man? Are you proud of what you’ve accomplished? SS: I get proud of what I accomplish in retrospect—never while it’s there. Usually, it’s a couple of years later. I’ve gotten to like this score better, and I now like the show a lot—not that I ever disliked it. But I will like this score better (or perhaps not) in a couple of years. But I have to get away from it. MH: Do you have any sense of how the Stephen Sondheim who got interested in this show thirty years ago would react to seeing this show? SS: No, not at all. I’ve never thought of it. And if I think of it, I think I would have liked it if I’d seen it. Yeah, I think I would have liked it. MH: Those are my questions. Is there anything you think I should have asked you or you’d like to say? SS: No, not at all. They’re all interesting questions. As you know, I’m only stimulated by questions. Overviews are simply not my thing. It’s not modesty, it’s not shit-kicking. As I think I’ve told you frequently, the word career is not in my vocabulary.

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MH: I have specific questions regarding different shows and scores which I’d like to ask about chronologically, starting with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, which we barely touched on in our initial interviews. Did you do things in that score to suggest a faux ancient Roman sound—perhaps through using modes? SS: No, because Burt [Shevelove] and Larry [Gelbart] didn’t either. That was just musical comedy. I mean Burt and Larry used a number of kinds of formal locutions that help anchor the dialogue so it doesn’t become George Abbotty, so it has its own flavor. The situations may be perennial burlesque, but the flavor of the dialogue isn’t. One of my favorite phrases is “Hide that girl behind that clump of myrrh.” Then there’s the phrase, “mare’s sweat.” Some of the best jokes were cut, such as, when they’re passing the wine around, “Ah, Two . . . that was a good year” and “Pseudolus, you’re stupid . . . S-T-V-P-I-D, Stupid.” But with the songs, I merely tried occasionally to imitate the rhythm of their dialogue, or rather the tone. But most of the time it’s just colloquial songwriting. And certainly there was no attempt whatsoever, except for maybe a fanfare or something like that, to imitate a Roman sound. “The Funeral March” is vaguely modal, but it’s a musical comedy score. I was hamstrung in Forum, because, as you’ve probably heard many times, when Jim Goldman said: “The script is great. The score is great. They don’t go together,” I realized that I had been attempting to write a sort of arty salon score, and Burt and Larry had done an elegant low-comedy musical, and it was the wrong score. But the reason it was the wrong score is because I lean toward writing arty salon songs—that’s what I like to do—and I should 187

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have known better for Forum. Jule Styne would have been a better composer for Forum. It needed grounding in elegant vaudeville, which is what the book is. And these songs are clever. And though indeed the book is clever beyond belief, it doesn’t bespeak cleverness, it bespeaks low comedy. MH: Is “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid” exactly the right kind of song? SS: “Impossible” is the right kind of song. MH: That’s not too clever then? SS: A certain amount of cleverness is fine, but it’s based on a basic lowcomedy emotion: each guy thinks the other one is fucking the maid. MH: And “My Bride”? SS: Yes, although the music of “My Bride” leans a little towards operetta. “Impossible” was sung by Davy Burns; that’s the point, it’s a Davy Burns song, and Davy Burns is the essence of Forum. “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid” is, too, and it’s no coincidence that it’s the only song that worked when we opened in New Haven. It was one chorus when we opened there, but it was the only song that worked, so I wrote two encores. And I think it worked for just the reason we’re talking about. MH: I read somewhere that you said Anyone Can Whistle was sort of your music student score. There was something about it that was based on a chord progression or two—that there’s some kernel of something that holds that score together? SS: It could be, but I don’t remember what it is, if anything. But if I said that about the Whistle score, I’m afraid I was—”There Won’t Be Trumpets”—I’m afraid I was blowing my own horn. It’s possible. Certainly, Sunday in the Park with George is very much developed out of the opening chords, and certainly Sweeney Todd is developed out of the opening material, but I don’t remember if Whistle was or wasn’t. I wouldn’t be surprised if I did, because I was still very heavily under the influence of Milton Babbitt, and this was going to be a moderately pretentious show. So it’s very possible that I tried to do that. But when I look back on the score as you speak, I don’t really see anything going on among the songs that has any kind of consistency. It seems to me Cora’s numbers are entirely different than Fay’s, and I don’t think Cora’s numbers are related to each

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other very much. And the fact is a number of numbers were replaced, so I don’t think it was very much of a conceived score. MH: The interrogation scene, “Simple” is the first huge number of yours that I’m aware of. Did you know upfront that you were going to be writing a number like that? SS: No, I didn’t know. When we got to it, Arthur had the idea for the scene, and since it’s one long mad sequence that gets madder and madder, it seemed right that it should somehow be encapsulated musically— even though there was a lot of dialogue in it. As a matter of fact, we adlibbed some of that at the piano. I remember, he would sit on the end of the piano bench, and I would be playing some musical material I had invented—or developed—for it, and he would ad-lib dialogue. Then I’d say, “And then she can take over and sing . . . ” and I’d ad-lib a lyric on that. So it was often worked out together. But we didn’t know it was going to be there when we sat down to write the show. It just arose; it just seemed like it was right to make the whole thing a musical sequence. MH: Were you intimidated by it at all? SS: No, I was excited. I love that kind of stuff, because it’s puzzle-doing. That’s my favorite kind of song to write. MH: I didn’t know that. SS: Oh sure, plotting songs. Always the best times I’ve had are writing songs like that: “God, That’s Good!,” “Someone in a Tree,” “Chrysanthemum Tea,” the “Trio” in Passion. Working things out that encompass plot is my favorite pastime. Which is why I know I should be writing opera . . . but I don’t like it that much. MH: You rewrote Whistle’s “With So Little to Be Sure Of.” And I’m curious about the process of rewriting a song that’s obviously based on an earlier version. Is that hard to do? SS: I don’t remember. I know I did rewrite it, but I don’t remember exactly why, and I vaguely remember how I did it. No, it’s not hard. The thing is you do have to make a decision: If you’re going to rewrite a song, why are you rewriting it? Is it because the basic idea is bad? Because if that’s so, then you have to throw the whole thing out. Sometimes you get fond of an idea that is exactly what the disease is, and it takes a lot of reworking before you decide: You know, I’ve got to start all over. But quite often

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there is a salvageable idea that you’ve just taken too far off the rails one way or another. I’m in the middle of writing my chapter on Into the Woods [for the forthcoming book of my complete lyrics], and I got to Jack’s original lyric for “Giants in the Sky” (both versions are called “Giants in the Sky”). I rewrote it because, in the first version of “Giants in the Sky,” he was just describing his adventures, and I thought: Everybody knows this, but I’ve got to describe what went on in the sky, what am I going to do? And Sarah Kernochan said, “It should be what the adventure means to him, not what the adventure is.” Because the idea of Into the Woods is that the characters—Cinderella, Little Red, Jack, and eventually the Baker’s Wife—each has a soliloquy to the audience about their adventures. So that’s exactly what I did for Little Red, and I think Jack was the first one I attacked. I rewrote it, keeping parts of the adventure, but making it all about him and his mother and his relationship to his home, and the feeling of being back on earth, so that it was meaningful in terms of Jack. The same thing is true of Cinderella. Instead of just being, “I left my shoe at the ball,” it’s all about making decisions. And all three songs are about being in between—liking and disliking the adventure. That whole ambivalence that they feel toward what they’ve been through helps tie them to the Baker and the Baker’s Wife, because eventually it’s the Baker’s Wife who has to decide if she’s going to dally with the Prince or not, and makes her realize how valuable her marriage is. So there’s a case where, though I didn’t maintain much of the lyric in the rewrite beyond the idea of the adventure, I just compressed it a lot. The first lyric was quite descriptive of the world of the Giant and what Jack actually encountered up there, and it ended up still with the Giant’s Wife taking him to her breast—that was still the climax of the song. But the description of the stone roads, and the grayness of the kingdom and all that sort of thing, was more elaborate and more detailed, and I compressed that and simplified it, so that I could, without making the song twenty minutes long, include what it meant to Jack and make that the central core of the song. MH: Who’s Sarah Kernochan? SS: Sarah Kernochan is James Lapine’s wife. MH: Was she heavily involved in the show? SS: No. I don’t think James shows her his stuff as he’s writing it, but he may have. Maybe what happened was that I called James and said, “I don’t know what to do with this—something’s wrong.” And I read it to him, and he said it sounded fine—because it’s a nicely written lyric, and the tune is okay, and the accompaniment is the same accompaniment.

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And he may have said something to her. But I remember he conveyed what she said to me, and that was an eye-opener and very valuable. MH: In the case of “With So Little to Be Sure Of,” I’ve heard that you actually preferred the first version, but that something about it wasn’t working with the audience, or the idea wasn’t clear. Does that ring any bells with you? SS: No, I don’t know that we ever performed the other version in front of an audience. I’d have to go back over the files and look, but I don’t think we performed another version. I’m not even sure we went into rehearsal with another version. I think that was rewritten before we went into rehearsal. I can’t say that for sure, but that’s my memory. On the other hand, I do remember futzing around with the ending in Philadelphia, so maybe I was futzing around with the song, too. MH: The “Interrogations” is certainly a huge and complex number, but it seems to me that Company really marked a sea change in your writing— the structure of songs, their size, the fact that they didn’t have verses— they just weren’t traditional musical theater in the way they were put together. SS: I think my breakout score was Whistle. When I got to Whistle, I had my hands on a pretentious idea, so I thought, I can be pretentious, and that’s exactly what happened. Company was the first time I got good notices. But no, I think finding my own voice happened in Whistle. The “Interrogations” is my voice; Cora’s songs—those Kay Thompson numbers—and “With So Little to Be Sure Of,” those are my own voice . . . long before Company. MH: I think I’m talking more about structure—the Company songs tend not to have a thirty-two-bar feel, they tend not to have verses. . . . SS: Well, you know, they don’t in Whistle, except for Cora’s songs, and even “Parade in Town” is split up with the march and that sort of stuff. But you know, though there’s some conventional writing there, there’s also some conventional writing in Company. But most of the score of Whistle is, in a sense, my experimenting with things. “There Won’t Be Trumpets” is an experiment in form. And I’m not just talking about when it turns into a waltz, I’m talking about the structure of it, and the constant acceleration, that sort of stuff. That’s me. And that’s finding my voice, I think. So I’d say I found my voice in Whistle, and my voice was accepted in Company.

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MH: In Company, I’m just curious, why is “The Ladies Who Lunch” a bossa nova? Do you remember? SS: No, but look, if I had my choice, in every show I write, there would be one bossa nova and one Harold Arlen tune, because those are my two favorite modes. I love bossa novas, and I love Harold Arlen. In almost every show I write there’s a Harold Arlen tune, but not a lot of bossa novas. I have no idea why this one, it just seemed natural. Now that you bring it up, you think: God, of all of the things that don’t characterize the character. But on the other hand, she goes to a lot of nightclubs, and you know, these are the days when they were popular. MH: In my mind, I wondered if it was her trying to be “with it”? SS: No, you’re reaching. You’re admiring me too much, I’m not that subtle. But it may be because I knew it was taking place in a club, and there was dancing going on in the back. I don’t know. On the other hand, the first song I wrote for her was going to be much more staid. I didn’t finish the song, I just started it, and I was talking to George [Furth] about it and he said, “No, it’s wrong for the character.” MH: I read some period interviews with you when you were writing Company, and you mentioned both Hellzapoppin’ and Hair as being influences on the show. With Hair it was that it wasn’t really a book musical, but sort of a combination of a musical and a revue—a stylistic thing. But somebody else asked me about Jacques Brel, which opened in 1968, and there seems to be some similarities in tone. Do you remember if that influenced you at all? SS: No. I fell in love with Jacques Brel’s music long before that revue. In fact, I got all the French records. It was Judy Prince who introduced me to Brel’s stuff, and I just bought every record I could get, which included some ten-inch LPs. As a matter of fact, when I went to see Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, I loathed the lyrics, and that would have turned me off, if anything. Even though I don’t understand Flemish or French very well, I’m so glad that I heard it first with him singing his lyrics, and read a translation on the LP albums, or had Judy translate them for me. That had the real flavor. I don’t think the English lyrics carry the flavor well at all. So I don’t think I would have been so influenced if I hadn’t listened to those records. As far as direct influence, no, I can’t say that there’s any direct influence in Company. I just liked his stuff, so I may have plagiarized; I don’t know; it’s possible.

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MH: I didn’t mean plagiarism. SS: No, I know you didn’t, but been influenced. MH: With Follies, I want to start by talking about one of your long-line sketches. I think when we first talked about this I didn’t really understand when, where, and how often you decided to use them. I thought you typically did them for long complicated numbers with sections. But when I asked your assistant, Peter Jones, for copies of your long-line sketches for “A Weekend in the Country” or “A Little Priest,” it turned out they didn’t exist. An example he suggested was “Too Many Mornings.” SS: Well, that was one of them. But some of those long numbers had them. He may have looked through all the papers—it’s too long ago for me to remember exactly which ones I did in detail—but I did much longer numbers than “Too Many Mornings” in long-line. MH: How do you make the decision—at what point in the process do you say: I should probably do a long-line sketch for this number? SS: It’s when I think there are going to be so many sections that the thing has a chance of falling apart. However, I’ll bet you I had a long-line sketch for the interrogation sequence, “Simple.” It seems to me I did it for the opening of Into the Woods, and it seems to me I did it for “God, That’s Good!” It’s where the refrain, so to speak, is so separated in its recurrences that the sections of music between the refrains can tend to be add-a-pearl. And so I try to take from the refrain an implication—a harmonic implication, or a linear implication—and work it out so that the sections echo it or somehow reflect it—so that you feel unconsciously that the sections are part of the structure or, maybe vice versa, that the refrain is a distillation of the entire structure of the piece. If that makes sense. MH: Would you already have done lyric sketches? SS: Maybe. MH: Would you already have done some music sketches? SS: No, what I would have done is a structural sketch. I would decide the A section is going to deal with her, the B section is going to deal with him, and the C section, whatever. Actually, I don’t call it A, B, and C; I use Roman numerals I, II, and III. This is on the lyric pages—on the outline of

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the lyric—and you can find those quite often. Then within the Roman numerals I will have subsets, like IA and IB, and IIA, and IIB, et cetera, or as complex as IA, IB, IIA, IIC, IIIB, and IIIC. The As, the Bs, and Cs are separate little units of anywhere from eight to twenty-four bars, or maybe even forty-eight, and they echo and relate and reflect. So again, the ear gets a chance to hear things more than once and, by the sense of repetition, a structure emerges for the ear. Come to think of it, sometimes the long-line sketches are not on music paper. Sometimes I put the IA and the IB, and the IIA and the IIB, on the lyric sketches, and I’ll write “A”— meaning A major or something—on the side of the page so that there is some sense of where the harmony is going. MH: I’d like to go over your long-line sketches with you for “Too Many Mornings.” [See examples 10.1a and 10.1b.] SS: God, it’s been so long. The major thing about “Too Many Mornings” is that I let it unfold based on a dissonance in the harmony. I wrote it in B major, and I decided that the first E-sharp or F-natural should be in some way reflected in the song. The final cadence is in F-major, so that E-sharp prefigures where the song eventually is going to go. [See examples 10.2a and 10.2b.] MH: Getting back to the two long-line sketches, I’m assuming that they’re in order, that this one came first. [See examples 10.1a and 10.1b.] SS: It’s hard to tell. Typically, one would have been written on the back, but since they’re each on their own page it looks like one was written first and then used as a folder for the other. What also makes it difficult is at first glance the sketch with the phrase marks looks more detailed, but as I look closer the other sketch seems to be an expanded version and it does seem to include more of the melodic line. So one appears to be the original sketch, and the other is the workout. MH: What confused me a little bit about it is it seemed to coincide with basically one refrain of the song. It’s a very long number with different sections, but as far as I could tell it just seemed to go through the first iteration of the song. SS: It could be. It’s more likely however that the D-flat section is the interlude. It seems to me that this goes up to the interlude, or the bridge, whatever you want to call it, at [sings] “How I planned: what I’d wear tonight and when should I get here . . . ” You’ll also notice the expansion of the first D-flat in the initial sketch, which is just a dot. The fact that I

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made it a whole note in the second sketch means it’s going to be a section as opposed to just a passing thing there. So what I obviously did was I reached that there and then I decided I was going to make a section out of it. That’s what it looks like to me. MH: When you say a section, you mean?

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SS: Four bars, eight bars, twelve bars . . . MH: And an emotional idea will happen during this period of the song? SS: That’s right. I changed what amounts to a quarter-dot into a wholenote-dot. That indicates how long the section is going to be. When they’re quarter-note dots they could be as little as one bar or two bars. But when it’s a whole note, I think it means it’s at least four whole bars. MH: You mentioned the conflict in the music. Your accompaniment figure is often a whole tone or a half tone from the melody note. This section is for Ben, so the vocal is actually an octave lower, which is less jarring. Would you have done the accompaniment differently if it was for a female character and the notes would truly sound against each other? SS: No. Because I always view clashes of accompaniment as passing tones, even if they’re not actually passing tones. I figured that this is not going to sound terribly dissonant when it’s sung. I don’t think anybody hears this dissonance under “reach.” MH: Is the dissonance used to point up certain words? So the fact that the clash with the accompaniments starts with a whole tone and then on “reach” it’s a half tone? SS: I think it’s to give some suspension—or suspense even—to this. What I hear in my ear there is the E-major under that, even though I hear this as just a continuation of the pattern. Because that’s a melodic pattern, the E to D-sharp [sings the accompaniment figure from m. 3 of example 10.2a].

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So what I’m hoping is that the audience hears that as a melodic pattern rather than as a suspension. MH: But you do want there to be a sense of dissonance? SS: I don’t know that it was that conscious. Let me think . . . No, I don’t think that was an emotional decision. I think I was most anxious to keep the pattern going of a step down at the end of each of these phrases. I think that’s what that’s about. I’m afraid it’s more of an ostinato than anything else. MH: One of the things you said to me in our first interviews was “I’m somebody who believes that the heart of music is harmony as opposed to melody.” SS: Right. MH: Can you expound on that a bit: are you talking about the vertical harmony of individual chords? Or to what degree is it also the progressions—how one harmony leads to another? SS: It’s both. And it’s merely that that’s what characterizes music as far as I’m concerned. That’s how you can tell Brahms or Beethoven. It is the personality. It’s exactly like the face—how you tell two people apart: you tell them apart because of something you see. Here you tell it because of something you hear. Yes, I suppose you can also tell two people apart by how they move their face. So movement is part of it. Obviously an E-flat major chord doesn’t define Brahms any more than it does Beethoven; it’s where the E-flat major chord goes. And it’s not just one chord or chordal progression, but there are accompaniment figures, registers and all that that distinguish Brahms and Beethoven. A chord by itself obviously doesn’t have an individual identity any more than a note does, or even three notes in succession. It’s when it’s part of a landscape and when the harmony moves. Then you say: “Ah, that’s Copland.” Or, “Ah, that’s Satie.” It’s the movement. MH: As I was looking at your songs, it struck me more than it had previously that your harmonic rhythm is different from most Broadway composers. With others there’s perhaps a chord change every measure. But you tend to keep your bass harmony much longer, but the color of your chords tends to change every measure. Is that part of your personal voice?

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SS: No, what that is, that’s fear that it’s going to fall apart unless I keep a pedal tone going. Because I have so many quirky things I want to say harmonically in any given piece that I worry that if I keep changing the bass line it will become incoherent. If I had the courage of Shostakovich, there wouldn’t be a problem, but I don’t, and therefore quite often I will put a pedal tone underneath so that I still get the coloristic changes but I don’t run the risk of its going off the rails as far as the audience is concerned. Also songs—particularly theater songs—tend to be over pedal tones, or over a fairly simple bass line. As soon as you move away from those you get a little closer to the feel of art song. And since I write shows as opposed to art songs, I think that’s another reason that I will opt for the easy solution, which is to keep some kind of steady bass going, so that there’s an anchor always for the listener. I think it’s cowardice. MH: It also seems that when there’s a change of thought is when your bass tends to change. SS: I believe absolutely in the coordination between lyric and harmony in that sense: That you change chords, you change texture, you change rhythms when you’re changing thoughts. They can be subtle changes, too. And it doesn’t have to be big thoughts; it can be little thoughts, little turns of phrase in the lines. I do set up harmonic rhythms and try to keep them moderately consistent because, again, I worry about the song going off the rails. On the other hand—every now and then—I will speed up the harmonic rhythm or slow it down, having to do sometimes with the lyric, but often with variety. Because that’s the other thing you have to take into consideration when you’re writing: to keep it varied enough for the ear, but not so varied that it loses its structural stability. Again, one can do that in art songs, but for theater songs, which are particularly encapsulated songs, no matter how complex they are, or how many sections there are, the sense of some kind of stable structure is, I think, preferable to what I would call art song writing. Now you know there are a lot of art songs that do that too, but they’re chances I don’t think I want to take with songs in shows—chances that I might take if I were writing a song cycle. MH: How do you determine how long a song should be? SS: It sort of determines its own length. I firmly believe in “less is more.” I don’t, unfortunately, always follow that principle, but I believe in following it, and trying to. And when you’ve got nothing more to say, then shut up, is really what I think. That’s musically, too. You know, there are just so many times you can repeat your theme or just so many times you

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can repeat your chord progression before it gets boring. And I have a pretty good ear for when it gets boring. I have a pretty good ear for when it’s time to change the chord, or to change the tone of the lyric, or the rhythm, particularly. That’s another thing, to prevent songs from becoming singsong—knowing when to change the rhythm. The melodic line is also about keeping variety going. But it’s all in the interest of variety. MH: But when you have your chart of Roman numeral IA, et cetera, do you say to yourself: “For this idea, this thought, I’m going to give myself thirty seconds to say that”? SS: No. I don’t think of it in terms of time, I think of it in terms of sections: I need six sections to say what this song has got to say . . . I only need three sections to say what this song has got to say. For “Too Many Mornings,” I probably didn’t even put down sections, because I knew it was going to be an ABA form. He was going to sing to her, she was going to scream at him, and then they’d sing together. That gives you an ABA form, right? I knew I didn’t want to do an AAA form, because that’ll get boring. So there’s a B section, also it’s her and she’s hysterical, and he is in a romantic fantasy. Right away you have two contrasting sections. So the A is going to be the romantic fantasy—some kind of long mellifluous line—and the B section is going to be: twitter, twitter, twitter—the way Sally would twitter. And then try and combine the two at the end. That dictates a lot, so then all you have to do is determine how long the A is going to be, how long the B is going to be, and how long the recapitulation and the coda’s going to be. And that has to do with how much has to be said. Also, the A is a song form—it’s not exactly conventional, but it’s pretty conventional. MH: In the scans of the sketches and fair copy I saw for the song, I never saw anything related to “Pleasant Little Kingdom,” which I thought had been conceived as part of “Too Many Mornings.” SS: It was a verse, pure and simple, not a song in itself. MH: I think I counted nine key changes throughout “Too Many Mornings.” SS: There could very well be. MH: Generally, are the key changes simply to accommodate the voices and their registers and accomplish what you want to do musically, or is it organic to a song?

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SS: We’re talking slightly different language here. Milton Babbitt never used the word “modulation,” but “temporary tonicization.” And that’s what they are. So you can have [sings quickly “Too Many Mornings” from the beginning to “All the time . . . ” (see example 10.2a)]. That’s a key change, in a way, but it’s really just a passing key change to take you back. In that sense, most songs have key changes, maybe every four bars; there are very few songs that just stay with one bass line. MH: I think these are actual key changes, not just changes of bass harmonies. Sometimes they seem to be to accommodate the different registers of their voices. SS: That could be. You say there are nine. I would assume the second one is when Sally comes in. Is that right? Is that the way you count it? Cause that’s the way I would count it. MH: It starts in B. Then the first change is at “All the days . . . ” [See example 10.3.] SS: Yes, I suppose. But you see, that’s really still in B, because it’s going to A-flat minor—which is the relative minor of B. And this is merely what he would call the “temporary tonicization” of A-flat minor. But I would call

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this in B. There’s a real key change at “All the nights, with another day to spend. . . .” That’s a real key change, except it’s on its way to something else. I’d call this a key change because it’s an entire section on “All the nights,” which is in F and it’s going to B-flat. At “ . . . up to see” it goes to F major and is sort of the next big statement with a big tonic note. [See example 10.4.] And of course it’s a 6/4 chord. But I’d really call it an Fmajor transitional passage. MH: This may just be a bad question, but if you had somebody whose range was enormous, would you tend to have fewer key changes? It’s not just to accommodate voices? SS: No, it’s usually for the melodic line. It’s almost never just to accommodate a voice. I do try to keep melodic lines within an octave-and-four. It’s a real good trick if you can write a really good tune—like the classics by a Kern, Rodgers, or an Arlen—that’s only a tenth, or an octave-andthree. Generally, I try to keep within an octave-and-four. If the tessitura is not all over the place, I’ll go to an octave-and-five, particularly if there are pick-up notes. Quite often a song will really be an octave-and-three—let’s say it’s in C major, and the melodic line is C to D, but it’s got pick-ups of a low G, I’ll include that. It makes it an octave-and-five, but the tessitura is still an octave-and-one. And that’s the difference. I suppose if I were writing opera I would consider it, but no, I never think of the voices per se. I never think, “Is this going to be sung by a baritone?” I may think of it as a baritone, but that’s a fool’s game because, as you know, I wrote Sunday in the Park with George for a bass-baritone, and Mandy Patinkin came in and was a soprano. But the tessitura of all his songs and the ranges remained exactly as is. The keys just went up a third, that’s all. MH: I know accompaniment figures are very important to you, but we just touched on them before. Could you just talk a bit about how you approach them?

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SS: Quite often the accompaniment figure may be the first thing that comes. For example, I remember for “Not a Day Goes By,” I invented the accompaniment figure before the tune came. I remember going [sings the “Not a Day Goes By” accompaniment; see example 10.5]. And then somehow that suggested the tune, but I began with the so-called vamp, the accompaniment figure, and that’s a simple one. Accompaniment figures don’t have to be elaborate arpeggiated figures, they can be something as simple as that, that expresses a mood. Quite often, I’d say probably more often than not, the thing that comes first in the music is either the accompaniment figure or some kind of harmonic progression. You know, the two chords in Sunday in the Park with George came before many of the songs [sings a suggestion of the two chords with a whole-step fall]. But usually it’s a combination of rhythm and harmony in the accompaniment figure that is the seed of the song. I rarely start with just a melodic line without some kind of harmonic underpinning. Sometimes, if I hear something in my head, I may hear the harmony, and not know exactly what it is until I go to the piano and try it out, as opposed to writing it down on paper. But I try to write on paper, the more I write, so that I don’t get hemmed in by muscle memory at the piano or the difficulty of playing something. But I do use the piano, and quite often it will be for inventing an accompaniment figure. I sometimes have a rhythm in my head, but I don’t think I’ve ever written a real accompaniment figure in my head, only the rhythm of it, or the harmony of it, but not the whole thing. Usually it’s worked out with my fingers. MH: Where does it relate to the lyric sketch or the plot outline of the song? SS: That varies depending on the situation. Let’s take Amy at the end of the first act of Company. Here’s a hysterical girl: that certainly implies that you don’t write [sings the “Not a Day Goes By” accompaniment figure; see example 10.5]. You write something that has nervous energy to it. And because I want her to spout off at the mouth, it seemed that it should be a

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very self-contained, tight figure, as opposed to arpeggiation. And it also seemed to need a kind of motor energy, because she’s a motormouth. That’s the rhythm of the dialogue that George [Furth] has written. And so the rhythm of the dialogue suggests that [sings melodic phrase, see example 10.6]. And the tightness of the figure was suggested to me by the fact that she is completely hysterical and talking about one subject, and is emotionally tied up, emotionally bound, emotionally confined. That gives you that little kind of mingy figure. You know, nothing goes more than a half-tone off [sings accompaniment figure; see example 10.6]—a half-tone flutter. Putting all those things together, my guess is that I worked out a few bars of the accompaniment on the piano and then started the lyric after that. But in a sense, I knew what the lyric was going to be. I may even have written “Pardon me is everybody here?“ I may have started to write it that way, and thought: rhythmically, I’m just going to keep it going until she runs out of breath. In a sense it all came together, but it was dictated by the rhythm of the dialogue and the character of the person singing it, both of which were givens to me—I didn’t invent those. And that’s fairly typical of what I do: find the rhythm of the person talking and find the emotional color of the person talking, put them together and make an accompaniment figure. Sometimes it will be a harmonic progression, or sometimes a melodic idea—particularly if a refrain line strikes me. I’m trying to think of a case where I had an idea for a lyric—a refrain line— and that’s what dictated the rhythm. Because if you have a refrain line it will suggest its own rhythm. If you write “Just One of Those Things,” the way Cole Porter did, he wrote it without the melodic values, he wrote “It—was—just—one—of—those . . . ”—he wrote that rhythmically on the paper, and then he filled in the notes. So I will do that quite often. If I think of a line that I want—either an opening line or a refrain line—that will often suggest a melodic idea, particularly if you take the inflection of the way it’s spoken; because I write often for inflection of sentences that will suggest by inflection what you want sung.

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MH: I noticed one thing you do somewhat frequently in your accompaniment figures is a three against a four, where you’ll have a pattern of a three-note pattern over a four-metered rhythm. SS: Are you talking about a triplet or are you talking about a syncopated three? MH: A syncopated three. SS: Yes, I do that quite often. MH: Is the point of that just to keep the ear fresh and give surprise? SS: That’s part of it. Sometime it has to do with the lyric. When you have a very square rhythm in the melody it squares the lyric, and sometimes you want that, but more often you want little bits of surprise or suppleness. Also, that’s sort of a standard musical comedy sound. That’s been going on for seventy years. So that sort of comes with the territory. Whether we’re talking about thirty-four bars or thirty-three bars, we’re talking about thirty-two-bar songs and we’re talking about a tradition of songwriting. Now, that kind of rhythm is more likely to show up in more so-called contemporary pieces like Company and Follies than it is in Pacific Overtures. You may say, “Ah, but it is in Pacific Overtures.” If it is, it doesn’t feel that way. Typically, it feels jazzy, it feels twentieth-century—it even feels American—it feels musical comedy. So, I suspect you’ll find fewer of those rhythms in Pacific Overtures or in Passion than you will in Company or Forum or Follies. That’s my guess. MH: Is it too simplistic to suggest that generally in your songs the music represents the emotion of the character while the lyrics are their thoughts? SS: Yes, I think it’s simplistic, because it’s not consistent. The thing is that lyrics, like dialogue, should have some subtext. Sometimes you want the music to supply the subtext and sometimes you want the music not to supply the subtext. So, it’s not so much about emotion as it is about subtext—about what the character is saying behind the lyric, and if he’s saying anything behind the lyric. If you take a song like “Multitudes of Amys,” both the lyric and the music express emotion. Now you can’t say that one is about thought and one is about emotion. One is verbal, because language is verbal, and music is not, but otherwise they’re the same cloth as far as I’m concerned. They’re both rhapsodic. Whereas, you take something like “The Road You Didn’t Take,” where there’s a conflict going on

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between the music and the lyric in terms of tone and dissonance, it’s different. Then again, with “The Road You Didn’t Take” or “In Buddy’s Eyes,” you’ve got a character lying to him- or herself, and that is to be discovered by the audience—possibly discovered in the music. It depends on whether you want to point it up. If you hear “In Buddy’s Eyes” without knowing what the character is, it sounds like a perfectly straightforward song, but when preceded by the verse, and when you’ve gotten to know the woman, then you know that there’s something else going on. Which is exactly what would happen if she were an actress doing it as a speech. If you get to know her and she starts to say, “Oh, I love Buddy a lot,” you know right away that she’s lying. The same things happen in the kind of songs I write, which are like dialogue—conversational songs. MH: In Follies, do you think of the non-pastiche songs as being a score? Some of the non-pastiche songs seem related to me, but others I’m less sure about. SS: No. There’s no attempt at score-writing in Follies, it’s just two different kinds of songs. No structural attempt whatsoever. It didn’t occur to me. And if I were writing it now it wouldn’t occur to me, because it seems to me that Follies is about eight different characters. Granted that Buddy and Sally and Phyllis and Ben sing about three songs apiece, but everybody else gets to sing one song, so it is by nature a scrapbook or a revue. It’s: You do your number, he does his number, and then I have my love scene. It seems to me, it would be wrong—or useless—to try and conceive that as a score. So it never occurred to me. MH: The introduction that Sally sings for “Don’t Look at Me” and then Ben’s introduction to “The Road You Didn’t Take” are the same. Was that intended to make a point? SS: Yes, I’m obviously trying to connect the two characters. Sure, she’s making a tentative hello to Ben, and now he’s going to tell her about his life. So it seemed right to use the same verse. Yes, I wanted to keep those connected. And isn’t some of that music also used for “In Buddy’s Eyes”? MH: In “In Buddy’s Eyes,” I noticed that in the first half there’s a section where the meters alternate between 5/4 and 4/4—at “Living like a shutin/Yes I haven’t got cooks and cars. . . .” Then in the second half it alternates between 5/4 and 6/4—at “All I ever dreamed I’d be/The best I ever thought of me.” I wondered whether by stretching out the meters, you were intending to show her becoming lost in her own fantasy?

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SS: Yes, but one is a verse, and one is the chorus. That’s the difference. The point is they are not related in any way. The verse is the verse and the chorus is the chorus, and the reason I extended this is probably because the rhythm of the song is very monotonous, and this is her emotional climax. It’s like the moment in “Anyone Can Whistle” where she takes the pause before “learn to be” . . . pause . . . “free.” There’s an emotional reason; this is in a sense, the same thing. She’s going on, and going on, and it’s very even, and she reaches the moment of emotion where she’s one inch away from declaring herself. So that seemed right to expand the moment. That’s all. MH: Why the relentlessness? SS: I’m not sure, I think it relates to “The Road You Didn’t Take,” which also has a relentless repeated note, I think it relates to that, but not so much consciously. My guess is it was unconscious when I came to it, but it seemed right that there should be a steady relentless beat in it. MH: Is she imprisoned by it? Trapped by it? Self-hypnotizing? SS: I was going to say it’s a dream. I think self-hypnosis is pretty close to what it’s about. She’s making a dream. MH: “Waiting for the Girls” has so many musical aspects. The musical introduction alone has something like four major thematic ideas that feel important. I don’t want to read into it, but do they have particular significances, such as indicating going back in time? SS: No, I just found that nice chord progression: “Yadadaddum.” [See example 10.7.]

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MH: And then the “Hey, up there!”? SS: That’s because I wanted to start it with them speaking to the ghosts, and that seemed like you would do a sort of canyon call—you know a “Yoo-hoo.” That’s what you would do in a “Is there anybody there?” kind of phrase; and that’s just what suggested itself musically. [See example 10.8.] Remember, that song was written originally for two people. MH: I didn’t know that. SS: Yes, the whole thing was a duet. I played it for Jerry Robbins once, and he said, “You should use all of them,” and I said, “All four?” He said, “All eight.” It was a song for Phyllis and Buddy. She told about the women, and he told about “Me and Ben.” MH: Are there plans for a Follies film? SS: No, it’s been talked about, but that’s all. MH: You’ve mentioned that the pastiche songs were not only musical pastiches, but lyric pastiches as well, such as of Dorothy Fields in “Losing My Mind.” I have a sense of how one writes a musical pastiche, but I’m not sure how you approach writing a lyrical pastiche. I’m just wondering how you did it. SS: Boy, it’s impossible . . . I think if you sang me any first-rate Dorothy Fields lyric—that I hadn’t heard before—I’d say, “That’s Dorothy Fields.” The same thing if you sang me a first-rate Frank Loesser; I’m using firstrate, meaning echt. Because, you know, Dorothy Fields was just as capable as anybody else of writing a fake Oscar Hammerstein song. If you sang “April Snow” to me, no, I would not know that was Dorothy Fields, be-

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cause she was writing with Sigmund Romberg, and she was writing like Oscar Hammerstein. But if you sang me any lyric from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and I hadn’t heard it before, I’d say, “I know who wrote that.” Just the way we can tell Copland from Bernstein—people that are in vaguely the same territory, but there’s a difference . . . there’s a big difference. If you hear eight bars of Copland and eight bars of Bernstein, there’s a big difference, even though they share characteristics. The same thing if you hear a lyric of Fields and a lyric of Loesser. They both deal with colloquialisms that sit on the music so naturally you can’t believe that a lyric writer ever wrote it. And yet there’s a flavor, there’s a tone, that’s different—they’re both urban, they both write what sounds effortless, and they use argot and colloquialism, and all that, but there’s a difference. So that’s my answer to you. I couldn’t do that for all lyric writers, but I can do it for some—certainly for my favorites. Harburg, certainly. And I can tell you the difference between Ira Gershwin and Larry Hart, even though they’re both masturbating with words. I can tell you which one is which. Again, if it’s an echt song. MH: When you emulate them, is there a process? SS: No, it’s just in my bones. I just know the literature, because I love it. Again, like you could do it with music, because you love it, so you’ve listened to a lot. If I play you two pieces, you’ll say that one’s Beethoven, that one’s Brahms. So that’s it. It’s easier with music, because you can say, “Ah, you see that harmony?” You can imitate Kurt Weill so easily by just using those same old chords he keeps using over and over again. You can say, “Yeah, that’s Weill; I know that’s Weill.” But it’s harder with lyrics, because they’re not chord progressions, they are words that everybody uses in everyday speech—there’s no equivalent of a chord progression . . . except, I can assure you, if there are bird images, it’s Oscar Hammerstein. MH: Have you ever tried to emulate Oscar? SS: Not consciously. But the first lyrics I ever wrote Oscar said, “You’re trying to write like me.” He said, “You don’t think like me. Write your own.” MH: “One Wonderful Day”? SS: There may have been stuff in Saturday Night. Not even that. It may have even been an earlier show than Saturday Night, it may have been one of the college shows. I think it was a show called Climb High. I had a lot of what Arthur would call airy-fairy lyrics—you know, things about trees and wind.

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MH: What about the college anthem at the beginning of Merrily? SS: No, that’s just every hopeful college song you ever heard in your life. That’s just a pastiche of uplift school songs, that’s all. It’s not Oscar. I might have trouble imitating Oscar, because, in order to imitate—in order to do a really good pastiche—you have to love what you’re pastiching. I don’t love Oscar’s lyrics the way I love Dorothy Fields or Yip Harburg or Frank Loesser, so it would be hard. I would probably make fun of it—you know, there would be one too many birds. MH: Did you love them when you were younger? SS: No. Well, I can’t tell back when I was thirteen. I do know I loved Carousel; I do remember loving “What’s the Use of Wond’ring?” And I remember disliking, even at the age of fifteen, “This Was a Real Nice Clambake.” But no, I was drawn to Oscar, much more than to his work. But again, it’s an unanswerable question, because in my teens I wasn’t really aware of anybody. I was aware, but I didn’t know anybody else’s songs. I’d heard Cole Porter songs, and I’d heard other people’s songs, but I never listened to them with the same care, because I was exposed to Oscar. It was when I got to college and I was starting to write shows that I started listening to the literature. But you have to remember, there was no way to listen to the literature before the show albums were invented, which came in 1943. And for a few years after that there were still a limited number of shows on record, and none of the old shows. Nobody put out an album of Jubilee, or even Anything Goes. That archival work came with the invention of the LP in the fifties. Then people like Goddard Lieberson said, “Let’s do an LP of Cole Porter’s show,” or “Let’s do an LP of the Gershwins.” MH: Looking through your sketches, I’ve seen how much the tunes come out of the lyric—where the accents are, that they start giving you a rhythm and things like that. In the case of Night Music, where you knew you wanted everything to be some kind of triple meter, did that affect the other way around how you worked out the lyrics? SS: Not really. Not that I remember. My guess is that a lot of that score was written vamp first, as opposed to lyric first—I mean lyric idea first. Now you say you’ve seen the lyric sketches and it seems that the music comes out of the lyrics. I don’t know how you divined that. I’m not sure you’re right. MH: A lot of times you’ll have a lyric line and you’ll write a rhythm above it.

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SS: Ah, that is true. Whenever you see that, and if that’s the basic line, then you’re probably right. If it’s the refrain line, then you’re probably right, which means I got the refrain line and I probably did what Cole Porter did, which is to notate it rhythmically. But of course you’ll find a lot of lines that have the notes written over them that aren’t used in the song. It may be the majority of songs were written that way. At any rate, no. The fact is you can take almost any lyric and put it in four or three. I remember when I’d had a particularly difficult moment with my mother, and I went to the Hammersteins to cry my eyes out. At the time, Oscar was working on King and I, and he wanted to calm me down, so he gave me the lyric of “We Kiss in a Shadow.” He said, “See how you’d set this.” And I thought, of course it’s a waltz, isn’t it? We kiss in a shadow, We hide from the moon, Yap-a-da-da

Was I surprised when I heard that tune, because it’s got nothing to do with three at all. But if I looked at that lyric, that seems to me a waltz lyric if ever I heard one. We kiss in a shadow, We hide from the moon, Our meetings are few, And over too soon. Yap-a-da-da

It’s in three. It’s clearly in three! Not to Dick Rodgers. By putting those pauses in . . . So my point is that any lyric could strike you as being in three and me in four and him in two. MH: Was it brilliant of Rodgers to do what he did? SS: No, not brilliant. It’s just his choice. He was one of the waltz kings. He could have written a gorgeous waltz, but he chose not to. Obviously, if I’d written it as a waltz I wouldn’t have made it as square as I’m making it to you now. But it would have been in three. So the answer is, any lyric can be set as one or the other. So my guess is that in Night Music, whatever lyric I was writing, the tune might have sprung from the lyric or not. Now that I’m thinking of it, I could take any lyric there and put it in four. MH: It’s funny that you just mentioned that you think in Night Music the vamps tended to come first, because something else I noticed in that score

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was so many of the accompaniments were more than literally accompaniments, they almost become duets with the voices—in “Later,” in “In Praise of Women,” in “It Would Have Been Wonderful.” Was that a conscious decision? SS: I can tell you right now, “It Would Have Been Wonderful” started with a vamp. I remember in the Boston hotel room when I got the [sings the accompaniment figure; see example 10.9], because I wanted something that had these two peacocks strutting. Initially, it was called “Thoughts on the Terrace,” and my image was of these two people passing—”Sir.” “Sir.”— then soliloquizing to the audience. I tried to picture them walking, and I thought, I know what that walk should be: [again sings example 10.9]. From there I got to that particular form of the lyric, but that’s one song where I know I started with the vamp. “The Miller’s Son” started with a vamp. MH: For the fast section? SS: Also for the song. I wanted one of those Sibelius twilight waltzes. “Send in the Clowns” started with “Isn’t it rich/Are we a pair,” but as soon as I got that, I got the Rachmaninoff vamp immediately. MH: People kept talking about this was your operetta, so one would have assumed you would have done pastiches of Herbert and Romberg and Friml, but you didn’t do that at all.

Example 10.9.

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SS: No, but it wasn’t meant to be pastiche, I was stealing. That’s quite a different thing. MH: So many of the songs seem to have been inspired by Ravel, or Scriabin—composers like that. SS: Once you decide you’re going to do it in three: Ravel! Come on, Valses Nobles et Sentimentales is one of my half-dozen favorite pieces in the world. You do a waltz, you think Ravel. Actually, I love the Rachmaninoff Two Piano Suites, which have some great waltzes in them, but it’s the harmonic language of Rachmaninoff that I was using there. But these were not pastiches, this was theft. And that’s quite different. At any rate, I do remember that with “Send in the Clowns” I started there with the short lyric phrases. MH: Was it theft just to give the sense of a time period? SS: No, it just came. I started to fiddle at the piano, and I thought, oh, I know what this is, it’s Rachmaninoff. Well, what the hell. In my opinion, the greatest tune ever written is the Eighteenth Variation of the “Rhapsody [on a Theme of Paganini].” I thought, well why not. I did the same thing with “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd.” I thought, oh, I know what this is, it’s the middle of the Ravel Left-hand Piano Concerto—which I wrote my Junior thesis on. I thought, all right, use them—use! You’re going to take from Ravel, take. It’s very clear if you listen to the middle of the Left-hand and then you listen to “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd”—you say, “What?! Excuse me?! Hello?!” MH: In “Now,” I’m curious about the chattery oboe line that mimics Anne talking. [See example 10.10.]

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SS: That’s Jonathan’s doing. I wanted imitation but I didn’t write the notes out, any more than I did the bird calls in Sweeney—that’s Jonathan. He wrote those chattery things. But Hugh’s dialogue was there, and I wanted it. I’d have to look at the original manuscript to see if I just notated that or whether I actually wrote something out in those little dialogue interruptions. I know I accounted for them; I know I intended them. MH: I’m still amazed by “A Weekend in the Country,” and I can’t figure out how you did it. It’s 423 measures . . . SS: Odd number, wouldn’t you know. MH: . . . and the main tune repeats, god knows how many times, and yet it just gets more and more exciting, and it never wears out its welcome. SS: It’s partly the lyric. There again, that’s my favorite kind of song to write—a plot song. And because the plot’s really fun, and you know that it’s reaching this conclusion where everybody’s going to the country and they’re all going at cross-purposes, it has its own excitement built in. I’m not sure that what you feel has to do with the music where all the voices come in. And Henrik’s entrance is exactly right: that’s a really smart piece of writing—to interrupt the flow by having this zonk, three-square (if you can say four-square, can you say three-square?) tune in the middle of all the 6/8 and 9/8. But I think you’re responding at least as much to the delight (and I’m using the word carefully) of the lyric, as you are to what’s going on musically. When I hear that piece I think, Oh boy, that’s good. Because it’s really funny and it’s really fun. And each scene is just long enough. It’s a little play. MH: There were a couple of things in the music that strike me as being part of what gives it its magic. For instance, I love the way you evolve your accompaniment or vamp so that there are constant slight surprises and shifts. And then at the fourth measure of the main tune the melody is a D-flat, which is, I think, one of those great unexpected notes. [See example 10.11a, m. 44.] SS: Really?! It seems natural to me. Let me hear it through your ears. MH: It just gives that moment something unexpected, that chromaticism. SS: I guess you’re right. I guess it’s just inspired. But obviously it’s just one of those whimsical variations.

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MH: And I find it even more effective when you again go to the D-flat but from a different approach at “be such a fool.” [See example 10.11b, m. 64.] SS: Wait a minute, go back to that first D-flat. It seems to me that a D-natural would be wrong. It’s not only a choice. Let me see why. There’s something implicit in the harmony. MH: You’ve just had a D-natural in the harmony. SS: I know. But even melodically—maybe I’m just used to it. It may be that what I’m hearing is the F-minor there, and that’s why the D-flat is there? I’d have to go to a piano. But oddly enough that doesn’t strike me now as being brilliant. It strikes me as the only note to go to. MH: And going to the later D-flat? SS: You would expect a D-natural? I think not. As I listen to it now, it sounds natural. No pun intended. MH: And as the section ends, the high E-natural at “Here!”? [See example 10.11c, m. 70.]

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SS: That’s a good note. It sounds unexpected to you? MH: It’s just a slightly heart-stopping moment in the best sense. SS: Maybe. But I can’t tell you where it comes from. Whatever I did, I just got the idea. MH: Do you think of this chord as a B-seventh with the E as a suspension? SS: B-seventh doesn’t mean anything to me. MH: Okay, a B minor chord with a suspended fourth? SS: Wait a second, you said “B minor,” where’s the F-sharp? That’s an F natural, isn’t it? MH: You’re right, it’s diminished. SS: Exactly. What I hear there is a form of the dominant of C. If you put a G underneath it, you’d hear that entirely as a dominant ninth, or a dominant thirteenth actually with the E on top. If you put a G under that, you’d see what’s there. So what you’re really hearing instead is the B going to C. That B-natural resolved to the C; that is a chord leading to C. MH: I’m curious about “The Night Waltz” with that running eighth-note figure in the accompaniment. SS: Which “Night Waltz” are we talking about? MH: The main one.

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SS: The Sibelius one. That’s the first thing I wrote for the show. MH: That figure! [SS nods.] Really?! SS: Mmm-hm. [Sings: “Ump, da-da-dump.” See example 10.12.] That’s the first thing I wrote. I wrote four. I remember, I played it for Hal. I said, “Okay, you got your choice of four waltz figures here.” I played him four accompaniments. He said, “I like that one.” I said, “Okay.” That was one of four. You’ll probably find that one on the front cover of the first sketches, or certainly one of the first pages of that piece of music.

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MH: I was particularly interested in that running eighth-note figure—that sort of counter line running throughout the song. I can’t think of another song of yours that features something like that. In fact, the only other song that came to mind that has something similar is “Summertime.” And knowing that you’re such a big fan of Porgy and Bess, I wondered if that was what influenced or inspired you here? SS: No, it has nothing to do with that. I was inventing a vamp—it’s a vamp—for this opening waltz that would not be Oom-pah-pah, Oompah-pah. I thought, jeez, if I start with Oom-pah-pah, not only does Oompah-pah get boring very quickly, but it’s wrong for the show—the whole show has a mellifluousness to it. And so I thought: a running figure. This is obviously not conscious, but it led me to it. I was going to say that all the vamps I played for Hal, all had running vamps, but I don’t think they all did. But at any rate, that’s what struck me as right, and maybe that’s what struck him as right. It has a kind of dreamlike . . . , never stops—it’s a wave. And that seemed right, as opposed to [sings an “Oom-pah-pah” figure]. MH: I know you’re concerned about textures and that a score not have too much of the same thing against each other, so when you composed the score for Night Music, realizing that they were all going to be variations of triple meters, did you do anything to plot out the score so that you would have a mazurka followed by something else? SS: No. What I did do was I made a list of all the variations of three I could think of. And then I called Jonathan, and I said, “Can you think of any other variations of three besides mazurka, polonaise, et cetera?” I don’t remember if he added to the list or not, but I made a list of all the possibilities, so that as I approached each song, I’d say, “Okay, I’ve just had a polonaise, so now . . . ” “I’ve had two waltzes before that, so now . . . ” I didn’t necessarily say, “Okay, I’m going to select this,” but I knew what to avoid. When you get to something like “It Would Have Been Wonderful,” you think, well, it’s got to be a 1-2-3, 1-2-3, but how can I vary it? I don’t even know what you’d call that; it’s neither a polonaise nor a mazurka, but it’s somewhere in between. And of course I allowed for six; and as we all know, six is essentially two anyway. So the idea that this score is in three is nonsense. It’s in three and it’s in two and it’s in four. It’s just the two and the four are composed of threes. But you know “A Weekend in the Country” is not in three, it’s in two or four. Any musician would understand that. Incidentally, you do know there are eight bars of four in the score? I make people search for it.

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MH: Regarding Sweeney Todd, one question came to me from a musicologist. SS: My stomach is tightening as you say that . . . but go on. MH: He is convinced that “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” was a late addition to the score, possibly suggested after Hugh Wheeler came on board with the show. SS: No. It was the very first thing I wrote; absolutely. Once I decided that there was going to be some kind of storytelling thing, then I went right for it. And then the rest of the score was pretty well composed in sequence, starting with Anthony’s entrance. But it started with “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd.” Absolutely. The very first thing I wrote. MH: You’ve gone on record before as being not a big fan of the Brecht and Weill collaborations. SS: To put it mildly. MH: Does the fact of the “Ballad” itself suggest some influence from them? SS: It has nothing to do with it. When people started to say, “Oh, well, that’s Brecht,” I thought, oh, God, it’s no more Brecht than . . . I remember seeing a show called Shootin’ Star in Philadelphia [1946]. It was about Billy the Kid. And a well-known folk singer who was making her debut on the stage, whose first name I believe was Susannah [Susan Reed]; she came out, sat on a stool, took out a guitar and sang, “Well, this is the story of Billy the Kid/Who da da da da . . . what he did.” Curtain up. Dance number. And every now and then during the show she would come back and sing another section of it. It was a completely conventional musical, except it had a little ballad that went through it. Now I was not thinking of that consciously. What I’m saying is, that’s a technique that had been done hundreds of times before. And I decided to use it. It seemed right to tell the audience, “Don’t take this seriously, darlings. This is just a melodrama, just a folktale. Please do not laugh at how ridiculous things are going to get.” Because if you don’t do that, when he starts slitting throats people are going to scream with laughter. I mean, it’s so over the top. So, how do you prevent something from being over the top? You couch it. I don’t mean that I was reasoning this out. My instinct was, I want to tell this as a folktale. I want to tell this as “Once upon a time,” which is what the opening number is.

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MH: But then you didn’t feel “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” was necessary for the film? SS: Ah, no, but for a very good reason: it interrupts the action. And what [Tim] Burton had chosen to do, which is very smart, is to not have any of the chorus people singing, what I call “peasants on the green”—like the Pirelli crowd or “God, That’s Good!” Because that’s acceptable (though not very acceptable to my taste, as you know), but it is somewhat acceptable on the stage to have everybody sing “Oklahoma!” But not if it’s going to be on the screen and you’re going to try to involve an audience in the story, as opposed to say, “Oh, isn’t this a fun musical?” Then you don’t have that kind of thing. We actually had rehearsed the number and John Logan [the screenwriter] had a wonderful idea, which was start the piece with blood spreading on a floor, and then the camera would pull back and suddenly we cut to, in this case, Christopher Lee, who would be dressed as a general, and he would sing, “Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd . . . ” (off-pitch, but he would sing it anyway), “Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd/His skin was pale/And his eye was odd. . . .” Then you would cut to a student, then you’d cut to a peddler, et cetera. And they would sing this, and you don’t know why they’re singing it to you. Then, during the course of the movie, they would reappear in odd places, passing Sweeney on the street, and he would see them out of the corner of his eye. And there would be a little gash here . . . and over the course of the film you realize these are the people he killed. So they became a chorus of his victims, interspersed, like the “Ballad,” throughout the movie. And just before shooting, Tim called and said, “I think it’s not a good idea; I think it’s going to interrupt the story.” I said, “Cut it. I understand exactly what you’re saying.” The whole idea of the movie is so different from a stage piece. And he wanted to tell the story as intensely as he could, knowing that the audience had to suspend a huge amount of disbelief—to have people singing a melodrama, as opposed to singing songs. Even more daring, he opened it with Anthony singing. No dialogue. So the audience immediately said, “What the hell is this?!” And I’ve heard from people who attended theaters all over the United States that the audience—which, you know, consists of popcorn kids—started to giggle. They thought, “This is ridiculous.” And some of them accepted it and some of them didn’t. But I think cutting “The Ballad” was absolutely the right choice. MH: Was it hard to make musical edits within songs to shorten them for the film? SS: No. It wasn’t hard. I mean, one had to do it. I had to do it in “Green Finch.” I had to do it in a number of places. No, but that kind of editing

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I’m good at. I just had to do some of West Side Story. I edited some music there to make it smoother in “One Hand, One Heart.” MH: For the 2009 revival? SS: Yes, because Arthur wanted to cut a certain piece of business, and add a piece of business. I made a very Wagnerian transition. I think Lenny might turn in his grave, but he’d know I tried my best. MH: Speaking of influences again, Stephen Banfield asked me to ask you in relation to Sweeney whether you were familiar with Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King? SS: I am familiar with it. It had nothing to do with anything I wrote. That’s a difficult piece. I listened to it twice on record. Certainly it had no conscious influence, and it’s hard for me to believe it had an unconscious influence. What did he think happened? MH: He wrote me: “The insanity in the ‘Epiphany’ and the crazy chorus work made me think of it, and even more the intro to Johanna’s ‘Green Finch and Linnet Bird,’ where she’s teaching the birds to sing in their cages like George the Third in the Eight Songs, with the aleatoric chirpings.” SS: Guess what? I didn’t hear Eight Songs for a Mad King until after I had written Sweeney Todd. I remember hearing that many years later. I find Maxwell Davies’s music very difficult, and because it was either in a catalog, or something like that, I thought, maybe I ought to hear this. Believe me, I didn’t hear it before. MH: He was also impressed with how much British history seemed to imbue a lot of the songs and wondered how much research you had done, if any. SS: None. I’m an Anglophile, that’s all. And I love Benjamin Britten. I think what he’s hearing is Benjamin Britten. MH: This wasn’t musical. Again quoting: “He mentions things about nineteenth-century London—little details about labor history, the chapel burning in ‘City on Fire.’” SS: Yes, I did indeed read a famous book about London in the nineteenth century, it’s the most famous, and I cannot remember the name of it, and

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I have it downstairs [H. Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor]. And I did read it. You know for Forum I read a book called Daily Life in Ancient Rome [by Jérôme Carcopino, translated by E. O. Lorimer, 1940/41]. And for this, there’s an equivalent book about daily life in London. Yes, I did do that kind of research. Because I wanted to find out what peddlers did—you know, the kind of thing Gershwin did when he went down to that island and saw how they sold strawberries. It was the equivalent of that. MH: You’ve gone on record that you felt that most film musicals didn’t work. You’ve also said that you were very pleased with the problems they solved in turning Sweeney into a film. Do you feel like you learned things in this process that would translate to other film musicals? SS: No, I think what Burton did is exactly what I would have said directors should do before I met Tim Burton. He’s the only director who has thought of a stage musical as a film; the others have thought of a stage musical as ways to film them. It’s a big, big difference. I don’t even know that he could articulate it, but he understands instinctively the difference between a realistic and a poetic medium. And though it sounds weird to say, Sweeney Todd is a realistic film. MH: Merrily was a unique score for you, where the actual structure of the score was also so much a part of what the show was about: a central character who’s a songwriter, and the show goes backwards in time. How did you approach writing that score—what was the process of working out the jigsaw puzzle-ness of it? SS: I was imitating Kaufman and Hart’s jigsaw puzzle. Once we decided to do it, I thought, okay, here’s a musical comedy score about two guys who write musicals (but what it’s really about is friendship, and it’s about memory), and I thought, I know, wouldn’t it be fun to have a tune unfold in the reverse way than it usually does? Instead of stating it and then doing a truncated reprise—since it’s going backwards in time—wouldn’t they be reprising it emotionally, like: “I loved you back then, I don’t love you anymore.” So, ordinarily you would write the love song: “I love you.” And then the second act is: “I don’t love you anymore and I’m leaving you, darling.” But here it’s: “I don’t love you anymore and I’m leaving you, darling” followed by “I love you.” So as soon as you start to think that way, then you start to get this notion, or I did anyway, that the vamp of one song—which means what the undercurrent is—was actually stated a number of years ago when it was the theme of the relationship. Now it’s

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the undercurrent of the relationship, which is what a vamp is. So the whole thing was devised out of the idea of the plot. And as you know, content dictates form. So once I got that, I thought this will be fun to do, and it’ll also hold the score together because I will build it out of just a few themes. Some of them will become vamps, or will start as vamps and then become themes, others will be themes that will become vamps, et cetera. MH: Did you create a cheat sheet of themes? SS: No, because obviously there are some songs which are not applicable that way. Most of them are. Even the opening anthem (which is no longer in the show) is “Good Thing Going” and becomes in itself a memory piece. I had other versions of “Good Thing Going.” For example, there was a number to the audience, called “Thank You for Coming,” that opened and closed the nightclub routine. And guess what the theme is? “Thank You for Coming” is [sings the “Good Thing Going” theme]. MH: One of my favorite examples is the “We’re bringing back style to the White House” section of “Bobby and Jackie and Jack.” SS: That’s right. In a way, everything’s interwoven with a few themes. Also, when Lapine suggested in 1985 that we needed a song for Frank in the middle of the first act that told us where he was and made us more sympathetic to him (because the problem with the show, as you know, has always been that everybody finds these characters so shallow and unpleasant for the first half hour that they’re not interested in listening to the rest of the story), I wrote “Growing Up.” And that became another thread that worked through the show, and I was even able to tie it into the threads that were already there. Merrily We Roll Along is a planet of opportunity for this kind of puzzle-making writing that I love to do. And it’s compositional, although it’s “chunk compositional”—it isn’t long-line composition—but it’s making the most out of the least, which is one of my mantras. So there are a few themes, and they’re used both melodically and in accompaniment, and sometimes as counterpoint. And therefore they lend meaning to all the characters. MH: One song that doesn’t really evolve, other than getting a reprise, is “Not a Day Goes By.” SS: “Not a Day Goes By” is a brand new theme. But it gets developed as a reverse reprise in the second act.

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MH: But I also see similarities between that song and “Good Thing Going,” in that they’re both songs that become more daring musically as the choruses repeated. You hit certain unexpected notes, and the tension of the chords gets thicker and more difficult, though it’s more pointed in “Not a Day Goes By.” SS: Yes, “Not a Day Goes By” gets pretty elaborate. MH: But even in “Good Thing Going,” there are moments when the harmony gets a little tenser. SS: I know, in the release and the end of the release. There’s something moderately conscious about that, which is, I thought: These two guys who are young, what is it that they write that attracts producers and people like that? It’s got to have a little distinctive flavoring that would differentiate it just enough from their peers or the other people who write songs. So I thought, it’s got to have a little (forgive me), a little of me in it. Because that’s what I did. So I tried to keep it conventional fifties, but with a little (forgive me, I hate to talk about myself in the third person, but I’ll do it now) a little Sondheim in it. And that’s what’s going on there in the release. And in fact there’s this little delay at the end of the release where the music plays before they come in again. That’s something I suggested to Jule for the end of the release of “If Momma Was Married.” That’s why the music plays a little bit, and then “Oh, Momma say yes” comes in later. At the end of the release of “If Momma Was Married,” you expect them to sing, and they don’t, and the orchestra plays. And I thought, I’m going to use that here. So I did. That’s one of the little touches—that and the harmony—that make Frank and Charlie stand out from the other people that Joe Josephson, or Gussie, or anybody, would hear. So that’s the reason for that. “Not a Day Goes By” really has nothing to do with the rest of the score. In that case I was trying to find a song for Beth to sing on the courthouse steps. I knew what I wanted it to be about, and one night I got to the piano and my fingers “wandered idly over the organ keys,” and I played, “Um-ba-da, ba-da-da, da-da-da-da” [sings accompaniment theme, see example 10.5]. I wrote it down. And I woke up in the morning, and it was very good, and I thought, okay, that should be the basis of this song. MH: Where does that noodling figure in the “Overture” come from? [See example 10.13.] SS: That was the basis of a tune called “Darling.” That became the basis of a number of songs, some of which were cut. But that was primarily writ-

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ten for the second scene, which took place in the Polo Lounge, and Gussie was trying to avoid Joe, and a friend of hers came in and they started to dish. And they started to dish Joe, and it became a song called “Darling.” MH: The only place I found where it survived in the score is under “The Blob.” SS: That’s right. “Darling” was the beginning of “The Blob.” “The Blob” is about all the cognoscenti, and that tune or theme or vamp was part of it. MH: Did you tell Jonathan to feature it in the “Overture,” or was that his idea? SS: No. It was his idea. It was more prominent in the show when originally written. It was a major theme that I had, not just in “Darling”—I used it in other places, too. MH: Then, when you added “Growing Up” to the show, it became part of the tune. SS: That’s right; I thought I could use it then. MH: In “Live Alone and Like It” from Dick Tracy, the harmony strikes me as different from any other song of yours: it’s almost all made up of fourths, tritones, and fifths, with hardly a third in it. [See example 10.14.] SS: Really?

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MH: Was that a musical representation of what the song is about, where a third would represent togetherness or a connection, whereas the other intervals feel separate? SS: I’m afraid it’s coincidental. I was trying to write what I thought they would be hearing over the radio in the 1930s, and I thought it should have a little swing to it. I don’t think I knew that Mel Tormé would sing it, but it’s supposed to be a kind of a Sinatra swinging tune. That’s all. He [Warren Beatty] wanted something playing over the car radio. MH: In our first set of interviews we spent a fair amount of time talking about Sunday. You talked a lot about how Seurat had the eye mix colors that were right next to each other and how that influenced the alternation between major and minor in the score. But I recently found a quote of yours that I wish I had known at the time; you say you were “excited by parallels you saw between Seurat’s use of complementary colors to the use of dominant and tonic in music.” You were excited by the idea, but did anything come of it? SS: That is different. It’s the opening vamp. It’s the opening arpeggios, which juxtapose two major harmonies against each other—let’s call them D major and A major [sings approximation of sequence; see examples 4.11 and 4.12]. We’re working with A major and D major, with no bass (the ninth is the bass, but nevertheless). The juxtaposition of those two things makes for a kind of, as far as I’m concerned—pretentious or not—shimmer. And I thought, yeah! The idea is to put two basic harmonies together—not a 9th chord and an 11th chord, but a triad and a triad. And of course that immediately suggests, though it wasn’t conscious, Benjamin Britten, who does a lot of that. Once I’d abandoned the idea of color next to color next to color next to color—which would have been minor second, minor second, minor second (which would not have made for a very attractive score)—but once I decided I could use complementary colors in the harmonies, that gave rise to a number of moments. “Color and Light” uses it: [sings; see example 4.8]. That combines the two things, doesn’t it?—the minor second and the two harmonies. Because you’ve got G minor and G major (depending on how you look at it), or G minor and C major. But the real juxtaposition is that first [sings; see example 4.12]. MH: So it doesn’t have to be two triads that are specifically a fourth or fifth apart? SS: No. The only time it’s consciously used is the opening. I didn’t consciously use it elsewhere. I just thought, yeah, this sets up what I want—

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this kind of harmonic language. Because you know Sunday, unlike the other shows, is based more on chordal thematic ideas than on melodic or rhythmic thematic ideas, and there are a number of chord structures— two, three, maybe four—that are utilized over and over and over again in the show and eventually pay off, I think, in “Move On.” So the answer to your question is, yes, that was conscious. The dominant/tonic stuff was conscious. Red and blue. Absolutely. But red and blue abutting each other the way Seurat abutted complementary colors. MH: With most of your accompaniments, I think I understand why you did what you did, or at least have some visceral sense. But there’s one from Sunday where I just can’t figure out your reasoning. SS: I probably can’t either. MH: It’s the title tune, “Sunday in the Park with George.” The opening section makes sense to me, and the part when Dot’s almost fainting that becomes a theme throughout the score, but then there are all these other sections where it’s very wide-ranging and full of cluster chords, and the accompaniment shifts through so many different things. [See example 10.15.] SS: You’re talking about “-ection” and “-ention” rhymes, right? You’re talking about those sections? Cluster chords, I use throughout the show— I use a lot of cluster chords. But what you’re talking about was to echo the mercurial aspect of her mind. She is a lady with a short attention span and so that was meant to reflect her mercurial nature. The whole thing is: I wanted to jerk the audience around, because that’s what she does with George. One of the problems they have as a couple is he’s dogged and she’s all over the place. It’s the hedgehog and the fox—he’s a hedgehog and she’s a fox. He’s going that way, and she’s going all over the landscape.

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MH: That makes perfect sense. About the show variously known as Wise Guys, Bounce, and Road Show, I did an interview with you when Bounce was at the Kennedy Center, just before it opened there. And at the time you said, “This was the show we intended, I’m happy with this now, this is what I wanted.” Obviously . . . SS: I shouldn’t have opened my mouth. MH: Are you happy with it now? SS: Oh, am I ever! Road Show is what we meant. And it took John Doyle and Oskar Eustis to help us find what we meant. MH: Oskar Eustis? SS: He’s the artistic director of the Public Theater and Shakespeare in the Park; you know, the theater founded by Joe Papp downtown. He recently directed Hamlet in the park. He dignifies the word dramaturg—which is a word I find poisonous, but he is the exception. He really helped channel and focus us. And then, so did John Doyle. So, yes, the answer is we both love Road Show just the way it is. No improvements. There’s nothing I want to change. As you know, it got reviewed as usual—dismissively and condescendingly—but that’s what every show I write with John Weidman gets, so it’s par for the course. And not to sound too cynical about it: it will be revived in five or ten years and everybody will say it’s really good. And when you hear the record, which comes out in about a month, you’ve got a treat ahead; it’s really good. MH: I want to ask about orchestrations. When you compose a score do you have an orchestra in mind? [Sondheim shakes his head no.] No thought of either size or particular instruments? SS: Milton Babbitt always claimed that I think orchestrally. What he meant was, I think contrapuntally. I do not think in terms of clarinet versus trumpet. I really don’t. I don’t hear those instruments. I hear piano. Occasionally I hear something being sung, but mostly what I hear is piano, not even voices. And one of the reasons Jonathan has liked to orchestrate my stuff is, because it’s contrapuntal, he knows where the lines are going. So he knows, if he assigns a clarinet to that line, it’s going to end up there. Because I’m writing linearly as well as vertically. Each time we come together—when he comes down to rehearsals and sees a number that he’s going to orchestrate—we then go off into another room afterwards, and he says, “Now, do you mean this B to resolve to the C, or do you mean the

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B to resolve to the B-flat?” And I will say what I intended. And that allows him to know where he’s going. But I do not hear instruments individually. MH: Have you ever heard an orchestration and asked for something to be changed in it? SS: Oh, sure. Michael Bennett said something very smart to me the first time I worked with Michael Starobin. James asked if Michael Starobin could orchestrate Sunday in the Park with George because we were going to do it at Playwrights Horizons, and James had worked with Michael there and Michael was sort of the house orchestrator. It would have been slightly awkward to ask the producers to let Jonathan Tunick do it. They would have done it, but luckily Jonathan was busy, and I went to Jonathan and I said, “Look, they would like. . . . ” He said, “It’s okay, I think Starobin is good, and also I have X, Y, Z to do.” Then I mentioned it to Michael Bennett, and he said, “If I were you I would ask the producers to give Michael Starobin one or two songs to score and just go into a rehearsal studio. It’s extra money, but you know you have such a working relationship with Tunick.” And sure enough, I did it, and it was overorchestrated. And the reason it was is that Bill Finn does not write out complete piano copy, and Michael was so used to filling things out— contrapuntal lines and even harmonies, that Bill Finn did not supply— that he did it to me. And I said, “No, no. Just stick with what I wrote, okay?” And he slimmed down, and then he did this brilliant job. But it was very smart. Because even though I didn’t know a trumpet from a flute, I knew when there were too many notes and when there was too much orchestration. He was honoring the harmonies and honoring the counterpoint, but adding his own stuff. I said, “That’s not necessary.” When Jonathan adds something it’s because it’s necessary. He will add one long sustained line in the string section, because I hear things on the piano and I put my foot on the sustaining pedal. As we all know, that’s not the same thing. You’ve got to sustain it with a bow going across a string. So Michael was overdecorating, because he’d had to fill out so many things so many times at Playwrights Horizons. So, that’s the answer. MH: A few years ago I did a series of interviews with Jonathan Tunick for the Library. I have a quote from him that I’d like to read to you: “a simple triad, C, E and G, it sounds like dishwater—it’s the dullest thing in the world. But take those same three notes and score them for three French horns and it sounds thrilling. The result is that a pianist composer will write a lot more notes than the orchestrator needs and we learn to jettison them in huge amounts and to substitute for those notes an organic rhythm

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in the orchestra. Or sometimes even that isn’t necessary, just the effort of the breath keeping the note going is all the energy that’s needed.” So, in working with Jonathan over the years, has that influenced you to make your writing sparer? SS: No, it hasn’t influenced the writing, but it has made me aware. However, I still write for the piano. If the note dies after four bars because the pedal doesn’t sustain, I hit it again. I don’t need to, but I’m playing it for you, and so . . . But I’m fully aware. So sometimes I will—more often than sometimes—I will write a long sustained note, knowing that I can’t hold it on the piano, but that the orchestrator will. I guess the answer to your question is a qualified yes. MH: With the reduced scores that have happened in more recent vintage, do you sense that it affects the audience at all? Such as when they did Sunday in the Park at the Chocolate Factory with three or four instruments? SS: Well, the whole thing is “ignorance is bliss.” If you don’t know what you’re missing, you don’t miss it. But if you do know what you’re missing then you say, “Gee, it sounded good, but I wish that big climax had occurred.” You’re going to hear it again with Night Music in the fall, because it’s for seven instruments, maybe eight if we can persuade the producers. Now Night Music is a moderately lush score. It sounds pretty good as a chamber piece, but you’re going to miss certain things. But if you don’t know, you might not, because it’s very well orchestrated, by a guy named Jason Carr—in fact, he’s the one who did Sunday in the Park with George, too. Yes, I do think there is a thrilling experience to an audience, as South Pacific has proved, as West Side Story has proved, that when you hear thirty players play something, it’s simply a lot more thrilling than seven. It just is. But whether it’s necessary for the total effect of the show, no, I don’t know. Probably not. At any rate, one of the great things about being raped is there’s nothing you can do about it. MH: I’m curious about music in general. Not your music, but listening and exposure and influences. You were a huge record collector and you gave us your record collection. You clearly started collecting fairly young. Did you have a plan about how you were going to find things? Did you take survey courses in music? SS: No, I’m just omnivorous, or whatever the word is. The freshman course, or actually it was the sophomore course, in college was called Music Appreciation. And indeed, one of the things that made me fall in love with the

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music professor [Robert Barrow] and decide to major in music was he was Mary Poppins—“spit-spot.” And one of the things he said, “I’m going to play you a piece,” and he played us the Debussy La Mer, and he said, “What does that sound like to you? Some people say it sounds like the sea. It doesn’t sound like the sea to me.” And the whole idea was that programmatic music is nonsense. And so the whole idea of music appreciation he blitzed out immediately and went into “Okay, now let’s talk about what a leading tone is . . . now let’s talk about what the diatonic scale is.” And that of course turned me on like that, and I became a music major. I just listened to everything I could listen to, because I loved listening to music. MH: Do you still? SS: Oh, sure. Except when I’m working, I have music—so-called concert music—on all the time. And not familiar pieces. I order records from all over the world, and hear stuff I’ve never heard before. Because that’s where you steal. MH: How do you decide what to listen to when? SS: I order through a company called International Records, Inc. (which is about to go out of business), based on the West Coast. They send out a brochure every month, and it contains about forty recordings of pieces from all over the world written in the last two hundred years. And then another thirty that are from the eighteenth, seventeenth, and sixteenth centuries. But they’re from all countries; they’re from everyplace—from Chile to Finland to you name it. And they very carefully have a little blurb about each record. They use the word “tonal” a lot, to be sure that people like me aren’t turned off by “atonal”: “A very tonal piece.” Which means: it’s pretty atonal, but not entirely, don’t worry about it. So I judge from those. Of course then there are the obscure pieces by composers. . . . Every second month there’s a piece by d’Indy I’ve never heard of before—you know, the Chamber Concerto for Flute, Bassoon, and Jew’s Harp—and I order that because it sounds interesting. So I listen to a lot of that stuff. At any rate, music is going on all the time—when I read the newspaper, or when I do anything but writing. I use my carousel, and I’ve got five or six records on it, and I play each one twice. And if something suddenly strikes me, I listen to it carefully. MH: Do you ever get scores in order to follow along with the recordings? SS: No, never. I just listen.

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MH: It was surprising with your record collection that you didn’t keep the jackets with the records and we had to rejoin them. SS: That was to save space on the shelves. MH: Did you read liner notes? SS: Oh yes. I read about the pieces, sure—records then and CDs now. That’s not quite true. If the piece interests me at all, I read about it. Quite often I will know a lot about the composer—because I have listened to an awful lot of stuff and I know a lot of obscure composers—but particularly if the piece strikes me—sure. MH: Are you also a fan of particular musicians or conductors? SS: No, they’ve never meant anything to me. As far as I’m concerned the best recording of the Ravel Left-hand Piano Concerto is played by Alfred Cortot. Why? It’s the first one I heard. I’m sure that there are others that are better—both interpretive and the recording. MH: When you hear something that you like, do you sort of laser it onto your brain? SS: Yes. MH: Do you make associations for later use, such as, to me that evokes tender sadness? SS: No, it’s just I want to hear it again . . . or I want to steal from it. MH: The stealing part: do you think of certain chords or chord progressions and say, “Oh, that would be perfect here.” SS: No, it’s not conscious. Obviously, I’m sort of making fun of myself. No, it just lodges somewhere back here and it will probably show up. Occasionally, I have consciously used something. I remember with the [Gösta] Nystroem Sinfonia del mare, I did get the score, and I looked at it because there’s this five-minute passage that I thought was so extraordinarily beautiful, and I thought: I’ve got to use that. So I looked at it, because I don’t have a lot of keyboard harmony. Meaning, if you play me something unusual and striking, I can’t reproduce it on the piano unless I look at the score. So if you play me something and I want to play it on the

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piano or use it, I would get the score out—I would have to find the score. And I was able to find the Nystroem. MH: Did you end up using it somewhere? SS: Are you kidding? Half the music I’ve written. Let’s see, “Too Many Mornings” is based on it. Gosh, what else have I used. I’ve used it two or three times. Another one is a composer named Montsalvatge. MH: I know you’ve used the “Lullaby for a Negro Baby” in “Wait” and “Don’t Look at Me,” as I recall. SS: Exactly so. So you know that example. If you don’t know the Nystroem Sinfonia del mare, listen to it. It’s a two-movement symphony and a voice comes in at the end of the first movement and it’s just electrifying. MH: I suspect no one in the history of musical theater has seen as many first-class revivals and productions of their own works as you have—both here and in London. And I’m just wondering, having had that experience, what do you think about what makes a revival work? How far should one go in creating a new show—rethinking it? SS: I have no opinions on that. I do know that most of the shows I’ve written were probably underappreciated or condescendingly dismissed the first time around. So that when they occur the second time, if they’re any good, people tend to say, “Ooh, isn’t that wonderful.” I don’t think it has to do with the production so much, I think it has to do with the fact that it’s done a second time. Granted, Joe Mantello’s production of Assassins was brilliant, but I think the fact that it was done a second time and people were able to see it without the Gulf War, without whatever was going on the first time, they said, “Gee, this is a much more interesting show then we thought.” And that’s my feeling about what’s going to happen with Road Show. MH: How rigidly should revivals follow the original production? SS: Oh gosh, there’s no rule to that. I think the whole idea of theater is that, unlike movies, the whole idea is to do it in a different way with a different generation. If you do Hamlet, even if you still keep it in Shakespearean costume, you’ve got a new actor; a new actor has a new approach; a new director has a new approach to acting. So, it doesn’t have to do with the fact that, “Oh, we’re going to put it in Civil War costumes,”

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it has to do with the fact that it’s still live. The great thing about theater is what keeps it alive, which is that every generation can do it again—either in a traditional way or a nontraditional way. And it’s just as true of musicals. The current revival of South Pacific isn’t a big radical rethink of South Pacific; it’s pretty much what was done the first time, except staged differently, but there’s no radical rethink. And because audiences liked it originally, they like it again. I’m trying to think of something that’s benefited from rethinking; well, I guess Assassins is a wonderful example. Mantello’s production made everybody sit up and say, “Hey, this isn’t the shit show we thought it was. This is a pretty good show.” If James ever gets his chance to put his production of Merrily on the stage in New York (which is a chance that comes and goes), I think people will reassess that to its benefit. I may be wrong, but I think so. Some shows are worth seeing twice. MH: My sense is if somebody had just told you about what John Doyle was going to do with Sweeney you would have said, I don’t want that to happen. SS: No. Somebody did tell me, and I said, “Let me see a tape.” MH: Right. But presumably your initial response on hearing about it was, “Ooh, that doesn’t sound good”? Or am I assuming too much? I don’t want to put words in your mouth. SS: No. My initial response was, “That sounds weird.” I don’t think I approved or disapproved. In fact, the only thing I disapproved of was cuts he took without asking me. But no, I just thought, that sounds weird. No, I’m very open to new interpretations. Richard Jones’s reinterpretation of Into the Woods when it was done in London is one of the best things I ever saw in my life. And, as you probably know, it took place in a room: “Excuse me, Into the Woods takes place in a room?!” It all took place in a room. And it was wonderful. He had a real idea. And it’s completely unlike the original. And you know Lapine and I have both said, “If you’re going to take something we’ve done, make it entirely different. Give us something—for our purposes—give us something fresh. Something Woo!” MH: It seems to me that period pieces are much easier to revive than something that was done as a contemporary piece at the time, and now, what wasn’t intended to be dated, now seems dated. SS: Well, that’s true. But then you think of Company and the way Doyle did it, and the fact is, of course you can say the pot scene is dated, because

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the idea of people being shocked by pot is quaint (to say the least), but since that’s not what the scene’s really about, it works. MH: How do you feel about specific changes to accommodate? For instance, you changed the word “fag” to “gay” in “You Could Drive a Person Crazy.” SS: That’s because you are writing for an audience. And you are writing for a contemporary audience, so you think about things like that. One of the problems with West Side Story is they’re saying “frackadatrack” and “rigatigatum,” and it’s just not very scary. And so, yes, language does date. There’s no question. Now, if you let enough time go by, then, like Shakespeare, it doesn’t matter that it’s dated because it’s of its period. But if it’s recent, if it’s something like Company that’s so recent that most of the language is still contemporary, but then every now and then you get a word like “fag” that has gone out of vogue, then you’re pointing attention to that word—unintentionally—but that’s what you’re doing. That’s now a condescending word, the way “nigger” is. And now you can’t use a word like “Negro” without it being condescending—unless you’re making a point about using the word. MH: What about the line like, “Or my service will explain” from “Another Hundred People,” if nobody has phone services anymore? SS: Well, ah, that’s different. That’s not about language, that’s about fact. No, because when you said “fag,” we’re talking about the weight and influence of language, which is huge. Because that’s about tone, and tone is everything. MH: You’ve been heavily involved with the Dramatists Guild, and I know that you were involved in meetings with Congress about certain issues, and I don’t know whether you’re a fan of YouTube and things like that, but I know you’re aware of them. SS: I’ve seen it. MH: At the Library, I find I’m constantly dealing with both sides of the rights issues and copyright—the interest for accessibility and preservation and people being able to see things they’d never been able to see before, and the various estates and performers wanting to have their controls. And I’m just wondering where do you fall on the issues? SS: I have no answer because it’s a very complicated question . . . when we finally persuaded the unions to let people film shows so that they

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could go up to the library and people could see them, I was all in favor of that. As far as I’m concerned, I’d be in favor of those things being sold. The unions of course would have none of it. I think that kind of thing should be available to everybody. Everybody should be able to see a tape of Pacific Overtures who never saw Pacific Overtures. They should just be allowed to see it if they want to see it. At the same time, I believe in intellectual property rights—being ex-president of the Dramatists Guild. So it’s a very complicated question. And therefore I have no answer for you. I do not know the solution. I’m not even sure a solution will be found, because every day it gets easier and easier to access and to put up material. On the other hand, if everybody takes my stuff and puts it on YouTube, I’m going have to sell the house. So I have very mixed feelings on it. Certainly no stand. MH: How do you feel about things that are done that don’t hurt you financially? You know, the parody where somebody took “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” and did the [mash up with The Andy Griffith Show]? SS: I find that flattering. Actually, when they’re adapted for things like commercials I sometimes insist that the lyric be cleaned up, because I hate promulgating the rhymes of “home” and “alone,” that sort of thing. So I get my little uptight professorial thing going. MH: I know you’re doing your own book on lyric writing, and I hope not to repeat questions here that you’ll cover there. SS: You will, because there isn’t that much to say. So of course you will. MH: I can’t think of another lyricist who is not only as brilliant at rhyme as you are, but what amazes me as much as your breathtaking rhymes is when you hide rhyme. I don’t know how you know how to hide a rhyme—so that it’s in the line but the audience doesn’t notice it, so it doesn’t shock them or take them out of the moment—such as “I acquired a chateau/extravagantly o-/verstaffed” from “Liaisons.” SS: Every case is different. Sometimes you want to hide it and sometimes you want to show it. And sometimes you want to not rhyme. One of the little sections in my book is about times not to rhyme. Like the last line of “Move On.” What makes it so moving is that, not only does it not rhyme, it doesn’t sound anything like the rhymes that have been set up. If you’re not going to rhyme—if you’re going to make a feature of not rhyming— don’t not rhyme let’s say home and go, you’ve got to not rhyme home and be. It’s got to be so shocking to the ear when you expect the rhyme that,

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when it comes out, there’s no question that it’s not supposed to rhyme. What makes the line “Give us more to see” so effective is that it follows “Anything you do, let it come from you”—it’s “Ooo . . . ooo . . . ooo . . . E!” So there are times not to rhyme. There are times when you want to hide the rhymes. Nobody ever gets all those hidden rhymes in “The Ladies Who Lunch”—unless a lyric writer is looking at it or you are. MH: But you don’t have any special technique to hide them? SS: No, of course not. Sometimes you just do it. And sometimes the best way to hide a rhyme, obviously, is to make it so natural within the speech—as it is in the better parts of “The Ladies Who Lunch”—so that of course you don’t hear it, it’s just in there. MH: In Candide, in “Life Is Happiness Indeed,” was it your joke that the women just sing “-piness . . . -piness.” [Sondheim shakes his head no.] Do you know what I’m talking about? [See example 10.16.] SS: No. Oh, I’m so embarrassed. “Penis”?! Oh, I’m sorry, no. Completely unconscious. Or, not even unconscious, I think it’s another Horowitzean— MH: It’s the vocal arrangement. The women, Paquette and Cunegonde, only sing the last two syllables. The men sing “Hap-” and they go “-piness” . . . And I just thought it was probably your joke.

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SS: All I can say is, that’s either Lenny’s idea or Paul Gemignani’s idea; it ain’t mine. Oh, my goodness gracious. Oh, would I not do that! MH: I know clarity in lyrics is important to you, which makes me ask about a few lines that I don’t understand. In “Now You Know,” what does “put your dimple down” mean? SS: Oh, you don’t know what dimpling is? You know, I had a feeling when I wrote that, that it might be too old-fashioned. I don’t even know where I picked that up. To dimple is, if you have a dimple in your chin, to go [twists index finger in chin while looking innocent], you go, “Who, me? No, I didn’t steal the cake.” It’s a form of innocence. It’s a form of naïveté. MH: So she’s telling him to stop pretending? SS: Exactly. MH: And in “Old Friends,” can you explain what you mean by the line, “Well, what’s the point of demands you can meet”? SS: Oh, my goodness. That’s about a subtle aspect of human relationships. If you make a demand that somebody can meet . . . Okay, let me put it this way. My idea of a good friendship is somebody who will go out of his way to pick you up at the airport because it’s a demand, or request, that’s difficult to meet. You have to give up your day to drive out to the airport. Whereas a demand like, “I’m getting divorced, come over and talk to me,” that’s very easy. There are demands that are difficult to meet, and I think mostly it’s the little demands, and I think most relationships are based on demands that are easy to meet. Not based on—it’s a large topic. But demands that are difficult to meet are the true test of friendship or love, I think. There are demands that are difficult to meet, as opposed to, “Will you please hang your socks up?” You know, that’s easy (or sometimes not). I’m sorry to be so, kind of, bouncing the ball around but, at any rate, that’s what it’s about—it’s about the fact that there are demands in a relationship that are easy to meet and demands that are not easy to meet. And demands that are easy to meet don’t cost you anything and therefore they don’t count. That’s all Charley’s saying. Whereas for Frank, the demand that he can’t meet is: “Don’t sell out. Don’t sell us out.” Frank is a guy who does not meet hard-to-meet demands. He’s too selfish. MH: You’ve talked about your interest in writing a musical version of the film Groundhog Day, but I recently read that you decided not to continue

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with it because it called for a contemporary score, and you just didn’t want to write that kind of score. SS: That’s right. I don’t think I’d be good at it, is the real problem. Of course I could imitate contemporary music, but it’s not in my gut. And I don’t think it’s right to set it back in the fifties or the forties, but I think these people speak in contemporary language, and that means musical language. And it’s just something that would not only be difficult for me to write, but imitative. It’s not my language. MH: And part of the initial appeal was you liked the idea of theme and variation as a form? SS: Oh sure. MH: You’ve often talked about, “Why musicals?” What is it about that story that you thought music would add to it? SS: Oh, my gosh. Think of a love song in which you sing a love song to her, and then you discover something about her because you’re going to relive the day, so you sing the love song the second day—because the first time she doesn’t respond to you at all—the second day you add a little bit, maybe an extra phrase, just something. Or maybe, what was lighthearted [sings] suddenly becomes [sings], and so the song suddenly becomes more of a ballad. Let’s say the first day it’s a lighthearted love song; the second day, same love song, but it’s got a little stuff going on. She still doesn’t get it. So the third day, you do that plus you add some interlude. But you watch the song develop the way your attitude develops towards her—because you’re living the romance over and over again—and you’re learning more about: how to get to her, how to get to her, how to get to her. So by the time you finally seduce her, the song has gone through a set of processes. That’s my idea of really fun songwriting. MH: Ooh, I want to hear that. SS: So do I. MH: What is it that makes a character—that defines them—that then you use to musicalize them? SS: Gosh. It’s the bookwriter. It’s why I work with good bookwriters. You read eight lines of George Furth, two people talking to each other, and you

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know exactly who they are. That’s because he’s an actor. He knows how to characterize in two sentences. You know exactly who these people are. You don’t know all the subtleties, you just know who they are. The same thing is true with Weidman. And Lapine, too. Lapine’s subtler though, because the characters in Lapine’s shows are often subsumed into Lapine. But that’s a different kind of playwriting; it’s a poetic kind of playwriting. Weidman and Furth deal with sharp—sharply drawn—immediately recognizable—I don’t mean stereotypical—immediately recognizable characters. With lots of subtleties, but you know you can cast them. You read a Furth scene, and you have ideas for casting. I mean, I don’t particularly have ideas for casting, but I would know what was wrong casting. The same thing is true of Weidman’s work. Lapine is different. Lapine’s a little more mysterious. But yeah, it’s about who the bookwriters create and, as you know, I’ve boasted many times, I’m an actor when I write and I get into the characters, I just get into them. So, it’s not about being judgmental, it’s about acting. Because obviously a good actor does not pass judgment on the character he’s playing either. MH: There are certainly some cases where you’ve written songs where in essence you’ve almost created the characters. For instance, in “Please Hello,” the different admirals, and in your notes you write descriptions like “sly”—you have one-word characterizations. SS: Yes, but you just used the key thing: one word. These are cartoon characters: the sly, the dumb, the aggressive, et cetera. These are cartoon characters, these are farce characters, these are melodrama characters. Yes, I can do that. Absolutely, of course, I can do cartoons. But that’s a different kind of thing. I call them caricatures, although it’s not making fun of them, but it is about—phew—broad strokes. MH: With audiences, have you found that you’ve had to adapt to changed attention spans? Because of television, movies, video games, the speed with which audiences expect things to happen? SS: No. I always assume that audiences are medium-speed—that if you explain enough to them, it’s okay. I know that with a show like Assassins we assumed that the audiences would catch up to us. That the confusion about the time travel and that sort of thing, we assumed that they would be smart enough to catch up. I think if we had written that show in 1950 it would have been spelled out more. That’s a guess. I’ve never discussed this with John. But otherwise, no, I don’t adjust to the speed of the audience. The important thing with me with an audience is to be a little bit ahead of them. If they’re a little bit ahead of you, they tend to get bored.

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Now that’s not quite true, because a lot of the big hit shows are shows in which the audience is indeed coddled enough so they’re ahead of the show. That’s not my kind of show. The kind of show I’m interested in, you’ve got to keep one step ahead of the audience. MH: Are they useful to you during previews? SS: Oh, yes indeed. Sure. It’s mostly about understanding. It isn’t that you wait for an audience to like a show, but you can feel in an audience if they’re with you. They may be with you and dislike the show, but you can feel bafflement, or confusion, or lack of focus, or dissipation of interest. And those are the things you have to pay attention to. You don’t judge that so much by applause, although that does sometimes help, but by punctuations of laughter, by the quality of the applause. You can sort of tell: What are they discerning and what are they not? That’s the important thing. Does the audience know she’s his mother? MH: Very few of your musicals have included dance. Is it something you just don’t like or think about? SS: It’s just, when dance is useful, fine. When it isn’t, it doesn’t occur to me to dance, because dance is mostly interludes in shows. Now, if you’re writing West Side Story, no. Because, in fact, West Side Story is not about dance, it’s about choreographed action. There are dances, but most of the dances in West Side Story are either traditional, like “America,” or, that word that I can’t find in the dictionary, diegetic, like “The Dance at the Gym.” No, it’s just when it’s useful. . . . I have an idea for a show that would use dance quite a lot. And it’s something I had, unfortunately, thirty years ago, and it probably should have been done thirty years ago, but I’ve been nibbling at it with Weidman. And if I can bring myself to decide that it’s not too old-fashioned. . . . It’s a gimmick idea, but it’s a good idea. MH: Would you do dance arrangements? SS: Oh, my goodness. You know what I did with Anyone Can Whistle, for the third-act ballet I wrote a series of, I guess they were waltzes, and then Betty Walberg took them and worked with Herbie Ross, and in some cases expanded them and in some cases just did the work to accommodate. But I wrote the waltzes and then let her work with the choreographer. Because the problem is you can’t write dance music unless you work with the choreographer, and when are you going to do that? Lenny did not write the ballet music for West Side Story with Jerry. He wrote out

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themes and ideas and sections and gave them to Betty. Betty worked with Jerry, then brought them back to Lenny, and Lenny reworked them to suit, because there’s no time. You can’t be down at rehearsal every day. MH: The recent production of West Side, I don’t want you to make a value judgment over it, but it’s a show I know you have said to me you’re at least embarrassed about your part of it. If you were writing West Side Story from scratch today, do you know things that you would do differently? SS: No. Well, it depends. Because a lot of it was the weight of Lenny who was pushing me to do what he called poetic lyric writing, and so it’s an impossible question to answer. If I were twenty-five years old and Lenny was thirty-seven, and we were doing it again, no, it would come out the same way. But it has nothing to do with what I know; it has to do with how forcefully I could impress my ideas on him. MH: I’m not just asking about your work, but also things like the style of the script? SS: Oh, well the style of the script, I would have to argue that with Arthur. Well, I think Arthur’s choices were right for fifty-seven; I think they’re wrong for today. But I don’t know how he’d rewrite it, because you can’t. Arthur wants to make it contemporary; in effect, he wants to smell the menace of real street gangs. But even in 1957, the real street gangs didn’t say “rickytickytum,” they said fuck, shit, and cunt. Well, you put that on the stage, it doesn’t go with the score. One of the things I said to Arthur is: “So I’ll say, ‘When the shit hits the fan,’ instead of ‘When the spit hits the fan.’ And I’ll say ‘Fuck you,’ instead of ‘Krup you.’” But you know something, that would be wrong. That doesn’t go with the script. So there they are. And Arthur wants to be menacing, and they’re saying “Krup you.” That’s not a gang today, or a gang even in fifty-seven. That’s not a gang, that’s a musical comedy gang. I don’t know the solution. And nor does Arthur. I spoke to him about it a couple of times, but I had no constructive suggestion to make, because he can’t use real street argot. You can use it on the stage today. In those days, you know I wrote “Fuck you” for the end of “Krupke,” and nobody would let me use it. I wanted to be the first person to say a four-letter word on the musical comedy stage. You know nobody ever used a four-letter word besides damn until Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, when Burl Ives said “bullshit” in the middle of the second act. It was the shot heard ‘round the world. The audience jumped out of their seats. They couldn’t believe they heard the word “bullshit” on the stage. Twenty years later everybody’s saying “shit” and “fuck.”

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MH: You’ve also said that Maria and Tony aren’t real characters. SS: No, they’re not. SS: Would you rethink that, or do you think that’s right for this piece? SS: No. There’s so little time. MH: So it’s right for this show. SS: Oh yeah, I think Arthur developed the characters absolutely as best he could. There’s no more room to develop it any more richly. MH: Can you be both right and wrong? You’ve talked about how you’re particularly embarrassed by what you sometimes refer to as the “A Song”—”There’s a place for us . . . ” [In “Somewhere,” the most prominent note, because of the height and the fact that it’s reached from a large leap, lands on the comparatively insignificant word a.] But in many ways it is clearly a song that, over a couple of generations now, has meant something to people, and is among your most recorded, most known songs. SS: What can I say? MH: So though it may not be ideal, are audiences right that the song works, even though there are things about it that bother you? SS: Oh, I don’t think it’s about right or wrong. The fact is, it works in the show. Although, you’ve seen this production, right? MH: I saw it in Washington, D. C. SS: Okay. Well, when that little kid comes out, I just go under the chair and I hide until it’s all over. [In the 2009 Broadway revival, a young boy sings “Somewhere” center stage.] MH: Is he supposed to be what Tony and Maria’s child would have been if the tragedy had been averted? SS: [whispered] Yes, yes. I can just feel my body curdling. I find it so deeply embarrassing. But that’s exactly what it’s supposed to be. It’s Arthur’s idea. MH: Do you have any regrets?

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SS: Oh, you’re talking about shows. MH: Not in your personal life. SS: No, I’m making a joke. No, no regrets. Only one thing springs to mind, which is I wish when David Merrick had done Carnival he’d asked me to write the score, because that score I could have written. But otherwise, no. Yes, I regret spending a year of my life on Do I Hear a Waltz? I regret that. I did that as a favor to Arthur and a favor to Oscar, and it was wrong. That’s not why you write; you don’t write for favors, you write for love. And that was a mistake. It’s a perfectly respectable show; it’s just dead. It’s dead in the water, but it’s respectable. But no, otherwise no, I don’t regret Anyone Can Whistle or the shows that didn’t work out the way they should have. MH: I know you don’t like overviews, but is there anything you’re particularly proud of, or what you see your influence as having been? SS: No. It’s hard. I know that people have said that I have an influence. I can occasionally hear it in a score or in a show. But it’s neither good nor bad, I just hear it, I think, oh my god. MH: You don’t think that you’ve changed musical theater, and that you’re part of the evolution of it? SS: I guess I have. I guess I think I have. It’s a hard question to answer because I read that I have, and I can see the reasoning, and I guess I believe it. The way, you know, Oscar influenced me and I influenced others. The way Oscar changed the theater is the way I’ve changed the theater. Or changed the thinking about how to write scores and how to write shows. It’s not about changing the theater, it’s about ways of approaching scores and ways of approaching the writing of shows. Yeah. And, in that sense I think I was, if not a pioneer, at least the baton was passed on. Because Oscar was an experimental writer and I’m an experimental writer, and that’s all there is to it. And I learned that from him. And that’s why it was so lucky that I was his gofer on Allegro, because I learned how to write an experimental flop. That’s important. That’s very important.

Part II

SONGS I WISH I’D WRITTEN (AT LEAST IN PART) On May 22, 2000, the Library of Congress produced a concert in honor of Sondheim’s 70th birthday. The concert, conducted by Paul Gemignani and directed by Kathleen Marshall, opened with the songs from Sondheim’s 1974 The Frogs, with new orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick. This rarity was followed by a number of Sondheim’s favorite songs by other composers and lyricists. Sondheim spoke briefly, introducing these; a transcription of his comments follows. Also reprinted here from that evening’s program are the introduction and complete list of “Songs I Wish I’d Written (At Least in Part),” and the birthday messages from Sondheim’s fellow composers and lyricists as well as colleagues Gemignani and Tunick. Sondheim’s comments: To say why I picked each of these songs would take much too long. The fact is, when Mark Horowitz of the Music Division of the Library of Congress, suggested this notion, he said: Just make a list of songs that you like. I made a list of fifty; I could have made a list of 150. But out of those fifty we selected about fifteen or sixteen to be performed this evening. Part of the reason behind them is that, as you all know, it’s such a pleasure to share your enthusiasms with people. I wanted to include a lot of songs that most of you wouldn’t know. I actually listed reasons for each, but for now will just give you some of them. I wanted to make an eclectic group. There are some, for example, that I find emotionally moving, like Adam Guettel’s “Riddle Song” from Floyd Collins. Some songs I chose because they have enormous freshness and invention, for example, “Silverware,” which I suspect most of you don’t know, but which is one of the most extraordinarily unusual songs ever written. Some I chose because of their sheer skill and delight, like the song “Better,” by Ed Kleban, and “When in Rome,” by 245

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Carolyn Leigh and Cy Coleman, which I suspect some of you know. For its tenderness, I chose Maury Yeston’s “New Words.” Some I selected because they contain favorite lyric lines in them: “When Did I Fall in Love?” and “The Eagle and Me.” Some because they tell wonderful stories, like “The Golden Willow Tree.” “Bambalelê,” which is a South American folk song, because of its joy. I chose a couple that are very familiar. One, “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun,” because most people, I think, don’t appreciate how brilliant Irving Berlin was as a comic lyric writer. People think of him as sort of four-square and very simple, but he was right up there with Cole Porter, or any of the rest of them. There are, I think, sixteen jokes in “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun,” all on the same subject, and every single one is a surprise, and every single one has a fresh rhyme that you don’t see coming. It’s remarkable. Finally, I included “My Man’s Gone Now,” I guess because it’s the best song I ever heard, and it moves me. It’s got a lyric by DuBose Heyward, whose lyrics for Porgy and Bess are, I think, the best lyrics in the musical theater. [Sondheim was visibly moved at this point.] So, having emotionally destroyed myself: “But first. . . .”

From the Program: Songs I Wish I’d Written (At Least in Part) As various ideas for this evening’s concert were discussed with Sondheim, he latched on to one which we had titled “Sondheim’s Desert Island.” It was Sondheim who suggested the title “Songs I Wish I’d Written” and then later insisted on the addition of “(At Least in Part).” It should come as no surprise that “At Least in Part” has many meanings: foremost among them is that this is not intended to be a complete list. Rather, these are the songs that “first occurred” to Sondheim as being not only songs he wishes he’d written, but also songs that (again, for the most part) he thought in danger of being forgotten or dismissed. He also included songs by composers that he felt people, wrongly, supposed that he did not like or respect. From the 55 songs which he requested to be printed in this program (again, he wishes to emphasize, only a partial list), he selected the ones to be performed this evening.

STEPHEN SONDHEIM: SONGS I WISH I’D WRITTEN (AT LEAST IN PART) Music by Milton Ager; Lyrics by Jack Yellen, Bob Bigelow, and Charles Bates “Hard Hearted Hannah, the Vamp of Savannah” (1924) Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer “Blues in the Night” from the film Blues in the Night (1941) “I Had Myself a True Love” from St. Louis Woman (1946) “I Wonder What Became of Me” from St. Louis Woman (1946)

Songs I Wish I’d Written (At Least in Part) Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg “Buds Won’t Bud” from Hooray for What (1937) “The Eagle and Me” from Bloomer Girl (1944) Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin “I Got Lost in His Arms” from Annie Get Your Gun (1946) “Let’s Face the Music and Dance” from the film Follow the Fleet (1936) “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun” from Annie Get Your Gun (1946) Music by Leonard Bernstein; Lyrics by Richard Wilbur “Glitter and Be Gay” from Candide (1956) Music by Jerry Bock; Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick “Ice Cream” from She Loves Me (1963) “Tell Me I Look Nice” cut from She Loves Me (1963) “When Did I Fall in Love?” from Fiorello! (1959) Music and Lyrics by Johnny Burke “Sad Was the Day” from Donnybrook! (1961) Music by Moose Charlap; Lyrics by Eddie Lawrence “I’ll Never Go There Anymore” from Kelly (1965) Music by Cy Coleman; Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh “The Best Is Yet to Come” (1959) “The Other Side of the Tracks” from Little Me (1962) “Real Live Girl” from Little Me (1962) “The Rules of the Road” (1961) “When in Rome (I Do as the Romans Do)” (1964) Music adapted by Aaron Copland “Golden Willow Tree” from Old American Songs II (1954) Music arranged by Luciano Gallet “Bambalelê (Brazilian Song of the Northern Interior)” Music by George Gershwin; Lyrics by DuBose Heyward “My Man’s Gone Now” from Porgy and Bess (1935) Music and Lyrics by Adam Guettel “Riddle Song” from Floyd Collins (1994) Music by Ray Henderson; Lyrics by B. G. De Sylva and Lew Brown “Birth of the Blues” from George White’s Scandals of 1926 Music and Lyrics by Peter E. Jones “Bluellow” from Peyton Place (1994)

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Music by Walter Jurmann and Bronislau Kaper; Lyrics by Gus Kahn “San Francisco” from the film San Francisco (1936) Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb “Home” from 70, Girls, 70 (1971) Music by Harold Karr; Lyrics by Matt Dubey “Silverware” from We Take the Town (1962) Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II “I Am So Eager” from Music in the Air (1932) “The Song Is You” from Music in the Air (1932) Music and Lyrics by Edward Kleban “Better” (1973) Music by Michael Leonard; Lyrics by Herbert Martin “I’m All Smiles” from The Yearling (1965) Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser “Make a Miracle” from Where’s Charley? (1948) Music and Lyrics by Hugh Martin (*with Ralph Blane) “Ev’ry Time” from Best Foot Forward (1941)* “Gotta Dance” from Look, Ma, I’m Dancin’! (1948) “I Wanna Be Good ‘n’ Bad” from Make a Wish! (1951) “The Trolley Song” from the film Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)* Music and Lyrics by Bob Merrill “On the Farm” from New Girl in Town (1957) Music by Xavier Montsalvatge; Text by Ildefonso Pereda Valdés “Canción de Cuna Para Dormir a un Negrito” from Cinco Canciónes Negras (1958) Music by Lewis F. Muir; Lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee” (1912) Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter “Every Time We Say Goodbye” from Seven Lively Arts (1944) “Let’s Be Buddies” from Panama Hattie (1940) “Let’s Not Talk about Love” from Let’s Face It (1941) Music by Richard Rodgers “What’s the Use of Wond’rin’?” from Carousel (1945); Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II “Why Can’t I” from Spring Is Here (1929); Lyrics by Lorenz Hart

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Music and Lyrics by William Roy “Charm” from Maggie (1953) “What Every Woman Knows” from Maggie (1953) Music by Arthur Schwartz “By Myself” from Between the Devil (1937); Lyrics by Howard Dietz “He Had Refinement” from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951); Lyrics by Dorothy Fields “There’s No Holding Me” from Park Avenue (1946); Lyrics by Ira Gershwin Music by David Shire; Lyrics by Richard Malby, Jr. “Travel” from Starting Here, Starting Now (1977); originally written for the unproduced musical The River (1960) Music by Charles Strouse; Lyrics by Lee Adams “You’ve Got Possibilities” from It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman (1966) Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green “When the Weather’s Better” from Hallelujah, Baby! (1967) Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston “New Words” from History Loves Company (1989)

The following comments were solicited by the Library from the living composers and lyricists whose works were included in Stephen Sondheim’s “Songs I Wish I’d Written” list. On hearing about this, Messrs. Gemignani and Tunick requested the opportunity to include comments of their own. There are dozens of Stephen’s songs I wish I had written. His work is an inspiration and a challenge to us all. Lee Adams Dear Steve, After reading your insightful, intimate and ultimately moving profile in The New York Times, allow me to rewrite (as all musicals are) the caption under your shtetl-like photo on the cover, to whit: YOU DON’T STOP WRITING BECAUSE IT’S GONE IT’S GONE BECAUSE YOU STOP WRITING Don’t stop! Jerry Bock In a very gracious act of generosity, Stephen Sondheim has chosen fifty five songs he wished he had written to be performed at a concert celebrating his 70th birthday. Imagine that, it’s his birthday and I’m getting a present because among the songs he chose are five written by Carolyn Leigh and myself.

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Stephen Sondheim is a towering figure in the theatre and musical worlds who has put his personal imprint on a few generations of writers. He has legions of devoted fans and as many imitators. Happy Birthday, Stephen. Congratulations on your seventy years of creative accomplishments and wishing you many more. Cy Coleman Working with Stephen Sondheim over the years, I have learned so much. He challenges one, both musically and intellectually. He never takes the easy way out and does not expect you to, while all of the time allowing you your creative freedom. Working with Steve has always made me thankful and proud to be a musician. Regards, Paul Gemignani Twenty years ago I sat down at Steve’s piano and played what I hoped he would think was the best music he’d ever heard. My music. The next day, I must have written him the world’s most passive-aggressive thank you note, because this was his response, which I still have, framed in my studio. Dear Adam, Thanks for the letter, but I didn’t mean to be “not very encouraging.” In fact, I hoped I was being quite the reverse: for me, true encouragement consists not so much of burbling as of detailed attention. And then: Just keep writing as we all do—or should. With love, Steve Two months ago, I played Steve several songs from my current project. It was “cut this, move that, too poetic, too prosaic, excellent, not so excellent, etc.” It was wonderful. It was liberating. It was, above all, loving, because a real mentor never burbles, and a mentee learns if he’s lucky, that the point is not to be good, but to improve. It doesn’t matter that I’ve played for Steve only twice. The lesson will span my life. And of course, there is his own work, never ever burbling, unsurpassed. Adam Guettel I was delighted to be included in Stephen Sondheim’s list of “Songs I Wish I’d Written.” But I’m somewhat bewildered because I’m fairly certain that Mr. Sondheim actually did write some of the lyrics he attributed to me. I remember writing “When Did I Fall in Love?” but I’m not too sure of “Ice Cream.” And I can say with absolute certainty that he wrote “Tell Me I Look Nice.” At least, I think so. As to the lyrics I wrote which he claims to have written, I would be happy to discuss them but I’m rather pressed for time. I will say, however, that whoever wrote them they’re lovely. Sheldon Harnick

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A recollection, apropos: 1991. A study, with ten thousand recordings dominating the west wall, save a nook, housing a hi-fi with a modest reel-to-reel deck. Included are one god of the theatre, and one neophyte. Minds bubbling, hearts burgeoning. Wine pouring. I’m showing great interest in his collection of reel-to-reel tapes of obscure show demos. P: “WE TAKE THE TOWN? I love HOW DOES THE WINE TASTE!” S: “HOW do you know that? You’ve gotta hear SILVERWARE. S: “Gee, I wish I’d written that! What else do I ha . . . OH! You’ve gotta hear this one from KELLY—it’s seven minutes long!” P: “When was the last time you cleaned these heads?” “I’LL NEEEEEEEEEEEEVER GO THERE ANYMORE!,” Moose Charlap screams from the most distorted recording I’d ever heard in my life. S: “Isn’t that terrific?” P: “Yeah, but I’ve gotta eat something.” “ON THE FARM” I was not, and did “I WANNA BE GOOD ‘N’ BAD!” More wine, more favorites, more fun, and the evening flew by, as, indeed, the years have. Now, many people will be treated to an evening of these gems as I once was. The feeling of that evening never leaves me, and neither does my love for the gem most precious to me. Happy 70, Steve! Peter E. Jones Dear Stephen, Congratulations on this celebration of your brilliant contribution to the American musical theatre. We are so proud that our song “Home” was included in your list. We are prouder still that you are our friend. With many, many bravos for you and your work and much love, John Kander and Fred Ebb A writer I knew greeted people with names of theatre greats. Instead of “Hello” he’d say, “Luigi Pirandello!” “See you later” was, say “Oscar Wilde . . .,” or, if he were in a rush, “O’Neill!” Going in to see Company I waved over at him and he called back, “Euripides!” During intermission we ran into one another in the lobby and both of us shouted, “Steve Sondheim!” Hockney said Picasso was his main man because Pablo gave him the permission and courage to go all the way. Sondheim did it for lyricists, composers, and playwrights. What a dandy thing to discover our number from the original Kelly among his list of “Songs He Wishes He’d Written.” (Such a generous notion.) If Moose Charlap were around we’d have taken an ad. Eddie Lawrence Stephen Sondheim’s unique talent, extraordinary craftsmanship, and enormous “ears” have changed musical theater forever and set the standard for everyone who follows. Happy Birthday! Michael Leonard

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Dear Steve, We couldn’t be more delighted to have one of our songs on your wish list, since there is no song of yours we wouldn’t want on ours. Your mentorship when we were fledglings, your encouragement, the inspiration of your work throughout our entire career—for all this we are profoundly grateful. You have always shown us what was possible and what to reach for. Happy, happy birthday! Don’t ever stop singing. With Love, Richard Maltby, Jr., and David Shire Fond I’m Of Sondheim He’s my muse-ical God! For where would the world be Without Sweeney Todd? Where would it be Without Gypsy or Forum? For those two alone I’ll forever adore’m! And with Story, Night Music And Follies and Passion, It’s a sure bet S. Sondheim Won’t pass out of fashion! Yes, where would the world be Without Sundays with George? Or the fact that Steve’s written music On which we happily gorge? He’s let us keep Company With his ingenious styles Which accounts for the reason Most days, “I’m All Smiles”! Now with just a word Or two more I’ll finally end this epistle: Happy Birthday, Steve Sondheim Please keep on making us Whistle Herbert E. Martin When I saw Anyone Can Whistle during its pre-Broadway tryout period, I seemed to hear History whispering in my ear, “I’m getting ready to send in

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a new era of the American Musical Theater.” When I saw Company, I whispered back, “Don’t bother, it’s here.” By the time I saw Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods, the whispers had turned to shouts of joy. Thank you, dear Stephen, for a never-ending stream of new beginnings. Your grateful fan, Hugh Martin As for a comment on Stephen, I can only say that since “Anyone Can Whistle” I have been an unswervable fan of his work, musically as well as lyrically, and in the unlikely event that someone should ask me for a list of fiftyfive songs I wish I had written, I could easily fill the list with songs of Stephen’s, with no effort at all. As a composer, the pleasure for me has been in not only discovering his words and his music, but also in learning from them. William Roy I’ve known Stephen Sondheim for longer than either of us would like to admit. He said to me a long time ago, that “writing music was, for him, relatively easy, but lyrics he sweated and sweated over.” That remark still gets me crazy. Happy Birthday Stephen. Love, Charles Strouse Steve’s misfortune is to be an Apollonian artist set down in a Dionysian era; despite this he has established himself as our theater’s preeminent musical dramatist, and it has been my privilege to have served him as orchestrator these many years. In my more wistful moments I’ve considered a few items that I wish that he had written: 1. Phantom of the Opera (what happens when the writers take over the theater) 2. Sunset Boulevard (what happens when the actors take over the theater) 3. La Cage Aux Folles (as Rossini remarked regarding a good melody written by an otherwise unworthy composer: “Troppo buone per questo coglione!”—Too good for that bastard!) 4. Les Miserables (just for the money) Steve’s graciousness towards me is of long standing—to him I owe a career, my sanity, and an appreciation of his ability to observe with a knowing chuckle, the human condition. Thanks for all that, Steve, and for always treating me as an Old Friend. Jonathan Tunick Things I wish I’d written: “Ode to Joy,” “Lovely” (Funny Thing), “Lullaby” (Brahms), “The Ladies Who Lunch” (Company), “I’m Still Here” (Follies), “In

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the Still of the Night” (Porter), “In the Still of the Night” (Doo Wop), “Send in the Clowns,” “Aba Daba Honeymoon,” “Back in Business” (Dick Tracy), A Little Night Music (Mozart), A Little Night Music (Sondheim), “Smile” (Chaplin), “Children Will Listen” (Into the Woods), Winterreise (All), Sweeney Todd (All), “A Little Priest” (this one gets a special mention), “Please, no grass . . . the theater is a temple, not a class!” (The Frogs, Yale Pool), “Someone to Watch Over Me” (Gershwin), “Not While I’m Around,” Sunday in the Park (All), etc. etc. Living national treasure. Member of the Pantheon. Thanks for saving the last quarter of the century . . . Maury Yeston

Part III

SONG LISTING, DISCOGRAPHY AND PUBLISHING INFORMATION

Explanatory Notes

I have tried to make the following song listing as useful, informative, and easy to use as possible, but some further clarification is necessary. First, “song listing” is slightly misleading, as all of Sondheim’s known musical works, not just songs, are listed. All works (published and unpublished) are listed in alphabetical order, ignoring initial articles “The,” “A,” and “An.” Works with commonly used alternate titles, such as “Buddy’s Blues” and “The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Blues,” are cross-referenced. Particularly in his later scores, such as Into the Woods and Passion, published scores reflect titles such as “Opening (Part IV),” whereas recordings refer to these sections with titles like “Jack, Jack, Jack.” I have attempted to cross-reference as many of these as seemed useful, or at least include the score information parenthetically with the more commonly known title. “See also” references refer to a related song, often a later or earlier version of the same song, or to indicate songs that are usually linked, such as “Love Will See Us Through” and “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow.” Each song title is followed by its source—be it a stage musical, film, or television show. “From” is self-explanatory. “Cut from” generally means that the song was not used in the final version of the show, but in some cases, the song may never have been rehearsed. However, the difference between “cut” and “unused” seems either too subtle, or too difficult to track down, to be worthy of the distinction. Songs that were written for revivals of shows, or, as in the case of Saturday Night, decades after the majority of the score was written, are described as being “written for the [year given] production of [show title].” “For” generally means that the show was unproduced or the song was unfinished. 257

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Most show titles are clear and unambiguous, but one unproduced show that Sondheim worked on as lyricist to Leonard Bernstein has been variously known as A Pray by Blecht, The Exception and the Rule, and The Race to Urga; the second option is the title I have decided to use here. His most recent show, Road Show, was produced in an earlier version under the title Bounce, and before that had workshops and readings under the titles Gold! and Wise Guys. Songs that are on both the Bounce and Road Show recordings may be slightly different, but are here considered the same song. After a show’s title is a year in parentheses. For produced shows, this is the year that the show opened; for unproduced works this is the year or years in which the show was predominantly written. Unproduced shows are described as “unproduced” after the date. Any composer and lyricist collaborators are noted after the date information. Other notes or points of interest follow in square brackets. For songs that have been published, that information is conveyed in the next line. At the end of this section are the definitions of the codes that indicate the title of the published vocal scores, vocal selections, and songbooks referenced. Not all of these are in print, but between libraries and various auction catalogs, used bookstores, and music websites, all should be available to the determined collector. The codes for the published songs are usually followed by information on the vocal range. If no range is given, it is either described as a “company number,” meaning for multiple voices, or “instrumental.” The ranges are given using the standard designation of middle C as “c1,” the C an octave above as “c2,” and an octave above that as “c3”; the C below middle C is “c,” and the C below that is “C.” Most songs are written in the treble clef, even if they are specifically for men and sung an octave lower than written. The primary exception is in Sweeney Todd, in which Sweeney and the Judge are written in the bass clef in the piano-vocal score, and are so designated here. The range information is given here for two primary purposes: to inform singers if they have the range for a given song, and, in the cases where a song has been published in various keys, to determine which publication best suits the singer’s tessitura. For instance, there are versions of “Being Alive” listed here in which the lowest note is F, G, B, or D. When ranges are given for duets, or trios, the information is given in the order that the voices are heard in the work, separated by slashes. Not included here are Sondheim songs published in general collections of songs, most individual sheet music, and instrumental or choral arrangements. Next appears the discographical information. This includes only published, commercially available recordings—not personal or pirated recordings, which abound. It also includes only vocal recordings of songs with lyrics by Sondheim but music by another composer—wherever it is

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possible to distinguish them (with the exception of a listing at the end of some major instrumental albums of West Side Story, Gypsy, and Do I Hear a Waltz?). The listings under each title are divided into two sections. First are the show recordings (in the broadest sense) in chronological order—as closely as can be determined. For these, the album title is followed by the performer’s name, followed by the recording information. Second are the recordings by singers, singing groups, and instrumentalists, listed alphabetically by lead performer or group name. This list includes the performer’s name, followed by the album title, followed by the recording information. For recordings that contain three or more songs by Sondheim, a code is given (in SMALL CAPS) to direct the reader to the recording information found in the section at the end of this guide (beginning on page 485). In essence, those pages contain the heart of what would be the most significant collection of Sondheim recordings. For recordings which contain only one or two Sondheim songs, all the available information for the recording is listed under the individual songs. There are a few show recordings that are out of chronological order, as I discovered their existence after codes had already been used throughout the song listing. There are also a few cases where a recording includes fewer than three Sondheim songs, but it was included in the second portion of the discography in order to display, for instance, all known Candide recordings together. I hope these examples are clear and will cause no confusion. As of 2010 there are seven albums that comprise collections of (mostly) previously recorded Sondheim songs: A Collector’s Sondheim, The Stephen Sondheim Songbook, The Sondheim Collection, The MUSICality of Sondheim, Send in the Clowns: The Ballads of Stephen Sondheim, Comedy Tonight!: Stephen Sondheim’s Funniest Songs, and Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . . (see page 546). Cuts included in these are indicated in the body of this discography with the superscript numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 appearing after the title of the source recording. Not included in this discography are previously issued recordings that are included in non-Sondheim collections, usually with titles like “Broadway’s Greatest Hits.” On the other hand, when a singer recorded a Sondheim song on one album that was later released as part of another—particularly a compilation album of the singer’s work—frequently both recordings are included. Reissues, particularly of LPs subsequently released on CDs, are often but not consistently cited. Knowing that a particular performer has recorded a particular song should be enough information to seek out a more recent reissue (or, these days, a downloadable file). Credit must be given to the appendix to Stephen Banfield’s book, Sondheim’s Broadway Musicals, which proved to be an invaluable starting point

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for much of the title and show information. There were dozens of sources for the discographical information and I am grateful to all who contributed citations and missing pieces of information. The section is greatly expanded in this edition, not only with new songs and recordings that have come out since the first edition, but the Internet (particularly sites like www.allmusic.com, castalbumcollector.com, and foreign-language sites like the German www.soundofmusic-shop.de), has made it easier to find information on more obscure, out of print, and foreign recordings. Any compilation of this type is inevitably incomplete and dated by the time it is printed, but it is hoped that the benefits will outweigh the imperfections. My fervent wish is that Sondheim will write many more shows and all of his works will continue to be published and recorded. Annotate this listing as you see fit, and for those obsessive-compulsive types, I shall try to correct it and keep it updated for future editions.

CODES FOR PUBLISHED MUSIC ACWPVS ACWVS APVS ASI ASII ASIII ASIV ATGVS AVS BOB BSBA BSBB BSC CaPVS CaVS CFC CPVS CVS

Anyone Can Whistle piano-vocal score, Hal Leonard 312012 Anyone Can Whistle vocal selections, Hal Leonard 312010 Assassins piano-vocal score, Warner Bros. VF1765 All Sondheim vol. I, Warner Bros. VAL2023 All Sondheim vol. II, Warner Bros. VAL2024A All Sondheim vol. III, Warner Bros. VAL2025A All Sondheim vol. IV, Warner Bros. 0283B All That Glitters vocal selections, Broadcast Music Inc., 1949 Assassins vocal selections—revised, Warner Bros. VF1928 Bernstein on Broadway, Amberson/G. Schirmer Barbra Streisand The Broadway Album, Hal Leonard HL00358239 Barbra Streisand Back to Broadway, Cherry Lane Music/Hal Leonard 02502132 Barbra Streisand The Concert, Cherry Lane Music/Hal Leonard 02502164 Candide piano-vocal score, Macmillan/Schirmer Books; current edition, Boosey & Hawkes M051966103 Candide vocal selections, Amberson Enterprises/G. Schirmer; current edition, Boosey & Hawkes M051922338 The Complete Follies Collection, Author’s Edition, Hal Leonard HL00313306 Company piano-vocal score, Hal Leonard HL00362136 Company vocal selections, Valando Music, 1970

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CVS2 CVS3 DIHPVS DIHVS DTVS FLVS FPVS FTPVS FTVS FVS GPVS GVS HTSS ITWPVS ITWVS LNMPVS LNMVS MWRPVS MWRVS POPVS PPVS PRSM PVS SCCH SNVS SPGPVS SPGVS SSFTS

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Company vocal selections, 25th Anniversary Edition, Hal Leonard HL00359494 The Complete Company Collection, Author’s Edition, Hal Leonard HL00359494 Do I Hear a Waltz? piano-vocal score, Hal Leonard 312116 Do I Hear a Waltz? vocal selections, Hal Leonard 312115 Dick Tracy vocal selections, Hal Leonard HL00490516 Follies London vocal selections, Carlin Music Group/IMP 89042/Hal Leonard HL00359869 Follies piano-vocal score, Hal Leonard 362215 A Funny Thing . . . Forum piano-vocal score, Hal Leonard 312152 A Funny Thing . . . Forum vocal selections, Hal Leonard 312151 Follies vocal selections, Charles Hansen Gypsy piano-vocal score, Hal Leonard 312188 Gypsy vocal selections, Hal Leonard 312187 Hansen Treasury of Stephen Sondheim Songs, Charles Hansen Music & Books, Inc. Into the Woods piano-vocal score, Warner Bros. VF1544 Into the Woods vocal selections, Warner Bros. VF1445 A Little Night Music piano-vocal score, Warner Bros. VAL2014A A Little Night Music vocal selections, Warner Bros. VAL2013A Merrily We Roll Along piano-vocal score, Revelation Music & Rilting Music/Tommy Valando Merrily We Roll Along vocal selections, Warner Bros. VAL2015A Pacific Overtures piano-vocal score, Warner Bros. VAL2017 Passion piano-vocal score, Warner Bros. PF9608 Phinney’s Rainbow sheet music, Broadcast Music Inc., 1948 Passion vocal selections, Warner Bros. VF2164 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall, Warner Bros. VAL2022A Saturday Night vocal selections, Hal Leonard HL00313107 Sunday in the Park with George piano-vocal score, Warner Bros. VAL2019A Sunday in the Park with George vocal selections, Warner Bros. VAL2018A Stephen Sondheim Film and Television Songs Warner Bros. 0098B

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The Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Chappell & Company/Elm Tree Books, London, 1979 Sweeney Todd piano-vocal score (revised), Warner Bros. VAL2021B Sweeney Todd vocal selections, Warner Bros. VAL2020A West Side Story full score, Boosey & Hawkes MO51211760 West Side Story piano-vocal score, Boosey & Hawkes MO51970209 West Side Story vocal selections, Boosey & Hawkes MO51933457

Song Listing

“A-1 March” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) [also known as “Hooray for Hapgood”] ACWPVS d1-g♯2 Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Ensemble) [part of “A Parade in Town”], see ANYONE1 Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (Ensemble), see ANYONE2 “Act I Prologue” from Pacific Overtures (1976) POPVS d-b♭1 “Act Two Opening” added to Merrily We Roll Along (1989) [includes “He’s Only a Boy” and a modified version of “Good Thing Going”] Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Michelle Pawk), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Louise Gold), see MERRILY3 “Ad” from Mary Poppins (1950, unproduced) “Addison’s City” from Bounce (2003) and Road Show (2008) Bounce Original Cast (Gavin Creel, Howard McGillin, Richard Kind, Michelle Pawk), see BOUNCE1 Road Show Original Cast Recording (Claybourne Elder, Michael Cerveris, Alexander Gemignani, Company), see ROADSHOW1 “Addison’s Trip” from Bounce (2003) and Road Show (2008), [see also “Lunch”] Bounce Original Cast (Richard Kind, Ensemble), see BOUNCE1 263

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Road Show Original Cast Recording (Alexander Gemignani, Company), see ROADSHOW1 “The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea” from Pacific Overtures (1976) POPVS company number Pacific Overtures Original Cast (Mako, Company), see PACIFICOVER1 Pacific Overtures English National Opera (Richard Angas, Company), see PACIFICOVER2 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (instrumental), see SOND1 A Gala Concert for Hal Prince (The Munich Radio Orchestra), see GALA1 Pacific Overtures New Broadway Cast (B. D. Wong, Company), see PACIFICOVER3 East West Players/East West Overtures (Mako, Tim Dang, & Ensemble), see EASTWEST1 New York City Opera Orchestra/Broadway’s Best (instrumental) [“Pacific Overtures Suite, First Movement”], see NEWYORKCITYOP1 “Advice” from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) “After All” from By George (1946) “Afternoon in Benicia” for The Legendary Mizners (ca. 1953, unproduced) “Agony” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS duet b-e2/c♯1-e2, reprise b-e♯2/c♯1-e2, ITWVS duet d1-f2 [both] Into the Woods Original Cast6 (Robert Westenberg, Chuck Wagner), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Clive Carter, Mark Tinkler), see INTOTHE2 Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental) [part of the “Into the Woods Suite”], see SYMPHONICSON1 No One Is Alone . . . (Greg Hart & Kynan Johns), see NOONEIS1 That’s What Friends Are For (Peter Land, Robert Meadmore), First Night CAST CD52, 1996 [in medley with “It Takes Two” & “Love I Hear”] Into the Woods Revival Cast (Gregg Edelman, Christopher Sieber), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Jonathan Castillo, Paul Fraccalvieri), see INTOTHE4 Simply Sondheim (Steve Rhyne, Tom Orr), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Sergi Albert, Carlos Gramaje), see INTOTHE5 East West Players/East West Overtures (Scott Watanabe, Andrew Djang), see EASTWEST1

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“Ah, But Underneath . . .” from London revival of Follies (1987) ASIII f-b♭1, CFC f-c♭2, FLVS f-e♭2 + chorus Follies London Cast (Diana Rigg), see FOLLIES03 Putting It Together (Julie Andrews) [incomplete], see PUTTINGIT1 Follies, The Complete Recording (Dee Hoty, Gentlemen of the Ensemble), see FOLLIES05 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Pretty Women”] Simply Sondheim (Kelly Ground, Kim Larsen, Tom Orr, Steve Rhyne), see SIMPLYSOND1 Eichorn-Young, Susan/Taking My Turn, see EICHORNS1 Kreutz, Michael/Since You Stayed Here, Blue Moon Music, [n.n.], 2001 Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim, see LAINEC2 Young, Susan Eichorn/Taking My Turn, see YOUNGSU1 “Ah, Miss” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS c1-f2 Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Victor Garber, Sarah Rice, Merle Louise), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Pep Molina, Ma. Josep Peris, Teresa Vallicrosa), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Davis Gaines, Heidi Grant Murphy, Audra McDonald), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Benjamin Magnuson, Lauren Molina, Diana DiMarzio), see SWEENEYT5 “Ah, Paree!/Ah, Paris!” from Follies (1971) CFC c♯1-f2, FLVS, FVS, HTSS g♯-c2, FPVS c♯1-g2 [for “montage” ending low note of a] Follies Original Cast (Fifi D’Orsay), FOLLIES01 Side by Side by Sondheim1 (Millicent Martin), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Jill Perryman), see SIDEBYS2 Follies in Concert (Liliane Montevecchi), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (Maria Charles), see FOLLIES03 Follies, The Complete Recording (Liliane Montececchi), see FOLLIES05 Singers Unlimited/A Little Light Music (Beryl Korman), see SINGERSUN1 [with “Parisian Pierrot” & “The Last Time I Saw Paris”] “Airport at Biarritz” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “Alarms,” see “Four Black Dragons” “Alaska” cut from Bounce (2003)

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“All Aboard” from the 2004 revised version of The Frogs The Frogs Original Broadway Cast (John Byner), see FROGS2 [also reprise] “All for You” from Saturday Night (1954) SNVS d1-g2 Unsung Sondheim (Davis Gaines), see UNSUNGS1 Saturday Night Bridewell Cast (Anna Francolini), see SATURDAYN1 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Lauren Ward), see SATURDAYN2 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Cast) [from original backer’s audition] “All I Need Is the Girl/Boy” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne GPVS, GVS2 e1-g2, GVS c♯1-e2 Gypsy Original Cast (Paul Wallace), see GYPSY01 Gypsy Film (Paul Wallace), see GYPSY02 Gypsy London Cast (Andrew Norman), see GYPSY03 Gypsy Revival Cast (Robert Lambert), see GYPSY04 Gypsy TV Cast (Jeffrey Broadhurst), see GYPSY05 Celebrating Gypsy . . . (Tim Flavin), see CELEBRATGYP Kay Medford in “Gypsy” (Richard Fox), see GYPSY09 Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (David Burtka), see GYPSY10 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Tony Yazbeck), see GYPSY11 Baker, Darrin/What’s A Nice Girl Like You . . . , Car-Jam Records/2die4 99012, 1999 [in medley with “Hundreds of Girls”] Broadway Theatre Chorus/Fiddler on the Roof; Gypsy, Stage and Screen Productions Cassette: XSSC 704, 1983 Burnett, Carol/Carol Burnett Sings, Decca (S)7-4437, 1967 [reissued on CD as Let Me Entertain You, Decca 012 159 402-2, 2000] Chakiris, George/George Chakiris, Capitol (S)ST-1750, 1962 Connick, Jr., Harry, and His Orchestra,/Swinging Out Live, Sony Music Distribution 49116, 1991 Damone, Vic/Don’t Let Me Go, United Talent/Buddah (S) UTS-4501, 1960–69 Damone, Vic/ . . . Live in Concert, Classic World # 12A, 2000 [?] Feinstein, Michael/Michael Feinstein Sings the Jule Styne Songbook, see FEINSTEIN1 Harnar, Jeff/Jeff Harnar Sings the 1959 Broadway Songbook, see HARNARJ1 Malmberg, Sue/Musical Theatre Classics: Tenor, H. Leonard Pub. Corp HL00660152, 1990 [cassette] Manilow, Barry/Showstoppers, Arista 18687-2, 1991 Marcovicci, Andrea/Andrea Marcovicci Sings Movies, DRG 91405, 1991 [in medley] McKechnie, Donna/Inside the Music, see MCKECHNIED1 [in medley]

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Myles, Meg/Meg Myles at the Living Room, Mercury MG-20686, (S)SR60686, 1963 Ringuette, Don/American Songbook, [n.l.] 70844, 2004 Ross, Annie/Gypsy, see ROSSANNIE Roy Budd Trio/Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Musical . . . Sondheim, see ROYBUDD1 Sinatra, Frank/Francis A. Sinatra & Edward K. Ellington, Reprise 102422, 1967 Sinatra, Frank/The Reprise Collection, Reprise 9 26340-2, 1990 Singing Hoosiers/Twentieth Anniversary Concert 1970, Century Records 38142, 1970 Styne, Jule/My Name Is Jule, see STYNEJ1 Tormé, Mel/Tormé Swings Shubert Alley, Verve (S)6-2132, 1960, Verve 821 581-2 YH [MGM 1960, reissued by PolyGram 1984] Tormé, Mel/’Round Midnight: A Retrospective, Stash Records ST-CD-4, 1988 Wangesteen, Eric/It Had to Be You, [n.l.] 10829, 2009 Williams, Gary/Swingin’ on Broadway, Bos CDSA6816, 2008 “All Things Bright and Beautiful” cut from Follies (1971), [see also “Prologue”] ASII, CFC duet e1-f♯2/e1-g2, FPVS instrumental as “Prologue” Marry Me a Little1 (Craig Lucas, Suzanne Henry), see MARRYME1 A Little Sondheim Music (Los Angeles Vocal Arts Ensemble), see LITTLES1 Follies, The Complete Recording (Laurence Guittard, Donna McKechnie), see FOLLIES05 Dow, Judith/Regards to Broadway, see DOWJ1 Green, Simon/Take Me to the World, see GREENS1 [with “Take Me to the World”] Mayes, Sally/Boys and Girls Like You and Me (with Brent Barrett), see MAYESS1 [with “Your Eyes Are Blue”] New York City Gay Men’s Chorus/New York, New York, A Broadway Extravaganza, see NEWYORKCITYGAY1 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 “All’s Fair” from By George (1946) “Alma Mater” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) “Alms . . . Alms . . .” from Sweeney Todd (1979) [included in “No Place Like London”] STPVS a-d♯2 Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Merle Louise), see SWEENEYT1

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Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Teresa Vallicrosa), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Audra McDonald), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Diana DiMarzio), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Laura Michelle Kelly), see SWEENEYT6 “Alumnum’s Song” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) “America” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein BOB, WSSPVS duet + company, WSSVS c1-e2 West Side Story Original Cast7 (Chita Rivera, Marilyn Cooper, Reri Grist, Shark Girls), see WESTSIDE01 West Side Story film (Bety Wand, George Chakiris, The Sharks, Their Girls), see WESTSIDE02 West Side Story Studio Cast (Louise Edeiken, Tatiana Troyanos, Chorus), see WESTSIDE03 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Chita Rivera, Pamela Myers), see SONDAMUST1 Jerome Robbins Broadway (Charlotte d’Ambrosia, Debbie Shapiro, Barbara Yeager, Nancy Hess, Elaine Wright, Renée Stork), see JEROMER1 West Side Story Studio Cast London (La Vern Williams, Mary Carewe, Jenny O’Grady, Lee Gibson), see WESTSIDE04 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Caroline O’Connore, Julie Paton, Girls), see WESTSIDE05 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Caroline O’Connore, Nick Ferranti, Sharks), see WESTSIDE05 [Alternate Motion Picture Version] West Side Story, The Songs of (Natalie Cole, Patti Labelle, Sheila E.), see WESTSIDE06 West Side Story, Dave Grusin presents (background vocalists), see WESTSIDE07 West Side Story London Studio Cast (Mary Preston, Venita Ernandes, Lorraine Hart, Lorraine Smith), see WESTSIDE09 West Side Story Original Score (Marianne Cooke, Joanna Chozen, Girls), see WESTSIDE10 West Side Story Broadway Revival (Karen Olivo, Jennifer Sanchez, Shark Girls), see WESTSIDE11 Bentley, Alison/Songs of Leonard Bernstein and Irving Berlin, Slam 248, 2002 Blackwell, Harolyn/A Simple Song: Blackwell Sings Bernstein, see BLACKWELL1 [duet with Vanessa Williams] Darin, Bobby/West Side Story, see DARIN1

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Davis Jr., Sammy/Sammy Davis Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove, see DAVISS [part of West Side Story medley] Kaufmann, Anna Maria/Spotlight—Musical Moments, Polydor, 1999[?] La Lupe/They Call Me La Lupe, Fania 130135, 1971/2006 Lopez, Trini/Trini at PJ’s, Reprise (S)6093, 1968 [reissued on dozens of albums & collections] Lyman, Arthur/Many Moods of Arthur Lyman, Hi-Fi (S)SL-1007, 45rpm 5057, 1962 Martin, Denny/Taste of Honey, Liberty LRP-3237, (S)LST-7237, 1962 O’Connor, Caroline/What I Did for Love, JAY Records CDJAY 1314, 1998 Schlongs/Punk Side Story (Melissa MacArthur), see SCHLONG1 Stephens, Dave/Broadway Originals, Cameo (S)CS-4006, 1962 “Another Hundred People” from Company (1970) ASI, CPVS, CVS [2 versions], CVS2, CVS3, HTSS, SSS c1-e♭2 Company Original Cast7 (Pamela Myers), see COMPANY01 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Pamela Myers), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim (Julia McKenzie), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Geraldene Morrow), see SIDEBYS2 A Stephen Sondheim Evening (Judy Kaye), see STEPHENSE1 A Broadway Extravaganza (instrumental), see BROADWAYEX [in medley] Stephen Sondheim’s Company . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see COMPANY03 Company Revival Cast (La Chanze), see COMPANY05 Second City Divas (Kathy Santen), MAM Records, 1996 Company London Revival Cast (Anna Francolini), see COMPANY04 Sondheim Tonight (The West End Chorus), see SONDTON1 [with “Being Alive” & “Sunday in the Park with George”] The Stephen Sondheim Album (Alice Ripley), see STEPHENSA1 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON Company Brazilian Cast (Sabrina Korgut), see COMPANY06 Company Accompaniment CD (Liz Donathan/accompaniment), see COMPANY08 Company Second Revival Cast (Angel Desai), see COMPANY09 Beechman, Laurie/Time Between the Time, DRG 5230, 1993 Boston Pops Orchestra/Songs of the ’60s (instrumental), see BOSTON1 Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (sung by Malcolm Gets), see COOKB1 [with “So Many People”] Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook at the Met, see COOKB2 [with “So Many People”] Dartmouth Aires/Colors, Dynamic Recording XPL-1026 [Men’s Chorus] Di Novi, Gene/Softly, Di 123 Pedimega, 1977 [solo piano]

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East West Players/East West Overtures (Deborah Nishimura), see EASTWEST1 Gillies, Jodie/Jodie Gillies, TVD 93371 (Festival Records), [n.d.] Harvey, Jane/Jane Harvey Sings Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Lemper, Ute/City of Strangers, see LEMPER1 Michuda, Marie/It’s a Grand Night for Singing, Southport S-SSD 0074, 1999 Mitchell, Brian Stokes/Brian Stokes Mitchell, see MITCHELLBS1 [with “Take the ‘A’ Train”] New York City Gay Men’s Chorus/Love Lives On, see NEWYORKCITYGAY2 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Phillips, Miles/Might As Well Be . . . , [n.l., n.n., n.d.] [with “Eleanor Rigby”] Ralston, Teri/I’ve Gotta Get Back to New York (with Pamela Myers), see RALSTONT1 Roy Budd Trio/Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Musical . . . Sondheim, see ROYBUDD1 Swingle Singers/1812, Swing CD4, 1989 [reissued on Virgin Classics CDC 5 45134 2, 1995] Toro, Natalie/Natalie Toro, see TORON1 Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 “Another National Anthem” from Assassins (1991) APVS company number Assassins Original Cast (Company), see ASSASSINS1 No One Is Alone . . . (Company), see NOONEIS1 Assassins Broadway Cast (Company), see ASSASSINS2 “Another World” from The Lady or the Tiger (1954, unproduced), music by Mary Rodgers “Any Moment” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS duet b♭-e♭2/c1-d2 Into the Woods Original Cast (Robert Westenberg, Joanna Gleason), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Clive Carter, Imelda Staunton), see INTOTHE2 No One Is Alone . . . (Kynan Johns), see NOONEIS1 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Gregg Edelman, Kerry O’Malley), see INTOTHE3

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Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Jonathan Castillo, Nadiene Jacques), see INTOTHE4 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Carlos Gramaje, Annabel Totusaus), see INTOTHE5 Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., see PETERSB1 [with “Hello Little Girl”] “Anyone Can Whistle” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) ACWPVS g-c2, reprise g-d♭2, ACWVS, ASI, HTSS, SCCH, SSS b♭-e♭2 Anyone Can Whistle2, 7 Original Cast (Lee Remick), see ANYONE1 Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Stephen Sondheim), see ANYONE1 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Stephen Sondheim), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim (David Kernan), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Bartholomew John), see SIDEBYS2 Songs of Sondheim Irish Cast (Tony Kenny), see SONGSOFSOND1 Sondheim, Book-of-the-Month Records (Betsy Joslyn), see SOND1 A Broadway Extravaganza (instrumental), see BROADWAYEX [in medley] Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Billy Stritch), see SONDACELATC1 Color and Light: Jazz Sketches . . . (Nancy Wilson), see COLOR1 Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (Bernadette Peters), see ANYONE2 A Little Light Music (Beryl Korman and/or Julia Meadows), see LITTLEL1 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Jane Krakowski), see STEPHENSA1 Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 The Broadway Musicals of 1964 (Tom Anderson), Bayview RNBW022, 2003 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Michael Cerveris), see WALLTOWALLS1 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Claudio Botelho), see SIDEBYS3 Simply Sondheim (Tom Orr), see SIMPLYSOND1 Ballingham, Pamela/Magical Melodies, Earth Mother Productions EMPD06B, 1991 Benzali, Daniel/Benzali, Rio Kat 95623, 2005 Barrowman, John/Reflections from Broadway,4 see BARROWMAN1 Barrowman, John/The Essential John Barrowman, Metro 69845812332, 2008 Bennett, Richard Rodney/A Different Side of Sondheim, see BENNETTR1 Breach, Joyce and William Roy/Love Is the Thing, Audiophile ACD-314, 2001 Buckley, Betty/heart to heart, KO Productions 0001-2, 2000 Buckley, Betty/Quintessence, see BUCKLEYB4 Campbell, James, Gene Di Novi, Dave Young/Manhattan Echoes, Marquis Records 81267, 2000 Campbell, Mike/My Romance, Audiophile 287, 1997

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Clary, Robert/Louis Lebeau Remembers . . . Stephen Sondheim . . ., see CLARYR1 Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim, see COOKB1 Corral, Roz/Telling Tales, Blujazz 3335, 2005 Crowley, James/Being Alive!, [n.l., n.n.], 2008 Day, Courtenay/State of Bliss, LML Records LML CD-151, 2002 [with “Take Me to the World”] Desmond, Trudy/Tailor Made, The Jazz Alliance TJA-10015, 1992 DiMarzio, Diana/Diana DiMarzio, Dina Dimarzio 800718, 2001 [with “There Won’t Be Trumpets”] Ellis, Anita with Ellis Larkins/A Legend Sings, Orion ORS 79358, 1979 Ellis, Anita/Look to the Rainbow, Audiophile ACD-310, 2000 Gaines, Davis/Against the Tide, LAP Records 76628 2, 1996 Haskins, Jim/Cocktail Piano Does Show Tunes, JFH 396, [n.d.] [piano] Hateley, Linzi/True Colours, Dress Circle, 2001 [with “The Girl I Meant to Be”] Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Henstock, Leslie/Defying Gravity, Leslie, [n.n.], 2009 Intimate Broadway/With One Look, Intersound 8309, 1996 Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 Laine, Cleo & James Galway/Sometimes When We Touch, RCA ARL13628, 1980 Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim5, see LAINEC2 Malmberg, Sue/Musical Theatre Classics, see MALMBERGS1 Markey, Enda/Another Place and Time, see MARKEY1 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 [with “See What it Gets You”] Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin, see PATINKIN1 Prowse, Juliet/What Are You Afraid Of?, Columbia 454-43016, 1965 Ringuette, Don/American Songbook, [n.l.] 70844, 2004 Roy Budd Trio/Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Musical . . . Sondheim, see ROYBUDD1 Saxe, Emily/Whistling: Broadway to Berk’ley Square, see SAXEE1 Schneider, Helen/A Voice and a Piano, see SCHNEIDERH1 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “Everybody Says Don’t”] Seelig, Tim/Everything’s Possible, see SEELIGT1 Shearing, George/Favorite Things, Telarc 83398, 1997 [piano] Singers Unlimited/A Little Light Music (Julia Meadows), see SINGERSUN1 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 Straight Out/Long Black Flat White, [n.l.], 2000 [Australian]

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Tormé, Mel & George Shearing/A Vintage Year, Concord Jazz CJ-341, 1988 [solo piano by George Shearing] Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 Warlow, Anthony/Midnight Dreaming, Polydor 523612-2, 1994 Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 Williams, Bob/And at the Piano . . ., Bob Williams, [n.n., n.d.] [piano] Wopat, Tom/the still of the night, Angel CDC 7243 5 23623 2 5, 2000 York, Joe/My Favorite Year, see YORKJ1 “Ariadne” from the 2004 revised version of The Frogs The Frogs Original Broadway Cast (Nathan Lane), see FROGS2 “Arlette and Stavisky” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “Arlette by Day” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “Arlette by Night” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky7 (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “Art Isn’t Easy,” see “Putting It Together” “Arts and Crafts” from Evening Primrose (1966) [reprise of “(If You Can Find Me) I’m Here”] Evening Primrose Original Television Soundtrack7 (Anthony Perkins), see EVENPRIM1 “Atom Bomb Baby (Mambo)” cut from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein “Auto da fé (What a Day)” from 1974 revival of Candide, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics also by John LaTouche and Richard Wilbur CaPVS company number Candide Revival Cast (Company), see CANDIDE01 Candide New Broadway Cast (Company), see CANDIDE05 Candide Royal National Theatre (Company), see CANDIDE05 “Auto Show” from Stavisky (1974) [based on “Beautiful Girls (Bring On the Girls)” cut from Follies] Stavisky1, 7 (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “Ave alumnum” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948)

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“Baby June and Her Newsboys” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne GPVS e1-e2, GVS e1-e2 [as intro to “Let Me Entertain You”] Gypsy Revival Cast (no credits), see GYPSY04 Gypsy TV Cast (Lacey Chabert, Elisabeth Moss, Joey Cee, Blake Armstrong, Teo Weiner), see GYPSY05 Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Heather Tepe, Addison Timlin, Eamon Foley, Stephen Scott Scarpulla, Jordan Viscomi), see GYPSY10 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Sami Gayle, Emma Rowley, and Newsboys), see GYPSY11 The Broadway Kids/The Broadway Kids Sing Broadway, Lightyear 541742, 1994 “Back in Business” from Dick Tracy (1990) SCCH, SSFTS g-e2 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Liza Minnelli, Billy Stritch, Ensemble), see SONDACELATC1 Putting It Together (Company), see PUTTINGIT1 Sondheim—A Celebration (Julia McKenzie, Millicent Martin, David Kernan), see SONDACEL1 Sondheim at the Movies (Alet Oury with others), see SONDATTHEM1 Simply Sondheim (Hannah Rose Kornfeld), see SIMPLYSOND1 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Janice Siegel, Cheryl Bentyne, Lorraine Feather) [taken from Dick Tracy soundtrack] Kitt, Eartha/Back in Business, DRG 91431, 1994 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “What Can You Lose?”] Tichenor, Charles/Moviola, Original Cast 9550, 1996 “Back to the Palace” cut from Into the Woods (1987) Into the Woods Original Cast (Kim Crosby), see INTOTHE1 [on 2007 reissue only] “Balcony Scene” cut from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein [an early version of “Tonight”] “The Ballad of Booth” from Assassins (1991) APVS, AVS, SCCH duet c♯1-a♯2/f♯-f♯2 Assassins Original Cast7 (Patrick Cassidy, Victor Garber, Marcus Olson), see ASSASSINS1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Patrick Cassidy, Victor Garber), see SONDACELATC1 No One Is Alone . . . (Michael Denholm & Kynan Johns), see NOONEIS1 [with “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd”]

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Sondheim: A Celebration (Patrick Cassidy, Scott Waara), see SONDACEL2 Assassins Broadway Cast (Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Cerveris, Brandon Wardell), see ASSASSINS2 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim (Robert Shoup), see MENDELSSOHN1 “The Ballad of Czolgosz” from Assassins (1991) APVS, AVS d1-g2 + company Assassins Original Cast (Patrick Cassidy, Company), see ASSASSINS1 Assassins Broadway Cast (Neil Patrick Harris, Marc Kudisch, James Barbour, Ensemble), see ASSASSINS2 “The Ballad of Guiteau” from Assassins (1991) [part of lyric setting of Charles Guiteau poem] AVS duet a-g♭2/c1-g2 Assassins Original Cast (Jonathan Hadary, Patrick Cassidy), see ASSASSINS1 Assassins Broadway Cast (Denis O’Hare, Neil Patrick Harris), see ASSASSINS2 “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” from Sweeney Todd (1979) ASI, SCCH, STVS solo version f-c2, STPVS company number Sweeney Todd Original Cast7 (Len Cariou, Company), see SWEENEYT1 A Little Sondheim Music (Los Angeles Vocal Arts Ensemble), see LITTLES1 Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental) [part of the “Sweeney Todd Suite,” see SYMPHONICSON1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (instrumental), see SONDACELATC1 Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see SWEENEYT2 No One Is Alone . . . (Company), see NOONEIS1 [with “The Ballad of Booth”] Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Constantino Romero, Company), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Benjamin Magnuson, Lauren Molina, Diana DiMarzio), see SWEENEYT5 A Gala Concert for Hal Prince (Len Cariou, Company), see GALA1 Sondheim: A Celebration (James Matthew Campbell, Leo Daignault, Larry Raben, George Miserlis), see SONDACEL2 Sondheim Tonight (Len Cariou, The Soloists), see SONDTON1 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (George Hearn, Company), see SWEENEYT4 Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2 (instrumental), see SINGTHESONGS2

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Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Manoel Felciano, Michael Cerveris, Company), see SWEENEYT5 City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra/Music from the Films of Tim Burton, Silva America 1261, 2008 DeLaria, Lea/Play It Cool, see DELARIA1 East West Players/East West Overtures (Robert Almodovar & Ensemble), see EASTWEST1 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 [in medley] His Master’s Fish1, featuring Gordon Grody, RCA “Red Seals Disco” 12” single PD-11687 (S) [later included in A Collector’s Sondheim] “Bang!” cut from A Little Night Music (1973) ASIII duet a♯-f2/b♯-f2 Marry Me a Little1 (Craig Lucas, Suzanne Henry), see MARRYME1 Putting It Together (Michael Rupert, Rachel York), see PUTTINGIT1 Orquestra De Cambra Teatre Lliure/Stephen Sondheim, ORQUESTRADECAM1

see

“The Barber and His Wife” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS A-d1 Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Len Cariou), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Constantino Romero), see SWEENEYT3 “Barcelona” from Company (1970) CPVS, CVS2, CVS3, HTSS, SCCH, SSS duet b♭-f2/c1-f2 Company Original Cast2 (Dean Jones, Susan Browning), see COMPANY01 Side by Side by Sondheim (Julia McKenzie, David Kernan), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Geraldene Morrow, Bartholomew John), see SIDEBYS2 Songs of Sondheim Irish Cast (Tony Kenny, Loreto O’Connor), see SONGSOFSOND1 Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental), see SYMPHONICSON1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (instrumental), see SONDACELATC1 Stephen Sondheim’s Company . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see COMPANY03 Company Revival Cast (Boyd Gaines, Jane Krakowski), see COMPANY05 Company London Revival Cast (Adrian Lester, Hannah Jones), see COMPANY04 Sondheim: A Celebration (Patrick Cassidy, Joely Fisher), see SONDACEL2 Sondheim Tonight (Julia McKenzie, David Kernan), see SONDTON1 Company Brazilian Cast (Claudio Botelho, Patricia Levy), see COMPANY06 Company German Cast (Felix Powroslo, Anina Doinet), see COMPANY07

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Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Caludio Botelho, Ivana Domenico), see SIDEBYS3 Company Accompaniment CD (Miles Phillips, Christina Bianco/accompaniment), see COMPANY08 Company Second Revival Cast (Raúl Esparza, Elizabeth Stanley), see COMPANY09 Bennett, Richard Rodney/A Different Side of Sondheim, see BENNETTR1 East West Players/East West Overtures (Alvin Ing, Jennifer Paz), see EASTWEST1 Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 “Bargaining” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS b♭-e♭3 Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Cast (Sergio Franchi, Elizabeth Allen), see DOIHEAR1 “Beautiful” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) ASIII, SPGPVS, SPGVS duet f♭-b1/c♭1-f♭2 Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast (Barbara Bryne, Mandy Patinkin), see SUNDAYIN1 No One Is Alone . . . (Michelle Burgan, Craig Weatherill), see NOONEIS1 Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Gay Soper, Daniel Evans), see SUNDAYIN2 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 “Beautiful Girls” from Follies (1971) ASIV, FLVS, FVS, HTSS c1-e2 [g2 opt. in ASIV], CFC e♭1-g2, FPVS solo + company e1-a2/d1-f♭2 Follies Original Cast (Michael Bartlett, Company), FOLLIES01 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Ron Holgate), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim1 (David Kernan), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Bartholomew John), see SIDEBYS2 Follies in Concert (Arthur Rubin, Company), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (Paul Bentley, Company), see FOLLIES03 A Gala Concert for Hal Prince (Robert DuSold, Company), see GALA1 Follies, The Complete Recording (Vahan Khanzadian, Company), see FOLLIES05 Sondheim Tonight (Michael Ball, Company), see SONDTON1 Clary, Robert/Louis Lebeau Remembers . . . Stephen Sondheim . . ., see CLARYR1 McMahon, Ed, Capitol 45rpm 3213, [n.d.] Roy Budd Trio/Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Musical . . . Sondheim, see ROYBUDD1

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Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson at Brothers & Sisters Vol. Two, see WILSONJ1 [with “[The Story of] Lucy and Jessie,” “Losing My Mind” & “Could I Leave You”] Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 “Beautiful Girls” see/a.k.a. “Bring On the Girls” “[Beggar Woman’s] Lullaby” from Sweeney Todd (1979) [lyric added after original production] Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Audra McDonald), see SWEENEYT4 [included in the “City on Fire” segment] “Being Alive” from Company (1970) ASI, CVS, HTSS, g1-a2, BSBA b-d♭2 [f-e♭2 optional], CPVS f1-g♭2, CVS2, CVS3, SCCH, SSS d1-e2 Company Original Cast2, 7 (Dean Jones, Company), see COMPANY01 [the Larry Kert recording, overdubbed for the original London cast, is included on the 1998 reissue] Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Larry Kert), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim (David Kernan, Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie), see SIDEBYS1 A Stephen Sondheim Evening1 (Judy Kaye), see STEPHENSE1 Everyone’s A Love Song, see EVERYONE1 Songs of Stephen Sondheim/You Sing the Hits, see SONGSOFSTEP1 Putting It Together (Company), see PUTTINGIT1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Patti Lupone), see SONDACELATC1 Being Alive!—The Art of German Musical Stars (Paul Kribbe), Sound of Music Records SOMCD 001, [n.d.], [with “No More”] Stephen Sondheim’s Company . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see COMPANY03 Company London Revival Cast (Adrian Lester), see COMPANY04 Company Revival Cast (Boyd Gaines), see COMPANY05 Sondheim—A Celebration (Julia McKenzie, Millicent Martin, David Kernan), see SONDACEL1 Hey, Mr. Producer! (Bernadette Peters), see HEYMRP Celebrating Sondheim (Claire Moore), see CELEBRATSON Showstoppers from Broadway4 (Stephen Bogardus), JAY Records, CDJAY 1266, 199[?] Sondheim Tonight (The Soloists, The West End Chorus), see SONDTON1 [with “Another Hundred People” and “Sunday in the Park with George”] Company Brazilian Cast (Claudio Botelho), see COMPANY06

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Company German Cast (Felix Powroslo), see COMPANY07 Forbidden Broadway: 2001 a Spoof Odyssey (Christine Pedi), DRG 12627, 2001 Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Claudio Botelho, Company), see SIDEBYS3 Broadway Unplugged 2 (Deven May), Bayview RNBW037, 2006 Company Accompaniment CD (Miles Phillips/accompaniment), see COMPANY08 Company Second Revival Cast (Raúl Esparza), see COMPANY09 Andrew, Leo/Sweet Dreams, Dress Circle ALAVW2, 2008 Bali, Vandana/With You, [n.l., n.n.], 2001 Barrowman, John/Reflections from Broadway, see BARROWMAN1 Barrowman, John/Another Side, Sony Music 886971883824, 2007 Beavis, Richard/In the Spotlight, Silverword [n.n.], 2001 Beechman, Laurie/No One Is Alone, see BEECHMAN1 Bennett, Tony/The Art of Romance, RPM Records/Columbia 092820, 2004 Billings, Alexandra/Being Alive, Southport S-SSD 0080, 2000 Billings, Alexandra/The Story Goes On, LMG Kidsource Music [n.n.], 2004 [with “Overture” & “Let the River Run”] Bogart, Matt/Simple Song, JAY Records CDJAY 1363, 2002 Boston Pops Orchestra/Songs of the ’60s (instrumental), see BOSTON1 Budd, Julie/If You Could See Me Now, After 9/Sindrome 8946, 2000 Burton, Paul/Songs on a Steinway, Imperial Digital Limited IDID1, 1996 Byrne, Debra/New Ways to Dream, see BYRNED1 Callaway, Liz/Passage of Time, PS Classics CD84, 2009 Cerna, Jo-Jo de la/Trust the Wind, Dress Circle JJDLC9901, 1999 [with “No More”] Combo fiasco/here, italic entertainment [n.n., n.d.] [with “Not a Day Goes By” & “Not While I’m Around”] Connelli, Judi/Judi Connelli Live in London, see CONNELLI2 [with “In Buddy’s Eyes”] Crawford, Michael/With Love, Atlantic 82430-2, 1989 Crawford, Michael/The Phantom Unmasked, Quality CDL-15105-2/4XL15105-4, 1990 Crowley, James/Being Alive!, [n.l., n.n.], 2008 Crawford, Michael/Michael Crawford in Concert, Atlantic 83131, 1998 D*Note featuring Beth Hirsch/Laguna, New World Records 798, 2006 De Ferranti, Margie/Margie De Ferranti, see DEFERRANT1 [with “It Only Takes a Moment”] Dore, Michael/Simply, [?], 2002 [with “Not a Day Goes By” & “Take Me to the World”] Dow, Judith/Regards to Broadway, see DOWJ1

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Ellery, Lloyd/In Whatever Time We Have, Pathfinder 5050693165925, 2007 Ford, Anne Kerry/Something Wonderful, see FORDA1 Freeman, Ethan/Is This Home?, Sound of Music [n.n.], 2008 Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Hickland, Catherine/ . . . Sincerely, Broadway, After Nine, 1997; Original Cast Records 3333, 2001 [with “Send in the Clowns”] Jahana, Raishel/Sondheim Songs, see JAHANA1 Joseph, Alexander/Being Alive!, 1999[?] Keegan, Ted/Ted Keegan Sings, LML Music 142, 2001 Ken Rhodes Trio/Live at the Reynolds House Museum of American Art, Sea Breeze 3045, 2001 Kostelanetz, Andre and his Orchestra/Everything Is Beautiful, Columbia, 1970 [instrumental] Kostelanetz, Andre and his Orchestra/Moon River, Sony Special Products 15897, 1995 [instrumental] Laine, Cleo/Cleo Laine Return to Carnegie, see LAINEC1 LaRosa, Julius/Words, Metromedia 1036, [n.d.] Lemper, Ute/City of Strangers, see LEMPER1 LuPone, Patti/Patti LuPone Live!, RCA Victor 09026-61797-2, 1993 Mansfield, Martin and Gayle Ashkenazy/Demarcations, see MANSFIELDM1 Markey, Enda/By Popular Demand in Dublin, Naxos [n.n.], 2002 Mason, Karen/Right Here, Right Now, Zevely Records 604755954221, 2008 [with “Help”] McDermott, Sean/My Broadway, see MCDERMOTTS1 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 Mitchell, Brian Stokes/Brian Stokes Mitchell, see MITCHELLBS1 Mitchell, Keith/Keith Mitchell Sings Broadway, Spark SPA-03, 1972 O’May, John/Unusual Way, MEM-004, 2000 Ost, Martha/Something New, Something Blue, Kendroit Productions, 1979 Patinkin, Mandy/Dress Casual, see PATINKIN2 Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., see PETERSB1 Prince, Peter/Being Alive, RP Media, 2001 Rossen, Stig/Love Changes Everything, see ROSSENS1 Rotz, Corey Evan/Keep the Music Playing, see ROTZC1 Ruffelle, Frances/Frances Ruffelle, Dress Circle DRESSCD05, [n.d.] Salonga, Lea/The Broadway Concert, see SALONGAL1 [with “Something Wonderful”] Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “The Ladies Who Lunch”]

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Smith, Martin/A Handful of Keys, MSCD001, 1993 [with “No More”] Streisand, Barbra/The Broadway Album, see STREISAND1 Streisand, Barbra/Timeless, see STREISAND3 [with “Something Wonderful”] Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 Vernon, Millie/ . . . Sings Old & New Shoes, Audiophile Records 178, 2008 Warlow, Anthony/On the Boards, Polydor 513 402 2, 1992 [also included in Warlow’s The Best of Act One, Polydor 533152-2, 1996] Whiting, Margaret/The Lady’s in Love with You, Audiophile ACD 207, 1985, 1989 Williams, Darren/Showtime, see WILLIAMSDA1 Williams, Gary/Recipe for Love, [n.l., n.n., n.d.] “Benicia” cut from Bounce (2003) “The Best Thing That Ever Happened” from Bounce (2003) and Road Show (2008) Bounce Original Cast (Howard McGillin, Michelle Pawk), see BOUNCE1 Road Show Original Cast Recording (Claybourne Elder, Alexander Gemignani), see ROADSHOW1 “Birthday Prayer” (1962) [piano piece written for Bernstein, contains cryptic message] “Bitterness” from By George (1946) Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SINGS2 [piano solo; incomplete]

SOND-

“The Blob” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) MWRPVS company number Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Michelle Pawk, Company), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Louise Gold, Company), see MERRILY3 “Bluebird Incidental 1 & 2,” see “I’m Like the Bluebird” “Bobby and Jackie and Jack” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) MWRPVS quartet Merrily We Roll Along Original Cast (Lonny Price, Sally Klein, Jim Walton, David Loud), see MERRILY1

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Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Adam Heller, Anne Bobby, Malcolm Gets, Danny Burstein), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Evan Pappas, Michael Cantwell, Jacqueline Dankworth), see MERRILY3 “Bobby-Baby” from Company (1970) [also referred to as “Overture” or “Opening” & is used as a leitmotif throughout the score] CPVS company number Company Original Cast (Company), see COMPANY01 Company London Revival Cast (Company), see COMPANY04 Company Revival Cast (Company), see COMPANY05 Company Brazilian Cast (Company), see COMPANY06 Company German Cast (Ensemble), see COMPANY07 Company Accompaniment CD (Company/accompaniment), see COMPANY08 [as “Overture”] Company Second Revival Cast (Company), see COMPANY09 [as “Opening”] “Boca Raton” from Bounce (2003) and Road Show (2008) Bounce Original Cast (Ensemble, Richard Kind, Michele Pawk, Gavin Creel), see BOUNCE1 Road Show Original Cast Recording (Company), see ROADSHOW1 “Bolero d’Amour” from Follies (1971) [theme by Sondheim and a dance development by John Berkman] FPVS instrumental Follies, The Complete Recording (Orchestra), see FOLLIES05 “Boom Crunch!” cut from Into the Woods (1987) Into the Woods Original Cast (Maureen Moore), see reissue only]

INTOTHE1

[on 2007

“The Bordelaise” from All That Glitters (1949) “Bounce” from Bounce (2003) [three versions in the score; the second a solo; became “Waste” in Road Show] Bounce Original Cast7 (Howard McGillin, Richard Kind), see BOUNCE1 Simply Sondheim (Kim Larsen, Steve Rhyne), see SIMPLYSOND1 “A Bowler Hat” from Pacific Overtures (1976) POPVS g-e♭2 Pacific Overtures Original Cast (Isao Sato), see PACIFICOVER1

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Pacific Overtures English National Opera (Malcolm Rivers), see PACIFICOVER2 Pacific Overtures New Broadway Cast (B. D. Wong & Michael K. Lee), see PACIFICOVER3 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Telly Leung), see WALLTOWALLS1 “The Boy from . . .” from The Mad Show (1966), music by Mary Rodgers HTSS a-c2 The Mad Show2, 7 (Linda Lavin), Columbia Records OL-6530, OS-2930, 1966; reissued DRG 19072, 2005 Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Jill Perryman), see SIDEBYS2 Songs of Sondheim Irish Cast (Gemma Craven), see SONGSOFSOND1 Hey, Love (Faith Prince), see HEYLOVE1 Hollywood Fashion Revisited (Maura M. Knowles), LML CD-020, 2003 Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2 (instrumental), see SINGTHESONGS2 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Ivana Domenico), see SIDEBYS3 Barnett, Peter & Julia Early/In So Many Words, see BARNETTEARLY1 McKenzie, Julia/The Musicals Album, see MCKENZIEJ1 Phillips, Sian/And So It Goes, Mosaik MMCD01, 2003 Prince, Faith/A Leap of Faith, DRG 91460, 2000 Prior, Marina/Somewhere, see PRIORM1 Soper, Gay/Flying Fish and Fallen Angels, see SOPERGAY1 “A Boy Like That” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein WSSPVS duet f-d♭2/d♭1-b♭2 [leads into “I Have a Love”] West Side Story Original Cast (Carol Lawrence, Chita Rivera), see WESTSIDE01 West Side Story film (Betty Wand), see WESTSIDE02 West Side Story Studio Cast (Tatiana Troyanos, Kiri Te Kanawa), see WESTSIDE03 Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie), see SIDEBYS1 West Side Story Studio Cast London (Barbara Bonney, La Vern Williams), see WESTSIDE04 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Caroline O’Connore, Tinuke Olafimihan), see WESTSIDE05 West Side Story, The Songs of (Selena), see WESTSIDE06 West Side Story London Studio Cast (Mary Preston, Jill Martin), see WESTSIDE09 The 3 Divas (Judi Connelli, Suzanne Johnston, Jennifer McGregor), 2000

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West Side Story Original Score (Betsi Morrison, Marianne Cooke), see WESTSIDE10 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Marya Bravo, Ester Elias), see SIDEBYS3 [with “I Have a Love”] West Side Story Broadway Revival (Karen Olivo, Josefina Scaglione), see WESTSIDE11 [in Spanish] Ashe, Rosemary/The Killer Soprano, Dress Circle [n.n., n.d] Blackwell, Harolyn/A Simple Song: Blackwell Sings Bernstein (duet with Vanessa Williams), see BLACKWELL1 Callaway, Ann Hampton & Liz/Sibling Revelry, see CALLAWAYA&L [in medley] Garrett, Lesley/Travelling Light (duet with Denyce Graves), EMI/Angel Classics 5T20Z, 2002 [with “I Have a Love”] Prior, Marina/Somewhere, see PRIORM1 [in medley] Schlongs/Punk Side Story (Melissa MacArthur), see SCHLONG1 Singers Unlimited/A Little Light Music (Beryl Korman & Julia Meadows), see SINGERSUN1 Vroman, Lisa/Broadway Classics, Offplanet 59057 02602, 1999 [with “I Have a Love”] “Bright Star” from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) “Bring Me My Bride” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) FTPVS b-f♯2 + company A Funny Thing . . . Original Cast (Ronald Holgate, Zero Mostel, Company), see FUNNY01 A Funny Thing . . . London Cast (Leon Greene, Frankie Howerd, Company), see FUNNY02 A Funny Thing . . . Film (Leon Greene, Company), see FUNNY03 [listed as “My Bride”] A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Cris Groenendaal, Nathan Lane, Company), see FUNNY05 “Bring On the Girls” cut from Follies (1971) [a.k.a. “Beautiful Girls”; music used as “Auto Show” in Stavisky] CFC a♯-f♯2/a♯-c♯2 Follies, The Complete Recording (Vahan Khanzadian, Peter Davenport), see FOLLIES05 “Broadway” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne [most recordings under “Dainty June and Her Farm Boys”]

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GPVS company a♯-g1, solo e♯1-d2 Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Kate Reinders, Matt Bauer, David Burtka, Benjamin Brooks Cohen, Joe Dudding, Brandon Espinoza, Tim Federle), see GYPSY10 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Leigh Ann Larkin, Laura Benanti, Pearce Wegener, Steve Konopelski, Tony Yazbeck, John Scaachetti, Geo Seery, Matty Price), see GYPSY11 “Broadway Baby” from Follies (1971) ASI, HTSS, SSS c1-e♭2, CFC, FLVS, FVS, SCCH c1-e2, FPVS g-b1 [with medley ending] Follies Original Cast (Ethel Shutta), FOLLIES01 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Ethel Shutta), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim1 (Julia McKenzie), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Geraldene Morrow), see SIDEBYS2 Songs of Sondheim Irish Cast (Gemma Craven), see SONGSOFSOND1 Follies in Concert7 (Elaine Stritch), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (Margaret Courtenay), see FOLLIES03 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Daisy Eagan), see SONDACELATC1 A Gala Concert for Hal Prince (Debbie Shapiro Gravitte), see GALA1 Follies/Themes from the Legendary Musical (The Trotter Trio), see FOLLIES04 Hey, Mr. Producer! (Maria Friedman, Julia McKenzie, Bernadette Peters & The Broadway Babies), see HEYMRP Follies, The Complete Recording (Kaye Ballard), see FOLLIES05 Showstoppers from Broadway4 (Carolee Carmello), JAY Records, CDJAY 1266, 199[?] Sondheim Tonight (Michael Ball), see SONDTON1 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Lea Delaria), see STEPHENSA1 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 Bravo Broadway II (Jan Horvath), see BRAVOBROAD2 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Judy Kaye), see WALLTOWALLS1 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Sabrina Korgut), see SIDEBYS3 Simply Sondheim (Company), see SIMPLYSOND1 Argent, Monique/Moonfall, see ARGENTM1 Blaine, Vivian/For You, see BLAINEV1 Broadway Kids, The/Back on Broadway, Lightyear 54268, 1998/Koch Records 5058, 2008 Campbell, David/Yesterday Is Now, Philips 522714-2, 1996 Criswell, Kim/Back to Before, JAY Records CDJAY 1317, 1999

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Florida Symphonic Pops/The Phantom of the Opera, see FLORIDA1 [instrumental] Friedman, Maria/Now and Then, see FRIEDM2 Hagenberg, Tenja/Just Singing My Song, Tenja Hagenberg 844667010152, 2008 Harvey, Jane/Jane Harvey Sings Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Jahana, Raishel/Sondheim Songs, see JAHANA1 Laine, Cleo/Cleo Laine Return to Carnegie, see LAINEC1 Loudon, Dorothy/Broadway Baby, DRG CDSL 5203, 1986 Markey, Enda/Another Place and Time, see MARKEY1 Paige, Elaine/Essential Musicals, Universal 602517097896, 2006 Paige, Elaine/ . . . Live—Celebrating a Life on Stage, EP Records B002N7N9NI, 2009 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Perryman, Jill/Leading Lady, EMI EMC 2524, 1975 [in medley] Peters, Bernadette/Bernadette, MCA MCAD-10612, 1992 [LP 1980–81] Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., see PETERSB1 Ripley, Alice & Emily Skinner/Raw at Town Hall (Alice Ripley), see SKINNERRIPLEY01 Rochester Pops Orchestra/Opening Night, see ROCHESTERP1 [instrumental] Schneider, Helen/A Voice and a Piano, see SCHNEIDERH1 Scott, Jacqui/Jacqui Scott, Highnote [n.n.], 2003 Singers Unlimited/A Little Light Music (Beryl Korman), see SINGERSUN1 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 Stritch, Elaine/Elaine Stritch at Liberty, see STRITCHE1 “Brotherly Love” from Road Show (2008) [“Brotherly Love” was also the title of the end phrase of the “Damon & Pythias” section of the opening that was cut from Bounce] Road Show Original Cast Recording (Alexander Gemignani, Michael Cerveris), see ROADSHOW1 “Buddy’s Blues” from Follies (1971) [also known as “The God-Why-Don’tYou-Love-Me Blues”] FLVS, FVS, HTSS, SSS solo version c1-e♭2, CFC, FPVS trio version d1f2/d1-a2 [both women’s voices later range] Follies Original Cast (Gene Nelson), FOLLIES01 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Larry Blyden, Donna McKechnie, Chita Rivera), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim1 (David Kernan, Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Bartholomew John), see SIDEBYS2

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Sondheim, Book-of-the-Month Records (Bob Gunton, Betsy Joslyn, Debbie Shapiro), see SOND1 Follies in Concert (Mandy Patinkin), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (David Healey), see FOLLIES03 Sondheim—A Celebration (Julia McKenzie, Millicent Martin, David Kernan), see SONDACEL1 Follies/Themes from the Legendary Musical (The Trotter Trio), see FOLLIES04 Celebrating Sondheim (Tudor Davies, Claire Moore, Rosemary Ashe), see CELEBRATSON

Follies, The Complete Recording (Tony Roberts, Pamela Jordan, Danette Holden), see FOLLIES05 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Claudio Botelho, Sabrina Korgut, Ivana Domenico), see SIDEBYS3 Forbidden Broadway: 2001 a Spoof Odyssey (Danny Gurwin), DRG 12627, 2001 Borchert, Thomas/Strictly Musical Live, SoulMadeRecords, 2009 Bork, Johann Sebastian/Fugue You, Orchard 802532/Electric Lemon 0103, 2003 Brussell, Barbara/patterns, see BRUSSELL1 Harvey, Jane/Jane Harvey Sings Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 McMahon, Ed, Capitol 45rpm 3213, [n.d.] Roy Budd Trio/Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Musical . . . Sondheim, see ROYBUDD1 Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 “By the Sea” from Sweeney Todd (1979) ASI, STVS a-e2, STPVS duet g♯-e2/G♯-b Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou), see SWEENEYT1 A Little Sondheim Music (Janet Smith, Michael Gallup), see LITTLES1 Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd . . . In Jazz3 (The Trotter Trio), see SWEENEYT2 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Vicky Pena, Constantino Romero), see SWEENEYT3 Sondheim—A Celebration (Millicent Martin), see SONDACEL1 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Patti Lupone, George Hearn), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Patti LuPone), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp), see SWEENEYT6 Paige, Elaine/ . . . Live—Celebrating a Life on Stage, EP Records B002N7N9NI, 2009

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“The Cadys” from All That Glitters (1949) “Can That Boy Foxtrot!” cut from Follies (1971) CFC, HTSS b♭-e♭2 Side by Side by Sondheim6 (Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Jill Perryman, Geraldene Morrow), see SIDEBYS2 Marry Me a Little1 (Craig Lucas, Suzanne Henry), see MARRYME1 The Birdcage (Nathan Lane), see BIRDCAGE A Little Light Music (Beryl Korman and/or Julia Meadows), see LITTLEL1 Sondheim: A Celebration (Carole Cook), see SONDACEL2 Follies, The Complete Recording (Ann Miller), see FOLLIES05 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Ivana Domenico, Marya Bravo), see SIDEBYS3 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Stephen Sondheim) Alexander, Roberta/With You, see ALEXR1 Ameling, Elly/Sentimental Me, Phillips 412 433-1, 1984 Fuller, Mark/Songs About Adam, see FULLERM1 Orquestra De Cambra Teatre Lliure/Stephen Sondheim (Nina), see ORQUESTRADECAM1 Singers Unlimited/A Little Light Music (Julia Meadows), see SINGERSUN1 Soper, Gay/Flying Fish and Fallen Angels, see SOPERGAY1 Turner, Geraldine/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2, see TURNERG2 Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 “Candide’s Lament,” see “This World” “C’est moi,” see “Operetta” “Charley Prince Birthday” “[The] Chase” cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) A Funny Thing . . . Film (instrumental), see FUNNY03 “Chéri” cut from Follies (1971) “Children and Art” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) SPGPVS g♭-d♭2, SPGVS g-d2 Sunday in the Park . . .1 Original Cast (Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin), see SUNDAYIN1

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Color and Light: Jazz Sketches . . . (Holly Cole), see COLOR1 Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Jenna Russell, Daniel Evans), see SUNDAYIN2 Blake, Seman/Echonomics, Criss Cross (Netherlands) 1197, 2001 [saxophone] Buckley, Betty/Children Will Listen, see BUCKLEYB1 Friedman, Maria/Now and Then, see FRIEDM2 [accompanied by Sondheim on the piano] Michaels, Marilyn/A Mother’s Voice, MEW MEW10002, 1998 “Children Will Listen (Finale, Part III)” from Into the Woods (1987) BSBB g-d♯2 [extended], ITWPVS company number, SCCH g-f2 [extended; also in sheet music Warner Bros. VS6207] Into the Woods Original Cast7 (Bernadette Peters, Company), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Julia McKenzie, Company), see INTOTHE2 Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental) [part of the “Into the Woods Suite”], see SYMPHONICSON1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Betty Buckley), see SONDACELATC1 No One Is Alone . . . (Michelle Burgan), see NOONEIS1 Sondheim: A Celebration (Loretta Devine), see SONDACEL2 [with “Not While I’m Around”] Out on Broadway (Tracy Collins, Company), see OuOB [with “You Are the Light”] The Stephen Sondheim Album (Ruthie Henshall), see STEPHENSA1 Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Vanessa Williams, Company), see INTOTHE3 Simply Sondheim (Kelly Ground), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley with “Not While I’m Around”] Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Mone, Company), see INTOTHE5 Anthony, Julie/Lush, MHM [n.n.], 2001 [Australian] Beechey, Annalene/Close Your Eyes, SimG Records 5065001707001, 2009 [with “No One Is Alone”] Buckley, Betty/Children Will Listen, see BUCKLEYB1 Byrne, Debra/New Ways to Dream (with Hugh Jackman), see BYRNED1 Callaway, Liz/Passage of Time, PS Classics CD84, 2009 Catenacci, Richard with Bob Egan at the Piano/The Colors of My Life, [n.l., n.n., n.d.] [with “Carefully Taught”] Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel &/On Broadway, Telarc CD80498, 1999 Clark, Petula/here for you3, see CLARKP1

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Combo Fiasco/Live At the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, 2002 [with “One Tin Soldier”] DeVito, Michael/Take Me to the World, [n.l.] 6022, 2007 Dow, Bruce/Lucky to Be Me, Independent 625989511424, 2005 [with “No More”] Guest, Rob/Unmasked, Thom 488648-2 (Sony/Australia), 1998 [piano solo] Hanley-Millman, Trés/Tres Broadway—Songs from the Stage, Evergreen [n.n.], 2005 Jahana, Raishel/Sondheim Songs (instrumental), see JAHANA1 [with “Everybody Says Don’t] Mathis, Johnny/Mathis on Broadway, Columbia CK 63892, 2000 [with “Our Children”; duet with Betty Buckley] Merle & Larry/Love & Daughter, [n.l.] 30591, 2008 McCormick, Andrea/Broadway, Andrea McCormick 634479183164, 2005 McGovern, Maureen/Works of Heart, 2003 [with “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught”] McKinley, Bill/Everything Possible, Everything Possible EPCD922-0, 1992 Oliver, Lorri/Lullabies & Love Songs, All of Her Arms 1318, 2000 Patinkin, Mandy/Oscar and Steve, see PATINKIN4 [in medley] Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., Etc., see PETERSB2 Rose, Jodi/Hope for the Future, see ROSEJ1 [in medley] Streisand, Barbra/Back to Broadway, see STREISAND2 [additional music and lyrics by Sondheim] Streisand, Barbra/Streisand Live in Concert 2006, Columbia 88697019222, 2007 [with “Carefully Taught”] “Chris and David I (Stars Give Light)” cut from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) “Chris and David II (No Star of Night)” cut from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) “Christmas Carol” from I Know My Love (1951) “Christmas Island at Christmas Time” written with Mary Rodgers Anderson, D. C./All Is Calm, All Is Bright, LML CD-136, 2001 “Chromolume # 7” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) SPGPVS (instrumental) Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast (instrumental), see SUNDAYIN1 Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (instrumental), see SUNDAYIN2

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“Chrysanthemum Tea” from Pacific Overtures (1976) POPVS d1-f2 + company Pacific Overtures Original Cast6 (Alvin Ing, Mako, Mark Hsu Syers, Timm Fujii, Gedde Watanabe, Patrick Kinser-Lau, Conrad Yama, Jae Woo Lee, Ernest Harada, Freda Foh Shen), see PACIFICOVER1 Pacific Overtures English National Opera (Edward Byles, Simon Masterton-Smith, Ian Comboy, Harry Nicoll, Gordon Christie, John Cashmore, Terry Jenkins, Richard Angas), see PACIFICOVER2 Pacific Overtures New Broadway Cast (Alvin Y. F. Ing, Hazel Anne Raymundo, Joseph Anthony Foronda, Eric Bondoc, Telly Leung, Scott Watanabe, Yuka Takara ), see PACIFICOVER3 Yoshida, Fusaka/Koto Recital Classical and Modern Works, Major TJV FY1/2 (S), [n.d.] [instrumental for Koto, played by Yoshida— Shamisen in original cast] “Cinderella at the Grave” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS duet c1-e2/f1-f2 Into the Woods Original Cast (Kim Crosby, Merle Louise), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Jacqueline Dankworth, Eunice Gayson), see INTOTHE2 Into the Woods Revival Cast (John McMartin, Laura Benanti, Pamela Myers), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Gisela, Maria Del Mar Maestu), see INTOTHE5 “City On Fire” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS company number Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Merle Louise, Company), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Teresa Vallicrosa, Company), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Audra McDonald, Company), see SWEENEYT4 “Civilization” cut from Pacific Overtures (1976) “Class” from Saturday Night (1954) SNVS [primary voice] b-e2 Saturday Night Bridewell Cast (Sam Newman, Company), see SATURDAYN1 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (David Campbell, Company), see SATURDAYN2 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Jack Cassidy, Ensemble) [from original backer’s audition]

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“Climb High” from Climb High (1950, unproduced) “Cocktail Party” cut from Climb High (1950, unproduced) “Color and Light” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) SPGPVS duet b♭-g2/b-e2 [-c2 optional] Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast (Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters), see SUNDAYIN1 Color and Light: Jazz Sketches . . . (Herbie Hancock, piano), see COLOR1 No One Is Alone . . . (Craig Weatherill), see NOONEIS1 [with “Sunday in the Park with George”] Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Jenna Russell, Daniel Evans), see SUNDAYIN2 Quast, Philip/Philip Quast Live at the Donmar, PQD 1, 2002 Starobin, David/New Music with Guitar, Volume 3 (Patrick Mason), see STAROBIND1 “Come Over Here” music by Jule Styne (1960) “Come Play Wiz Me” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) ACWPVS duet a-d2/a-e2, ACWVS solo version b-e2 Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Lee Remick, Harry Guardino), see ANYONE1 Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Stephen Sondheim), see ANYONE1 Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (Bernadette Peters, Scott Bakula), see ANYONE2 Simply Sondheim (Shay Oglesby-Smith, Kim Larsen), see SIMPLYSOND1 “Comedy Tonight” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) ASI, FTVS, HTSS, SCCH, SSS solo version a-e♭2 [-g2 optional], FTPVS company number A Funny Thing . . .1, 7 Original Cast (Zero Mostel, Company), see FUNNY01 A Funny Thing . . . London Cast (Frankie Howerd, Company), see FUNNY02 A Funny Thing . . . Film (Zero Mostel, Company), see FUNNY03 Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie, David Kernan), see SIDEBYS1 [with “Love Is in the Air”] Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Jill Perryman, Bartholomew John, Geraldene Morrow), see SIDEBYS2 [with “Love Is in the Air”] Songs of Sondheim Irish Cast (Company), see SONGSOFSOND1 [with “Love Is in the Air”]

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Sondheim, Book-of-the-Month Records (Bob Gunton, Company), see SOND1 Jerome Robbins Broadway6 (Jason Alexander, Scott Wise, Joey McKneely, Michael Kubala, Company), see JEROMER1 Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental), see SYMPHONICSON1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (instrumental), see SONDACELATC1 A Gala Concert for Hal Prince (Company), see GALA1 A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Nathan Lane, Company), see FUNNY05 Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing . . . Forum . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see FUNNY04 Sondheim—A Celebration (Julia McKenzie, Millicent Martin, David Kernan), see SONDACEL1 [incomplete] Celebrating Sondheim (Ensemble), see CELEBRATSON More West End the Concert, see MOREWEST Sondheim Tonight (The Soloists), see SONDTON1 Amor al Reves es Roma [A Funny Thing . . . ] Mexican Cast, see FUNNY06 Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 Live at the Commander Boardwalk Cabaret, [n.l.] NR11810, [n.d.] Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Company), see SIDEBYS3 [with “Love Is in the Air”] The Broadway Musicals of 1962 (Company), see BROADWAYMUS62 Boston Pops/Music of the Night/Pops on Broadway, see BOSTON2 [instrumental] Ferrante & Teicher/A Man and a Woman: The Other Motion Picture Themes, United Artists UAL 3572, 1967 [two pianos] Florida Symphonic Pops/The Phantom of the Opera, see FLORIDA1 [instrumental] Hanna, Roland/Everything I Love, IPO 1002, 2002 [piano] Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Holloway, Stanley/’Ello Stanley, MGM E 4284, 1965 Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 Keene Cheshiremen Chorus, The/Ahhh . . . Cappella!, [n.l.] 10555, 2008 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 Moore, Wayne & Brenda Silas Moore/What’s a Brayne & Wenda? Ducy Lee Recordings DLR900103, 2000 [2 versions] Nagano, Jerry/Meet Jerry Nagano, Jerri-Co Productions, 1978 [Organ] Pot Pourri/Something Familiar, Something Peculiar, Move MCD086, 2000 Pot Pourri/Friends for Life, [n.l.] 006, 2002 [Australian, dist. by Middle Eight Music] Rochester Pops Orchestra/Opening Night, see ROCHESTERP1 [instrumental]

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Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “I’m Calm”] Tony Hatch Singers and Swingers/Showcase, Marble Arch MALS 1399,/(s) MST-21, 1967 Will Bronson Singers/Best of Broadway, Solid State SS 17011, (S) SS 18011, 1967 “Company” from Company (1970) CPVS, CVS [2 versions], CVS2, CVS3 company number, HTSS g-d2 [f♯optional] Company Original Cast (Dean Jones, Company), see COMPANY01 Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie, David Kernan), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Jill Perryman, Bartholomew John, Geraldene Morrow), see SIDEBYS2 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (The Tonics), see SONDACELATC1 Stephen Sondheim’s Company . . .In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see COMPANY03 Company London Revival Cast (Adrian Lester, Company), see COMPANY04 Company Revival Cast (Boyd Gaines, Company), see COMPANY05 More West End the Concert (Kim Criswell, Graham Bicley, Simon Bowman), see MOREWEST Sondheim Tonight (The Soloists), see SONDTON1 Company Brazilian Cast (Claudio Botelho, Company), see COMPANY06 Company German Cast (Ensemble), see COMPANY07 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Company), see SIDEBYS3 [with “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”] Company Accompaniment CD (Miles Phillips, Company/accompaniment), see COMPANY08 Company Second Revival Cast (Raúl Esparza, Company), see COMPANY09 Boston Pops Orchestra/Songs of the ’60s (instrumental), see BOSTON1 Laine, Cleo/Cleo Laine Return to Carnegie, see LAINEC1 Nero, Peter, Columbia 45rpm 4-45167, 1970 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Ralston, Teri/I’ve Gotta Get Back to New York, see RALSTONT1 [in medley] Winterhalter, Hugo/Applause, Musicor (S)3190, 1970 “The Contest” from Sweeney Todd (1979) [“Part II” is optional in score] STPVS b-c3 [part II is a duet with the 2nd voice c-a2, or alternate c3] Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Joaquín Romaguera), see SWEENEYT1 Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see SWEENEYT2

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295

Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Esteve Ferrer, Muntsa Rius), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Stanford Olsen), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Donna Lynne Champlin), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Sacha Baron Cohen), see SWEENEYT6 “Cool” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein BOB, WSSVS c1-e♭2, WSSPVS solo + company & dance c1-e♭2 West Side Story Original Cast (Mickey Calin, The Jets), see WESTSIDE01 West Side Story film (Tucker Smith, The Jets), see WESTSIDE02 West Side Story Studio Cast (Kurt Ollman, The Jets), see WESTSIDE03 Bernstein on Broadway (Peter Hofmann), see BERNSTEINON1 Jerome Robbins Broadway (Scott Wise, The Jets), see JEROMER1 West Side Story Studio Cast London (Christopher Howard, Boys), see WESTSIDE04 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Nicholas Warnford, Jets), see WESTSIDE05 West Side Story, The Songs of (Patti Austin, Mervyn Warren, Bruce Hornsby), see WESTSIDE06 West Side Story London Studio Cast (Franklyn Fox), see WESTSIDE09 West Side Story Original Score (Robert Dean and Jets), see WESTSIDE10 West Side Story Broadway Revival (Cody Green, Jets), see WESTSIDE11 Bentley, Alison/Songs of Leonard Bernstein and Irving Berlin, Slam 248, 2002 Brecher, Kayle/Spy Music, Penchant Four Records 104428, 2005 Carroll, David/Showstoppers from the Fabulous 50s, Mercury MG-20411, (S)SR-60060, 1960 Davis Jr., Sammy/Sammy Davis Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove, see DAVISS [part of West Side Story medley] DeLaria, Lea/Play It Cool, see DELARIA1 Denny, Martin/Another Taste of Honey, Liberty LRP-3277, (S)LST-7277, 1964 Fasano, Barbara/The Girls of Summer, Human Child Records hcr400, 1998 Grace, Kathleen/Sunrise, [n.l.] 05665, 2005 Kalin Twins, Decca 45rpm ED-2641, 1960 Kalin Twins/Top Teen Hits, Decca (S)ED7-2661, 1960 Natal, Nanette/Is Love Enough?, Benyo Music Productions 3338, 2002 [with “Jet Song”] Nelson, Oliver/Full Nelson, Verve (S)V6-8508, 1964 Schlongs/Punk Side Story (Ken Sanderson), see SCHLONG1

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Wood, Charlie & Jim Shearer/The Memphis Hang, Summit Records 502, 2008 “Cora’s [The Cookie] Chase (Ballet)” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) ACWPVS a-e + quartet & soprano b1-d3 Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Angela Lansbury, Don Doherty, Gabriel Dell, Lee Remick, Ensemble), see ANYONE1 A Little Sondheim Music (Los Angeles Vocal Arts Ensemble), see LITTLES1 [listed as “Waltz I”] Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (Madeline Kahn, Walter Bobbie, Chip Zien, Ken Page, Harolyn Blackwell, Ensemble), see ANYONE2 “Could I Leave You?” from Follies (1971) ASI, FLVS, FVS, HTSS, SSS b♯-e2, CFC, FPVS f♯-b♭1 Follies Original Cast (Alexis Smith), FOLLIES01 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Alexis Smith), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim1 (David Kernan), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Bartholomew John), see SIDEBYS2 Songs of Sondheim Irish Cast (Gay Bryne), see SONGSOFSOND1 Follies in Concert (Lee Remick), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (Diana Rigg), see FOLLIES03 Putting It Together (Julie Andrews), see PUTTINGIT1 Songs of Stephen Sondheim/You Sing the Hits, see SONGSOFSTEP1 Sondheim—A Celebration (Julia McKenzie), see SONDACEL1 Follies/Themes from the Legendary Musical (The Trotter Trio), see FOLLIES04 Follies, The Complete Recording (Dee Hoty), see FOLLIES05 Company German Cast (Andreas Ziemons), see COMPANY07 Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Claudio Botelho), see SIDEBYS3 Connelli, Judy/Back to Before—A Life in Song, ABC 461 883-2, 2001 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 Brindley, Susan/With So Little to Be Sure Of, see BRINDLEYS1 Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Hastings, Ruth/Ruth Hastings Plays the Geary, see HASTINGSR1 [in medley] Kitt, Eartha/Eartha Kitt Live in London, Ariola 353825, 1990 Lear, Evelyn/Evelyn Lear Sings Sondheim and Bernstein, see LEARE1 Malmberg, Myrra/What Can You Lose?, see MALMBERG1 Malmberg, Sue/Musical Theatre Classics, see MALMBERGS1 Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson at Brothers & Sisters Vol. Two, see WILSONJ1 [with “Beautiful Girls,” “[The Story of] Lucy and Jessie,” & “Losing My Mind”]

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Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 “Country House” from the 1987 London revival of Follies ASIII, CFC, FLVS duet a♭-e2/a♭-f2 Follies London Cast (Diana Rigg, Daniel Massey), see FOLLIES03 Putting It Together (Julie Andrews), see PUTTINGIT1 “Cow Song” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne [recordings under “Dainty June and Her Farm Boys”] GPVS company c1-f2 “Crazy Piano” for Reds (1981) [unused] “Crickets,” see “Not Quite Night” “Crime Doesn’t Pay” cut from The Lady or the Tiger? (1954, unproduced) “Cross Questions” cut from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) “Cuckoo” cut from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers “Dainty June and Her Farmboys” from Gypsy, music by Jule Styne GPVS company a1-a2 Gypsy Original Cast (Company), see GYPSY01 Gypsy London Cast (Company), see GYPSY03 Gypsy Revival Cast (Company), see GYPSY04 Gypsy TV Cast (Jennifer Beck, Jeffrey Broadhurst, Peter Lockyer, Michael Moore, Patrick Boyd, Terry Lindholm, Gregg Russell, Cynthia Gibb), see GYPSY05 Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Kate Reinders, Tammy Blanchard, Matt Bauer, David Burtka, Benjamin Brooks Cohen, Joe Dudding, Brandon Espinoza, Tim Federle), see GYPSY10 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Leigh Ann Larkin, Laura Benanti, Pearce Wegener, Steve Konopelski, Tony Yazbeck, John Scaachetti, Geo Seery, Matty Price), see GYPSY11 “Damon and Pythias” cut from Bounce (2003) “The Dance at the Gym” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein WSSPVS instrumental “Darling (Kissing Song)” cut from Merrily We Roll Along (1981)

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“Darling!” cut from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) “Dawn” for Singing Out Loud (1992–93, unproduced) ASIV a♯-f♯2 [for multiple voices] Sondheim at the Movies (Jolie Jenkins, Bryan Batt, Sanny Burstein, James Hindman), see SONDATTHEM1 “The Day Off” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) SPGPVS company number, but “Part I”—the Spot & Fifi sequence— ranges a♯-g2 Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast (Mandy Patinkin, Barbara Byrne, Judith Moore, Nancy Opel, Brent Spiner, Melanie Vaughn, Mary D’arcy, Robert Westenberg, William Parry), see SUNDAYIN1 Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Daniel Evans, Gay Soper, Joanne Redman, Lauren Calpin/Natalie Paris, Steven Kynman, Anna Lowe, Simon Green, Alasdair Harvey), see SUNDAYIN2 “Delighted, I’m Sure” completed for the 1999 Pegasus Players production of Saturday Night SNVS company number Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Andrea Burns, Rachel Ulanet, Clarke Thorell, Christopher Fitzgerald, Michael Benjamin Washington, Kirk McDonald, Greg Zola, Joey Sorge), see SATURDAYN2 “Delta Iota Mu” cut from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) [Dick Tracy] Jenson Publications/New Music for Concert Band: Vol. 27, Jenson Publications, HLP-74, 1990 [Dick Tracy soundtrack highlights] “The Dim Dinner” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) “Dinner Table Scene,” see “Night Waltz II” A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Company), see LITTLEN05 “Distant Past” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “Do I Hear a Waltz?” for Do You Hear a Waltz? (1963, unproduced TV show) ASIV a♭-d♭2 “Do I Hear a Waltz?” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers

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DIHPVS a-d♭2, DIHVS, SSS b-d2 Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Cast (Elizabeth Allen, Ensemble), see DOIHEAR1 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Dorothy Collins), see SONDAMUST1 Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Alyson Reed), see DOIHEAR2 Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 Simply Sondheim (Kelly Ground), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] Andrews, Julie/The Music of Richard Rodgers, Philips 442 603-2, 1994 [in medley] Barr, John/A Small Affair, Dress Circle MBJB 1, 1996 Bennett, Tony/If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set, Columbia CL 2343, 1965 Carroll, Barbara/ . . . Live at Birdland, Harbinger HCD 2301, 2005 [with “The Jitterbug Waltz”] Christy, June/Something Broadway Something Latin, Capitol ST 2410, 1965[?]; Something Latin/Something Porter, DRG 8507, 2009 Christy, June/Through the Years, Hindsight HCD260, 1995 Connelli, Judi & Suzanne Johnston/Perfect Strangers, see CONNELLI3 [in Rodgers medley] Davis Jr., Sammy/Sammy’s Back on Broadway, Reprise 6169, 1965; Collector’s Choice Music 491, 2005 De Lorenzo, Brian/Found Treasures, see DELORENZ1 [in “A Waltz Medley”] Dow, Judith/Regards to Broadway, see DOWJ1 Eastman, Madeline/Speed of Life/Madkat 1009, 2003 Gorme, Eydie/After You’ve Gone, Columbia 45rpm 4-43225, 1965 Gorme, Eydie/The Golden Encore: Hit Tunes that Sold Over a Million, Columbia Special Products, CSP-248, 196[?] Gorme, Eydie/ . . . Sings Great Songs from The Sound of Music and Other Broadway Shows, see GORMEE1 Green, Simon/Take Me to the World, see GREENS1 [with “Isn’t It?” and “Falling in Love with Love”] Hamza, Luqman/When a Smile Overtakes a Frown, Catalyst 2000, 2000 Herman, Jerry/Hello, Jerry, United Artists UAL 3432, (S)6432, 1965 Jolly, Pete/Too Much, Baby, Columbia CL-2397, (S)CS-9197, 1967 Kennedy, Graham/Graham Kennedy Sings the Shows, Warner Brothers WS 20013, 1973 Lee, Peggy/2 Shows Nightly/Live at the Copa, EMI 2070, 2009 Lee, Peggy/Disc Jockey Sampler: November 1968, Capitol Records SRRO/4651, 1968 Lee, Peggy/Peggy Lee in Concert, The Entertainers CD 346, 1996 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1

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Myers, Pamela/The Chance to Sing, LML CD-162, 2003 Roy Budd Trio/Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Musical . . . Sondheim, see ROYBUDD1 Sherman, Daryl/A Hundred Million Miracles, Arbors Records, ARCH 19279, 2003 Stafford, Jo/Do I Hear a Waltz?, Dot DLP 3673, (S)25673, 1967 Stevens, Kaye/Feelin’ Good, Capitol 45rpm 5393, 1965 Sullivan, KT/Sings the Sweetest Sounds of Richard Rodgers, DRG 91462, 2000 [with “When You’re Dancing a Waltz”] Tichenor, Charles/Rodgers & I, Original Cast 9551, 1996 Whitfield, Wesla/Livin’ On Love, Highnote HCD 7152, 2006 Woodfield, Ann/Shades of Reflection, Guild Music Ltd/Zah Zah ZZCD 9805, 1998 [with “Lover”] “Doctor” from The Jet-Propelled Couch (1958, unproduced) “Dogma Nu” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) “Don’t Ballet,” see “Everybody Says Don’t” “Don’t Give It a Thought” cut from The Exception and the Rule (1968, unproduced), music by Leonard Bernstein “Don’t Laugh” from Hot Spot (1963), music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics with Martin Charnin The Broadway Musical of 1963 (Julia Murney), Bayview RNBW036, 2006 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Stephen Sondheim) Newman, Phyllis/The Mad Woman of Central Park, DRG CDSL 5212, 1990 “Don’t Look at Me” from Follies (1971) CFC, FPVS duet a-b1/c♯1-c♯2 Follies Original Cast (Dorothy Collins, John McMartin), FOLLIES01 Follies in Concert (Barbara Cook, George Hearn), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (Julia McKenzie, Daniel Massey), see FOLLIES03 Follies, The Complete Recording (Donna McKechnie, Laurence Guittard), see FOLLIES05 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 “Dowagers” cut from Bounce (2003) “Dream Ballet” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948)

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“Dress Big” from the 2004 revised version of The Frogs The Frogs Original Broadway Cast (Burke Moses, Nathan Lane, Roger Bart), see FROGS2 “Drink to Zee Moon” from All That Glitters (1949) “Dueling Pianos” from Hey, Mr. Producer! (The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh), 1997 [contrived from “Send in the Clowns” and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Music of the Night” with new lyrics by Sondheim] Hey, Mr. Producer! (Stephen Sondheim & Andrew Lloyd Webber), see HEYMRP

“Easy Life” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “[The] Echo Song (Questions)” cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) A Stephen Sondheim Evening (Liz Callaway, Steven Jacob), see STEPHENSE1 “The Emperor of Japan” cut from Pacific Overtures (1976), [see also “Civilization”] “The Emperor’s New Clothes” cut from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers “Epiphany” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS B♭-f1 [2nd voice for 2 m. d♭1-c♭2] Sweeney Todd1 Original Cast (Len Cariou), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Constantino Romero), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (George Hearn, Patti LuPone), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Michael Cerveris), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Johnny Depp), see SWEENEYT6 Lee, Christopher/Christopher Lee Sings Devils, Rogues & Other Villains, Wolfslair [n.n.], 1996 Terfel, Bryn/Bad Boys (with Anne Sofie von Otter), Universal/Zoom 4778091, 2009 “Erna” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1

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“Erna Remembered” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “Eulogies” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) SPGPVS instrumental “Ever After (Finale, Part IV)” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS company number Into the Woods Original Cast (Tom Aldredge, Company), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Nicholas Parsons, Company), see INTOTHE2 Into the Woods Revival Cast (John McMartin, Company), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Ferran Frauca, Company), see INTOTHE5 “Every Day a Little Death” from A Little Night Music (1973) ASI, LNMVS, SSS duet a-c2 [both], LNMPVS g♯-b1 [both] A Little Night Music2 Original Cast (Patricia Elliott, Victoria Mallory), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music London Cast (Maria Aitken, Veronica Page), see LITTLEN02 A Little Night Music Film (Diana Rigg), see LITTLEN03 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Susan Hampshire, Janis Kelly), see LITTLEN04 Putting It Together (Julie Andrews, Rachel York), see PUTTINGIT1 Color and Light: Jazz Sketches . . . (Grover Washington Jr., tenor sax), see COLOR1 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Patricia Hodge, Joanna Riding), see LITTLEN05 A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Mireia Ros, Alicia Ferer), see LITTLEN06 [and reprise by the Quintet] A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Erin Davie, Ramona Mallory), see LITTLEN07 Buckley, Betty/An Evening at Carnegie Hall (with Carol Maillard), see BUCKLEYB3 Byrne, Debbie/Caught in the Act, Mushroom Records [Australia] RMD53342/TVD93342, 1991 Callaway, Ann Hampton & Liz/Sibling Revelry, see CALLAWAYA&L [in medley] Day, Courtenay/Courtenay Day Live at Don’t Tell Mama, see DAYC1 [with “Pretty Women”] Ferreri, Michael/Sweet Dreams, see FERRERI1 [with “I Don’t Want to Know”]

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Hastings, Ruth/Ruth Hastings Plays the Geary, see HASTINGSR1 [in medley] McLaren, Morag/I Never Do Anything Twice, see MCLAREN1 Randwyck, Issy van/It’s Oh So Issy, Dress Circle IVR-CD-1, 1996 [with “My Husband the Pig”] Skinner, Emily & Alice Ripley/Duets3, Varese Sarabande VSD-5958, 1998 Skinner, Emily & Alice Ripley/Raw at Town Hall, see SKINNERRIPLEY01 Trotter, Terry/Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, see TROTTERT1 [piano solo] “Everybody Loves Leona” cut from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Alyson Reed), see DOIHEAR2 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Rose Mary Jane) “Everybody Loves Louis” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) SPGPVS a-c♯2 Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast (Bernadette Peters), see SUNDAYIN1 Sondheim: A Celebration (Sally Mayes), see SONDACEL2 Celebrating Sondheim (Mary Carewe), see CELEBRATSON Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Jenna Russell), see SUNDAYIN2 Malmberg, Myrra/What Can You Lose?, see MALMBERG1 Molaskey, Jessica/A Kiss to Build a Dream On, Arbors Records 19384, 2008 “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) FTPVS quartet c♯1-e2 [all voices], FTVS, SSS solo version b-d2 A Funny Thing . . . Original Cast (David Burns, Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, John Carradine), see FUNNY01 A Funny Thing . . . London Cast (“Monsewer” Eddie Gray, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Connor, Jon Pertwee), see FUNNY02 A Jolly Theatrical Season (Robert Morse, Charles Nelson Reilly), Capitol (S) ST 1862, 1963 A Funny Thing . . . Film (Michael Horderm, Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Phil Silvers), see FUNNY03 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (John Laws, Bartholomew John, Geraldene Morrow, Jill Perryman), see SIDEBYS2 Putting It Together6, 7 (Stephen Collins, Christopher Durang, Michael Rupert), see PUTTINGIT1

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A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Lewis J. Stadlen, Nathan Lane, Mark Linn-Baker, Ernie Sabella), see FUNNY05 Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing . . . Forum . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see FUNNY04 Sondheim: A Celebration (Michael Jeter), see SONDACEL2 Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 The Broadway Musicals of 1962 (Scott Coulter, Danny Gurwin, Brad Oscar, Will Taylor, Eric Stretch), see BROADWAYMUS62 Lorin & the Robins, Capitol 45rpm 4775, 1964 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 “Everybody Says Don’t” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) ACWPVS, ACWVS, ASIII, HTSS, SSS g-e2, BSBB f-d2, BSC [special lyrics; in medley with “I’m Still Here” and “Don’t Rain On My Parade”] Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Harry Guardino), see ANYONE1 Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin, David Kernan, Julia McKenzie), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Geraldene Morrow, Jill Perryman, Bartholomew John), see SIDEBYS2 Sondheim, Book-of-the-Month Records (Timothy Nolan), see SOND1 Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (Scott Bakula), see ANYONE2 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Liz Callaway), see STEPHENSA1 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Move On,” “I Know Things Now,” and “Take Me to the World”] Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Ester Elias, Ivana Domenico, Marya Bravo, Sabrina Korgut), see SIDEBYS3 Simply Sondheim (Steve Rhyne), see SIMPLYSOND1 Broadway Unplugged 4 (Andrea McArdle), see BROADWAYUNPL4 Argent, Monique/Moonfall, see ARGENTM1 Barr, John/A Small Affair, Dress Circle MBJB 1, 1996 Beechman, Laurie/Listen to My Heart, DRG 5216, 1990 Bogart, Matt/Simple Song, JAY Records CDJAY 1363, 2002 Brussell, Barbara/patterns, see BRUSSELL1 Connelli, Judi & Suzanne Johnston/Perfect Strangers, see CONNELLI3 [with “Our Time”] Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim, see COOKB1 Hardin, Melora/All the Way to Mars, LML Music LML 249, 2010 Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1

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Herman, Avigail/Avigail Herman, Totally Vocal [n.n], 2003 Herman/Avigail/Hey World Here I Am—The Streisand Story, Totally Vocal [n.n], 2003 Hill, Rosena M./If You Believe, Rosena M. Hill. [n.n.], 2008 Hubbard, Bruce/For You, For Me, EMI/Angel CDC 7 49928 2, 1990 J’s/Jamie, Columbia 45rpm 4-43017, 1964 Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 Jahana, Raishel/Sondheim Songs, see JAHANA1 [with “Children Will Listen”] Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim, see LAINEC2 McKechnie, Donna/Inside the Music, see MCKECHNIED1 O’Connor, Grace/A Time for Love, [n.n., n.n.], 2000 [with “With So Little to Be Sure Of”] Patinkin, Mandy/Kidults, Nonesuch 79534-2, 2001 [with “The King’s New Clothes”] Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Rose, Jodi/Hope for the Future, see ROSEJ1 Schneider, Helen/A Voice and a Piano, see SCHNEIDERH1 [with “Move On”] Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “Anyone Can Whistle”] Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 Starr, Lynn/Lynn Starr Live! “It’s Only Love,” Original Cast 2011, 2000 Streisand, Barbra/Back to Broadway, see STREISAND2 Streisand, Barbra/The Concert, Columbia C2K 66109, 1994 Ventura, Carol/Carol!, Prestige PRST 7358, 1964[?] Victor, Larry/Our Time Will Soon Go By, Original Cast Records OC 9330, 1993 “Everybody’s Got the Right (Finale)” from Assassins (1991) [also included in the “Opening”] APVS, AVS company number Assassins Original Cast7 (Victor Garber, Terence Mann, Debra Monk, Jonathan Hadary, Eddie Korbich, Lee Wilkof, Greg Germann, Annie Golden, Jace Alexander), see ASSASSINS1 No One Is Alone . . . (Company), see NOONEIS1 Sondheim: A Celebration (John Allen, Paul Carr, Bridget Hoffman, David Holladay, Jean Kauffman, Kevin Loreque, Alan Safier, Sean Smith, Steve Wilde), see SONDACEL2 Assassins Broadway Cast (Marc Kudisch, James Barbour, Alexander Gemignani, Denis O’Hare, Jeffrey Kuhn, Mario Cantone, Mary Catherine Garrison, Becky Ann Baker, Michael Cerveris, Neil Patrick Harris), see ASSASSINS2 Simply Sondheim (Company), see SIMPLYSOND1 [with “No More”]

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“Everything’s Coming Up Roses” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne [revised version of “I’m Betwixt and Between” cut from High Button Shoes] GPVS, GVS2 b♭-c♭2, GVS c1-d2 Gypsy Original Cast7 (Ethel Merman), see GYPSY01 Herb Geller and His All-Stars play selections from Gypsy (Barbara Lang), see GELLERH Gypsy Film (Lisa Kirk/Rosalind Russell), see GYPSY02 Broadway’s Big Hits (David Carroll), Mercury SR 60811/(M) MG 20811, 1963 Gypsy London Cast (Angela Lansbury), see GYPSY03 Gypsy Revival Cast (Tyne Daly), see GYPSY04 Gypsy TV Cast (Bette Midler), see GYPSY05 Celebrating Gypsy . . . (Libby Moore), see CELEBRATGYP Gypsy German Cast (Angelika Milster), see GYPSY07 Selections from “Gypsy” and “Flower Drum Song” (Florence Henderson), see GYPSY08 Kay Medford in “Gypsy” (Kay Medford), see GYPSY09 Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Bernadette Peters), see GYPSY10 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Patti Lupone), see GYPSY11 Broadway Unplugged (Alix Corey), see BROADWAYUNPL1 Basile, Jo/Hit Broadway Musicals, Audio Fidelity AF-1972, (S)SD-5972, 1962 Bassey, Shirley/Bassey Belts the Best, United Artists UAL-3419, (S)UAS6419, 1965 Bassey, Shirley/Broadway Bassey’s Way, EMI SHZE 371/Columbia SCX6515, 1972 Bassey, Shirley/Shirley Bassey Stops the Shows, EMI BGOCD826, 2008 Blackhurst, Klea/Everything the Traffic Will Allow, Lunch Money 791558555622, 2002 Blaine, Vivian/For You, see BLAINEV1 Bryan, Joy/Make the Man Love Me, Contemporary M-3604, (S)S-7604, 1962 Burnett, Carol/Burnett Sings, Decca (S)DL7-4437, 1965 [reissued on CD as Let Me Entertain You, Decca 012 159 402-2, 2000] Carroll, Diahann/Diahann Carroll at the Persian Room, United Artists UAL-3080, (S)UAS-6080, 1961; reissued on CD as The Magic of Diahann Carroll, DRG 91488, 2005 Carroll, Diahann/Stand Up and Sing, United Artists UAL-3331, (S)UAS6331, 1965 Clooney, Rosemary/Clap Hands, Here Comes Rosie, Victor (S)LSP-2212, 1961 Davies, Lew/Cheerful Earful, Command (S)RS-861, 1965

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Egan, Susan/Susan Egan Live!, LML Music LML CD 222, 2008 [in medley] Ellis, Ray/Our Man on Broadway, RCA Victor LPM-2615, 1960 Feinstein, Michael/Michael Feinstein Sings the Jule Styne Songbook, see FEINSTEIN1 Gene Lowell Singers/Voices in Song: American Musical Theater, Time S/2003, 1960 Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 [part of “Rose’s Medley”] Henderson, Florence/Selections from Gypsy and Flower Drum Song, see HENDERSONF1 Henshall, Ruthie/The Ruthie Henshall Album, Tring002, 1996 Hi-Lo’s, The/Broadway Playbill, see HILOS Harnar, Jeff/Jeff Harnar Sings the 1959 Broadway Songbook, see HARNARJ1 Holmes, Leroy/Golden Hits of Broadway, United Artists UAL-3234, (S)UAS-6234, 1962 John Cacavas Singers/The Broadway Songbook, Gallery (S) LPG-3200, MIO International MUS 5007, 1965 King Family/ . . . Live! In the Round (Marilyn King), Warner Bros. (S)1660, 1960 Kuhn, Judy/Just in Time—Judy Kuhn Sings Jule Styne, Varese Sarabande VSD-5472, 1995 Lawrence, Steve/Lawrence Goes Latin, United Artists UAL-3114, (S)UAS-6114, 1962 Lee, Donna/ . . . At the School of Arts Café, Larrikin LRF 394, 1995 Lewis, Jerry, Decca 45rpm 9-3115, 1961 Lewis, Monica/ . . . Swings Jule Styne, DRG 802, 1991 Mathis, Johnny/Ballads & Rhythms of Broadway, Columbia C2L-17, (S)CS2-803, 1961; Sony 530772, 1999 McKenzie, Rita/Ethel Merman’s Broadway, see MCKENZIER1 Merman, Ethel/This Is Broadway’s Best, Columbia B2W, (S)B2WS-1, 1961 Merman, Ethel/The Lindsay Record, Columbia CSP 261, [n.d.] [Sondheim wrote special lyrics for this recording supporting John Lindsay’s candidacy for Mayor of New York] Merman, Ethel/Merman in Vegas, Reprise R9-6062, 1962 Merman, Ethel/Merman Sings Merman, London Records XPS-901, 1972 Merman, Ethel/A Gala Tribute to Joshua Logan, [n.l.] Merman, Ethel/The Disco Album, A&M Records SP-4775, 1979 Merman, Ethel/Mermania!, see MERMANE1 [2 versions, 1 in medley] Miller, Roger/King of the Road (The Best of . . . ), Laser Light 15 478, 1992 Modernaires/Like Swing, Mercury MG-20546, (S)SR-60220, 1961

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O’Shaughnessy, Carol/Live at Scullers, Songkeepers 001, 2000 [with “Small World”] Parker, Frank/Golden Favorites of Broadway, Liberty LRP-3252, (S)LST7252, 1962 Pastor, Tony/Shakin’ Up Vegas, Capitol (S)ST-1415, 1961 Roberts, Geo/Bottoms Up, Columbia CL-1520, (S)CS-8320, 1961 Ross, Annie/Gypsy, see ROSSANNIE Roy Budd Trio/Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Musical . . . Sondheim, see ROYBUDD1 Rydell, Bobby/Bobby Rydell Salutes the Great Ones, Cameo (S)1010, 1961 Sands, Tommy/Sands at the Sands, Capitol (S)ST-1364, 1961 [reissued on Live from Las Vegas, Capitol 72435-41790-2-0, 2003] Squires, Dorothy, HMV 45-POP 1097, [n.d.] Steele, Tommy/Everything’s Coming Up Broadway, Liberty LRP-3426, (S)LST-7426, 1965 Stevens, Kay/Ruckus at the Riviera, Columbia CL-1716, (S)CS-8516, 1962 Styne, Jule/My Name is Jule, see STYNEJ1 Williams, Andy/Music from Shubert Alley, Sinclair, SS-2250, 1959 “Everything’s Perfect” cut from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) “Evoe for the Dead” from The Frogs (1974) [also known as Paean] The Frogs/Evening Primrose Studio Recording (Chorus), see FROGS1 “Exhibit ‘A’” from Saturday Night (1954) SNVS b♭-e♭2 Saturday Night Bridewell Cast (James Miillard), see SATURDAYN1 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Christopher Fitzgerald), see SATURDAYN2 “Exodus: (The Sound of Poets)” from The Frogs (1974) The Frogs/Evening Primrose Studio Recording (Chorus), see FROGS1 “Faculty Song” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) “Fair Brooklyn” part of “That Kind of a Neighborhood” from Saturday Night (1954) A Stephen Sondheim Evening (Company), see STEPHENSE1 “Fair Lady” (incomplete) cut from The Lady or the Tiger (1954, unproduced) “Fanfare (for 3 Trumpets)” (1976)

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“Fanfare and Arena Sequence” cut from The Lady or the Tiger (1954, unproduced) [incomplete] “Fanfare” from The Frogs (1974) The Frogs/Evening Primrose Studio Recording (Orchestra), see FROGS1 “Farewell” added to the 1972 revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Simply Sondheim (Shay Oglesby-Smith), see SIMPLYSOND1 “Farewell Letter (Scene Thirteen)” from Passion (1995) PPVS duet a-d♯2/a♯-f2 Passion Original Cast (Marin Mazzie, Jere Shea), see PASSION1 Passion London Concert (Helen Hobson, Michael Ball), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Pia Douwes, Stanley Burleson), see PASSION4 “Farm Sequence” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne, [see also “Broadway,” “Cow Song,” “Dainty June and Her Farmboys”; same music as “Gone Are the Days” cut from High Button Shoes] Brinberg, Steven/Simply Barbra, JAY Records, CDJAY 1329, 1999 “Fear No More” added to the 1975 Cleveland revival of The Frogs, setting of a lyric by William Shakespeare ASII a♭-b♭2 A Stephen Sondheim Evening1 (George Hearn), see STEPHENSE1 [not on CD, available on A Collector’s Sondheim] Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Timothy Nolen), see SOND1 The Shakespeare Revue (Janie Dee), Jay 1354, 2001; TER TEM2 1237, 2003 Shakespeare on Broadway (Ron Raines), Varese Sarabande VSD-5622, 1996 The Frogs/Evening Primrose Studio Recording (Davis Gaines), see FROGS1 The Frogs Original Broadway Cast (Michael Sibbery), see FROGS2 “Final Instructions to the Audience” from the 2004 revised version of The Frogs, [see also “Invocation and Instructions to the Audience”] The Frogs Original Broadway Cast (Nathan Lane, Company), see FROGS2 “Final Scene” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS duet G-g♭1/b♭-d♭2 Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Len Cariou), see SWEENEYT1 Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see SWEENEYT2 [listed as “Finale”] Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Constantino Romero), see SWEENEYT3

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Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Patti LuPone, George Hearn, Neil Patrick Harris), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Michael Cerveris, Patti LuPone, Manoel Felciano, Company), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Laura Michelle Kelly, Alan Rickman), see SWEENEYT6 “Finale” from By George (1946) “Finale” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) “Finale” from Into the Woods (1987), [see also “Children Will Listen,” “Into the Woods,” & “Ever After”] ITWPVS company number Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Company), see INTOTHE4 “Finale” from Passion (1995) PPVS company number Passion Original Cast (William Parry, Cris Groendaal, Francis Ruivivar, Marin Mazzie, Matthew Porretta, Marcus Olson, Gregg Edelman, Company, Jere Shea, Donna Murphy), see PASSION1 Passion London Concert (Michael Ball, Maria Friedman, Company), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Ids van der Krieke, Ensemble, Pia Douwes, Stanley Burleson, Vera Mann), see PASSION4 “Finale” from Road Show (2008) Road Show Original Cast Recording (Michael Cerveris, Alexander Gemignani, William Parry, Company), see ROADSHOW1 “Finale-Chaos” from Follies (1971) FPVS primarily instrumental Follies Original Cast (Company), FOLLIES01 Follies in Concert (Company), see FOLLIES02 Follies, The Complete Recording (Company), see FOLLIES05 “Finaletto” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) “Finishing the Hat” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) ASII, SPGPVS, SPGVS b♭-a♭2 Sunday in the Park . . .5, 7 Original Cast (Mandy Patinkin), see DAYIN1

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Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Cris Groenendaal), see SOND1 Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental), see SYMPHONICSON1 No One is Alone . . . (Craig Weatherill), see NOONEIS1 Broadway Unplugged (Michael Cerveris), see BROADWAYUNPL1 Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2 (instrumental), see SINGTHESONGS2 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Neil Patrick Harris), see WALLTOWALLS1 Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Daniel Evans), see SUNDAYIN2 Buckley, Betty/The London Concert, see BUCKLEYB2 Donegan, James/So Much Spring, Play Well Records TR1297, 2006 Friedman, Maria/Now and Then, see FRIEDM2 Lovett, Marcus/The Give Moment, Marcus Lovett 837101274760, 2009 Marcovicci, Andrea/Live from London, Cabaret Records 5023-2, 1997 Marien, Robert/Broadway-Montreal, Firma FM 2 0001, 1995 [sung in French] Parke, Tyran/Sunday in the Parke, Tyran Parke TPCD001, 2008 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Quast. Philip/Philip Quast Live at the Donmar, PQD 1, 2002 Starobin, David/New Music with Guitar, Volume 3 (Patrick Mason), see STAROBIND1 Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 Wilson, Lambert/Musicals, see WILSONL1 “First Letter” from Passion (1995) PPVS duet b♭-c2/b♭-g1 Passion Original Cast (Marin Mazzie, Jere Shea), see PASSION1 Passion London Concert (Helen Hobson, Michael Ball), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Pia Douwes, Stanley Burleson, Ids van der Krieke, Bert Simhoffer), see PASSION4 “First Midnight” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS company number, mostly spoken Into the Woods Original Cast (Company), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Company), see INTOTHE2 Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental) [part of the “Into the Woods Suite”], see SYMPHONICSON1 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Company), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Company), see INTOTHE5 “Flag Song” cut from Assassins (1991) [used as the basis for “It’s in Your Hands Now”]

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“Flashback” from Passion (1995) PPVS company number Passion Original Cast (Gregg Edelman, Donna Murphy, Linda Balgord, John Leslie Wolfe, Matthew Porretta, Juliet Lambert), see PASSION1 Passion London Concert (Paul Bentley, Maria Friedman, Monica Ernesti, Nigel Williams, Simon Green, Freya Copeland), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Vera Mann, Bert Simhoffer, Penny Vos, Egidius Pluymen, Alberto ter Doest, Stanley Burleson, Annemieke van der Ploeg), see PASSION4 “Florida Land Boom” cut from Bounce (2003) “Fly Birds (Opening, Part IIA)” from Into the Woods (1987), [see “Opening” for recordings] ITWPVS trio g-d2/c1-g1/c1-a1 “Fogg’s Asylum/Fogg’s Passacaglia” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS company number Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Company), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Company), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Company), see SWEENEYT4 “Forty Days” from Passion (1995) PPVS b♭-e2 Passion Original Cast (Marin Mazzie), see PASSION1 Passion London Concert (Helen Hobson), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Pia Douwes), see PASSION4 “Four Black Dragons” from Pacific Overtures (1976) POPVS trio + chorus c♭1-g♭2/b♭-e2/d♭1-e2 Pacific Overtures Original Cast (Jea Woo Lee, Mark Hsu Syers, Mako, Company), see PACIFICOVER1 Pacific Overtures English National Opera (Terry Jenkins, John Cashmore, Company), see PACIFICOVER2 Pacific Overtures New Broadway Cast (Scott Watanabe, Joseph Anthony Foronda, B. D. Wong, Company), see PACIFICOVER3 Scott, Phil/Serious Cabaret, Middle Eight Music, 2002 “Fourth Letter” from Passion (1995) PPVS f-d♭2 Passion Original Cast (Marin Mazzie, Jere Shea), see PASSION1 Stephen Sondheim’s Passion . . . in Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see PASSION2

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Passion London Concert (Helen Hobson, Michael Ball), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Stanley Burleson, Pia Douwes), see PASSION4 “Franklin Shepard, Inc.” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) MWRPVS d♭1-a♭2 Merrily We Roll Along Original Cast (Lonny Price), see MERRILY1 Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Adam Heller), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Evan Pappas), see MERRILY3 Sondheim: A Celebration (Kirby Tepper), see SONDACEL2 Celebrating Sondheim (Claire Moore, Glyn Kerslake), see CELEBRATSON “Free” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) [a new lyric was written for the film, but was not used] FTPVS duet b-f2/g1-f2 [a2 optional] A Funny Thing . . . Original Cast (Zero Mostel, Brian Davies), see FUNNY01 A Funny Thing . . . London Cast (Frankie Howerd, John Rye), see FUNNY02 A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Nathan Lane, Jim Stanek), see FUNNY05 Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing . . . Forum . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see FUNNY04 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Sheldon Harnick, Michael Arden), see WALLTOWALLS1 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 “Free” (first version) cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) “French Waltz” cut from A Little Night Music (1973) “The Frogs” from The Frogs (1974), [see also “Parados”] The Frogs Original Broadway Cast (Nathan Lane, Company), see FROGS2 “Fumblington Girls’ Song” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) “Funeral Sequence” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) FTPVS company number A Funny Thing . . . Original Cast (Zero Mostel, Ronald Holgate, Company), see FUNNY01 A Funny Thing . . . London Cast (Frankie Howerd, Leon Greene, Company), see FUNNY02

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A Funny Thing . . . Film (Leon Greene, Company), see FUNNY03 [listed as “The Dirge”] A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Cris Groenendaal, Nathan Lane, Company), see FUNNY05 “The Future” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “The Gaggle of Geese (Hornpipe)” cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) “The Game” from Bounce (2003) and Road Show (2008) [reprised in both] Bounce Original Cast (Howard McGillin, Richard Kind; Richard Kind, Michele Pawk, Howard McGillin, Herndon Lackey), see BOUNCE1 Road Show Original Cast Recording (Alexander Gemignani, Michael Cerveris, Company), see ROADSHOW1 “Garden Sequence” from Passion (1995) PPVS b♭-d2 Passion Original Cast (Jere Shea, Marin Mazzie, Donna Murphy), see PASSION1 Passion London Concert (Michael Ball, Helen Hobson, Maria Friedman), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Stanley Burleson, Pia Douwes, Vera Mann), see PASSION4 “Gavotte” see “Life Is Happiness Indeed” from Candide (1974) “Gee, Officer Krupke” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein WSSPVS company number West Side Story Original Cast2, 7 (Eddie Roll, Grover Dale, Hank Brunjes, Tony Mordente, David Winters, The Jets), see WESTSIDE01 West Side Story film (Russ Tamblyn, The Jets), see WESTSIDE02 West Side Story Studio Cast (David Livingston, Quartet, Todd Lester, Marty Nelson, Peter Thom, Stephen Bogardus), see WESTSIDE03 West Side Story Studio Cast London (Derrek Chessor, Boys), see WESTSIDE04 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Kieran Daniels, Jets), see WESTSIDE05 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Nicholas Warnford, Jets), see WESTSIDE05 [Motion Picture Version]

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West Side Story, The Songs of (Salt-N-Pepa, Def Jam, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes of TLC, The Jerky Boys, Paul Rodriguez), see WESTSIDE06 West Side Story London Studio Cast (Leo Karibian, Norman Fuber, Vince Logan), see WESTSIDE09 West Side Story Original Score (Jets), see WESTSIDE10 West Side Story Broadway Revival (Curtis Holbrook, Jets), see WESTSIDE11 Canadian Brass/The Canadian Brass Plays Bernstein, RCA Victor 09026/68633-4, 1997 Clary, Robert/Robert Clary Sings at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, Original Cast OC-9799, 1997 Davis Jr., Sammy/Sammy Davis Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove, see DAVISS [part of West Side Story medley] Drake, Alfred & Peters, Roberta/Alfred Drake & Roberta Peters Sing the Popular Music of Leonard Bernstein (The Ray Charles Singers), see DRAKEA

Schlongs/Punk Side Story (Jack Canada), see SCHLONG1 “George School Frowns” from By George (1946) “George’s Moon” from The World of Jules Feiffer (1962) “Get Out” from Road Show (2008) [paired with “Go”; adapted from “Get Out of My Life”] Road Show Original Cast Recording (Alexander Gemignani, Michael Cerveris), see ROADSHOW1 “Get out of My Life” from Bounce (2003) Bounce Original Cast (Richard Kind, Howard McGillin), see BOUNCE1 “Getting Married Today” from Company (1970) CPVS trio e1-a♭2/b-g2/a-c♭2 [+ chorus], CVS2, CVS3 f1-a2/c1-g2/a♭-c2 [+ chorus], HTSS g1-g2/d1-f2/b♭-c2, SCCH f♭1-a♭2/b-g♭2/a-c♭2 [+ chorus] Company Original Cast (Beth Howland, Steve Elmore, Teri Ralston, Company), see COMPANY01 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Beth Howland, Teri Ralston, Steve Elmore), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie, David Kernan), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Jill Perryman, Bartholomew John, Geraldene Morrow), see SIDEBYS2 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall6 (Jeanne Lehman, Mark Jacoby, Madeline Kahn), see SONDACELATC1

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Putting It Together (Julie Andrews, Company), see PUTTINGIT1 Company London Revival Cast (?, Michael Simkins, Sophie Thompson), see COMPANY04 Company Revival Cast (Veanne Cox, Patricia Ben Peterson, Danny Burstein), see COMPANY05 Sondheim: A Celebration (Nancy Dussault), see SONDACEL2 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Eydie Alyson, Juliana A. Hansen, Tami Tappan), see STEPHENSA1 [Note: this is a “hidden track” at the end of the CD] Company Brazilian Cast (Claudia Netto, Raul Serrador, Cidalia Castro), see COMPANY06 Company German Cast (Alexandra Seefisch, Alen Hodzovic, Carolin Soyka), see COMPANY07 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Sabrina Korgut, Ester Elias, Claudio Bootelho, Company), see SIDEBYS3 Simply Sondheim (Stephanie Rhoads), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] Company Accompaniment CD (Dara Seitzman, Amy Bils, Billy Ernst/accompaniment), see COMPANY08 Company Second Revival Cast (Heather Laws, Robert Cunningham, Amy Justman, Raúl Esparza, Company ), see COMPANY09 Hastings, Ruth/Ruth Hastings Plays the Geary, see HASTINGSR1 [in medley] Molaskey, Jessica/Make Believe, PS Classics CD22, 2004 [with “Cloudburst”] Ralston, Teri/I’ve Gotta Get Back to New York, see RALSTONT1 [in medley] “Giants in the Sky” from Into the Woods (1987) ASIV, ITWPVS c1-f2 Into the Woods Original Cast (Ben Wright), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Richard Dempsey), see INTOTHE2 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Brian D’Arcy James), see STEPHENSA1 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Adam Wylie), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Kristopher Monroe), see INTOTHE4 Into the Woods Original Cast (John Cameron Mitchell), see INTOTHE1 [on 2007 reissue only] Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Marc Pujol), see INTOTHE5 Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (sung by Malcolm Gets), see COOKB1 [with “Into the Woods”] De Lorenzo, Brian/Found Treasures, see DELORENZ1 East West Players/East West Overtures (Robert Lee), see EASTWEST1 Jay, Harley/Between 41st and 53rd, [self-released], 2007 Patinkin, Mandy/Dress Casual, see PATINKIN2 Sandford, Luke/Shimmer, see SANDFORD1 [piano solo]

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“The Girls of Summer” from The Girls of Summer (1956) ASIII b-e2 Marry Me a Little (Suzanne Henry), see MARRYME1 Simply Sondheim (Lisa Vroman), see SIMPLYSOND1 Argent, Monique/Moonfall, see ARGENTM1 d’Armand, Jeanette/Stage Road, Jeanette d’Armand 884501223096, 2009 Fasano, Barbara/The Girls of Summer, Human Child Records hcr400, 1998 Hobson, Helen/Hobson’s Choice, Upbeat Recordings/Showbiz/U.K. UR124, 1996–97 Kline, Leah/Playground, [n.l.] 8240, 2003 O’Donnell, Kerryn/What More Do I Need?, [n.l. n.n.], 2001 [Australian] Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SONDSINGS2 Upshaw, Dawn/I Wish It So, see UPSHAWD1 Woodfield, Ann/Shades of Reflection, Guild Music Ltd/Zah Zah ZZCD 9805, 1998 “Glad t’ See Ya” from By George (1946) “The Glamorous Life” from A Little Night Music (1973) LNMPVS company number A Little Night Music Original Cast (Judy Kahan, Glynis Johns, Hermione Gingold, Teri Ralston, Beth Fowler, Barbara Lang, Benjamin Rayson, Gene Varrone), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music1 London Cast (Christine McKenna, Jean Simmons, Hermione Gingold, John J. Moore, Chris Melville, Liz Robertson, David Bexon, Jacquey Chappell), see LITTLEN02 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Megan Kelly, Sian Phillips, Elisabeth Welch, Dinah Harris, Hilary Western, Susan Flannery, Michael Bulman, Martin Nelson), see LITTLEN04 The Great Waltz (Hollywood Bowl Orchestra), see HOLLYWOODB1 [part of “The Night Waltzes”] A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Claire Cox, Judi Dench, Sian Phillips, Ernestina Quarco, Stephen Hanley, Tim Goodwin, Morag McLaren, Di Botcher), see LITTLEN05 [includes “The Letter Song” version from the film] A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Miranda Gas, Vicky Pena, Montserrat Carulla, Xavier Fernandez, Muntsa Rius, Ana Feu, Alberto Demestres, Teresa de la Torre), see LITTLEN06 Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2 (instrumental), see SINGTHESONGS2

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A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Katherine McNamara or Keaton Whittaker, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jayne Paterson, Betsy Morgan, Marissa McGowan, Stephen R. Buntrock, Kevin David Thomas, Angela Lansbury), see LITTLEN07 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SOND-SINGS01 Trotter, Terry/Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, see TROTTERT1 [piano solo] “The Glamorous Life (The Letter Song)” from the film of A Little Night Music (1978) ASII, SSFTS c1-e2 A Little Night Music1 Film (Chloe Franks, sung by Elaine Tomkinson), see LITTLEN03 [also included on the 1998 reissue of the original cast recording, see LITTLEN01] Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Betsy Joslyn), see SOND1 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Company), see LITTLEN05 [see entry above] Sondheim at the Movies (Cassidy Ladden), see SONDATTHEM1 Simply Sondheim (Kelly Ground), see SIMPLYSOND1 Malmberg, Myrra/What Can You Lose?, see MALMBERG1 Trotter, Terry/Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, see TROTTERT1 [piano solo] “Go” from Road Show (2008) [paired with “Get Out”] Road Show Original Cast Recording (Alexander Gemignani, Michael Cerveris), see ROADSHOW1 “God” from Sondheim on Sondheim (2010) “God, That’s Good!” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS company number Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Ken Jennings, Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou, Company), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Muntsa Rius, Vicky Pena, Constantino Romero, Company), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone, George Hearn, Company), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Manoel Felciano, Patti LuPone, Michael Cerveris, Company), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Edward Sanders, Helena Bonham Carter), see SWEENEYT6 “The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Blues,” see “Buddy’s Blues”

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“Gold!” from Bounce (2003) and Road Show (2008) Bounce Original Cast (Herndon Lackey, Howard McGillin, Jane Powell, Richard Kind, Ensemble), see BOUNCE1 Road Show Original Cast Recording (Alma Cuervo, Michael Cerveris, Alexander Gemignani, Company), see ROADSHOW1 “Gold!—part 2” from Bounce (2003) Bounce Original Cast (Ensemble, Howard McGillin), see BOUNCE1 “The Good Life” cut from Bounce (2003) “Good Thing Going” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) ASII, MWRPVS, MWRVS, SCCH c1-f2 Merrily We Roll Along Original Cast (Lonny Price, Jim Walton), see MERRILY1 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Timothy Nolen), see SOND1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (The Tonics), see SONDACELATC1 Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Adam Heller, Malcolm Gets), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Evan Pappas, Michael Cantwell), see MERRILY3 No One Is Alone . . . (Michelle Burgan), see NOONEIS1 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] Sondheim: A Celebration (’Nita Whitaker), see SONDACEL2 Sondheim Tonight (David Kernan), see SONDTON1 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] Simply Sondheim (James Brewer), see SIMPLYSOND1 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] Alexander, Roberta/With You, see ALEXR1 Alexander, Roberta/Roberta Alexander—A Retrospective, Etcetera KTC 1222, 1999 Andrew, Leo/A World of Possibilities, [n.l.] LAVW1, 2001 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] Barrowman, John/Reflections from Broadway, see BARROWMAN1 Brindley, Susan/With So Little to Be Sure Of, see BRINDLEYS1 East West Players/East West Overtures (Zar Acayan), see EASTWEST1 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C./You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught . . . , see GAYMENSCWDC1 Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1

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Jöback, Peter/Personliga Val, Columbia 5099748920027, 2007 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] LaMott, Nancy/My Foolish Heart, Midder Music, MM CD003, 1993 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] Madden, Jeff/Taking the Wheel, Independent [n.n.], 2007 Markey, Enda/Another Place and Time, see MARKEY1 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] Mazzie, Marin & Jason Danieley/Opposite You (Jason Danieley), see MAZZIEDANIELEY1 McDermott, Sean/My Broadway, see MCDERMOTTS1 McGillin, Howard/Where Time Stands Still, Q&W Music Q&W1008, 2002 [with “Not While I’m Around”] Nease, Byron/When I Fall in Love, Audible (Audiophile) Difference AD CD002, 1992 [with “Think of Me”] Noll, Christiane/A Broadway Love Story, Varese Sarabande VSD-5956, 1998 Patinkin, Mandy/Experiment, see PATINKIN3 Phillips, Kris [ne Fei Xiang]/Broadway Album, Forward Music 1003947297, 2005 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] Roy, William/When I Sing Alone, Audiophile (D)AP-213, 1986; ACD213, 1996 Saisa/Saisa’s Grand Piano Bar (Featuring Mel Spears), Orchard 801245, 2001 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] Sullivan, KT/Crazy World, DRG 91413, 1993 Turner, Geraldine/When We Met, Desiree Records CD 2302, 1999 Sinatra, Frank/She Shot Me Down, Reprise Records FS 2305, 1981 Whiffenpoofs/Whiffennium, The Yale Whiffenpoofs [n.n.], 2000 Whitton, Jonathan/Live at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, Jonathan Whitton 634479661167, 2007 [“Not a Day Goes By”] Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 “Goodbye Arlette” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “Goodbye for Now” from Reds (1981) [vocal version of the Theme from Reds”] ASIII, SSFTS f-e2 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Mary D’Arcy), see SOND1 Unsung Sondheim3 (Liz Callaway), see UNSUNGS1 Sondheim at the Movies (Orchestra), see SONDATTHEM1

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Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “I Wish I Could Forget You”] Academy Film Orchestra, The/Great Movie Themes, The Special Music Co. Inc., SCD 4501, 1986 [instrumental] Breach, Joyce & William Roy/Love Is the Thing, Audiophile ACD-314, 2001 Brindley, Susan/With So Little to Be Sure Of, see BRINDLEYS1 [with “Simple” from Nine] Como, Perry/So It Goes, RCA Victor AFL1-4272, 1983 Cook, Barbara/No One Is Alone, see COOKB3 [with “One More Kiss”] Ford, Anne Kerry/Something Wonderful, see FORDA1 [with “Edelweiss”] Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 Jiear, Alison/Simply Alison Jiear, Dress Circle DAD 007/1, 1995 Maer, Sally (Cello Diva)/Bed of Roses, ABC Classics 4766291, 2008 [cello] Marcovici, Andrea/What Is Love?, DRG 91401, 1990 Rampal, Jean-Pierre/Music My Love, CBS Masterworks MK 45548, 1989 [flute with Claude Bolling at the piano] Streisand, Barbra/The Movie Album, Columbia CK90742, 2003 Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 “Gossip Sequence” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) SPGPVS company number Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast (Melanie Vaughn, Mary D’Arcy, Barbara Bryne, Judith Moore, William Parry), see SUNDAYIN1 No One Is Alone . . . (Sybil Williams & Kerry Sampson), see NOONEIS1 Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Simon Green, Liza Sadovy, Sarah French-Ellis, Kaisa Hammarlund, Gay Soper, Joanne Redman, Jenna Russell, Daniel Evans, Ian McLarnon), see SUNDAYIN2 “[Gotta] Keep ’Em Humming” cut from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) [an early version of “Putting It Together”] “Gracious Living Fantasy” added to 2000 production of Saturday Night Saturday Night Original New York Cast (instrumental based on “Class” with dialogue), see SATURDAYN2 “Green Finch and Linnett Bird” from Sweeney Todd (1979) ASI, SCCH, STVS a♭-e♭2, STPVS c1-g2 Sweeney Todd Original Cast7 (Sarah Rice), see SWEENEYT1 A Little Sondheim Music (Delcina Stevenson), see LITTLES1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Harolyn Blackwell), see SONDACELATC1 [also included on the 2007 reissue of Sweeney Todd Original Cast, SWEENEYT1]

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Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see SWEENEYT2 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Ma. Josep Peris), see SWEENEYT3 Sondheim Tonight (Julia Migenes), see SONDTON1 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Heidi Grant Murphy), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Lauren Molina), see SWEENEYT5 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Heidi Murphy Grant), see WALLTOWALLS1 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Jayne Wisener), see SWEENEYT6 Collins, Judy/Running for My Life, Elektra 6E-253, 1980 DeGrazia, Elizabeth/One Love, One Lifetime, Image Sound Studios Toronto REC 04, 2004 East West Players/East West Overtures (Linda Igarashi), see EASTWEST1 Emerson, Karen Smith/Songs of the Nightingale, Centaur 2232, 1995 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 [in medley] Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Lear, Evelyn/Evelyn Lear Sings Sondheim and Bernstein, see LEARE1 Nunn, Veronica/American Lullaby, Orchard 802166, 2002 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Prior, Marina/Somewhere, see PRIORM1 “Greens, Greens (Opening, Part III)” from Into the Woods (1987) [see “Opening” for recordings] ITWPVS rap number, approximate pitches Orquestra De Cambra Teatre Lliure/Stephen Sondheim (Nina), see ORQUESTRADECAM1 “Growing Up” added to 1985 production of Merrily We Roll Along ASIV b-d2 Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Malcolm Gets, Michele Pawk), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Michael Cantwell, Louise Gold), see MERRILY3 “Gun Song” from Assassins (1991) APVS quartet Assassins Original Cast (Terence Mann, Victor Garber, Jonathan Hadary, Debra Monk), see ASSASSINS1 Putting It Together (Christopher Durang, Julie Andrews, Stephen Collins, Michael Rupert, Rachel York), see PUTTINGIT1 No One is Alone . . . (Greg Hart), see NOONEIS1 [with “My Friends”]

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Assassins Broadway Cast (James Barbour, Michael Cerveris, Denis O’Hare, Becky Ann Baker), see ASSASSINS2 Mars, Susannah/Take Me to the World, see MARSS1 [with “Regretting What I Said”] “Gwendolen and Yolanda” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) [Gypsy Medley] from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne Stevlekar, Steven/Jule Styne Remembered, Starlight Records SLR29626, 1996 [individual numbers not listed] “Gypsy Strip Routine” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne, [see also “Let Me Entertain You”; sometimes referred to as “The Strip”] GPVS f♯-c2 Gypsy Original Cast (Sandra Church), see GYPSY01 Gypsy Film (Natalie Wood), see GYPSY02 Gypsy London Cast (Zan Charise), see GYPSY03 Gypsy Revival Cast (Crista Moore), see GYPSY04 Gypsy TV Cast (Cynthia Gibb), see GYPSY05 Gypsy German Cast (Susanne Eisenkolb), see GYPSY07 Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Tammy Blanchard, Company), see GYPSY10 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Laura Benanti), see GYPSY11 “Hades” from the 2004 revised version of The Frogs The Frogs Original Broadway Cast (Peter Bartlett, Company), see FROGS2 Simply Sondheim (John Brewer, Company), see SIMPLYSOND1 “Hal Prince 50th Birthday” “Happily Ever After” cut from Company (1970) ASIII, CVS3 c1-f2 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Larry Kert), see SONDAMUST1 [incomplete] Marry Me a Little1 (Craig Lucas), see MARRYME1 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Stephen Sondheim) “Happiness” from Passion (1995) ASIV solo version c1-g♭2, PPVS duet a-e2/a-d♭2, PVS duet c1-g♭2/b-f2 Passion Original Cast7 (Marin Mazzie, Jere Shea), see PASSION1 Stephen Sondheim’s Passion . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see PASSION2 Passion London Concert (Helen Hobson, Michael Ball), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Pia Douwes, Stanley Burleson), see PASSION4 Simply Sondheim (Kelly Ground, Tom Orr), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim, see COOKB1

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Mazzie, Marin & Jason Danieley/Opposite You, see MAZZIEDANIELEY1 Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., see PETERSB1 “Happy Ending” cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) “Have I Got a Girl for You” from Company (1970) CPVS, CVS2, CVS3 quintet Company Original Cast (Charles Braswell, John Cunningham, Steve Elmore, George Coe, Charles Kimbrough, Company), see COMPANY01 Putting It Together (Michael Rupert, Stephen Collins), see PUTTINGIT1 Company London Revival Cast (Paul Bentley, Gareth Snook, Men), see COMPANY04 Company Revival Cast (Timothy Landfield, Jonathan Dokuchitz, Men), see COMPANY05 Company Brazilian Cast (Paulo Mello, Rica Barros, Raul Serrador, Mauro Gorini, Daniel Boaventura), see COMPANY06 Company German Cast (Ensemble), see COMPANY07 Company Accompaniment CD (Booth Daniels [?]/accompaniment), see COMPANY08 Company Second Revival Cast (Bruce Sabath, Matt Castle, Robert Cunningham, Fred Rose, Keith Buterbaugh, Company), see COMPANY09 A’Hearn, Patrick/Patterns of the Heart, Patrick A’Hearn/DAN Productions Inc. PAI503, 1997 “Have to Give Her Someone” cut from Into the Woods (1987) Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Maureen Moore, Kim Crosby, George Lee Andrews) “Have You Been Waiting Long?” from Climb High (1950, unproduced) “Hello, Doughboy” unused from Follies (1971) [incomplete, lyrics only] “Hello, Little Girl” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS duet b♭-g♭2/f1-d2 Into the Woods Original Cast (Robert Westenberg, Danielle Ferland), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Clive Carter, Tessa Burbridge), see INTOTHE2 Putting It Together (Stephen Collins, Rachel York), see PUTTINGIT1 No One Is Alone . . . (Kynan Johns), see NOONEIS1 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Gregg Edelman, Christopher Sieber, Molly Ephraim), see INTOTHE3

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Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Jonathan Castillo, Samantha Meckes), see INTOTHE4 Simply Sondheim (Kim Larsen, Hannah Rose Kornfeld), see SIMPLYSOND1 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Carlos Gramaje, Anna Moliner), see INTOTHE5 Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., see PETERSB1 [with “Any Moment”] Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “Moments in the Woods”] Warlow, Anthony/On the Boards, Polydor 513 402 2, 1992 “Here We Are Again” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS company number [lead vocal g♯-b1], DIHVS c1-e♭2 Do I Hear A Waltz? Original Cast (Carol Bruce, Madeleine Sherwood, Jack Manning, Elizabeth Allen, Julienne Marie, Stuart Damon), see DOIHEAR1 Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Alyson Reed), see DOIHEAR2 “A Hero Is Coming” cut from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72)7, see SINGS01

SOND-

“Hideout at Chamonix” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “High Life” cut from The Last Resorts (1956, unproduced) Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SONDSINGS2 “High Tor” from High Tor (1949, unproduced) “The Hills of Tomorrow” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) ASIII, MWRVS solo version c1-g♭2, MWRPVS company number Merrily We Roll Along Original Cast (Company), see MERRILY1 A Little Sondheim Music (Ensemble), see LITTLES1 Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Jobson, Mark deVille/My House, see JOBSON1 Seattle Men’s Chorus, The/The Pink Album, Seattle Men’s Chorus 7, 1996 Turtle Creek Chorale/Family, Turtle Creek Chorale 1070, 1995 “Hold Me” unused from Company (1970) [incomplete]

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“Hollywood and Vine” from Twigs (1971), written with George Furth “Home Is the Place” music by Jule Styne Bennett, Tony/Yesterday I Heard the Rain, Columbia LE-10056, 1968 Feinstein, Michael/Michael Feinstein Sings the Jule Styne Songbook, see FEINSTEIN1 “Honey” cut from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) ASIII, MWRVS c♯1-f2 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (instrumental), see SOND1 Lost in Boston III (Liz Callaway and Jason Graae), Varese Sarabande VSD-5563, 1995 The MUSICality of Sondheim4 (Jacqueline Dankworth, Maria Friedman, Michael Cantwell), JAY Records CDJAZ 9006, 2002 “Hooray for Hapgood,” see “A-1 March” “The House of Marcus Lycus” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) FTPVS d1-d2 [b♭-optional], mostly instrumental A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Ernie Sabella, Girls), see FUNNY05 “The House of Marcus Lycus” (version 1) cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) A Stephen Sondheim Evening1 (George Hearn, Bob Gunton, Women), see STEPHENSE1 “How Do I Know?” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SONDSINGS2 [instrumental; first broadcast of a Sondheim song, radio station WNEW] “How I Saved Roosevelt” from Assassins (1991) [music based on John Philip Sousa “March” from El Capitan] APVS company number Assassins Original Cast (Company, Eddie Korbich), see ASSASSINS1 Assassins Broadway Cast (Jeffrey Kuhn, Marc Kudisch, Ensemble), see ASSASSINS2 “Hymnos: Evoe! (Hymn to Dionysos)” from Frogs (1974) The Frogs/Evening Primrose Studio Recording (Nathan Lane, Brian Stokes Mitchell & Chorus), see FROGS1

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The Frogs Original Broadway Cast (Company and Roger Bart), see FROGS2 [titled “Hymn to Dionysus”; also reprise] “I Believe in You” see “They Ask Me Why I Believe in You” “I Do Like You” cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) ASII duet b-f♯2/b-d2 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Bob Gunton, Timothy Nolen), see SOND1 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Old Friends” and “Side by Side”] Bennett, Richard Rodney/A Different Side of Sondheim, see BENNETTR1 Herman, Woody/My Kind of Broadway, Columbia CL-2357, (S)CS-9157, 1965 [instrumental] Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 [duet with William Roy] “I Don’t Want to Fall in Love with You” from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) “I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein BOB, WSSPVS solo + trio c1-a2 + trio, WSSVS solo version c1-g2 West Side Story Original Cast (Carol Lawrence, Marilyn Cooper, Carmen Gutierrez, Elizabeth Taylor), see WESTSIDE01 The Showstoppers (Doreen Hume), Wing WL 1027, 1961 West Side Story film (Marni Nixon, Yvonne Othon, Suzie Kaye, Joanne Miya), see WESTSIDE02 West Side Story Studio Cast (Kiri Te Kanawa, Girls), see WESTSIDE03 Bernstein on Broadway (Debbie Sasson), see BERNSTEINON1 West Side Story Studio Cast London ()Barbara Bonney, Girls), see WESTSIDE04 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Tinuke Olafimihan, Elinor Stephenson, Julie Paton, Nicole Carty), see WESTSIDE05 West Side Story, The Songs of (Little Richard), see WESTSIDE06 West Side Story London Production (Marlys Watters), see WESTSIDE08 West Side Story London Studio Cast (Jill Martin, Venita Ernandes, Lorraine Hart, Lorraine Smith), see WESTSIDE09 West Side Story Original Score (Betsi Morrison, Nandita Shenoy, Joanna Chozen, Winter Gabriel), see WESTSIDE10 Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2 (instrumental), see SINGTHESONGS2

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West Side Story Broadway Revival (Josefina Scaglione, Jennifer Sanchez, Danielle Polanco, Kat Nejat), see WESTSIDE11 [English version included on Barnes & Noble exclusive] Ambrose, Amanda/Amanda, Dunwich (S)668, 1967 Andrews, Julie/Broadway’s Fair Julie, Columbia CL-1712, (S)CS-8512, 1962 Brightman, Sarah/Sarah Brightman in Concert, WEA 428571, 2008 Broadway Kids, The/Back on Broadway, Lightyear 54268, 1998/Koch Records 5058, 2008 Burroughs, Marilyn/I Feel Pretty, Philips PHS 600-137, 1964 Enzo, Enzo/Clap!, Naïve U318191, 2009 Jarboe & Larry Seven/Beautiful People Ltd., Atavistic Records 153, 2004 Lester, Ketty/Where Is Love?, Victor (S)LSP-3326, 1965 Mager, Eileen/Broadway: Love and Laughter, see MAGERE1 Mercer, Mabel/Mabel Mercer, Harbinger Records 2001, 2002 Merrill, Helen/ . . . In Tokyo/Sings Folk, 8353, Import 2001 Milman, Sophie/Sophie Milman, Koch/JVC Victor 61450, 2006 Mundy, Mary Jo/Halfway to Heaven, Four Feet Eleven Production 9482, 2007 Nicholson, Carla & Michael/Just Duet, see NICHOLSONC1 [with “Somewhere” & “Tonight”] Peters, Roberta/Alfred Drake & Roberta Peters Sing the Popular Music of Leonard Bernstein, see DRAKEA Ross, Annie/Annie Ross Sings a Song with Mulligan, World Pacific Records WP-1253, (S)ST-1020, 1959; World Music 4988006794849, 2001 Rossen, Stig/This Is the Moment—Live at the Tivoli, DPTV Media, 2005 Ryan, Sarah/Showtime, Musical Associates (UK) Ltd. 1, 2006 Schlongs/Punk Side Story (Melissa MacArthur), see SCHLONG1 Smith, Ethel/Lady Fingers, Decca 8744, 1962 Sommers, Joanie/For Those Who Think Young, Warner Bros. (S)WS-1436, 1962 Stafford, Wanda/In Love For the Very First Time, Roulette (S)SR-25140, 1962 Te Kanawa, Kiri/Kiri Te Kanawa Sings, Westminster (S)8232, 1973 Te Kanawa, Kiri/The Young Kiri, [n.d.] Upshaw, Dawn/I Wish It So, see UPSHAWD1 Vaughn, Sarah/Sassy Swings the Tivoli, Mercury MG-20831, (S)SR60831, 1964, CD: EMARCY 832 788-2, 1987 Vroman, Lisa/Broadway Classics, Offplanet 59057 02602, 1999 “I Guess This Is Goodbye” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS d♯1-d♯2

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Into the Woods Original Cast (Ben Wright), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Richard Dempsey), see INTOTHE2 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Adam Wylie), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Kristopher Monroe), see INTOTHE4 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Marc Pujol), see INTOTHE5 “I Have a Love” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein BSBB duet [with “One Hand, One Heart”], WSSPVS duet b-g2/b-a1 [preceded by “A Boy Like That”] West Side Story Original Cast (Carol Lawrence, Chita Rivera), see WESTSIDE01 West Side Story film (Marni Nixon, Betty Wand), see WESTSIDE02 West Side Story Studio Cast (Kiri Te Kanawa, Tatiana Troyanos), see WESTSIDE03 West Side Story Studio Cast London (Barbara Bonney, La Vern Williams), see WESTSIDE04 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Tinuke Olafimihan, Caroline O’Connor), see WESTSIDE05 West Side Story, The Songs of (Trisha Yearwood), see WESTSIDE06 West Side Story London Studio Cast (Jill Martin), see WESTSIDE09 Stage2/the human heart (Francis Cruz, Charlie Owens), DINK Records DIDX 045940, 1997 [with “I Wish I Could Forget You”] West Side Story Original Score (Betsi Morrison, Marianne Cooke), see WESTSIDE10 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Marya Bravo, Ester Elias), see SIDEBYS3 [with “A Boy Like That”] West Side Story Broadway Revival (Karen Olivo, Josefina Scaglione), see WESTSIDE11 [in Spanish] Akers, Karen/If We Only Have Love, DRG 91483, 2004 [with “Somewhere”] Blackwell, Harolyn/A Simple Song: Blackwell Sings Bernstein (duet with Vanessa Williams), see BLACKWELL1 Boyd, Li’l Eva/Li’l-Little Eva!: The Complete Dimension Recordings, Westside Records 512, 2001 Burns, Andrea/A Deeper Shade of Red, PS Classics 756, 2007 Faithfull, Marianne/Faithful Forever, London 482, 1966 Faithfull, Marianne/Love in a Mist, Decca 3299, 1967/2002 Garfunkel, Art/Lefty, CBS Records 460694 1, 1988 Garrett, Lesley/Travelling Light (duet with Denyce Graves), EMI/Angel Classics 5T20Z, 2002 [with “I Have a Love”] Perceval, Kate/Kate Perceval Live, KPCD001, 2002 Prior, Marina/Somewhere, see PRIORM1 [in medley]

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Schlongs/Punk Side Story (Melissa MacArthur), see SCHLONG1 Streisand, Barbra/Back to Broadway (duet with Johnny Mathis), see STREISAND2 Vroman, Lisa/Broadway Classics, Offplanet 59057 02602, 1999 [with “A Boy Like That”] “I Have the Funniest Feeling” “I Know” see “Who Knows?” “I Know Things Now” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS c1-e♭2 Into the Woods Original Cast (Daniele Ferland), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Tessa Burbridge), see INTOTHE2 No One Is Alone . . . (Leonie Harris), see NOONEIS1 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Move On,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Take Me to the World”] Into the Woods Revival Cast (Molly Ephraim), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Samantha Meckes), see INTOTHE4 Simply Sondheim (Hannah Rose Kornfeld), see SIMPLYSOND1 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Anna Moliner), see INTOTHE5 “I Love This Town” from Bounce (2003) Bounce Original Cast (Howard McGillin, Michele Pawk, Ensemble), see BOUNCE1 “I Love to Travel” from the 2004 revised version of The Frogs The Frogs Original Broadway Cast (Nathan Lane, Roger Bart, Chorus), see FROGS2 [also reprise] “I Love You, Etcetera” from All That Glitters (1949) ATGVS g-d2 “I Must Be Dreaming” from All That Glitters (1949) ATGVS c1-f2 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Emily Skinner), see STEPHENSA1 [available on “Special Edition” CD only] Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Cy Walter, Stan Freeman) [piano duet] “I Need Love” from All That Glitters (1949) ATGVS b♭-f2

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“I Never Do Anything Twice (Madam’s Song)” from The Seven Percent Solution (1976) ASI, SCCH, SSFTS b-e♭2 Side by Side by Sondheim1, 6 (Millicent Martin), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Jill Perryman), see SIDEBYS2 Songs of Sondheim Irish Cast (Gemma Craven), see SONGSOFSOND1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (BETTY), see SONDACELATC1 Sherlock Holmes Classic Themes from 221B Baker Street (Judy Kaye), Varese Sarabande VSD-5692, 1996 Sondheim Tonight (Millicent Martin), see SONDTON1 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Marya Bravo), see SIDEBYS3 Harpsichord Pieces, Hungaroton/White Label 31729, 1999 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Régine) [from the soundtrack of the film] Burford, Ian/Make the Man Love Me, [n.l., n.n.], 2003 Clark, Petula/here for you, see CLARKP1 Crane, Cynthia/If I Knew Now (What I Knew Then), Lookoutjazz [n.n.], 2007 Kennedy, Barbara/You’d Be Surprised!, Globe GLO 6045, 1998 LuPone, Patti/matters of the heart, Varese Sarabande VSD-6058, 1999 [with “When the World Was Young”] McLaren, Morag/I Never Do Anything Twice, see MCLAREN1 McNight, Sharon/Songs to Offend Almost Everyone, [n.l., n.n.], 2002 Montevecchi, Liliane/On the Boulevard, JAY Records CDJAY 1286, 1998 Shannon, Hugh/Saloon Singer, Audiophile AP 171/172, 1982 Turner, Geraldine/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2, see TURNERG2 Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 “I Opened a Book” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) “I Read (Fosca’s Entrance)” from Passion (1995) PPVS f-d2, PVS b♭-g2 Passion Original Cast (Donna Murphy), see PASSION1 Passion London Concert (Maria Friedman), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Vera Mann, Stanley Burleson), see PASSION4 “I Remember” from Evening Primrose (1966) ASI, HTSS, SSFTS c1-d2, Barbra Streisand: Christmas Memories, Cherry Lane Music Co./Hal Leonard Corp., ISBN 1-57560-572-4, 2002 a-c2 [with added verse] Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Victoria Mallory), see SONDAMUST1

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Side by Side by Sondheim1, 5 (David Kernan), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Bartholomew John), see SIDEBYS2 Sondheim at the Movies3 (Liz Calaway), see SONDATTHEM1 Celebrating Sondheim (Claire Moore), see CELEBRATSON Sondheim Tonight4 (Julia Migenes), see SONDTON1 The Frogs/Evening Primrose Studio Recording (Theresa McCarthy), see FROGS1 Simply Sondheim (Judy Butterfield), see SIMPLYSOND1 The Sweetheart Break-in: The Supreme Music Program, Supreme Music Program MMKB-1901, 1999 Evening Primrose Original Television Soundtrack7 (Charmian Carr), see EVENPRIM1 Alexander, Roberta/With You, see ALEXR1 Bennett, Richard Rodney/A Different Side of Sondheim, see BENNETTR1 Black, Ben/Remembered Face/Private Places, Origin Records 82387, 2003 Brandes, Jeanie/Love in the World I Remember, JBD6130, 1995 Brightman, Sarah/Songs That Got Away, R.U. 8391162, 1989; reissued on Decca 422 839 116-2 Buckley, Betty/Children Will Listen, see BUCKLEYB1 Clary, Robert/Louis Lebeau Remembers . . . Stephen Sondheim . . . , see CLARYR1 Collins, Judy/Hard Times for Lovers, Elektra 6E-171, 1979 Ford, Anne Kerry/In the Nest of the Moon, Illyria Records 001, 1996 [with “Try to Remember”] Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 Graves, Denyce/Kaleidoscope, Carmen 5030, 2004 Harris, Margaret Wakeley/Quality Times, Original Cast 9855, 1998 Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 Jackson, Lynne & Mike Palter/Rememberings, Redlyn Ltd. JP-1A, 1983 Jackson, Lynne & Mike Palter/The New Rememberings, Jazzheads 9507, 1997 Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim, see LAINEC2 Lear, Evelyn/Evelyn Lear Sings Sondheim and Bernstein, see LEARE1 LeMel, Gary/Lost in Your Arms, Atlantic 83443-2, 2001 Little, Brad/Unmasked (Angels Unlimited), 1999 Major, Malvina/I Remember, Kiwi Pacific CD SLC-221, [n.d.] Malmberg, Myrra/What Can You Lose?, see MALMBERG1 Mansfield, Martin and Gayle Ashkenazy/Demarcations, see MANSFIELDM1 McCarthy, Michael/Broadway, Haili Limited MCPS HLB CD1, 1994 McDonough, Megan/My One and Only Love, Shanachie 5027, 1996 McGovern, Maureen/Another Woman in Love, CBS MK 42314, 1987 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1

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Murphy, Mark/Song for the Geese, RCA Records44865, 1997 Palker, Lynn & Mike/New Rememberings, Jazzheads, Inc. 9507, 1998 Patinkin, Mandy/Dress Casual (sung by Bernadette Peters), see PATINKIN2 Pizzarelli, John/Bossa Nova, Telarc CD83591, 2004 Reeves, Dianne/I Remember, Blue Note CDP 7 90264 2, 1991 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 Seelig, Tim/Everything’s Possible, see SEELIGT1 Sharkey, Annie/My Heart on My Sleeve, [n.l.] 30475, [n.d.] Sherlin, Carol/That Old Feeling, Koyasan Productions 001, 2005 Sneade, Valerie/Let Me Be Strong, Turning Leaf Records [n.n.], 2004 Streisand, Barbra/Christmas Memories, Columbia CK 85920, 2001 [new verse added by Sondheim] Sullivan, Christine/Live at Miettas, Larrikin CD LRJ 297, 1993 Toro, Natalie/Natalie Toro, see TORON1 Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 Wilson, Nancy/Love Nancy, Columbia CK 57425, 1994 “I Remember That” from Saturday Night (1953) ASIV, SNVS duet b-e2 [both] Saturday Night Bridewell Cast (Mark Haddigan, Tracie Bennett), see SATURDAYN1 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Clarke Thorell, Andrea Burns), see SATURDAYN2 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SONDSINGS2 “I Wish (Opening, Part I; Once Upon a Time)” from Into the Woods (1987), [see “Opening” for recordings] ITWPVS company number “I Wish” for unproduced film version of Into the Woods “I Wish I Could Forget You” from Passion (1995) PPVS f-c2, PVS a-e2 Passion Original Cast7 (Donna Murphy, Jere Shea), see PASSION1 Stephen Sondheim’s Passion . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see PASSION2 Stage2/the human heart (Francis Cruz, Charlie Owens), DINK Records DIDX 045940, 1997 [with “I Have a Love”] Passion London Concert (Maria Friedman, Michael Ball), see PASSION3 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Goodbye for Now”]

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Passion Dutch Cast (Vera Mann, Stanley Burleson), see PASSION4 Carroll, Barbara/Everything I Love, DRG 91438, 1995 Cook, Barbara/No One Is Alone, see COOKB3 Cook, Barbara/Rainbow ’Round My Shoulder, DRG 94782, 2008 [with “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter”] Fleming, Renée and Bryn Terfel/Under the Stars (Renée Fleming), see FLEMINGTERFEL1 [with “Loving You”] Patinkin, Mandy/Oscar and Steve, see PATINKIN4 Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 [added to 1997 reissue] “I Wouldn’t Change a Thing” for The Last Resorts (1956, unproduced) Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SONDSINGS2 “If,” see “It Would Have Been Wonderful” “If I Had Three Wishes for Christmas,” see “Three Wishes for Christmas” “If Momma Was Married” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne GPVS, GVS2 duet g-b1/g-c♯2, HTSS, SSS duet g-c2 [both] Gypsy Original Cast (Sandra Church, Lane Bradbury), see GYPSY01 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Alice Playten, Virginia Sandifur), see SONDAMUST1 Gypsy London Cast (Zan Charise, Debbie Bowen), see GYPSY03 Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Jill Perryman, Geraldene Morrow), see SIDEBYS2 Gypsy Revival Cast (Crista Moore, Tracy Venner), see GYPSY04 Gypsy TV Cast (Cynthia Gibb, Jennifer Beck), see GYPSY05 Gypsy German Cast (Ruth Rauer, Susanne Eisenkalb), see GYPSY07 Kay Medford in “Gypsy” (Lorraine Smith, Sonya Petrie), see GYPSY09 Live at the Commander Boardwalk Cabaret, NR11810, [n.d.] Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Tammy Blanchard, Kate Reinders), see GYPSY10 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Laura Benanti, Leigh Ann Larkin), see GYPSY11 Simply Sondheim (Judy Butterfield, Hannah Rose Kornfeld), see SIMPLYSOND1 Callaway, Ann Hampton & Liz/Sibling Revelry, see CALLAWAYA&L [in medley] Skinner, Emily & Alice Ripley/Duets, Varese Sarabande VSD-5958, 1998 “If There’s Anything I Can’t Stand” from By George (1946)

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“If You Can Find Me I’m Here” from Evening Primrose (1966) ASIV, SSFTS a-f♯2 Sondheim at the Movies (Gary Beach), see SONDATTHEM1 The Frogs/Evening Primrose Studio Recording (Neil Patrick Harris), see FROGS1 Evening Primrose Original Television Soundtrack7 (Anthony Perkins), see EVENPRIM1 Patinkin, Mandy/Dress Casual, see PATINKIN2 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 “I’ll Meet You at the ‘Donut’” from By George (1946) “I’m a Fast Worker” from By George (1946) “I’m Above All That” from The Lady or the Tiger (1954, unproduced), music by Mary Rodgers “I’m Calm” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) FTPVS d1-f♯2 A Funny Thing . . . Original Cast (Jack Gilford), see FUNNY01 A Funny Thing . . . London Cast (Kenneth Connor), see FUNNY02 Putting It Together (Michael Rupert, Julie Andrews), see PUTTINGIT1 A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Mark Linn-Baker), see FUNNY05 Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing . . . Forum . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see FUNNY04 The Broadway Musicals of 1962 (Christine Pedi), see BROADWAYMUS62 Clary, Robert/Louis Lebeau Remembers . . . Stephen Sondheim . . . , see CLARYR1 Cogen, Lyle/Lyle Sings Broadway for Kids, Malzac 097425010318, 2001 Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim, see LAINEC2 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “Comedy Tonight”] “I’m in Love with a Boy” from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Emily Skinner), see WALLTOWALLS1 Simply Sondheim (Judy Butterfield), see SIMPLYSOND1 “I’m Like the Bluebird” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) ACWPVS b-c♯2 Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Stephen Sondheim), see ANYONE1 Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (“The Cookies”), see ANYONE2 [included in “Miracle Introduction”]

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“I’m Still Here” from Follies (1971) ASI, FLVS, FVS, HTSS, SSS g-d2, BSC [special lyrics; in medley with “Everybody Says Don’t” & “Don’t Rain on My Parade”], CFC g-e♭2, FPVS e♭-b1 [c2 optional], an individual sheet was published of the version written for the film Postcards from the Edge, Hal Leonard HL00355893 g-d2 Follies Original Cast (Yvonne DeCarlo), FOLLIES01 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Nancy Walker), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim1 (Millicent Martin), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Jill Perryman), see SIDEBYS2 Songs of Sondheim Irish Cast (Gemma Craven), see SONGSOFSOND1 Songs of Stephen Sondheim/You Sing the Hits, see SONGSOFSTEP1 Follies in Concert7 (Carol Burnett), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (Dolores Gray), see FOLLIES03 Follies/Themes from the Legendary Musical (The Trotter Trio), see FOLLIES04 Follies, The Complete Recording (Ann Miller), see FOLLIES05 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Dorothy Loudon), see STEPHENSA1 Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 Camp (Alana Allen, Anna Kendrick), Decca B0000667-12, 2003 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Ivana Domenico), see SIDEBYS3 Guevera, Nacha/Aqui Estoy, ca. 1980 [in Spanish] Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Kitt, Eartha/I’m Still Here, Starcoast/Ariola 260390, 1989 Kitt, Eartha/Eartha Kitt Live in London, Ariola 353825, 1990 Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim, see LAINEC2 Lucas, Lee/The Big Strapping Fag Show, Ducy Lee Recordings 900105, 1997 [special lyrics by Lee Lucas] Streisand, Barbra/The Concert, Columbia C2K 66109, 1994 [lyrics rewritten by Sondheim] Stritch, Elaine/Elaine Stritch at Liberty, see STRITCHE1 Turner, Geraldine/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2, see TURNERG2 Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 “Impossible” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) FTPVS duet b♭-g♭2 [both], FTVS, SSS duet a-f2 [both] A Funny Thing . . . Original Cast (David Burns, Brian Davies), see FUNNY01 A Funny Thing . . . London Cast (‘Monsewer’ Eddie Gray, John Rye), see FUNNY02 Putting It Together (Julie Andrews, Stephen Collins), see PUTTINGIT1

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A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Lewis J. Stadlen, Jim Stanek), see FUNNY05 Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing . . . Forum . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see FUNNY04 “In a Year from Now” from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) “In Buddy’s Eyes” from Follies (1971) FLVS, FVS b♭-e♭2, CFC, FPVS f♭-d2 Follies Original Cast (Dorothy Collins), FOLLIES01 Follies in Concert5 (Barbara Cook), see FOLLIES02 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Betsy Joslyn), see SOND1 Follies London Cast (Julia McKenzie), see FOLLIES03 Sondheim—A Celebration (Julia McKenzie), see SONDACEL1 Follies/Themes from the Legendary Musical (The Trotter Trio), see FOLLIES04 Celebrating Sondheim (Rosemary Ashe), see CELEBRATSON Follies, The Complete Recording (Donna McKechnie), see FOLLIES05 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2 (instrumental), see SINGTHESONGS2 Connelli, Judi/Judi Connelli Live in London, see CONNELLI2 [with “Being Alive”] Cook, Barbara/All I Ask of You, DRG 91456, 1999 Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook’s Broadway, DRG 91484, 2004 Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook at the Met, see COOKB2 Friedman, Maria/Maria Friedman Live, see FRIEDM1 [with “The Road You Didn’t Take” & “Too Many Mornings”] Harrow, Nancy/Two’s Company, Emarcy PHCE 5029, [n.d.] Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Malmberg, Sue/Musical Theatre Classics, see MALMBERGS1 McKechnie, Donna/Inside the Music, see MCKECHNIED1 Ralston, Teri/I’ve Gotta Get Back to New York, see RALSTONT1 “In No Time at All” from Saturday Night (1953) [becomes “A Moment with You”] Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SONDSINGS2 [with “A Moment With You”] “In Praise of Women” from A Little Night Music (1973) LNMPVS c1-f2 A Little Night Music Original Cast (Laurence Guittard), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music1 London Cast (David Kernan), see LITTLEN02

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A Little Sondheim Music (Michael Gallup), see LITTLES1 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Jason Howard), see LITTLEN04 Putting It Together (Michael Rupert, Christopher Durang, Stephen Collins), see PUTTINGIT1 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Lambert Wilson), see LITTLEN05 [with “My Husband the Pig”] A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Jordi Boixaderas), see LITTLEN06 A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Aaron Lazar, Erin Davie), see LITTLEN07 Burke, Simon/Something about Always, Simon Burke [n.n.], 2009 Hubbard, Bruce/For You, For Me, EMI/Angel CDC 7 49928 2, 1990 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “A Weekend in the Country”] “In Someone’s Eyes” cut from Follies (1971) [almost identical to “In Buddy’s Eyes” with the addition of a duet counter-melody] Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 “In the Movies” from Saturday Night (1954) SNVS company number Unsung Sondheim (Marilyn Cooper), see UNSUNGS1 Saturday Night Bridewell Cast (Tracie Bennett, Ashleigh Sendin, Jeremy David, Simon Greiff, Maurice Yeoman, Mark Haddigan), see SATURDAYN1 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Michael Benjamin Washington, Kirk McDonald, Greg Zola, Joey Sorge, Clarke Thorell, Andrea Burns, Rachel Ulanet), see SATURDAYN2 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Alice Ghostley & Cast) [from original backer’s audition] “In the Tradition (Greek)” cut from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) “In There” for The Exception and the Rule (1968, unproduced), music by Leonard Bernstein “Incidental Music” from The Enclave (1973) Unsung Sondheim (instrumental), see UNSUNGS1 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Daniel Troob, piano; Paul Gemignani, percussion) “Incidental Music” from Invitation to a March (1960) Unsung Sondheim (instrumental), see UNSUNGS1

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Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (John Barrow, French horn, unidentified harpist, clarinetist, and flautist) “Interesting Questions” cut from Into the Woods (1987) Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (George Lee Andrews, Maureen Moore, Kim Crosby) “Interrogations,” see “Simple” “Into the Woods (Act I Opening, Parts II and VIII; Act I Finale, Part IV; Act II Opening, Part IX; Act II Finale, Part IV)” from Into the Woods (1987) (Act I Opening, Part II) ITWPVS, ITWVS b♭-e♭2, all other versions, included in ITWPVS, are company numbers Into the Woods Original Cast (Tom Aldredge, Company), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Nicholas Parsons, Company), see INTOTHE2 Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental) [part of the “Into the Woods Suite”], see SYMPHONICSON1 Into the Woods Revival Cast (John McMartin, Company), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Company), see INTOTHE4 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Ferran Frauca, Company), see INTOTHE5 Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (sung by Malcolm Gets), see COOKB1 [with “Giants in the Sky”] East West Players/East West Overtures (Amy Hill), see EASTWEST1 [“Opening Part III”—Witch’s sequence only] “Into the Woods” for unproduced film version of Into the Woods “Invocation” cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) A Stephen Sondheim Evening1 (Bob Gunton, Company), see STEPHENSE1 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 “Invocation and Instructions to the Audience” from Frogs (1974) [also known as Prologos] ASII b♭-a♭2 [includes portions for additional voices] Putting It Together (Christopher Durang), see PUTTINGIT1 [new lyrics by Sondheim] Sondheim: A Celebration (Jane Carr, Roger Rees), see SONDACEL2 The Frogs/Evening Primrose Studio Recording (Nathan Lane, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Chorus), see FROGS1

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The Frogs Original Broadway Cast7 (Nathan Lane, Roger Bart, Chorus), see FROGS2, [see also “Final Instructions to the Audience”] “Invocation to the Muses” from Frogs (1974) The Frogs/Evening Primrose Studio Recording (Nathan Lane & Chorus), see FROGS1 “Is This What You Call Love? (Scene 9)” from Passion (1995) PPVS g-f2 Passion Original Cast (Jere Shea), see PASSION1 Passion London Concert (Michael Ball), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Stanley Burleson), see PASSION4 “Isn’t He Something!” from Bounce (2003) and Road Show (2008) Bounce Original Cast7 (Jane Powell), see BOUNCE1 Road Show Original Cast Recording (Alma Cuervo), see ROADSHOW1 Molaskey, Jessica/A Kiss to Build a Dream On, Arbors 19384, 2008 “Isn’t It?” from Saturday Night (1954) ASII, SNVS a-e2 A Stephen Sondheim Evening (Victoria Mallory), see STEPHENSE1 Saturday Night Bridewell Cast (Anna Francolini), see SATURDAYN1 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Lauren Ward), see SATURDAYN2 Green, Simon/Take Me to the World, see GREENS1 [with “Do I Hear a Waltz?” and “Falling in Love with Love”] Malmberg, Myrra/What Can You Lose?, see MALMBERG1 “It Must Be Spring” cut from By George (1946) “It Takes All Kinds” cut from The Birdcage (1996) Sondheim at the Movies (Bryan Batt, Danny Burstein, Robert Randle, Jim Ryan, Kevin Parisceau, Alec Timerman), see SONDATTHEM1 “It Takes Two” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS, ITWVS duet a-f♯2/a♭-d♭2 Into the Woods Original Cast (Joanna Gleason, Chip Zien), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Imelda Staunton, Ian Bartholomew), see INTOTHE2 Sondheim—A Celebration (Julia McKenzie, David Kernan), see SONDACEL1 That’s What Friends Are For (Peter Land, Robert Meadmore), First Night Cast CD52, 1996 [in medley with “Agony” & “Love I Hear”] Into the Woods Revival Cast (Stephen DeRosa, Kerry O’Malley), see INTOTHE3

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Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Nadiene Jacques, Mark Weekes), see INTOTHE4 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Annabel Totusaus, Josep Maria Gimeno), see INTOTHE5 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Wright, Bill/“It Takes Two,” see WRIGHTB1 [with “(I’ve Got) Beginner’s Luck” & “Lucky Day”] Wright, Bill/“It Takes Two,” see WRIGHTB1 [with “Taking a Chance on Love”] “It Wasn’t Meant to Happen” cut from Follies (1971) CFC b♭-e2 Marry Me a Little1 (Craig Lucas, Suzanne Henry), see MARRYME1 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Michele Pawk), see STEPHENSA1 Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 “It Would Have Been Wonderful” from A Little Night Music (1973) LNMPVS duet c1-e2 [both] A Little Night Music Original Cast (Len Cariou, Laurence Guittard), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music London Cast (Joss Ackland, David Kernan), see LITTLEN02 A Little Night Music Film (Len Cariou, Laurence Guittard), see LITTLEN03 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Eric Flynn, Jason Howard), see LITTLEN04 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Laurence Guittard, Lambert Wilson), see LITTLEN05 A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Constantino Romero, Jordi Boixaderas), see LITTLEN06 A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Alexander Hanson, Aaron Lazar), see LITTLEN07 “It’s a Grand Country” from All That Glitters (1949) “It’s a Hit!” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) MWRPVS quartet Merrily We Roll Along1 Original Cast (Jason Alexander, Jim Walton, Ann Morrison, Lonny Price), see MERRILY1 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Cris Groenendaal, Steven Jacob, Betsy Joslyn, Timothy Nolen), see SOND1 Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Paul Harman, Malcolm Gets, Adam Heller, Amy Ryder, Anne Bobby), see MERRILY2

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Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Michael Cantwell, Evan Pappas, Maria Friedman, Gareth Snook, Jacqueline Dankworth, Theatergoers), see MERRILY3 Merrily We Roll Along Original Cast (Stephen Sondheim), see MERRILY1 [on 2007 reissue only] “It’s Hot Up Here” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) SPGVS company number Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast6 (Company), see SUNDAYIN1 Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Company), see SUNDAYIN2 “It’s in Your Hands Now” from Road Show (2008) [based on “Flag Song” unused from Assassins; cut from Bounce] Road Show Original Cast Recording (William Parry), see ROADSHOW1 “It’s Only a Play,” see also “Parabasis” The Frogs Original Broadway Cast (Chorus), see FROGS2 “It’s That Kind of a Neighbourhood,” see “That Kind of a Neighborhood” “I’ve Got You to Lean On” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) ACWPVS solo + trio a-g♭2 + trio, ACWVS solo version b-e2 Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Angela Lansbury, Gabriel Dell, Arnold Soboloff, James Frawley, The Boys), see ANYONE1 Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (Walter Bobbie, Ken Page, Madeline Kahn, Chip Zien), see ANYONE2, includes introduction Simply Sondheim (Amy Dondy), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] Cano, Eddie/Broadway Right Now, Reprise (S)RS-6124, 1965 Day, Courtenay/Courtenay Day Live at Don’t Tell Mama, see DAYC1 [with “The Little Things You Do Together”] Ver Planck, Marlene/A Warmer Place, Audiophile AP-169, 1982 “Jack, Jack, Jack [Head in a Sack] (Opening, Part IV)” from Into the Woods (1987) [also listed under “Opening”] ITWPVS b♭-g♭2 Into the Woods Original Cast (Barbara Bryne), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Patsy Rowlands), see INTOTHE2 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Teresa Vallicrosa), see INTOTHE5 “Jet Song” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein WSSPVS company number West Side Story Original Cast (Company), see WESTSIDE01

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West Side Story film (Russ Tamblyn, The Jets), see WESTSIDE02 West Side Story Studio Cast (Kurt Ollmann, Peter Thom, Stephen Bogardus, David Livingston, Chorus), see WESTSIDE03 West Side Story Studio Cast London (Christopher Howard, Boys), see WESTSIDE04 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Nicholas Warnford, Jets), see WESTSIDE05 West Side Story, The Songs of (Brian Setzer), see WESTSIDE06 West Side Story London Studio Cast (Franklyn Fox, Norman Furber, Vince Logan, Leo Karibian), see WESTSIDE09 West Side Story Original Score (Robert Dean and Jets), see WESTSIDE10 West Side Story Broadway Revival (Cody Green, Jets), see WESTSIDE11 Davis Jr., Sammy/Sammy Davis Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove, see DAVISS [part of West Side Story medley] Natal, Nanette/Is Love Enough?, Benyo Music Productions 3338, 2002 [with “Cool”] Schlongs/Punk Side Story (Jack Canada), see SCHLONG1 “Jitterbug” from By George (1946) “Johanna (Act 1) (Anthony)” from Sweeney Todd (1979) ASI, STPVS, STVS c1-e♭2 Sweeney Todd Original Cast5 (Victor Garber), see SWEENEYT1 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Chamber Ensemble), see SOND1 A Stephen Sondheim Evening (Cris Groendaal), see STEPHENSE1 Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental) [part of the “Sweeney Todd Suite,”] see SYMPHONICSON1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Jerry Hadley), see SONDACELATC1 Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see SWEENEYT2 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Pep Molina), see SWEENEYT3 Celebrating Sondheim (Glyn Kerslake), see CELEBRATSON Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Davis Gaines), see SWEENEYT4 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Someone Is Waiting,” “Multitudes of Amys,” “No, Mary Ann”] Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2 (instrumental), see SINGTHESONGS2 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Benjamin Magnuson), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Jamie Campbell Bower), see SWEENEYT6 Synthetic Broadway, A Different Drum ADDCD1133, 2007 [instrumental]

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Barker, Clive/Clive Barker: Being Music, EMI Music Distribution 496611, 1999 Cant, Donald/Donald Cant, see CANTD1 [in medley] City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra/Music from the Films of Tim Burton, Silva America 1261, 2008 Connelli, Judi & Suzanne Johnston/Perfect Strangers, see CONNELLI3 [with “Pretty Women”] Conrads, Norbert/I’ll Be There (Musical Ballads), Fresh Arts/GEM LC3834, [n.d.] Cousens, Peter/A Life on Earth, Middle Eight PCG-01, 2001 [Australian] Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 [in medley] Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C./You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught . . . (Jeff Mace, soloist), see GAYMENSCWDC1 Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, Terry Vosbein/Progressive Jazz 2009, Max Frank Music MFM001, 2009 [instrumental] Lovett, Marcus/The Give Moment, Marcus Lovett 837101274760, 2009 McVey, J. Mark/Broadway and Beyond, Marimach MP1-970601, 1997 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 Orchestra Manhattan (Byron Olson)/Digital Broadway (1986), see ORCHESTRAMAN1 [instrumental] Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., see PETERSB1 Ramey, Sam/Sam Ramey on Broadway/So In Love, Teldec 4509-90865-2, 1993 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “Pretty Women” & “Not While I’m Around”] Silberschlag, Jeffrey/The American Trumpet, Delos Record 3187, 1998 Warlow, Anthony/Centre Stage, Polydor [?], [n.d.] Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 [in medley] Wilson, Lambert/Musicals, see WILSONL1 “Johanna (Act 2)” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS quartet A♭-d♭1/a♭-e2/c1-f2 [optional g♭2]/a♭1-e♭2 Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Victor Garber, Len Cariou, Merle Louise, Sarah Rice), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Pep Molina, Constantino Romero, Teresa Vallicrosa), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Davis Gaines, George Hearn, Audra McDonald, Heidi Grant Murphy), see SWEENEYT4

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Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Benjamin Magnuson, Michael Cerveris, Diana DiMarzio, Lauren Molina), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Jamie Campbell Bower, Johnny Depp, Laura Michelle Kelly), see SWEENEYT6 “Johanna (Judge Turpin)” from Sweeney Todd (1979) [not included in all productions] STPVS B♭-f1 Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Edmund Lyndeck), see SWEENEYT1 Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see SWEENEYT2 [included as part of “Finale”] Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Xavier Ribera), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Paul Plishka), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Mark Jacoby), see SWEENEYT5 “The Judge’s Return” from Sweeney Todd (1979) [based on “Pretty Women”] STPVS duet C♯-e1/G-d1 [end section 1st voice goes down to G♯] Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (George Hearn, Paul Plishka), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Michael Cerveris, Maek Jacoby), see SWEENEYT5, [see also “Final Scene”] “Jules and Freida,” see “No Life” “Just Another Love Story” from Passion (1995) PPVS duet a-d♯2/a♯-f2 Passion London Concert (Michael Ball), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Stanley Burleson), see PASSION4 “Just Like Last Night,” cut from Into the Woods (1987) “Kids Ain’t,” see “Like Everybody Else” “King and Queen Duet” for The Lady or the Tiger? (1954, unproduced), written with Mary Rodgers [incomplete?] “Kiss Me” from Sweeney Todd (1979) (Part I) STPVS duet c♯1-g♯2/b-f♯2, (Part II) STPVS quartet d♯1-c3/c♯1-f♯2/c♯1a2/b-f♯1 Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Sarah Rice, Victor Garber), see SWEENEYT1 Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see SWEENEYT2

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Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Ma. Josep Peris, Pep Molina), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (John Aler, Davis Gaines, Heidi Grant Murphy, Paul Plishka), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Lauren Molina, Benjamin Magnuson, Alexander Gemignani, Mark Jacoby), see SWEENEYT5 “Kissing Song,” see “Darling” “Ladies in Their Sensitivities” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS e1-a2 Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Jack Eric Williams, Edmund Lyndeck), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Xavier Ribera, Pedro Pomares), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (John Aler, Paul Plishka), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Alexander Gemignani), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Timothy Spall), see SWEENEYT6 “The Ladies Who Lunch” from Company (1970) ASI, CVS a-e♭2, BSBA g-d2 [with “Pretty Women”], CPVS, CVS2, CVS3 e-b♭1 Company Original Cast2, 7 (Elaine Stritch), see COMPANY01 Stephen Sondheim’s Company . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see COMPANY03 Company London Revival Cast (Sheila Gish), see COMPANY04 Company Revival Cast (Debra Monk), see COMPANY05 Sondheim: A Celebration (David Kernan), see SONDACEL1 Sondheim Tonight (Dame Edna Everage, a.k.a. Barry Humphries), see SONDTON1 Company Brazilian Cast (Totia Meireles), see COMPANY06 Company German Cast (Nicole Johannhanwahr), see COMPANY07 Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 Camp (?), Decca B0000667-12, 2003 Company Accompaniment CD (Marilyn O’Connell/accompaniment), see COMPANY08 Company Second Revival Cast (Barbara Walsh), see COMPANY09 Blaine, Vivian/For You, see BLAINEV1 Boston Pops Orchestra/Songs of the ’60s (instrumental), see BOSTON1 Byron, Don/A Fine Line: Arias and Lieder (clarinet with Cassandra Wilson vocal), Blue Note Records 7243 5 26801 2 2V, 2000

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Dearie, Blossom/Blossom’s Planet, Master Mix 00121, 2001/Daffodil Records 118, 2005 Eichorn-Young, Susan/Taking My Turn, see EICHORNS1 Gorme, Eydie/ . . . Sings Great Songs from The Sound of Music and Other Broadway Shows, see GORMEE1 Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim, see LAINEC2 Lemper, Ute/City of Strangers, see LEMPER1 Lemper, Ute/Blood and Feathers, DRG [n.n.], 2005 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 Rhodes, Ken/Noble Cause, Goodgig 7502, 1994 [jazz piano/trio] Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “Being Alive”] Streisand, Barbra/The Broadway Album, see STREISAND1 [lyric changes by Sondheim] Stritch, Elaine/Elaine Stritch at Liberty, see STRITCHE1 Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson at Brothers & Sisters Vol. Two, see WILSONJ1 Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 Young, Susan Eichorn/Taking My Turn, see YOUNGSU1 “The Lame, the Halt, and the Blind” cut from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Stephen Sondheim), see ANYONE1 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 “Land Boom!” from Road Show (2008) Road Show Original Cast Recording (Company), see ROADSHOW1 “Last Flight” cut from Bounce (2003) “Last Midnight” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS f-d♭2 Into the Woods Original Cast (Bernadette Peters), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Julia McKenzie), see INTOTHE2 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Vanessa Williams), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Amanda J. Brizzi), see INTOTHE4 Simply Sondheim (Amy Dondy), see SIMPLYSOND10 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Mone), see INTOTHE5 Porter, Billy/At the Corner of Broadway and Soul, Sh-K-Boom Records 791558300-2, 2005

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“Last Week, Americans” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS a-a1 Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Carol Lawrence), see DOIHEAR2 “Later” from A Little Night Music (1973) [linked with “Now” and “Soon”] LNMPVS b♯-b2 A Little Night Music Original Cast (Mark Lambert), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music London Cast (Terry Mitchell), see LITTLEN02 A Little Night Music Film (Christopher Guard), see LITTLEN03 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Bonaventura Bottone), see LITTLEN04 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Brendan O’Hea), see LITTLEN05 A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Angel Llacer), see LITTLEN06 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Danny Gurwin), see WALLTOWALLS1 A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Ramona Mallory, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Alexander Hanson), see LITTLEN07 Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., Etc. see PETERSB2 Trotter, Terry/Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, see TROTTERT1 [piano solo] “The Lay of a Gay Young Man” from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) “LE5-5539” [birthday song for Mary Rodgers] “Lenny” music by Kurt Weill [music to the song “Jenny” from Lady in the Dark; for Leonard Bernstein 70th birthday concert at Tanglewood] “Lesson # 8” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) SPGPVS g♯-f2 Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast (Mandy Patinkin), see SUNDAYIN1 Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Daniel Evans), see SUNDAYIN2 Parke, Tyran/Sunday in the Parke, Tyran Parke TPCD001, 2008 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Starobin, David/New Music with Guitar, Volume 3 (Patrick Mason), see STAROBIND1 “Let It Happen,” see “Take the Moment” “Let Me Entertain You” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne, [see also “Gypsy Strip Routine”]

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GPVS duet f1-e♯2, solo b♯-e2, GVS a♯-d2 [e2 with intro], GVS2 duet e1-e2/ad2 [e2 with intro], SSS a♯-e2 Celebrating Gypsy . . . (Claire Moore, Tim Flavin, Libby Morris), see CELEBRATGYP

Kay Medford in “Gypsy” (Sonya Petrie, Kay Medford), see GYPSY09 Connie & Carla Soundtrack (Tony Collette, Nia Vardalos), Sony 92430, 2004 Akers, Karen/Simply Styne, DRG 91506, 2008 [with “You Gotta Have a Gimmick”] Ann-Margret/Bachelor’s Paradise, Victor (S)LSP-2659, 1964 (reissued in Ann-Margret/Let Me Entertain You, RCA 66882-2, 1996) Anthony, Ray, Capitol 45rpm 4876, 1962 Bailey, Pearl/Come On Let’s Play with Pearlie Mae, Roulette (S)SR-25181, 1964 Burnett, Carol/Carol Burnett Sings, Decca (S)DL7-4437, 1964 [reissued on CD as Let Me Entertain You, Decca 012 159 402-2, 2000] Church, Sandra/Let Me Entertain You, Columbia CL-1461, (S)CS-8253, 1961 Crewe, Bob/Kicks With Bob Crewe, Warwick T-52027, (S)ST-2027, 1961 Fisher, Eddie/Tonight With Eddie Fisher, Ramrod (S)ST-6002, 1962 Gibson, Deborah/Long Island Sounds, Two Young Kids TYK003, [n.d.] Gibson, Deborah/Colored Lights, Fynsworth Alley 302 065 195 2, 2003 Hagen, Nina/Big Band Explosion, Import 31143, 2003 Harnar, Jeff/Jeff Harnar Sings the 1959 Broadway Songbook, see HARNARJ1 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 Muller, Werner/Werner Muller on Broadway, London (S)SP-44047, 1964 Pringle, Anne & Mark Burnell/Little Things We Do Together, Spectrum SR003, 2000 Ross, Annie/Gypsy, see ROSSANNIE San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus/Diva’s Revenge, SFGMC [n.n.], 2005 Styne, Jule/My Name Is Jule, see STYNEJ1 “Let’s Go to the Movies” cut from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne “Let’s Not Fall in Love” from All That Glitters (1949) ATGVS b♭-d♭2 “Let’s Run Away” cut from Follies (1971), [see also “Vincent and Vanessa”] “The Letter” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS quintet Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Len Cariou, Carole Doscher, Skip Harris, Betsy Joslyn, Craig Lucas, Robert Ousley), see SWEENEYT1

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Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Company), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (George Hearn, Tania Batson, Jacqueline Pierce, James Bassi, Lewis White, Frank Barr), see SWEENEYT4 “(The) Letter Song,” see “The Glamorous Life” from the film of A Little Night Music “Liaisons” from A Little Night Music (1973) ASIII, LNMVS, SSS a-c♯2, LNMPVS d-f♯1 A Little Night Music Original Cast2, 5, 7 (Hermione Gingold), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music London Cast1 (Hermione Gingold), see LITTLEN02 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Chamber Ensemble), see SOND1 A Little Night Music Studio Cast4 (Elisabeth Welch), see LITTLEN04 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Sian Phillips), see LITTLEN05 Sondheim—A Celebration (Millicent Martin), see SONDACEL1 A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Montserrat Carulla), see LITTLEN06 A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Angela Lansbury), see LITTLEN07 Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim, see LAINEC2 Leander, Zarah/Fenster Meines Lebens: Zarah Leander Heute, Electrola [n.n., n.d.] Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 “Life Is Happiness Indeed” for 1974 revival of Candide, music by Leonard Bernstein CaPVS, CaVS company number Candide Revival (Mark Baker, Maureen Brennan, Sam Freed, Deborah St. Darr), see CANDIDE01 Candide New York City Opera (David Eisler, John Lankston, Erie Mills, Scott Reeve, Maris Clement), see CANDIDE02 Candide Leonard Bernstein Conducting (Jerry Hadley, Kurt Ollmann, June Anderson, Della Jones), see CANDIDE04 Candide New Broadway Cast (Jim Dale, Jason Danieley, Harolyn Blackwell, Brent Barrett, Stacey Logan, Ensemble), see CANDIDE05 (see also “Old Lady’s False Entrance”) Candide Royal National Theatre (Daniel Evans, Alex Kelly, Simon Day, Elizabeth Renhan), see CANDIDE05 [includes “Life Is Happiness Unending” which may or may not include Sondheim lyrics] “Like Everybody Else” cut from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein

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Lost In Boston (Judy Malloy, Richard Roland, Sal Viviano), Varese Sarabande VSD-5475, 1994 “Like It Was” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) ASIII, MWRVS d1-f2, MWRPVS a-c2 [intro of “Old Friends” f-a1] Merrily We Roll Along Original Cast (Ann Morrison, Lonny Price), see MERRILY1 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Steven Jacob, Debbie Shapiro), see SOND1 Putting It Together5 (Julie Andrews), see PUTTINGIT1 Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Amy Ryder, Adam Heller), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Maria Friedman, Evan Pappas), see MERRILY3 Akers, Karen/Like It Was, DRG 91498, 2006 Malmberg, Myrra/What Can You Lose?, see MALMBERG1 Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 [in medley] Upshaw, Dawn/I Wish It So, see UPSHAWD1 “Lion Dance” from Pacific Overtures (1976) [based on American Admiral’s section of “Please Hello”] POPVS instrumental Pacific Overtures4 English National Opera (instrumental), see PACIFICOVER2 “List a While, Lady” from High Tor (1949, unproduced) “Little Dream” from the film The Birdcage (1996) SSFTS c-e♭2 The Birdcage (Nathan Lane), see BIRDCAGE Sondheim at the Movies (Susan Egan), see SONDATTHEM1 Music from The Birdcage, HSE Records, HTCD 33/34-2, 1996 “A Little House for Mama” cut from Bounce (2003) Bounce Original Cast (Richard Kind), see BOUNCE1 “Little Lamb” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne GPVS d♭1-e♭2, GVS, GVS2 c1-d2 Gypsy Original Cast (Sandra Church), see GYPSY01 Gypsy Original Cast (Ethel Merman), see GYPSY01 [included on 1999 reissue; with “Mr. Goldstone”] Gypsy London Cast (Zan Charisse), see GYPSY03 Gypsy Revival Cast (Crista Moore), see GYPSY04

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Gypsy TV Cast (Cynthia Gibb), see GYPSY05 Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Tammy Blanchard), see GYPSY10 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Laura Benanti), see GYPSY11 Bluebells & Hugo Montenegro/All About Kids, 20th Fox, (S)SFX-3034, 1961 de Roy, Jamie/Jamie de Roy and Friends: Animal Tracks (Paige Price), Harbinger HCD 2004 de Roy and Friends, Jamie/Vol. 5: Animal Tracks, Harbinger Records 2004, 2004 Hi-Lo’s, The/Broadway Playbill, see HILOS Limeliters/Sing Out, Victor (S)LSP-2445, 1961 Merman, Ethel/Forgotten Broadway vol. II, T102, [n.d.] Merman, Ethel/Mermania!, see MERMANE1 [with “Mr. Goldstone”] Murphy, Rose/Jazz, Joy & Happiness, United Artists UAJ-14025, (S)UAJS-15025, 1963 “A Little Priest” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS duet g-c♯2/G-g♭1 Sweeney Todd1 Original Cast6, 7 (Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou), see SWEENEYT1 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Joyce Castle, Timothy Nolen), see SOND1 Putting It Together (Company), see PUTTINGIT1 [lyric changes by Sondheim] Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see SWEENEYT2 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Vicky Pena, Constantino Romero), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Patti LuPone, George Hearn), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Patti LuPone, Michael Cerveris), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp), see SWEENEYT6 City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra/Music from the Films of Tim Burton, Silva America 1261, 2008 “(The) Little Things (You Do Together)” from Company (1970) ASI, CVS, HTSS, SSS solo version a-d2, CPVS, CVS2, CVS3 company number Company Original Cast2 (Elaine Stritch, Barbara Barrie, Charles Kimbrough, Company), see COMPANY01 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Mary McCarty), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim (Julia McKenzie, David Kernan), see SIDEBYS1

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Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Bartholomew John, Geraldene Morrow), see SIDEBYS2 Songs of Sondheim Irish Cast (Tony Kenny, Loreto O’Connor), see SONGSOFSOND1 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Joyce Castle, Timothy Nolen), see SOND1 Company Revival Cast (Debra Monk, Company), see COMPANY05 Company London Revival Cast (Sheila Gish, Company), see COMPANY04 Company Brazilian Cast (Totia Meireles, Company), see COMPANY06 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Claudio Botelho, Ivana Domenico, Company), see SIDEBYS3 Simply Sondheim (Amy Dondy, James Brewer, Shay Oglesby-Smith, Kim Larsen), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] Company Accompaniment CD (Marilyn O’Connell, Company/accompaniment), see COMPANY08 Company Second Revival Cast (Barbara Walsh, Kristin Huffman, Keith Buterbaugh, Raúl Esparza, Company), see COMPANY09 Carrey, Bobbi & Will McMillan/If I Loved You, nowandthen Productions IILY6294, 2004 Day, Courtenay/Courtenay Day Live at Don’t Tell Mama, see DAYC1 [with “I’ve Got You to Lean On”] Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 Harvey, Jane/Jane Harvey Sings Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Horne, Marilyn/The Men in My Life, RCA Victor CD 9026-62647-2, 1994 (duet with Spiro Malas) Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim6, see LAINEC2 Pringle, Anne & Mark Burnell/Little Things We Do Together, Spectrum SR003, 2000 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 Turner, Geraldine/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2, see TURNERG2 Wright, Bill/“It Takes Two,” see WRIGHTB1 “Little White House” and “Who Could Be Blue?” cut from Follies (1971) [music used for “Salon at the Claridge # 2” in Stavisky] ASII, CFC duet d♭1-g♭2/b♭-g♭2 Marry Me a Little1 (Suzanne Henry), see MARRYME1 Follies, The Complete Recording (Laurence Guittard, Dee Hoty), see FOLLIES05 “Live Alone and Like It” from Dick Tracy (1990)

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SCCH, SSFTS b-e♭2 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (James Naughton), see SONDACELATC1 Putting It Together (Michael Rupert), see PUTTINGIT1 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Mel Tormé) Barnett, Peter & Julia Early/In So Many Words, see BARNETTEARLY1 Gillan, James/James Gillan, Butterfly James BJR001, 2001 [with “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”] Kreston, Judy & David Lahm/Medleyflyin’, LML CD-183, 2005 [with “Plant You Now, Dig You Later”] Minnelli, Liza/Liza Live from Radio City Music Hall, Columbia CD 746453169-2, 1992 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Stritch, Billy/ . . . Sings Mel Tormé, Blair Lake 0550, 2007 [with “Breezin’ Along with the Breeze”] Tormé, Mel/Mel Tormé at the Movies, Rhino R275481, 1999 Wright, Bill/“It Takes Two,” see WRIGHTB1 [with “Anyplace I Hang My Hat Is Home”] “Live, Laugh, Love” from Follies (1971) CFC, FPVS c1-f2 [+ chorus c♯1-f♯2] Follies Original Cast (John McMartin, Chorus), FOLLIES01 Follies in Concert (George Hearn, Chorus), see FOLLIES02 No One Is Alone . . . (Michael Denholm), see NOONEIS1 Follies/Themes from the Legendary Musical (The Trotter Trio), see FOLLIES04 Follies, The Complete Recording (Laurence Guittard, Company), see FOLLIES05 Clary, Robert/Louis Lebeau Remembers . . . Stephen Sondheim . . . , see CLARYR1 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 “Looks” for Singing Out Loud (1992–93, unproduced) “Losing My Mind” from Follies (1971) ASI, FLVS, FVS, HTSS, SCCH c1-e♭2, CFC, FPVS f-b1 Follies Original Cast (Dorothy Collins), see FOLLIES01 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Dorothy Collins), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim1 (Julia McKenzie), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Geraldene Morrow), see SIDEBYS2 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Debbie Shapiro), see SOND1 Follies in Concert5, 7 (Barbara Cook), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (Julia McKenzie), see FOLLIES03 Songs of Stephen Sondheim/You Sing the Hits, see SONGSOFSTEP1

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Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental), see SYMPHONICSON1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Dorothy Loudon), see SONDACELATC1 The Magic of the Musicals (Marti Webb, Mark Rattray), see MAGICOF1 Color and Light: Jazz Sketches . . . (Holly Cole), see COLOR1 A Gala Concert for Hal Prince (Kelli James Chase), see GALA1 Sondheim: A Celebration (Tim Curry), see SONDACEL2 No. 1 Australian Musicals Album (Judy Connelli), Polydor 539 736-2, 1998 Follies/Themes from the Legendary Musical (The Trotter Trio), see FOLLIES04 Hey, Mr. Producer! (Michael Ball), see HEYMRP Follies, The Complete Recording (Donna McKechnie), see FOLLIES05 Sondheim Tonight (Maria Friedman), see SONDTON1 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Dame Edna/Barry Humphries), see STEPHENSA1 Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Donna Murphy), see WALLTOWALLS1 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Marya Bravo), see SIDEBYS3 Broadway Unplugged 2 (Barbara Walsh), Bayview RNBW037, 2006 Abel, Amanda/Night of Neurotica, Original Cast 6246, 2007 [with “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”] Alexander, James/At Seventeen, Dress Circle JAA S001CD, 2000 Argent, Monique/Moonfall, see ARGENTM1 Ball, Michael/The Musicals, see BALLM1 Bassey, Shirley/I Capricorn, United Artists Records UK: UAS 29246/US: UAS-5565, 1972; 2000 UK CD Re-Issue: EMI 5258452; 2001 US CD ReIssue 76681 Bennett, Tony/Summer of ’42, Columbia C31219, 1972 Black Crowes/Lions, VZ Records 63881-27091-2, 2001 Bramlish, Richard/Elementary Floor Exercise Routines, Kimbo Educational Records KEA 9030-1, 1971 Broussard, Trina/Same Girl, Motown B0002167-02, 2004 Burgess, Sally/Sally Burgess Sings Jazz, That’s Entertainment Records TER 8308, 1995 Burton, Paul/Songs on a Steinway, Imperial Digital Limited IDID1, 1996 Cant, Donald/Donald Cant, see CANTD1 Cantabile/Music of the Night, EMI CDP 7 48639 2, 1987 Clark, Petula/here for you, see CLARKP1 Clary, Robert/Robert Clary Sings at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, Original Cast Records OC-9799, 1997 [with “Not While I’m Around,” and “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”] Cole, Holly/It Happened One Night, Caravan CDP 7243 8 5269 05, 1996; Metro Blue/Capital 2438526990 Connelli, Judy/On My Way to You, see CONNELLI1

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Cook, Barbara/Live from London, DRG 91430, 1994 Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim, see COOKB1 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook at the Met, see COOKB2 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] Corry, Peter/Peter Corry in Concert, Pet Cor CD 001, 2001 [with “Send in the Clowns”; recorded in 1993] DeLaria, Lea/Play It Cool, see DELARIA1 Dustin, Gini/Two for the Road with Gini and Dr. Joe, Silver Hill [n.n.], 2005 Eagleson, Katie/Once Upon a Time, WalkingPath Records 822605819920, 2007 Edwards, Stan/Play Me Hearts and Flowers, OC 41117-46502, 1997 Egan, Susan/Susan Egan Live!, LML Music LML CD 222, 2008 [in medley] Fagiolini/Insalata, Metronome MET 1004-01, 1994 Feliu, Nuria/Nuria de Nit, Hispavox Estel HHS 11-231/Hispavox 130 026, 1972 Fragile/Polarity, ZYX Music 100032/EQ Music EA71923, 2005 Fuller, Mark/Songs About Adam, see FULLERM1 [with “Not a Day Goes By” & “Isn’t This Better?”] Fulton, Eileen/I Think About You, Original Cast 04399, 2000 [with “Dinner for One Please James” and “I Don’t Care Much”] Hamilton, Lindsay/It’s Me!, Dress Circle CD HAM 1, 1999 [with “So In Love”] Harpsichord Pieces, Hungaroton/White Label 31729, 1999 Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Honeyroot/Sound Echo Location, New World Music NWM 105, 2003 House Music’s Greatest Divas (Debbie Cook), Micmac Records MIC-14392, 1990–97? Hyman, Dick/Fantomfingers, Project 3 PR 5057 SD, 1971 [organ with instrumental accompaniment] Jo, Sumi/Only Love, Erato 8573-80241-2, 2000 Jöback, Peter/Storybook, [n.l., n.n.] 2004 Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Keller, Greta/Greta Keller in Concert, Stanyan SR10041, 1975 Kelly, Laura Michelle/The Storm Inside, EMI 8, 2006 Kendall, Trent/So Much to Say, Dress Circle, 1995 Kennedy, Barbara/You’d Be Surprised!, Globe GLO 6045, 1998 Kostelanetz, Andre/For All We Know, Columbia C 30672, 1971 Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim, see LAINEC2 La Rue, Danny/I Am What I Am, Elite PMPCD 1201, 1995 Lear, Evelyn/Evelyn Lear Sings Sondheim and Bernstein, see LEARE1

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Lee, Peggy/Where Did They Go?, Capitol ST-810, 1971 Lee, Scooter/Steppin’ Out, Wrasse Records SLCD 0010, 2001 Lipton, Celia/As Time Goes By, Independent Record Group, CML 1393/vol. II, 1988 Lemper, Ute/City of Strangers, see LEMPER1 Mager, Eileen/Broadway: Love and Laughter, see MAGERE1 Malmberg, Sue/Musical Theatre Classics, see MALMBERGS1 Manuell, Suzanne/ . . . Mezzo Soprano, Paul Martyn Sound Productions PMSPCD 9420, 1994 Marie, Kelly/Applause!, Pinacle CDKOPY 146, 2004 Marjorie-Jean/Losing My Mind, Carmel Records MJ10001, 1988, 1989 Markey, Enda/Another Place and Time, see MARKEY1 Martino, Al/Summer of ’42, Capitol ST-793, 1971 Matthews, Sue/One at a Time, Renata Records 177014, 2002 McBryde, Deian/Love . . . & Other Distractions, EvAnMedia evan35700CD, 2000 McDonough, Megan/My One and Only Love, Shanachie 5027, 1996 McKenzie, Julia/The Musicals Album, see MCKENZIEJ1 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim (Barbara Cohen), see MENDELSSOHN1 Minnelli, Liza/Results, Epic EK45098, 1989 Minnelli, Liza/Aznavour/Minnelli Paris-Palais . . . , see MINNELLI1 Minnelli, Liza/Life Is a Cabaret—The Very Best of Liza Minnelli, Sony 507808 2, 2002 Minnelli, Liza/Say Liza, CMG A94742, 2005 [remix] Mitchell, Brian Stokes/Brian Stokes Mitchell, see MITCHELLBS1 Mortimer, Jennie/Reflection, JennieMortimer 634479866852, 2008 Murray, Todd/When I Sing Low, Zate Entertainment ZE91002, 2002 Orchestra Manhattan (Byron Olson)/Digital Broadway (1986), see ORCHESTRAMAN1 [instrumental] Paige, Elaine/A Musical Touch of Elaine Paige, Dominion Records DN 6221, 1984 Paige, Elaine/Stages, Atlantic 81776-1, 1987 [also included in Sweet Memories, Music Club Records 084, 2008] Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Pet Shop Boys/Alternative, EMI 7243 8 34023 2 8, 1995 Pet Shop Boys/Introspective, EMI 724353050426, 2001 Prior, Marina/Leading Lady, Columbia [Australia] 469214-2, 1991 Ralston, Teri/I’ve Gotta Get Back to New York, see RALSTONT1 Ramsten, Trish/Eclectic, Jazzten 1001, 2002 Rarities of Piano Music (Jody Applebaum), Danacord DACOCD 559, 2000 Rose, Jodi/Hope for the Future, see ROSEJ1 [with “Not a Day Goes By”]

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Saxe, Emily/Broadway & All That Jazz, see SAXEE2 Scannell, Mike/Love Changes Everything, Guardian Angel Productions GAP 8853, 1996 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs”] Second City Divas (Kathy Taylor), MAM Records [n.n.], 1997 Sheldon, Jack with Ross Tompkins/On My Own, Concord Jazz, CCD4529, 1992 [trumpet] Short, Bobby/Live at the Cafe Carlyle, see SHORTB1 Shyu, Jen/For Now, 4AM Music ANA2002CD, 2002 Singers Unlimited/A Little Light Music (Julia Meadows), see SINGERSUN1 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 Southern, Sheila/Sheila Southern with Love, [n.l., n.n., n.d.] Stace, Melanie/How Lucky, First Night CASTCD88, 2003 Thomas, Richard/I Need to Know, [n.l., n.n.], 2002 Tompkins, Sheldon/On My Own, Concord Jazz 04529, 1992 Tormé, Mel/Night at the Concord Pavilion, Concord Jazz CCD-4433, 1990; reissued as Two Darn Hot, Concord Records CCD2-2118-2, 2002 [with “I Could Have Told You,” “Deep in a Dream,” “Goin’ Out of My Head”] Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 Warlow, Anthony/Midnight Dreaming, Polydor 523612-2, 1994 Webb, Marti/Performance, Telstar OCR CD6033, 1989 Webb, Mart/Performance with the Philharmonia Orchestra, First Night Records TCD 2391, 1989 Welch, Elisabeth/This Thing Called Love, RCA 60366-2-RC, 1989 Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson at Brothers & Sisters Vol. Two, see WILSONJ1 [with “Beautiful Girls,” “[The Story of] Lucy and Jessie,” and “Could I Leave You”] Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 “Love, I Hear” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) FTPVS b-d2, FTVS, SSS, SCCH b-f♯2 [g2 optional] A Funny Thing . . . Original Cast (Brian Davies), see FUNNY01 A Funny Thing . . . London Cast (John Rye), see FUNNY02 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Michael Jeter), see SONDACELATC1 A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Jim Stanek), see FUNNY05 That’s What Friends Are For (Peter Land, Robert Meadmore), First Night CAST CD52, 1996 [in medley with “Agony” & “It Takes Two”]

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Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing . . . Forum . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see FUNNY04 Amor al Reves es Roma [A Funny Thing . . . ] Mexican Cast, see FUNNY06 Simply Sondheim (Steve Rhyne), see SIMPLYSOND1 The Broadway Musicals of 1962 (Danny Gurwin), see BROADWAYMUS62 Clary, Robert/Louis Lebeau Remembers . . . Stephen Sondheim . . . , see CLARYR1 Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 [with “What Can You Lose”; added to 1997 reissue] Williams, Bob/ . . . And at the Piano, Bob Williams, [n.n., n.d.] [piano] Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 “Love Is Going Around,” see “Love Is in the Air” “Love Is in the Air” cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) FTPVS instrumental, HTSS c1-e♭2 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Larry Blyden, Susan Browning), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim1 (Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie, David Kernan), see SIDEBYS1 [with “Comedy Tonight”] Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Jill Perryman, Bartholomew John, Geraldene Morrow), see SIDEBYS2 [with “Comedy Tonight”] Songs of Sondheim Irish Cast (Company), see SONGSOFSOND1 [with “Comedy Tonight”] The Birdcage (Christine Baranski, Robin Williams), see BIRDCAGE Live At the Commander Boardwalk Cabaret, [n.l.] NR11810, [n.d.] Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Company), see SIDEBYS3 [with “Comedy Tonight”] Simply Sondheim (Kim Larsen, Shay Oglesby-Smith), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 Paich, Marty with Carol and Cathy, Groove 58-0002 (N2PW-0388) 45rpm, 1961[?] Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 “Love Like Ours (Scene 3, Part II)” from Passion (1995) PPVS, PVS duet b-e2/a-e2 Stephen Sondheim’s Passion . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see PASSION2

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“Love Story (Your Eyes Are Blue)” cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), [see also “Your Eyes Are Blue”] “Love Takes Time” for film version of A Little Night Music (1978) [new lyrics for “Night Waltz”] A Little Night Music Film7 (Company), see LITTLEN03 Putting It Together (Company), see PUTTINGIT1 “Love Will See Us Through” from Follies (1971), [see also “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow”] Follies Original Cast (Harvey Evans, Marti Rolph), FOLLIES01 Follies1 in Concert (Jim Walton, Liz Callaway), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (Evan Pappas, Deborah Poplett), see FOLLIES03 Follies, The Complete Recording (Billy Hartung, Danette Holden), see FOLLIES05 “Loveland” from Follies (1971) CFC c1-f2, FPVS c1-b2 Follies in Concert (Company), see FOLLIES02 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Ensemble), see SONDACELATC1 Follies/Themes from the Legendary Musical (The Trotter Trio), see FOLLIES04 Follies, The Complete Recording (Company), see FOLLIES05 “Loveland” from the 1987 London production of Follies ASIII, FLVS, SCCH [misidentified as 1971 version] b♭-g2, a♭-f2 Follies London Cast (Paul Bentley, Company), see FOLLIES03 “Lovely” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) FTPVS duet c♭1-f2/d1f2, FTVS, SSS solo version c1-e♭2 A Funny Thing . . . Original Cast (Brian Davies, Preshy Marker), see FUNNY01 A Funny Thing . . . London Cast (John Rye, Isla Blair), see FUNNY02 A Funny Thing . . . Film (Annette Andre, Michael Crawford), see FUNNY03 Putting It Together (Rachel York), see PUTTINGIT1 A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Jessica Boevers, Jim Stanek), see FUNNY05 Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing . . . Forum . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see FUNNY04 Amor al Reves es Roma [A Funny Thing . . . ] Mexican Cast, see FUNNY06 Simply Sondheim (Judy Butterfield), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] Allen, Steve/Steve Allen Sings, Dot DLP-35530, (S)DLP-25530, 1964 Jazz at the Movies Band/Sax on Broadway, Discovery 77068, 1997; Rhino Atlantic, 2005

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Johnson, J. J./J. J. Johnson’s Broadway, Verve V6-8530, 1964 [trombone] MacCrae, Gordon/Warmer Than a Whisper, Capitol 45rpm 4773, 1962 McKechnie, Donna/Inside the Music, see MCKECHNIED1 [with “Will He Like Me” & “A Secretary is Not a Toy”] Oler, Newell/Fireside Piano, NOME Co. of Dallas, Inc. [n.n.], 2003 [piano] Platters, The/I Love You 1,000 Times, Musicor 2091, (S)3091, 1969 Puma, Joe with Hod O’Brien & Red Mitchell/Shining Hour, Reservoir 102, 1987 [trio] United States Air Force Heritage of America Band, The/Broadway Nights, US Air Force 0017, 1997 Wayne, Chuck/Morning Mist, Original Jazz Classics 1097, 1964/2003 [banjo] “Lovely” (Reprise) from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) FTPVS duet d1-f2/e1-g2 A Funny Thing . . . Original Cast (Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford), see FUNNY01 A Funny Thing . . . London Cast (Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Connor), see FUNNY02 A Funny Thing . . . Film (Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford), see FUNNY03 A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Nathan Lane, Mark Linn-Baker), see FUNNY05 The MUSICality of Sondheim4 (Emily Loesser, Don Stephenson), JAY Records CDJAZ 9006, 2002 “Lovely Ladies” cut from The Lady or the Tiger? (1954, unproduced) “Love’s a Bond” from Saturday Night (1954) SNVS b-e2 Unsung Sondheim (Walter Willison), see UNSUNGS1 Saturday Night Bridewell Cast (Gavin Lee), see SATURDAYN1 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Donald Corren), see SATURDAYN2 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Natascia A. Diaz), see SATURDAYN2 [“Blues” version] Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Arte Johnson) [from original backer’s audition] “Loving You” from Passion (1995) PPVS f♯-c2, PVS b♭-e♭2; [an extended version combining aspects of “Loving You” and the “Finale” was published as an individual sheet as Warner Bros. PV9587]

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Passion Original Cast (Donna Murphy), see PASSION1 Stephen Sondheim’s Passion . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see PASSION2 Color and Light: Jazz Sketches . . . (Nancy Wilson and Peabo Bryson), see COLOR1 Stage1/how I love you (William Reilly, Ralph Pena, Michael Fawcett, Richard True, Francis Cruz), DINK Records DIDX 037070, 1996 [with “If I Loved You”] Sondheim: A Celebration (Ellen Harvey), see SONDACEL2 Passion London Concert (Maria Friedman), see PASSION3 Sondheim Tonight (Michael Ball), see SONDTON1 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Not a Day Goes By,” “So Many People”] Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 Passion Dutch Cast (Vera Mann), see PASSION4 Abernathy, John/Live Out Loud!, John Abernathy 884501220606, 2009 [with “So Many People”] Akers, Karen/Like It Was, DRG 91498, 2006 [with “Why Was I Born?”] Ball, Michael/The Musicals, see BALLM1 Ball, Michael/Secrets of Love, Spectrum 544 100-2, 2000 Ball, Michael/I Dreamed a Dream, Spectrum/Universal International 67873, 2003 Breach, Joyce/Live in London, Audiophile ACD-331, 2006 Cole, Holly/Romantically Helpless, EMI B00004U8U7, 2000 Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim, see COOKB1 Dale, Cynthia/More . . . , D2 Entertainment D2-CD2, 2004 [with “How Deep is the Ocean”] Fleming, Renée and Bryn Terfel/Under the Stars (Renée Fleming), see FLEMINGTERFEL1 [with “I Wish I Could Forget You”] Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Mars, Susannah/Take Me to the World, see MARSS1 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] Mathis, Johnny/Mathis on Broadway, Columbia CK 63892, 2000 McDermott, Sean/My Broadway4, see MCDERMOTTS1 Michuda, Marie/It’s a Grand Night for Singing, Southport S-SSD 0074, 1999 Nicastro, Michelle/On My Own3, Varese Sarabande VSD-5810, 1997 Noriega, Iraida/Viaje de Mar, Opcion Sonica 220, 2005 Patinkin, Mandy/Oscar and Steve, see PATINKIN4 Strassen, Michael/Loving You (with Vicki Emery), Dress Circle 32796 00122, 1997 [with “No One Has Ever Loved Me”]

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Turner, Geraldine/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2, see TURNERG2 Vannatter, Dane/Double Standards, Avitus Productions [n.n.], 2001 “Lucy and Jessie,” see “The Story of Lucy and Jessie” “Lullaby” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) “Lunch” for Singing Out Loud (1992–93, unproduced) “Madame Rose’s Toreadorables,” see “Toreadorables” “Madam’s Song,” see “I Never Do Anything Twice” “Make It Through the Night” cut from Bounce (2003) “Make the Most of Your Music” from the 1987 London production of Follies ASIII, CFC, FLVS b-g2 [includes a small amount of choral accompaniment] Follies London Cast (Daniel Massey, Company), see FOLLIES03 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Brent Barrett), see STEPHENSA1 Simply Sondheim (James Brewer, Company), see SIMPLYSOND1 McLaren, Morag/I Never Do Anything Twice, see MCLAREN1 Ralston, Teri/I’ve Gotta Get Back to New York, see RALSTONT1 “March to the Treaty House” from Pacific Overtures (1976) [from American Admiral’s section of “Please Hello”] POPVS instrumental Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (instrumental), see SOND1 A Gala Concert for Hal Prince (The Munich Radio Orchestra), see GALA1 Sondheim Tonight (Orchestra), see SONDTON1 Pacific Overtures New Broadway Cast (B. D. Wong), see PACIFICOVER3 New York City Opera Orchestra/Broadway’s Best (instrumental) [“Pacific Overtures Suite, Third Movement”], see NEWYORKCITYOP1 “Maria” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein BOB, SSS, WSSVS a♭-g2, WSSPVS b-b♭2 [a2 alternate] West Side Story Original Cast (Larry Kert), see WESTSIDE01 West Side Story film (Jim Bryant), see WESTSIDE02 Broadway’s Big Hits (Herman Clabanoff), Mercury SR 60811/(M) MG 20811, 1963

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West Side Story Studio Cast (José Carreras), see WESTSIDE03 Met Stars on Broadway (Eileen Farrell), MET/RCA MET-204, 1980; MET 204CD, 1989 Bernstein on Broadway (Peter Hofmann), see BERNSTEINON1 West Side Story Studio Cast London (Michael Ball), see WESTSIDE04 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Paul Manuel), see WSSLHC West Side Story London Production (Marlys Waters), see WESTSIDE08 West Side Story London Production (Don McKay), see WESTSIDE08 West Side Story London Studio Cast (David Holliday), see WESTSIDE09 West Side Story Original Score (Mike Eldred), see WESTSIDE10 Bravo Broadway (J. Mark McVey), CDJAY 8005, 200? Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2 (instrumental), see SINGTHESONGS2 West Side Story Broadway Revival (Matt Cavenaugh), see WESTSIDE11 Alban, Manny/West Side Story, Decca (S)DL7-4517, 1965 Attila, Serbián/Premier Musical Tour, Magneoton 53386, 2009 Baker, Don/The Sound of Music & West Side Story, KAPP KL-1411, (S)KS3411, 1965 Basile, Jo/Movie Theme Hits, Audio Fidelity AF-1979, (S)SD-5979, 1965 Bee Gees/Brilliant from Birth, Festival Records 46066, 1997 Bibb, Leon/Leon Bibb Sings, Columbia CL-1762, (S)CS-8562, 1963 Bonnemere/Bound of Memory, Roost (S)2241, 1960 Boulter, John/Boulter’s Gold, RCA Victor SF 7872, 1967 Burnham, David/David Burnham, LML Music 213, 2007 Carreras, Jose/Jose Carreras in Concert, Legacy 420, 1995 Cashmore, John/Musical Cocktail, SZ Productions/GEMA LC8248, 1997 Chakiris, George/George Chakiris, Capitol (S)ST-1750, 1962 Chakiris, George, Capitol 45rpm 4844, 1963 Clebanoff, O., Mercury 45rpm 71905, 1961 Clebanoff, O./King of Kings, Mercury MG-20640, (S)SR-60640, 1961 Clooney, Rosemary/Mothers & Daughters, Concord Jazz CCD-4754-2, 1997 Como, Perry/By Request, Cictor (S)LSP-2567, 1963 Cousens, Peter/Corner of the Sky, First Night OCRCD 6043, 1994 Crawford, Michael/Songs from the Stage and Screen, see MCSSS Damone, Vic/On the Street Where You Live, see DAMONE1 Davis Jr., Sammy/Sammy Davis Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove, see SDJCG [part of West Side Story medley] Domingo, Placido/Save Your Nights for Me, Sony Music Distribution 39866, 1985 Drake, Alfred/Alfred Drake & Roberta Peters Sing the Popular Music of Leonard Bernstein, see ADRP

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Eddy, Nelson/Of Girls I Sing, Everest 9006, (S)8006, 1965 Ellery, Lloyd/In Whatever Time We Have, Pathfinder 5050693165925, 2007 Farnon, Robert/Portrait of Johnny Mathis, Phillips PHM-200167, (S)PHS600167, 1965 Fields, Victor/52nd Street, Regina Records REG 50517, 2002 Fisher, [David] Du Du/Over the Rainbow, Helicon Records HL 8064, 1989 [in Hebrew] Fisher, David “Dudu” and London Symphony Orchestra/Showstoppers, Pickwick Music PY, PK-4141, 1993 Fisher, Eddie/ . . . At the Wintergarden, Ramrod Records RR1-2, Taragon TARCD-1054, 1962, 69 [with “Something’s Coming” and “Tonight”] Fortunes, Press (S)83002, 1969 Fortunes, The/The World of the Fortunes, Universal International 552023, 2004 Four Tops/Four Tops on Broadway, Motown (S)657, 1969 Franchi, Sergio/Women in My Life, Victor (S)LSC-2696, 1965 Frangoulis, Mario/Short Stories: The Acropolis Concert, Balboa Recording Corp. 89552, 2002 [with “Something’s Coming” & “Tonight”] Garland, Judy/Judy Duets (with Vic Damone), see GARLAND [in West Side Story medley] Gaye, Marvin/Romantically Yours, Sony Music Distribution 4741622, (1985)/2004 Gott, Karl/50 Hitu, Supraphon 55649, 2007 Goulet, Robert/Sincerely Yours, Columbia CL 1931/CS 8731, 1963; Collectables 5847, 1997 Gray, David/Showtime with David Gray, Festival L 25185, 1974 Grigolo, Vittorio/Vittorio, Decca B0007307-2, 2006 [also released as In the Hands, Polydor 9874521, 2006] Guest, Rob/Standing Ovation, EMI Music (Australian Group) 7986212, 1991 [in medley] Harmonicats/Love Theme from “El Cid,” Columbia CL-1753, (S)CS-8553, 1962 Heywood, Eddie/Eddie Heywood’s Golden Encores, Liberty LPP-3250, (S)LST-7250, 1963 Holmes Singers, Leroy/Golden Hits of Broadway, United Artists UAL3234, 1963 Hooper, Jeff/As Long As I’m Singing, Silverword CDSMG0004, 2001 [with “An Affair to Remember”] Hyland, Brian/Brian Hyland, Fontana/Hip-O Select 000288102, (1970)/2006 [with “Somewhere”] Jaramillo, Pepe/A Mexican on Broadway, Parlophone PMCO 1183, [n.d.] Jay and the Americans/Sunday and Me, United Artists (S)6474, 1969

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Jay and the Americans/Jay and the Americans Greatest Hits, United Artists (S)6555, 1969 Jay, Harley/Between 41st and 53rd, [self-released], 2007 Jones, Allan/ . . . Sings Only the Greatest, Star Records SST 5123, 1968 Kamahl/A Voice to Remember, Phillips PDS 285, [n.d.] Karimloo, Ramin/Within the Square Inch, Ramin K Productions RKCD1, 2001 Keating, John/Temptation, London (S)PS-44019, 1963 Kert, Larry/Larry Kert Sings Leonard Bernstein, SEECO CE-467, (S)CES4670, 1963 Kert, Larry/Spotlight on Larry Kert, see KERTL1 King, Wayne/Music from Broadway and Hollywood, Decca (S)DL7-4517, 1963 Kole, Bob/The Two Sides of Bob Kole, Festival LL 30091, 1961 La Staya, Pepe/MacDougal St., Everest 45 rpm 19423, 1961 Leyton, Jeff/Music of the Night, Linn AKD098, 1998 Martin, Felix/Musical Changes, EBM/Pool Music 4012772019735, 2001 [in medley with “Somewhere” and “Tonight”] Mathis, Johnny, Columbia 45rpm 4-41684, 1960 Mathis, Johnny/Faithfully, Columbia EPB-14221, CL-1422, (S)CS-8219, 1960 Mathis, Johnny, Columbia 45rpm 4-33042, 1965 Mathis, Johnny/The Greatest Years, Columbia C2L-34, (S)C2S-834, 1965 McDermott, Sean/My Broadway, see MCDERMOTTS1 Mighty Sparrow/Mighty Sparrow Sings for Lovers, Victor LPB-3015, 1965 Monro, Matt/Through the Years, EMI Music Distribution 32032, 1994 Pagny, Florent/Baryton, Universal Distribution 9825530, 2004 Peerce, Jan, United Artists 45rpm 574, 1963 Peerce, Jan/Music to Remember from “Lawrence of Arabia,” United Artists UAL-3278, (S)UAS-6278, 1963 Peerce, Jan/Jan on Broadway, United Artists UAL-3248, (S)UAS-6248, 1963 Peterson, Jimmy/Inside of Me, Chess 45rpm 1886, 1965 Phillips, Kris [ne Fei Xiang]/Broadway Album, Forward Music 1003947297, 2005 [sung in Mandarin Chinese] Phillips, Shawn/Shawn, Wounded Bird Records 6006, (1966)/1999 Pitney, Gene/Looking Through the Eyes of Love, Musicpr 2069, (S)3069, 1966 Proby, P. J., Liberty 45rpm 55850, 1966 Quisano, Joe/Ah, Camminare, Columbia 3-42493, 1963 Roberts, Malcolm, Victor 45rpm 47-9245, 1968 Roberts, Malcolm/The Talk of the Town, Right RIGHT018, 2002

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Rotz, Corey Evan/Keep the Music Playing, see ROTZC1 Rydell, Bobby/Era Reborn, Cameo (S)SC-4017, 1963 Salems, Epic 45 rpm S-9480, 1961 Schlongs/Punk Side Story (Andrew Asp), see SCHLONG1 Seibert, Mark/Musicballads: Unplugged, Sound of Music [n.n.], 2010 Sinatra, Frank/Frank Sinatra Conducts Music from Pictures and Plays, Reprise (S)R9-6045 Sorvino, Paul/Paul Sorvino Sings, Voices Across America 41001, 1996 Spence, Nicky/My First Love, UCJ 5717, 2006 Starlite Orchestra & Singers/The Best of Broadway, Intercontinental Records 4018, 1997 Teatro/Teatro, Sony Australia 719431, 2007 Thomas, Richard/The Impossible Dream, [n.l., n.n.], 1999[?] [Australian] Touzet, Rene/Rene Touzet Goes to the Movies, Crescendo (S)GNPS-81, 1963 Vale, Jerry/Great Moments on Broadway, Columbia CL2489, (C)CS-9289, 1966 Vardi, Emmanuel O./More Sounds of Hollywood, Kapp KL-1289, (S)3266, 1963 Vaughan, Sarah/You’re Mine, You, Roulette [n.n.], 1962; Blue Note 57157, 1997 Wade, Adam/Very Good Year for Girls, Epic LN-24056, (S)BN-26056, 1963 Wess, Richard/Mack the Knife, United Artists UAL-3203, (S)UAS-6202, 1963 Whitfield, David/I Believe, London 45rpm 9506, 1962-63 Whitfield, David/Million Stars, London LL-3332, 1966 Wilkinson, Colm/Stage Heroes, RCA Victor BBL74105, 1989; 25856, 1997] Wilkinson, Colm/Stage Heroes, RCA Records 25856, (1989)/1997 Williams, Andy/Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes, Columbia CL-1809, (S)CS08609, 1963/Columbia CK-8609, 1987 Williams, Roger/Eventide, Kapp 45rpm 437, 1961 Williams, Roger/Maria, Kapp KL-1266, (S)KS-3266, 1963 Wilson, Lambert/Musicals, see WILSONL1 Zentner, Si/Desafinado, Liberty LRP-3273, (S)LST-7273 “Marriage Proposal,” see “Goodbye for Now” “Marry Me a Little” cut from Company (1970) [reinstated in later productions] ASII, CVS2, CVS3 g♯-f♯2

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Marry Me a Little1 (Suzanne Henry), see MARRYME1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Bartholomew John), see SIDEBYS2 Putting It Together (Michael Rupert), see PUTTINGIT1 Company Revival Cast (Boyd Gaines), see COMPANY05 Company London Revival Cast (Adrian Lester), see COMPANY04 Company Brazilian Cast (Claudio Botelho), see COMPANY06 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Gregg Edelman), see WALLTOWALLS1 Company Accompaniment CD (Miles Phillips/accompaniment), see COMPANY08 Company Second Revival Cast (Raúl Esparza), see COMPANY09 Barnett, Peter & Julia Early/In So Many Words, see BARNETTEARLY1 Brussell, Barbara/patterns, see BRUSSELL1 Buckley, Betty/The London Concert, see BUCKLEYB2 Callaway, Liz/The Story Goes On: On and Off Broadway, Varese Sarabande VSD-5585, 1995 Clary, Robert/Louis Lebeau Remembers . . . Stephen Sondheim . . . , see CLARYR1 Ferreri, Michael/Sweet Dreams, see FERRERI1 Malmberg, Myrra/What Can You Lose?, see MALMBERG1 Manilow, Barry/Trying to Get the Feeling, Arista 19040-2, [remastered in 1998 with additional cut] Noll, Christiane/A Broadway Love Story,3 Varese Sarabande VSD-5956, 1998 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 “May We Entertain You?” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne, [see also “Let Me Entertain You”] Gypsy TV Cast (Lacey Chabert, Elisabeth Moss), see GYPSY05 Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Heather Tepe, Addison Timlin, Michael McCormick, Bernadette Peters), see GYPSY10 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Sami Gayle, Emma Rowley), see GYPSY11 “Maybe They’re Magic” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS g♯-e2 Into the Woods Original Cast (Joanna Gleason), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Imelda Staunton), see INTOTHE2 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Stephen DeRosa, Kerry O’Malley), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Nadiene Jacques), see INTOTHE4 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Annabel Totusaus), see INTOTHE5 “Maybe They’re Magic” (first version) cut from Into the Woods (1987)

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“Me and My Town” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) ACWPVS a-e♭2 + trio Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Angela Lansbury, Sterling Clark, Harvey Evans, Larry Roquemore, Tucker Smith), see ANYONE1 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Angela Lansbury, Harvey Evans, Tony Stevens), see SONDAMUST1 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Debbie Shapiro), see SOND1 Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (Madeline Kahn, Sterling Clark, Harvey Evans, Evan Pappas, Eric Riley, Tony Stevens), see ANYONE2 Celebrating Sondheim (Rosemary Ashe, Tudor Davies, Glyn Kerslake), see CELEBRATSON Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON “Men” from By George (1946) Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SINGS2 [piano solo; incomplete]

SOND-

“Merrily We Roll Along” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) ASIII, MWRVS c1-a2 [includes section with background vocal], MWRPVS company number Merrily We Roll Along Original Cast (Company), see MERRILY1 Putting It Together (Christopher Durang), see PUTTINGIT1 Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Company), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Company), see MERRILY3 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C./You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught . . . , see GAYMENSCWDC1 Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 Newman, Lee/Relatively Singing, Original Cast Records OC9527, 1995 “Miles Gloriosus” cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) “The Miller’s Son” from A Little Night Music (1973) ASI, LNMVS, SSS g-c2, LNMPVS f♯-b1 A Little Night Music Original Cast7 (D. Jamin-Bartlett), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music London Cast1 (Diane Langton), see LITTLEN02 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Maria Freedman), see LITTLEN04 A Stephen Sondheim Evening (Liz Callaway), see STEPHENSE1 Putting It Together (Rachel York), see PUTTINGIT1 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Issy Van Randwyck), see LITTLEN05

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Song Listing

Sondheim: A Celebration (Tia Riebling), see SONDACEL2 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Nuria Canals), see LITTLEN06 Company German Cast (Alexandra Seefisch), see COMPANY07 Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2 (instrumental), see SINGTHESONGS2 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Kate Baldwin), see WALLTOWALLS1 A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Leigh Ann Larkin), see LITTLEN07 Ford, Anne Kerry/Something Wonderful, see FORDA1 Hastings, Ruth/Ruth Hastings Plays the Geary, see HASTINGSR1 [in medley] Kostelanetz, Andre/Andre Kostelanetz Plays Great Hits of Today, Columbia KC 32415, 1973 [later released on “Quadrophonic Pop Concert” Columbia CQ 32856, 1974] Laine, Cleo/Cleo Laine Return to Carnegie, see LAINEC1 Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim, see LAINEC2 Morris, Joan/Lime Jello: An American Cabaret, RCA AML1-5830, 1986 Palmer, Lillian/Like a Lover, Lillian Palmer 700261248479, 2008 Ruffelle, Frances/Frances Ruffelle, Dress Circle DRESSCD05, [n.d.] Skinner, Emily/Unsuspecting Hearts, Varese Sarabande 302 066 074 2, 1999 Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 “Miracle Song” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) ACWPVS f♯-g2 + company Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Arnold Soboloff, Ensemble, Angela Lansbury, Peg Murray), see ANYONE1 Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (Madeline Kahn, Maureen Moore, Chip Zien, Ensemble), see ANYONE2 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 “Miss Andrew” for Mary Poppins (1950, unproduced) [incomplete] “Mr. A” (lyrics only?) (1959) [for Ginger Rogers’ nightclub act] “Mr. Goldstone” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne GPVS f-b♭1 [+ company at end] Gypsy Original Cast (Ethel Merman, Company), see GYPSY01 Gypsy Original Cast (Ethel Merman), see GYPSY01 [included on 1999 reissue; with “Little Lamb”] Gypsy Film (Rosalind Russell, Company), see GYPSY02 Gypsy London Cast (Angela Lansbury, Company), see GYPSY03

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Gypsy Revival Cast (Tyne Daly, Company), see GYPSY04 Gypsy TV Cast (Bette Midler, Peter Riegert, Jennifer Beck, Jeffrey Broadhurst, Peter Lockyer, Michael Moore, Patrick Boyd), see GYPSY05 Kay Medford in “Gypsy” (Kay Medford), see GYPSY09 Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Bernadette Peters, John Dossett, Ensemble), see GYPSY10 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Patti LuPone, Boyd Gaines, Leigh Ann Larkin, Bill Bateman, Pearce Wegener, Steve Konopelski, Tony Yazbeck, John Scaachetti, Geo Seery, Matty Price), see GYPSY11 Four Lads/Dixieland Doin’s, Kapp KL-1254, (S)KS-3255, 1962 Hi-Lo’s, The/Broadway Playbill, see HILOS Merman, Ethel/Mermania!, see MERMANE1 [2 versions, 1 with “Little Lamb”] “Mix!” cut from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein [music later used in Chichester Psalms] “A Moment with You” from Saturday Night (1953) [from “In No Time at All”] SNVS duet c♭1-f2/c♭1-d♭2 Marry Me a Little (Suzanne Henry, Craig Lucas), see MARRYME1 Saturday Night Bridewell Cast (Gavin Lee, Anna Francolini, Sam Newman), see SATURDAYN1 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Donald Corren, David Campbell, Lauren Ward), see SATURDAYN2 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Theresa Finamore and Andrew Lippa), see STEPHENSA1 Simply Sondheim (Amy Dondy, James Brewer), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SONDSINGS2 [with “In No Time at All”] “Moments in the Woods” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS g-d2 Into the Woods Original Cast (Joanna Gleason), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Imelda Staunton), see INTOTHE2 No One Is Alone . . . (Kerry Sampson), see NOONEIS1 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Kerry O’Malley), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Nadiene Jacques), see INTOTHE4 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Annabel Totusaus), see INTOTHE5 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “Hello, Little Girl”]

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Turner, Geraldine/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2, see TURNERG2 [with “No More”] “Momma’s Talkin’ Soft” cut from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne Gypsy Original Cast (Laura Leslie), see GYPSY01 [included on 1999 reissue] Herb Geller and His All-Stars play selections from Gypsy (Barbara Lang), see GELLERH The Unknown Theater Songs of Jule Styne/(singer unknown), Blue Pear Records BP 1011, [n.d.] Lost in Boston III3 (Lindsay Ridgeway and Sarah Chapman), Varese Sarabande VSD-5563, 1995 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Patti LuPone, Boyd Gaines, Leigh Ann Larkin, Laura Benanti), see GYPSY11 [quartet with “Small World”] Clark, Petula/Uptown with Petula Clark, Imperial 9281, 9079, (S)12027, 1962 Clark, Petula/This Is Petula Clark!, Sunset Records/Liberty, SUM-1101, [n.d.] “Montage,” see “Rain on the Roof,” “Ah, Paris!” and “Broadway Baby” “Montalvo at Biarritz” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “Montana Chem” completed for the 1999 Pegasus Players production of Saturday Night SNVS company number Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Michael Benjamin Washington, Kirk McDonald, Greg Zola, Joey Sorge, Clarke Thorell, Andrea Burns), see SATURDAYN2 “Moon in My Window” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS trio g♭-d2/g-a1/g♭-b1, DIHVS c1-e♭2 Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Cast2 (Julienne Marie, Carol Bruce, Elizabeth Allen), see DOIHEAR1 Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Annie Wersching, Carol Lawrence, Alyson Reed), see DOIHEAR2 Intimate Broadway/My Favorite Things, Intersound 8311, 1996 “More” from Dick Tracy (1990) DTVS f-b1 + chorus, SSFTS b♭-e2 + chorus Sondheim at the Movies3 (Jennifer Simard), see SONDATTHEM1

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Sondheim: A Celebration (The Tonics), see SONDACEL2 Sondheim Tonight (Maria Friedman, The Soloists), see SONDTON1 Simply Sondheim (Amy Dondy), see SIMPLYSOND1 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Madonna, Girls) [from soundtrack End Credits] Egan, Susan/All That & More, LML Music 185, 2005 Lane, Beth/Lies of Handsome Men, de Lamarondiere Rock Records 1007, 2003 [with “Stars and Moon”] Madonna/I’m Breathless, see MADONNA1 Nolan, Jason/Listen, Jason Nolan JNLCD1, 2004 “Mother’s Day (alternate version)” cut from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Sami Gayle), see GYPSY11 “Move On” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) ASIV, SPGVS solo version g♭-g2, BSBB f♭-e♭ [with new lyrics and incorporating “We Do Not Belong Together”], SPGPVS duet d♯1-g2/g♯-c♯2 Sunday in the Park . . .1 Original Cast (Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters), see SUNDAYIN1 Sondheim: A Celebration (Dale Kristien), see SONDACEL2 Celebrating Sondheim (Claire Moore, Stephen Hill), see CELEBRATSON Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “I Know Things Now,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Take Me to the World”] Company German Cast (Karsten Oliver Wollm), see COMPANY07 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Carolee Carmello, Gregg Edelman), see WALLTOWALLS1 Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Jenna Russell, Daniel Evans), see SUNDAYIN2 Barrus, David/On Stage 2: More Broadway Favorites, Shadow 53632, 2000 Brussell, Barbara/patterns, see BRUSSELL1 Buckley, Betty/With One Look, Sterling S1007-2, 1994 Connelli, Judy/On My Way to You, see CONNELLI1 [includes “We Do Not Belong Together”] Connelli, Judi/Judi Connelli Live in London, see CONNELLI2 [with “Married,” “You Better Sit Down Kids,” and “Stay with Me” (“Move On” includes “We Do Not Belong Together”)] Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (duet with Malcolm Gets), see COOKB1 Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook at the Met (duet with Josh Groban), see COOKB2 Ferreri, Michael/Sweet Dreams, see FERRERI1 Friedman, Maria/Maria Friedman Live, see FRIEDM1

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Harris, Sam/Different Stages, ZHQ Recordz ZHQ3001, 1994 [in medley] Jahana, Raishel/Sondheim Songs, see JAHANA1 Jöback, Peter/Personliga Val, Columbia 5099748920027, 2007 [with “There’s Gotta Be Something Better”] Jobson, Mark deVille/My House, see JOBSON1 Mazzie, Marin & Jason Danieley/Opposite You, see MAZZIEDANIELEY1 Osborne, Georga/Now Available in Stores, Original Cast OC166, 2000 Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., see PETERSB1 Prior, Marina/Somewhere, see PRIORM1 Schneider, Helen/A Voice and a Piano, see SCHNEIDERH1 [with “Everybody Says Don’t”] Stanke, Patrick/Ich bin Musik, AnythingGoes 4260024290054, 2009 [with “We Do Not Belong Together”] Streisand, Barbra/Back to Broadway, see STREISAND2 [with lyric changes by Sondheim] Vannatter, Dane/Double Standards, Avitus Productions [n.n.], 2001 “Multitudes of Amys” cut from Company (1970) ASIV, CVS3 b♭-f2 Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental), see SYMPHONICSON1 Unsung Sondheim (Michael Rupert), see UNSUNGS1 Sondheim: A Celebration (Jamie Anderson), see SONDACEL2 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Someone Is Waiting,” “No, Mary Ann,” and “Johanna”] Barr, John/In Whatever Time We Have, see BARRJ1 McDermott, Sean/Piece of the Sky, JAY Records CDJAY 1371, 2003 Patinkin, Mandy/Experiment, see PATINKIN3 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 “My Friends” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS duet B♭-e1/b-e♭2 Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury), see SWEENEYT1 No One Is Alone . . . (Kynan Johns), see NOONEIS1 [with “Gun Song”] Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Constantino Romero, Vicky Pena), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (George Hearn, Patti LuPone), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Michael Cerveris, Patti LuPone), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter), see SWEENEYT6

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Barry, James/Centre Stage, [n.l., n.n.], 2003 East West Players/East West Overtures (Orville Mendoza, Freda Foh Shen), see EASTWEST1 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 [in medley] “My Greatest Day” cut from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein [related to “Jet Song”] “My Husband the Pig” cut from A Little Night Music (1973) [related to “Every Day a Little Death”] Putting It Together (Julie Andrews), see PUTTINGIT1 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Patricia Hodge), see LITTLEN05 [with “In Praise of Women”] Randwyck, Issy van/It’s Oh So Issy, Dress Circle IVR-CD-1, 1996 [with “Every Day a Little Death”] “My Last K.O.B.” from By George (1946) “My Two Young Men” cut from Bounce (2003), [see “Next to You”] “The Natives Are Restless” cut from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) “The New York Follies” from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) “New York Sequence” cut from Bounce (2003), [see “I Love This Town”] “New York Song” for contemplated adaptation of The Clock (1953) Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SONDSINGS2 “Next” from Pacific Overtures (1976) POPVS company number Pacific Overtures Original Cast (Mako, Company), see PACIFICOVER1 Pacific Overtures English National Opera (Richard Angas, Company), see PACIFICOVER2 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (instrumental), see SOND1 A Gala Concert for Hal Prince (The Munich Radio Orchestra), see GALA1 Sondheim Tonight (Orchestra), see SONDTON1 Pacific Overtures New Broadway Cast (B. D. Wong, Company), see PACIFICOVER3 East West Players/East West Overtures (Tim Dang and Ensemble), see EASTWEST1

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Nadler, Mark/Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians), Mark Nadler 837101384582, 2008 “Next to You” from Bounce (2003) Bounce Original Cast (Richard Kind, Howard McGillin, Jane Powell), see BOUNCE1 “Nice She Ain’t” cut from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne Gypsy Original Cast (Bernie Knee), see GYPSY01, [included on 1999 reissue] Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Boyd Gaines), see GYPSY11 Feinstein, Michael/Michael Feinstein Sings the Jule Styne Songbook, see FEINSTEIN1 Mayes, Sally/Boys and Girls Like You and Me (with Boyd Gaines), see MAYESS1 [with “You’re Awful”] “Nice Town, But—” from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) “The Night Is the Best Time of the Day” from Ginger Rogers’ nightclub act (1959) “Night Waltz (Love Takes Time),” see “Love Takes Time” “Night Waltz (I)(The Sun Won’t Set)” from A Little Night Music (1973) LNMPVS quintet & instrumental versions, LNMVS instrumental A Little Night Music Original Cast (Barbara Lang, Beth Fowler, Teri Ralston, Benjamin Rayson, Gene Varrone), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music1 London Cast (John J. Moore, Chris Melville, Liz Robertson, David Bexon, Jacquey Chappell), see LITTLEN02 A Little Sondheim Music (Janet Smith, Darlene Romano, Paul Johnson, Rickie Weiner-Gole, Michael Gallup), see LITTLES1 A Little Night Music Film (instrumental), see LITTLEN03 (see also “Love Takes Time”) A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Dinah Harris, Hilary Western, Susan Flannery, Michael Bulman, Martin Nelson), see LITTLEN04 The Great Waltz (Hollywood Bowl Orchestra), see HOLLYWOODB1 [part of “The Night Waltzes”] A Gala Concert for Hal Prince (The Munich Radio Orchestra), see GALA1 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Di Botcher, Morag McLaren, Ernestina Quarcoo, Stephen Handley, Tim Goodwin), see LITTLEN05 Carousel Waltz and Other Waltzes from the Musical Theater, JAY Records CDJAY 1310, 1999

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Sondheim Tonight (The Soloists), see SONDTON1 A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Xavier Fernandez, Teresa de la Torre, Muntsa Rius, Anna Feu, Alberto Demestres), see LITTLEN06 A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Marissa McGowan, Kevin David Thomas, Stephen R. Buntrock, Betsy Morgan, Jayne Paterson, Angela Lansbury, Katherine McNamara or Keaton Whittaker, Catherine Zeta-Jones), see LITTLEN07 Bennett, Richard Rodney/A Different Side of Sondheim, see BENNETTR1 [piano solo] Boston Pops Orchestra/That’s Entertainment, Philips 416 499-2, 1981 [with “Send in the Clowns”; also, uses “Love Takes Time” version of “Night Waltz”] Boston Pops Orchestra/That’s Entertainment/Pops on Broadway, Philips 7144 124, 6302 124, 198? Dow, Judith/Regards to Broadway, see DOWJ1 Hyman, Dick/A Waltz Dressed in Blue, Four Star 40051, 1994 [instrumental] New York City Opera Orchestra/Broadway’s Best (instrumental), see NEWYORKCITYOP1 Sandford, Luke/Shimmer, see SANDFORD1 [piano solo] Saxon, Ingrid/A Lot of Livin’ to Do, Ingrid Saxon Music/Original Cast 9750B, 2005 Trotter, Terry/Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, see TROTTERT1 [piano solo] “Night Waltz—II (The Sun Sits Low) (Liebeslieders)” from A Little Night Music (1973) LNMPVS quintet A Little Night Music1 Original Cast (Teri Ralston, Gene Varone, Benjamin Rayson, Beth Fowler, Barbara Lang), see LITTLEN01 [included on the 1998 reissue only] A Little Sondheim Music (Janet Smith, Darlene Romano, Paul Johnson, Rickie Weiner-Gole, Michael Gallup), see LITTLES1 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Dinah Harris, Hilary Western, Susan Flannery, Michael Bulman, Martin Nelson), see LITTLEN04 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Ernestina Quarcoo, Tim Goodwin, Stephen Hanley, Morag McLaren, Di Botcher), see LITTLEN05 A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Xavier Fernandez, Teresa de la Torre, Muntsa Rius, Anna Feu, Alberto Demestres), see LITTLEN06 A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Jayne Paterson, Kevin David Thomas, Stephen R. Buntrock, Betsy Morgan, Marissa McGowan), see LITTLEN07

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Trotter, Terry/Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, see TROTTERT1 [piano solo] “Night Waltz—III,” see “Perpetual Anticipation” “Night Waltz IV,” see “Not Quite Night” “No Fussing” from By George (1946) “No Life” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) SPGPVS duet g-d2 [both] Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast (Charles Kimbrough, Dana Ivey), see SUNDAYIN1 Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Simon Green, Liza Sadovy), see SUNDAYIN2 “No, Mary Ann” cut from The Thing of It Is (1969, unproduced) ASIV g-b1 Unsung Sondheim (Jason Graae), see UNSUNGS1 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Someone Is Waiting,” “Multitudes of Amys,” and “Johanna”] Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I7 (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 “No More” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS duet a♭-e2/g-e♭2, ITWVS duet b♭1-f2/a-f2 Into the Woods Original Cast (Chip Zien, Tom Aldredge), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Ian Bartholomew, John Rogan), see INTOTHE2 Being Alive!—The Art of German Musical Stars (Paul Kribbe), Sound of Music Records SOMCD 001, [n.d.], [with “Being Alive”] Sondheim: A Celebration (Wally Kurth), see SONDACEL2 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Stephen DeRosa, John McMartin), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Mark Weekes, Chris Tuttle), see INTOTHE4 Simply Sondheim (Company), see SIMPLYSOND1 [with “Everybody’s Got the Right”] Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Josep Maria Gimeno, Ferran Castells), see INTOTHE5 Cerna, Jo-Jo de la/Trust the Wind, Dress Circle JJDLC9901, 1999 [with “Being Alive”] Cook, Barbara/No One Is Alone, see COOKB3

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Cook, Barbara/Rainbow ’Round My Shoulder, DRG 94782, 2008 [with “Lost in the Stars”] Donegan, James/So Much Spring, Play Well Records TR1297, 2006 Dow, Bruce/Lucky to Be Me, Independent 625989511424, 2005 [with “Children Will Listen”] Jahana, Raishel/Sondheim Songs, see JAHANA1 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin, see PATINKIN1 Richard, Lisa/Born to Entertain, LML Records, 200[?] Smith, Martin/A Handful of Keys, MSCD001, 1993 [with “Being Alive”] Turner, Geraldine/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2, see TURNERG2 [with “Moments In the Woods”] “No One Has Ever Loved Me (Scene 14)” from Passion (1995) PPVS b-d2, PVS b♭-f2 Passion Original Cast (Jere Shea, Donna Murphy), see PASSION1 Stephen Sondheim’s Passion . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see PASSION2 Passion London Concert (Michael Ball, Maria Friedman), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Stanley Burleson, Vera Mann), see PASSION4 Barnett, Eileen/Live at the Cinegrill, LML SDM-CD002, 1999 [with “Hold Out for the Real Thing”] De Lorenzo, Brian/Found Treasures, see DELORENZ1 Strassen, Michael/Loving You, Dress Circle 32796 00122, 1997 [with “Loving You”] “No One Is Alone” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS company number, ITWVS b♭-f2 [d♭2 optional] Into the Woods Original Cast (Kim Crosby, Danielle Ferland, Chip Zien, Ben Wright), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Jacqueline Dankworth, Tessa Burbridge, Ian Bartholomew, Richard Dempsey), see INTOTHE2 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Laura Benanti, Molly Ephraim, Stephen DeRosa, Adam Wylie), see INTOTHE3 No One Is Alone . . . (Michael Denholm, Michelle Burgan), see NOONEIS1 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Chip Zien), see WALLTOWALLS1 Unexpected Dreams: Songs from the Stars (Victor Garber), Rhino R2 73328, 2006 Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Christina Blanco, Samantha Meckes, Mark Weekes, Kristopher Monroe), see INTOTHE4 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Gisela, Anna Moliner, Josep Maria Gimeno, Marc Pujol), see INTOTHE5 Ballingham, Pamela/Magical Melodies, Earth Mother Productions EMPD06B, 1991 Bays, Terri/Spark of Creation, [Great Britain], 1999[?]

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Beechey, Annalene/Close Your Eyes, SimG Records 5065001707001, 2009 [with “Children Will Listen”] Beechman, Laurie/No One Is Alone3, see BEECHMAN1 Billings, Alexandra/The Story Goes On, LMG Kidsource Music [n.n.], 2004 [with “You Are Not Alone”] Boston Pops/Music of the Night/Pops on Broadway, see BOSTON2 (instrumental) Bryant, Kimilee/My Favorite Things, Kimilee Bryant [n.n.], 2008 Buckley, Betty/Children Will Listen, see BUCKLEYB1 Buckley, Betty/Quintessence, see BUCKLEYB4 Busteed, Keely Nicole/Keely, [n.l., n.n.], 2001 Byrne, Debra/New Ways to Dream, see BYRNED1 Callaway, Ann Hampton/Blues in the Night, Telarc 83641, 2006 Callaway, Ann Hampton/Blues in the Night, Telarc CD-83641, 2006 Cant, Donald/Donald Cant, see CANTD1 Cook, Barbara/No One Is Alone, see COOKB3 De Ferranti, Margie/Margie De Ferranti, see DEFERRANT1 [with “Sometimes a Day Goes By,” “Just a Housewife”] Draxl, Tim/Ordinary Miracles, Columbia 494292, 1999 Eagleson, Katie/Once Upon a Time, WalkingPath Records 822605819920, 2007 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Diversity, GMCLA, 1991 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 Guest, Rob/Standing Ovation, EMI Music (Australian Group) 7986212, 1991 Harris, Sam/Standard Time/Different Stages, ZHQ Recordz ZHQ3001, 1994 Jahana, Raishel/Sondheim Songs, see JAHANA1 Jobson, Mark deVille/My House, see JOBSON1 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] Johnson, Maree/Maree Johnson, [n.l., n.n.], 1999[?] Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim5, see LAINEC2 Laine, Cleo/The Very Best of Cleo Laine (with Jacqueline Dankworth), RCA Victor 43215, 1997 LaMott, Nancy/Ask Me Again, Midder Music 008, 2007 [with “Not While I’m Around”] Lewis, Norm/This Is the Life, Sea Horse Productions 649241861461, 2009 Malmberg, Myrra/What Can You Lose?, see MALMBERG1 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 New York City Gay Men’s Chorus/Love Lives On, see NEWYORKCITYGAY2 O’May, John/Unusual Way, MEM-004, 2000 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin, see PATINKIN1 Peters, Bernadette/I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight, Angel 54699, 1996

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Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., see PETERSB1 Portland Lesbian Choir/Making Light, Portland Lesbian 10, 1997 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 Seelig, Tim/Everything’s Possible, see SEELIGT1 Skinner, Emily & Alice Ripley/Raw at Town Hall (Emily Skinner), see SKINNERRIPLEY01 Sterling, Clark/Inspirational Broadway, Sterling, 1994 [with “You’ll Never Walk Alone”] Tynan, Ronan/The Impossible Dream, Voclan 31163/Battery 46002, 2002 Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 Winter, Brian/Taking Flight, Brian Winter 75391, 2006 Wright, James/Center Stage: Songs of Spirit from the Musical Theatre, see WRIGHTJ1 Yarbrough, Glenn/No One Is Alone, Realtrue/Folk Era 1475, 2006 York, Joe/My Favorite Year, see YORKJ1 “No Place Like London” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS trio c1-f2/A♭-f1/a-d♭2 Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Victor Garber, Len Cariou, Merle Louise), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Pep Molina, Constantino Romero, Teresa Vallicrosa), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Davis Gaines, George Hearn, Audra McDonald), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Benjamin Magnuson, Michael Cerveris, Diana DiMarzio), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Jamie Campbell Bower, Johnny Depp), see SWEENEYT6 City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra/Music from the Films of Tim Burton, Silva America 1261, 2008 “No Problem” for Muscle (1992, unproduced), [see also “Opening”] “No Sad Songs for Me” from Where To from Here (1950, unproduced) “No Star of Night,” see “Chris and David II” “No Understand” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS trio a♯-e2/c♯1-d2/c♯1-d2 Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Cast (Stuart Damon, Fleury D’Antonakis, Carol Bruce), see DOIHEAR1

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Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Benjamin Sprunger, Carol Lawrence, Tina Gasbarra), see DOIHEAR2 “Nobody Reads Books” from The Jet-Propelled Couch (1958, unproduced) “Not a Day Goes By” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) ASII, MWRVS, MWRPVS, SCCH d1-f♯2 Merrily We Roll Along Original Cast (Jim Walton), see MERRILY1, [see also Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall below] A Stephen Sondheim Evening1 (Victoria Mallory), see STEPHENSE1 A Little Sondheim Music (Rickie Weiner-Gole), see LITTLES1 Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental), see SYMPHONICSON1 Everyone’s a Love Song, see EVERYONE1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall5 (Bernadette Peters), see SONDACELATC1 [also included on 2007 reissue of original cast recording MERRILY1) Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Anne Bobby), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Michael Cantwell, Jacqueline Dankworth), see MERRILY3 No One Is Alone . . . (Kynan Johns), see NOONEIS1 [with “Good Thing Going”] Sondheim: A Celebration (Billy Porter), see SONDACEL2 [with “What Can You Lose?”] Sondheim Tonight (David Kernan), see SONDTON1 [with “Good Thing Going”] Out on Broadway (Tracy Collins), see OUTONB1 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Christiane Noll), see STEPHENSA1 [with “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow”] Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Loving You,” and “So Many People”] My Favorite Broadway The Love Songs (Marin Mazzie with Rebecca Luker singing “Too Late Now” & Peter Gallagher singing “Sometimes a Day Goes By”), Hybrid HY-20020, 2000 Company German Cast (Gerd Achilles), see COMPANY07 Heart and Soul on Broadway (Billy Porter), see HEART&S1 [with “What Can You Lose?”] Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Ester Elias), see SIDEBYS3 Simply Sondheim (James Brewer), see SIMPLYSOND1 [with “Good Thing Going”] Akers, Karen/In a Very Unusual Way, Rizzoli Records 1004, 1987 [with “The Rose”] Andrew, Leo/A World of Possibilities, [n.l.] LAVW 1, 2001 [with “Good Thing Going”]

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Barrett, Chris/Just Ballads, Wandon Music Co. WMC-A2082, 1982 Baron, Miriam/Listen, Miram Baron 101, 1998 Buckley, Betty/Children Will Listen, see BUCKLEYB1 Buckley, Betty/Stars and Moon: Live at the Donmar, Concord CCD-49492, 2001 Campbell, David/Taking the Wheel, Philips 314 537 936-2, 1997 [with “The Nearness of You”] Campbell, David/First and Foremost, Universal 1781086, 2008 Campbell, Sandy/Crazy World, Azahara 05-001, 2005 [with “Simple”] Chameroy, Don/Me, [n.l., n.n.], 2003 Chandler, Stan and Kirsten Benton/A Quiet Thing, LML, 2001 [with “Sometimes a Day Goes By” and “Time Heals Everything”] Clark, Petula/here for you, see CLARKP1 Cohen, Bob/Moonlight and Love Songs, Original Cast Records 8805, 1998 Combo Fiasco/here, italic entertainment [n.n.], 1996 [with “Being Alive” & “Not While I’m Around”] Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim, see COOKB1 [with “Losing My Mind”] Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook at the Met, see COOKB2 [with “Losing My Mind”] Crawford, Michael/Songs from the Stage & Screen, see CRAWFORDM1 Dore, Michael/Simply, [n.l, n.n.], 2002 [with “Being Alive” and “Take Me to the World”] East West Players/East West Overtures (Kimiko Gelman), see EASTWEST1 Faber, Linda/Total Romance, Faber Entertainment FE2002, 2002 Ford, Anne Kerry/Something Wonderful, see FORDA1 Fuller, Mark/Songs About Adam, see FULLERM1 [with “Losing My Mind” and “Isn’t This Better?”] Hampson, Thomas/Leading Man (The Best of Broadway), Angel 55249, 1996 Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 Jahana, Raishel/Sondheim Songs, see JAHANA1 Jöback, Peter/Personliga Val, Columbia 5099748920027, 2007 [with “Good Thing Going”] Jobson, Mark deVille/My House, see JOBSON1 [with “No One Is Alone”] Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim, see LAINEC2 LaMott, Nancy/My Foolish Heart, Midder Music, MM CD003, 1993 [with “Good Thing Going”] London Gay Men’s Chorus/From the Ritz to the Anchor & Crown, Dress Circle [n.n., n.d.] LuPone, Patti/matters of the heart, Varese Sarabande VSD-6058, 1999

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Markey, Enda/Another Place and Time, see MARKEY1 [with “Good Thing Going”] Mars, Susannah/Take Me to the World, see MARSS1 [with “Loving You”] Mazzie, Marin & Jason Danieley/Opposite You (Mazzie, Marin), see MAZZIEDANIELEY1 McCall, Azure/The Gift, Muse FX Records 1004, 2003 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 New York City Gay Men’s Chorus/Love Lives On, see NEWYORKCITYGAY2 New York Neophonic Orchestra/Alternate Routes, Tantara 1113, 1996/2003 [instrumental] Orquestra De Cambra Teatre Lliure/Stephen Sondheim (Nina), see ORQUESTRADECAM1 Patinkin, Mandy/Oscar and Steve, see PATINKIN4 Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., see PETERSB1 Phillips, Kris [ne Fei Xiang]/Broadway Album, Forward Music 1003947297, 2005 [with “Good Thing Going”] Rose, Jodi/Hope for the Future, see ROSEJ1 [with “Losing My Mind”] Rotz, Corey Evan/Keep the Music Playing, see ROTZC1 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “Good Thing Going”] Simon, Carly/Torch, Warner Bros. Records BSK 3592, 1981; CD 3592-2, 1988; included in Anthology, Rhino R278167, 2002 Turner, Geraldine/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2, see TURNERG2 Utterback, Joe/Stardust, Connoisseur Society 4253, 2005 [piano] Whitton, Jonathan/Live at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, Jonathan Whitton 634479661167, 2007 [“Good Thing Going”] Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 Woods, Carol & Karen Saunders/Bosom Buddies, LB Music 9708, 1998 “Not a Day Goes By (Part II)” Reprise from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) MWRPVS duet Merrily We Roll Along Original Cast7 (Jim Walton, Ann Morrison), see MERRILY1 Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Anne Bobby, Malcolm Gets, Amy Ryder), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Michael Cantwell, Jacqueline Dankworth, Maria Friedman), see MERRILY3 “Not for Children” from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced)

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“Not Quite Night” (Night Waltz IV)” cut from A Little Night Music (1973)” [a.k.a. “Crickets”] Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Stephen Sondheim) “Not While I’m Around” from Sweeney Todd (1979) ASI, BSC, STVS b♭-f2, BSBA a-e♭2, STPVS duet e♭1-a2/g-f1 Sweeney Todd Original Cast5 (Ken Jennings, Angela Lansbury), see SWEENEYT1 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Steven Jacob), see SOND1 A Little Sondheim Music (Paul Johnson, Janet Smith), see LITTLES1 The Magic of the Musicals (Marti Webb & Mark Rattray), see MAGICOF1 Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio with vocal by Lorraine Feather), see SWEENEYT2 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Montsa Rius, Vicky Pena), see SWEENEYT3 A Gala Concert for Hal Prince (Dave Willetts), see GALA1 Sondheim—A Celebration (David Kernan), see SONDACEL1 Sondheim: A Celebration (Loretta Devine), see SONDACEL2 [with “Children Will Listen”} Celebrating Sondheim (Michael Ball), see CELEBRATSON Sondheim Tonight (Clive Rowe), see SONDTON1 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone), see SWEENEYT4 Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Manoel Felciano, Patti LuPone), see SWEENEYT5 Simply Sondheim (Kim Larsen), see SIMPLYSOND1 [with “Children Will Listen”] Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Edward Sanders, Helena Bonham Carter), see SWEENEYT6 Albritton, Ann/Annie’s Songs, Turtle Creek Chorale 2442, 2004 Atwood, Eden/Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Concord Jazz CCD-4599, 1994 Ball, Michael/Centre Stage, Hip-O 440 016 071-2, 2001 Baron, Christy/Take This Journey, Chesky 239, 2002 [also included in Retrospective, Chesky 269, 2004] Barr, John/In Whatever Time We Have, see BARRJ1 [with “One Hand, One Heart”] Barrus, David/On Stage, Shadow Mountain Records 53182, 1997 Barry, James/Centre Stage, [n.l., n.n.], 2003 Barrowman, John/Reflections from Broadway, see BARROWMAN1 [hidden track, duet with his mother] Bellas, Opie/Live For Life, Bella Blue, 2002 Besette, Mimi/Lullabies of Broadway, Music for Little People, Warner Bros/WEA 42517, 1990/1994

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Beveridge, Time/Singer, TBCD001, 2002 Bondi, Reneé Lacouague/Inner Voice, Capo Records 101, 1992 Boyle, Roberta Arcoleo/Baby Close Your Eyes, Roberta Arcoleo Boyle [n.n.], 2008 Buckley, Betty/Children Will Listen, see BUCKLEYB1 Cant, Donald/Donald Cant, see CANTD1 [in medley] Catenacci, Richard with Bob Egan at the Piano/The Colors of My Life, [n.l., n.n., n.d.] CenturyMen, The/Anthems in Disguise, Resmiranda 8045, 2003 Clary, Robert/Robert Clary Sings at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, Original Cast Records 9799, 1997 [with “Losing My Mind,” and “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”] Combo fiasco/here, italic entertainment [n.n, n.d.] [with “Not a Day Goes By” & “Being Alive”] Como, Perry/Perry Como, Emporio 863, 1980/2007; [also included in Yesterday & Today: A Celebration in Song, RCA 66098-2, 1993] Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (duet with Malcolm Gets), see COOKB1 Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook at the Met (Josh Groban), see COOKB2 Cullum, Jamie/The Pursuit, Decca 2713302, 2009 D’Ambrosio, Franc/Franc D’Ambrosio’s Broadway, LML Records CD176, 2005 Ebersole, Christine/Sunday in New York, Ghostlight Records 8-3310, 2008 Elling, Kurt/Flirting with Twilight, Blue Note 31113 38, 2001 Feinstein, Michael/Live at the Algonquin, Parnassus Records PRO101, 1986; CD Elektra Nonesuch 9607432 Fleming, Renée and Bryn Terfel/Under the Stars, see FLEMINGTERFEL1 Gauvin, Marcelle/Faces of Love, Whaling City Sound 1, 2000 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 [in medley] Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C./You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught . . . (Brad Boekeloo, soloist), see GAYMENSCWDC1 Groban, Josh, see Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook at the Met Greenwich, Sonny/Bird of Paradise, Justin Time 22, 1995 [guitar] Groenendaal, Cris/Always—Music for Our Children, SunDial Records SDcd 85152, 1994 Guest, Rob/Standing Ovation, EMI Music (Australian Group) 7986212, 1991 Harris, Margaret Wakeley/Quality Times, Original Cast 9855, 1998 Harris, Sam/Always, Tsuris, Inc. SHAL001CD, 2001 Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1

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Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Jolicoeur, Karen & Bill Lewis/The Dream That You Wish, What’s Left Records 12193, 2008 Kirchschlager, Angelika/When Night Falls, Sony Classical SK 64498, 1999 Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim, see LAINEC2 LaMott, Nancy/Ask Me Again, Midder Music 008, 2007 [with “No One is Alone”] Lauer, Janelle/Turn the Corner, SAVAJ Entertainment LLC 10, 2005 Levin, Pete/Party in the Basement, Gramavision Records R2-79456, 1990 LuPone, Patti/ . . . at Les Mouches, Ghostlight Records 8-3315, 2008 [with “Come Rain or Come Shine”; recorded in 1980] Mansfield, Martin and Gayle Ashkenazy/Demarcations, see MANSFIELDM1 Manuell, Suzanne/ . . . Mezzo Soprano, Paul Martyn Sound Productions PMSPCD 9420, 1994 Masswohl, George/If I Were King, RAMA 003, 2003 McClelland, Jean & Bill/At Long Last Love . . . (Jean McClelland), Muzen 3643, 2007 McDaniel, John/John McDaniel at the Piano: Broadway, [n.l., n.n.], 2004 McGillin, Howard/Where Time Stands Still, Q&W Music Q&W1008, 2002 [with “Good Thing Going”] Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 Mormon Tabernacle Choir/Showtime!: Music of Broadway and Hollywood, Mormon Tabernacle Cho 4973811, 2007 Mortimer, Jennie/Reflection, JennieMortimer 634479866852, 2008 Mulholland, Aoife/Live from Galway, [n.l., n.n.], 2008 Nesbitt, Bobby/Big Time, Mile Marker Music MMM2 44807, 2001 New York City Gay Men’s Chorus/New York, New York, A Broadway Extravaganza, see NEWYORKCITYGAY1 Nunn, Veronica/American Lullaby, Orchard 802166, 2002 [with “American Lullaby”] Osmond, Donny/This Is the Moment (duet with Vanessa Williams), Decca Broadway 44001 30522, 2001 Paris, Jackie/Nobody Else But Me, Audiophile APCD-245, 1988 Patinkin, Mandy/Kidults, Nonesuch 79534-2, 2001 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Prince, Peter/Being Alive, RP Media, 2001 Prior, Marina/Somewhere, see PRIORM1 Rotz, Corey Evan/Keep the Music Playing, see ROTZC1 Saxe, Emily/Whistling: Broadway to Berk’ley Square, see SAXEE1

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Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “Johanna” & “Pretty Women”] Seelig, Tim/Everything’s Possible, see SEELIGT1 Silberschlag, Jeffrey/The American Trumpet, Delos Record 3187, 1998 Streisand, Barbra/The Broadway Album, see STREISAND1 Taylor, Becky/A Dream Come True, EMI Music Distribution 57142, 2001 Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 Turtle Creek Chorale/From the Heart, Turtle Creek Chorale 113023-D50169-1, 1990 Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 [in medley] Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 (duet with William Roy) Wisniewski, Scott/Broadway Scott’s Way, SRW Music SW1320, 2005 Wright, James/Center Stage: Songs of Spirit from the Musical Theatre, see WRIGHTJ1 Yarbrough, Glenn/No One Is Alone, Realtrue/Folk Era 1475, 2006 York, Joe/My Favorite Year, see YORKJ1 “Now” from A Little Night Music (1973) [linked with “Later” and “Soon”] LNMPVS b♭-e2 A Little Night Music Original Cast (Len Cariou), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music London Cast (Joss Ackland), see LITTLEN02 A Little Night Music Film (Len Cariou), see LITTLEN03 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Eric Flynn), see LITTLEN04 Putting It Together (Christopher Durang), see PUTTINGIT1 (lyric changes by Sondheim) A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Laurence Guittard), see LITTLEN05 A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Constantino Romero), see LITTLEN06 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (John Dossett), see WALLTOWALLS1 A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Ramona Mallory, Alexander Hanson), see LITTLEN07 Trotter, Terry/Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, see TROTTERT1 [piano solo] “Now” (first version) cut from A Little Night Music (1973) “Now You Know” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) MWRPVS g♭-e2 + company Merrily We Roll Along Original Cast (Ann Morrison, Company), see MERRILY 1 Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Amy Ryder, Company), see MERRILY2

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389

Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Matthew White, Maria Friedman, Alan Mosley, Michael Cantwell, Company), see MERRILY3 Buckley, Betty/An Evening at Carnegie Hall, see BUCKLEYB3 Rubano, Craig/Finishing the Act (duet with Marsh Hanson), see RUBANOC1 “Nowhere to Go” cut from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) [related to “We Do Not Belong Together”] “Numbers” cut from A Little Night Music (1973) “Old Friends” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) ASII, MWRVS, SCCH b♭-f2 [solo with trio ending], MWRPVS trio Merrily We Roll Along Original Cast7 (Ann Morrison, Jim Walton, Lonny Price), see MERRILY1 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Steven Jacob, Debbie Shapiro), see SOND1 A Stephen Sondheim Evening1 (Stephen Sondheim, Angela Lansbury, Company), see STEPHENSE1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Liza Minnelli), see SONDACELATC1 Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast3 (Amy Ryder, Malcolm Gets, Adam Heller), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Michael Cantwell, Evan Pappas, Maria Friedman), see MERRILY3 A Little Light Music (Beryl Korman and/or Julia Meadows), see LITTLEL1 Sondheim—A Celebration (Julia McKenzie, Millicent Martin, David Kernan), see SONDACEL1 Celebrating Sondheim (Ensemble), see CELEBRATSON Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “I Do Like You,” “Side by Side by Side”] Marian McPartland & Friends/85 Candles: Live in New York (Barbara Carroll), Concord 2218, 2005 Black, Ben/Remembered Face/Private Places, Origin Records 82387, 2003 [with “Old Friend”] Buckley, Betty/The London Concert, see BUCKLEYB2 Buckley, Betty/Stars and Moon, see BUCKLEYB4 Carroll, Barbara/Old Friends, Audiophile Records 254, 1994 Carroll, Barbara/ . . . Live at Birdland, Harbinger HCD 2301, 2005 Carroll, Diahann/The Time of My Life, Sterling S1015-2, 1997 Clary, Robert/Louis Lebeau Remembers . . . Stephen Sondheim . . . , see CLARYR1

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Clooney, Rosemary/Demi-Centennial!, Concord Jazz CCD-4633, 1995 Feinstein, Michael/Live at the Algonquin, Parnassus Records PRO101, 1986; CD Elektra Nonesuch 9607432 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 Green, Simon/Take Me to the World, see GREENS1 [with “Old Friends” and “Bookends”] Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Horne, Lena/We’ll Be Together Again, Blue Note CDP 7243 8 28974 2 2, 1994 Horne, Lena/An Evening With Lena Horne, Blue Note CDP7243 8 32877 2, 1995 Lewis, Monica/Why Did I Choose You?, Equinox EQCD 7003, 199? Manilow, Barry/Showstoppers, Arista 18687-2, 1991 Manilow, Barry/2 Nights Live, BMG Heritage 59478, 2004 [also included in Ultimate Live, BMG 82876719142, 2005] Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 Minnelli, Liza/Liza Minnelli at Carnegie Hall, Telarc CD-85502, 1987 Minnelli, Liza/Aznavour/Minnelli Paris-Palais . . . , see MINNELLI1 Minnelli, Liza/Liza Live from Radio City Music Hall, Columbia CD 746453169-2, 1992 Postillo, Tom/What Matters Most, ELBA CACD 4002-2, 1993 Saxe, Emily/Broadway & All That Jazz, see SAXEE2 Singers Unlimited/A Little Light Music (Beryl Korman, Julia Meadows), see SINGERSUN1 Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 [in medley] Wright, Bill/It Takes Two, see WRIGHTB1 “Old House” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “Old Lady’s False Entrance/Old Lady’s Second False Entrance” from 1997 revival of Candide, music by Leonard Bernstein [same music as “Life Is Happiness Indeed”] Candide New Broadway Cast (Andrea Martin with Jim Dale), see CANDIDE05 “On My Left” cut from Bounce (2003) “On My Way” cut from Bounce (2003), see “Addison’s Trip” “On the River” cut from The Last Resorts (1956, unproduced), [see also “High Life”]

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“On the Steps of the Palace” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS a-e2 Into the Woods Original Cast (Kim Crosby), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Jacqueline Dankworth), see INTOTHE2 No One Is Alone . . . (Sybil Williams), see NOONEIS1 Cinderella/Songs from the Classic Fairy Tale (Pamela Winslow), Varese Sarabande VSD-5875, 1998 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Laura Benanti, Molly Ephraim, Adam Wylie), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Christina Bianco), see INTOTHE4 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Gisela), see INTOTHE5 Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C./You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught . . . (Laura Benanti), see GAYMENSCWDC1 Murphy, Heidi Grant/Times Like This, Koch International Classics kiccd-7569, 2003 Starr-Levitt, Megan/Beautiful Broadway, RJP Video Productions 899387001003, 2007 “Once I Had a Friend” cut from The Lady or the Tiger (1954, unproduced), music and lyrics with Mary Rodgers Hey, Love (Jason Workman), see HEYLOVE1 “Once in Your Life” cut from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein [related to “I Have a Love”] “Once Upon a Time,” see “Your Eyes Are Blue” “One” cut from West Side Story (1957), music and lyric by Leonard Bernstein [an early version of what became “One Hand, One Heart”] Stafford, Jo/Jo Stafford: The Portrait Edition, Sony Music Distribution A3K 57836, 1994 [previously unreleased, recorded in 1957] “One Hand, One Heart” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein BOB, WSSPVS duet e♭1-g♭2/g♭1-a♭2, BSBB duet [with “I Have a Love”], WSSVS solo version e♭1-e♭2 West Side Story Original Cast (Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence), see WESTSIDE01 West Side Story film (Jim Bryant, Marni Nixon), see WESTSIDE02 West Side Story Studio Cast (José Carreras, Kiri Te Kanawa), see WESTSIDE03

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Bernstein on Broadway (Peter Hofmann, Debbie Sasson), see BERNSTEINON1 West Side Story Studio Cast London (Michael Ball, Barbara Bonney), see WESTSIDE04 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Paul Manuel, Tinuke Olafimihan), see WESTSIDE05 West Side Story, The Songs of (Tevin Campbell), see WESTSIDE06 West Side Story London Production (Don McKay, Marlys Watters), see WESTSIDE08 West Side Story London Studio Cast (David Holliday, Jill Martin), see WESTSIDE09 Leonard Bernstein’s New York (Dawn Upshaw, Richard Muenz), see LEONARDB1 West Side Story Original Score (Betsi Morrison, Mike Eldred), see WESTSIDE10 West Side Story Broadway Revival (Matt Cavenaugh, Josefina Scaglione), see WESTSIDE11 Ames, Ed/My Kind of Songs, Victor (S)LSP3390, 1965 Arpin, John/The Music of New York (Fred Sawyer, Felicia Sorensen), Intersound DW 8919, 1999 Barr, John/In Whatever Time We Have, see BARRJ1 [with “Not While I’m Around”] Beechman, Laurie/No One Is Alone, see BEECHMAN1 [in medley] Cook, Barbara/It’s Better with a Band, MMG MCD 10010, 1986 Damone, Vic/You’re Just Another Pretty Face, Victor/Capitol 45rpm 4947, 1963 Diamond, Neal/Lovescape, Columbia CK-48610, 1991 Escorts/I Can’t Be Free, Coral 45rpm 62349, 1963 Harnar, Jeff/Jeff Harnar Sings the 1959 Broadway Songbook, see HARNARJ1 Kamahl/Dreams of Love, Phillips PDS 308, 1969 Lanning, Jerry/Jerry Lanning Sings, MGM (S)4500, 1967 Migenes, Julia/Live at the Olympia, see MIGENES1 Prior, Marina/Somewhere, see PRIORM1 Schlongs/Punk Side Story (Andrew Asp), see SCHLONG1 Streisand, Barbra/Back to Broadway (duet with Johnny Mathis), see STREISAND2 Te Kanawa, Kiri/The Young Kiri, [n.l, n.n., n.d.] Tuck & Patti/Dream, Windham Hill WD-0130, 1991; Valley Entertainment 221005, 2009 Warwick, Dionne/Dionne Warwick’s Greatest, Scepter (S)575, 1970 (& 45rpm 21044) Warwick, Dionne/ . . . Sings the Standards, Connoisseur 30255, 1998

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Warwick, Dionne/On Stage and in the Movies, Scepter (S)SRM 559, 1967; Collectors’ Choice Music CLC 7582, 2007 Zamora, Marie/Comédies Musicales/Musiques de Films (with Michael Ball), WEA France 639842946520, 2000 “One More Kiss” from Follies (1971) ASI, FLVS, FVS solo version e1-a♭2, CFC, FPVS duet d1-g♭2/e♭1-a2 Follies Original Cast (Justine Johnston, Victoria Mallory), FOLLIES01 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Justine Johnston, Victoria Mallory), see SONDAMUST1 Follies in Concert (Licia Albanes, Erie Mills), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (Adele Leigh, Michelle Todd), see FOLLIES03 Color and Light: Jazz Sketches . . . (Jim Hall, guitar), see COLOR1 Follies, The Complete Recording (Carol Skarimbas, Ingrid Ladendorf), see FOLLIES05 Cook, Barbara/No One Is Alone, see COOKB3 [with “Goodbye for Now”] Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Tune, Tommy/Slow Dancin’, RCA Victor/BMG 09026-68322-2, 1997 “The One on the Left” cut from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) [a portion of this song is included in the “Day Off” sequence] Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Christopher Colley, Sarah French-Ellis, Kaisa Hammarlund), see SUNDAYIN2 “One Wonderful Day” from Saturday Night (1954) SNVS company number Saturday Night Bridewell Cast (Company), see SATURDAYN1 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Andrea Burns, Clarke Thorell, Christopher Fitzgerald, Rachel Ulanet, Natascia A. Diaz, Michael Benjamin Washington, Kirk McDonald, Greg Zola, Joey Sorge), see SATURDAYN2 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Company), see SATURDAYN2 [“Finale” version] “Opening” for The Lady or the Tiger? (1954, unproduced) [incomplete] “Opening” cut from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Sondheim and Bernstein “Opening” from Into the Woods (1987), [see “I Wish,” “Into the Woods,” “Fly, Birds,” “Greens, Greens,” “Jack, Jack, Jack,” “You Wish to Have

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the Curse Reversed?” “Ladies, Our Carriage Waits,” “The Spell Is on My House” for recording and music information] Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Company), see INTOTHE4 “Opening” from Assassins (1991), [see “Everybody’s Got the Right” for recording information] APVS company number “Opening” for Muscle (1992, unproduced), [see also “No Problem” and “Poses”] “Opening” cut from Bounce (2003), [see also “On My Left”] “Opening Doors” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) MWRPVS company number Merrily We Roll Along Original Cast (Jim Walton, Lonny Price, Ann Morrison, Jason Alexander, Marianna Allen, Sally Klein), see MERRILY1 Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Malcolm Gets, Adam Heller, Amy Ryder, Paul Harman, Cass Morgan, Anne Bobby), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Evan Pappas, Michael Cantwell, Maria Friedman, Gareth Snook, Jacqueline Dankworth), see MERRILY3 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Our Time”] “Opening Fanfare” from the 2004 revised version of The Frogs The Frogs Original Broadway Cast (Orchestra), see FROGS2 “Opening Number” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) “Opening Title” from Sweeney Todd Motion Picture (2007) Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (instrumental), see SWEENEYT6 “Operetta (C’est moi)” from Stavisky (1974) [based on “The World’s Full of Boys/Girls” cut from Follies] Stavisky7 (singer unidentified), see STAVISKY1 “Opportunity” from Bounce (2003) Bounce Original Cast (Herndon Lackey, Richard Kind, Howard McGillin, Jane Powell), see BOUNCE1 “Our Little World” added to the 1991 London production of Into the Woods Into the Woods London Cast (Julia McKenzie, Mary Lincoln), see INTOTHE2 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Vanessa Williams, Melissa Dye), see INTOTHE3

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395

“Our Time” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) MWRPVS company number, MWRVS, SCCH duet version d♭1-g♭2/b♭-e♭2 Merrily We Roll Along1 Original Cast (Jim Walton, Lonny Price, Ann Morrison, Company), see MERRILY1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Boys Choir of Harlem), see SONDACELATC1 Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Malcolm Gets, Adam Heller, Amy Ryder, Company), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Michael Cantwell, Evan Pappas, Maria Friedman, Company), see MERRILY3 Sondheim: A Celebration (The Company), see SONDACEL2 [with “Side by Side” and “Sunday”] Celebrating Sondheim (Ensemble), see CELEBRATSON Out on Broadway (Tracy Collins, Quenten Schumacher, Company), see OUTONB1 [with “Do You Hear the People Sing?”] Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Opening Doors” and 2nd medley with “With So Little to Be Sure Of”] Musical Stars—mit den Deuschen Original-Kunstlern (Maya Hakvoort), Sony [n.n.], 2005 Callaway, Ann Hampton & Liz/Sibling Revelry, see CALLAWAYA&L Callaway, Liz/The Story Goes On: On and Off Broadway (with Ann Hampton Callaway), Varese Sarabande VSD-5585, 1995 Connelli, Judi & Suzanne Johnston/Perfect Strangers, see CONNELLI3 [with “Everybody Says Don’t”] East West Players/East West Overtures (Kym Hoy, Randy Guiaya & Ensemble), see EASTWEST1 Four Friends (Who Are Very Vocal about It), Ducy Lee Records 900111, 2003 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Diversity, GMCLA, 1991 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 New York City Gay Men’s Chorus/New York, New York, A Broadway Extravaganza, see NEWYORKCITYGAY1 O’Brien, Joanne and Lee Lessack/An Enchanted Evening: The Music of Broadway, LML Music, LML CD-104, 1998 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Pot Pourri/Rhythm of Life, Move MCD058, 1999[?] Sterling, Clark/Inspirational Broadway, Sterling, 1994 Wright, James/Center Stage: Songs of Spirit from the Musical Theatre, see WRIGHTJ1 “Overture” from 2000 production of Saturday Night Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Orchestra), see SATURDAYN2

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“Overture” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) FTPVS instrumental A Funny Thing . . . Original Cast (Orchestra), see FUNNY01 A Funny Thing . . . London Cast (Orchestra), see FUNNY02 A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Orchestra), see FUNNY05 “Overture” (first version) cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) “Overture” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964), [see “Prelude Act I”] “Overture” from Company (1970), [see “Bobby-Baby”] “Overture” from Follies (1971) [based on “All Things Bright and Beautiful” cut from Follies] FPVS instrumental Follies Original Cast (Orchestra), FOLLIES01 Follies in Concert (Orchestra), see FOLLIES02 Follies/Themes from the Legendary Musical3 (The Trotter Trio), see FOLLIES04 [listed as “Opening”] Follies, The Complete Recording (Orchestra), see FOLLIES05 Orquestra De Cambra Teatre Lliure/Stephen Sondheim, see ORQUESTRADECAM1 “Overture” from the London production of Follies (1987) “Overture” from A Little Night Music (1973) LNMPVS vocal quintet A Little Night Music Original Cast (Barbara Lang, Beth Fowler, Teri Ralston, Benjamin Ralston, Gene Varrone), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music London Cast (John J. Moore, Chris Melville, Liz Robertson, David Bexon, Jacquey Chappell), see LITTLEN02 A Little Night Music Film (Company), see LITTLEN03 A Little Sondheim Music (Michael Gallup, Darlene Romano, Delcina Stevenson, Jeffrey Araluce, Rickie Weiner-Gole), see LITTLES1 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Dinah Harris, Hilary Western, Susan Flannery, Michael Bulman, Martin Nelson), see LITTLEN04 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Morag McLaren, Di Botcher, Ernestina Quarcoo, Stephen Hanley, Tim Goodwin), see LITTLEN05 A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Xavier Fernandez, Teresa de la Torre, Muntsa Rius, Anna Feu, Alberto Demestres), see LITTLEN06

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397

A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Stephen R. Buntrock, Jayne Paterson, Marissa McGowan, Kevin David Thomas, Betsy Morgan, Company), see LITTLEN07 “Overture” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) MWRPVS instrumental Merrily We Roll Along Original Cast (Orchestra), see MERRILY1 Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Orchestra), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Orchestra), see MERRILY3 Celebrating Sondheim (instrumental), see CELEBRATSON Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (American Theatre Orchestra), see TOWALLS1

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“Overture” from Bounce (2003) Bounce Original Cast (Orchestra), see BOUNCE1 “Paean: Evoe for the Dead,” see “Evoe for the Dead” “Parabasis: It’s Only a Play” from The Frogs (1974), [see also “It’s Only a Play”] The Frogs/Evening Primrose Studio Recording (Chorus), see FROGS1 “Paradise” cut from Bounce (2003) “Parados: The Frogs” from The Frogs (1974), [see also “The Frogs”] The Frogs/Evening Primrose Studio Recording (Nathan Lane, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Chorus), see FROGS1 “Paris’s Dream” cut from Bounce (2003) “Parlor Songs” from Sweeney Todd (1979), [see “Sweet Polly Plunkett” and “The Tower of Bray” for music] Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Jack Eric Williams, Angela Lansbury, Ken Jennings), see SWEENEYT1 Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see SWEENEYT2 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Pedro Pomares, Vicky Pena), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (John Aler, Patti LuPone, Neil Patrick Harris), see SWEENEYT4 “Party, Party” from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced)

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“Pavement Pounding Sequence” from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) “The People Will Hear” from All That Glitters (1949) “Perfectly Lovely Couple” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS company number, but all voices c1-d2 Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Cast (Stuart Damon, Madeleine Sherwood, Julienne Marie, Carol Bruce, Jack Manning, Elizabeth Allen, Sergio Franchi, Fleury D’Antonakis), see DOIHEAR1 Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (The Company), see DOIHEAR2 “Perhaps” cut during the New Haven tryout from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Stan Stanley) “Perpetual Anticipation” from A Little Night Music (1973) LNMPVS trio b♭-g2/b♭-f2/b♭-f2 A Little Night Music Original Cast (Teri Ralston, Beth Fowler, Barbara Lang), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music London Cast (Chris Melville, Liz Robertson, Jacquey Chappell), see LITTLEN02 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Dinah Harris, Hilary Western, Susan Flannery), see LITTLEN04 Putting It Together (Rachel York), see PUTTINGIT1 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Ernestina Quarcoo, Morag McLaren, Di Botcher), see LITTLEN05 A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Teresa de la Torre, Muntsa Rius, Anna Feu), see LITTLEN06 A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Jayne Paterson, Betsy Morgan, Marissa McGowan), see LITTLEN07 Ralston, Teri/I’ve Gotta Get Back to New York, see RALSTONT1 [in medley] “Philadelphia!” cut from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers “Phinney’s Rainbow” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) PRSM d1-f2 “Piano Practice” from A Little Night Music (1973) [based on cut song “Two Fairy Tales”] LNMPVS instrumental

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“Piazza Promenade” cut from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers [related to “Bargaining”] “Pirelli’s Death” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS e♭1-c3 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Esteve Ferrer), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Stanford Olsen), see SWEENEYT4 “Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS b-a2 + company Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Ken Jennings, Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury, Joaquín Romaguera, Company), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Muntsa Rius, Constantino Romero, Vicky Pena, Company), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Neil Patrick Harris, Company), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Manoel Felciano, Company), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Edward Sanders, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter), see SWEENEYT6 “The Plan” cut from Into the Woods (1987) “Pleasant Little Kingdom” cut from Follies (1971) [conceived as lead in to “Too Many Mornings”] ASIV, CFC duet a♭-e♭2 [both] Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Dorothy Collins, John McMartin), see SONDAMUST1 [sung with “Too Many Mornings”] Follies, The Complete Recording (Laurence Guittard, Donna McKechnie), see FOLLIES05 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim (Joanna Gleason), see GAYMENSCLA1 Patinkin, Mandy/Oscar and Steve, see PATINKIN4 (duet with Judy Blazer) [sung with “Too Many Mornings”] Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 “Please Hello” from Pacific Overtures (1976) POPVS company number Pacific Overtures1 Original Cast (Alvin Ing, Yuki Shimoda, Ernest Harada, Mako, Patrick Kinser-Lau, Mark Hsu Syers, James Dybas), see PACIFICOVER1

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Pacific Overtures English National Opera (Alan Woodrow, John Kitchiner, Eric Roberts, Paul Strathearn, Ian Comboy, Harry Nicoll), see PACIFICOVER2 Pacific Overtures New Broadway Cast (Sab Shimona, B. D. Wong, Darren Lee, Evan D’Angeles, Alan Muraoka, Scott Watanabe, Daniel Jay Park), see PACIFICOVER3 “Poems” from Pacific Overtures (1976) POPVS duet e♭1-g2/d1-f2 Pacific Overtures Original Cast (Isao Sato, Sab Shimono), see PACIFICOVER1 A Stephen Sondheim Evening (George Hearn, Bob Gunton), see STEPHENSE1 Pacific Overtures English National Opera (Malcolm Rivers, Christopher Booth-Jones), see PACIFICOVER2 Color and Light: Jazz Sketches . . . (Terrence Blanchard, trumpet), see COLOR1 Pacific Overtures New Broadway Cast (Michael K. Lee, Paolo Montaban), see PACIFICOVER3 Patinkin, Mandy/Oscar and Steve, see PATINKIN4 (duet with Michael Yukon Grody) “Poor Baby” from Company (1970) CPVS, CVS2, CVS3 company number Company Original Cast (Barbara Barrie, Teri Ralston, Merle Louise, Beth Howland, Elaine Stritch, Charles Kimbrough, George Coe), see COMPANY01 Company Revival Cast (Kate Burton, Robert Westenberg, Diana Canova, John Hillner, Patricia Ben Peterson, Veanne Cox, Debra Monk), see COMPANY05 Company London Revival Cast (Rebecca Front, Clive Rowe, Liza Sadoy, Teddy Kempner, Clare Burt, Sophie Thompson, Sheila Gish), see COMPANY04 Company Brazilian Cast (Solange Badim, Daniel Boaventura, Reginah Restelieux, Mauro Gorini, Claudia Netto, Totia Meireles), see COMPANY06 Company Second Revival Cast (Kristin Huffman, Keith Buterbaugh, Leenya Rideout, Fred Rose, Amy Justman, Heather Laws, Barbara Walsh), see COMPANY09 Boston Pops Orchestra/Songs of the ’60s (instrumental), see BOSTON1 Ralston, Teri/I’ve Gotta Get Back to New York, see RALSTONT1 [in medley] “Poor Thing” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS f♯-b1

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401

Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Angela Lansbury), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Vicky Pena), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Patti LuPone), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Patti LuPone), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Helena Bonham Carter), see SWEENEYT6 “Poses” for Muscle (1992, unproduced), [see also “Opening”] “Potpourri” cut from Bounce (2003) “Pour le sport” from The Last Resorts (1956, unproduced) Marry Me a Little1 (Suzanne Henry, Craig Lucas), see MARRYME1 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SINGS2

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“Prayer” cut from Pacific Overtures (1976) [a portion was used in “Chrysanthemum Tea”] Pacific Overtures New Broadway Cast7 (Stephen Sondheim), see PACIFICOVER3 “Prelude” (and further incidental music) from Invitation to a March (1960) “Prelude” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS instrumental Sweeney Todd Original Cast (instrumental), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (instrumental), see SWEENEYT4 “Prelude Act I [Overture]” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) ACWPVS instrumental Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Orchestra), see ANYONE1 “Pretty Lady” from Pacific Overtures (1976) ASI, POPVS, SCCH, SSS trio c1-f2/a-f2/f-d2 Pacific Overtures Original Cast7 (Patrick Kinser-Lau, Timm Fujii, Mark Hsu Syers), see PACIFICOVER1 Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie, David Kernan), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Bartholomew John, Geraldene Morrow, Jill Perryman), see SIDEBYS2 Songs of Sondheim Irish Cast (Company), see SONGSOFSOND1 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (instrumental), see SOND1

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A Little Sondheim Music (Jeffrey Araluce, Dale Morich, Michael Gallup), see LITTLES1 Pacific Overtures English National Opera (Leon Berger, Edward Byles, Alan Woodrow), see PACIFICOVER2 Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental), see SYMPHONICSON1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Mark Jacoby, Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry), see SONDACELATC1 Pacific Overtures New Broadway Cast (Darren Lee, Rick Edinger, Telly Leung), see PACIFICOVER3 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Claudio Botelho, Ester Elias, Marya Bravo), see SIDEBYS3 Simply Sondheim (Tom Orr, Kim Larsen, Steve Rhyne), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] East West Players/East West Overtures (Radmar Agana Jao, Daniel Kim, Paul Wong), see EASTWEST1 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim (Timothy Cornetti, John Niederberger, Robert Shoup), see MENDELSSOHN1 Nesbitt, Bobby/Big Time, Mile Marker Music MMM2 44807, 2001 O’May, John/Unusual Way, MEM-004, 2000 Owen-Jones, John/John Owen-Jones (with Michael Ball, Bryn Terfel), Sain SCD2627, 2009 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin, see PATINKIN1 “Pretty Little Picture” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) FTPVS trio b-f♯2/b-g♯2/b-f♯2, FTVS solo version b♭-f2 A Funny Thing . . . Original Cast (Zero Mostel, Brian Davies, Preshy Marker), see FUNNY01 A Funny Thing . . . London Cast (Frankie Howerd, John Rye, Isla Blair), see FUNNY02 A Stephen Sondheim Evening1 (Bob Gunton, Liz Callaway, Steven Jacob), see STEPHENSE1 A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Nathan Lane, Jessica Boevers, Jim Stanek), see FUNNY05 Amor al Reves es Roma [A Funny Thing . . . ] Mexican Cast, see FUNNY06 Scott, Phil/Serious Cabaret, Middle Eight Music, 2002 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01 Turner, Geraldine/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2, see TURNERG2 “Pretty Women” from Sweeney Todd (1979) ASI, STVS solo version c1-e2, BSBA g-d2 [with “The Ladies Who Lunch”], STPVS duet E-f1/A-f1 + whistling, reprise c♯-e1/G-d1

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403

Sweeney Todd1 Original Cast (Edmund Lyndeck, Len Cariou), see SWEENEYT1 A Little Sondheim Music (Dale Morich, Michael Gallup), see LITTLES1 A Broadway Celebration, see BROADWAYCEL Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry), see SONDACELATC1 Putting It Together5 (Michael Rupert, Stephen Collins), see PUTTINGIT1 Color and Light: Jazz Sketches . . . (Peabo Bryson), see COLOR1 Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see SWEENEYT2 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Xavier Ribera, Constantino Romero), see SWEENEYT3 Leading Men Don’t Dance (Byron Nease, Richard Muenz), Jay 1253, 1997 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Paul Plishka, George Hearn, Davis Gaines), see SWEENEYT4 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Ah, But Underneath”] Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2 (instrumental), see SINGTHESONGS2 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Michael Cerveris, Mark Jacoby), see SWEENEYT5 Simply Sondheim (James Brewer), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Alan Rickman, Johnny Depp), see SWEENEYT6 Barnes, Buddy/The Magic Time, Audiophile AP-139, 1980 Benzali, Daniel/Benzali, Rio Kat 95623, 2005 Buckley, Betty/Much More, Sterling S1014-2, 1997 Clary, Robert/Louis Lebeau Remembers . . . Stephen Sondheim . . . , see CLARYR1 Collins, Judy/Running for My Life, Elektra 6E-253, 1980 Connelli, Judi & Suzanne Johnston/Perfect Strangers, see CONNELLI3 [with “Johanna”] Day, Courtenay/Courtenay Day Live at Don’t Tell Mama, see DAYC1 [with “Every Day a Little Death”] Europlane featuring Herb Geller, Roberto Magris’/Il Bello Del Jazz, Soul Note [n.n.], 2006 [band featuring jazz piano and alto saxophone] Fleming, Renée and Bryn Terfel/Under the Stars (Bryn Terfel), see FLEMINGTERFEL1 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 [in medley] Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 The Marian McPartland Trio/Live at Yoshi’s Nitespot, Concord Jazz CCD-4712, 1996

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Mitchell, Brian Stokes/Brian Stokes Mitchell, see MITCHELLBS1 Orchestra Manhattan (Byron Olson)/Digital Broadway (1986), see ORCHESTRAMAN1 [instrumental] Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Pizzarelli, Bucky & John/Solos & Duets, Jazz Classics JZCL-5007, 1997 (2 Guitars) Ramey, Sam/Sam Ramey on Broadway/So In Love, Teldec 4509-90865-2, 1993 Ripley, Alice & Emily Skinner/Unsuspecting Hearts, Varese Sarabande 302 066 074 2, 1999 Ross, Steve/Steve Ross Live at the Algonquin, Stolen Moments SM 1939, 1986 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “Johanna” & “Not While I’m Around”] Streisand, Barbra/The Broadway Album, see STREISAND1 Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 [in medley] Yankee, Al/Somewhere . . . in a Dream, Klavier Records 77018, 1996 [instrumental] Young, Thomas/Clair De Lune & Sister Moon, Ocean Records/Allegra, 1997 “Professors’ Reports” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) Prologos, see “Invocation and Instructions to the Audience” “Prologue” from Follies, see “Overture” “Prologue” from Into the Woods, see “Into the Woods” and “So Happy” “Prologue” (sung version) cut from West Side Story, see “Opening” “Puccini” cut from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers “Puppy Love” from By George (1946) “Putting It Together” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) [in addition to the changed lyrics cited below, Sondheim also wrote a set of lyrics that were performed by Bernadette Peters at the 66th Academy Awards Ceremony in 1994] ASIII Streisand version g-e2, BSBA g-d2, SPGPVS company number [George’s range is c1-g♭2] Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast (Mandy Patinkin, Company), see SUNDAYIN1 [see also Putting It Together below]

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405

Putting It Together (Stephen Collins, Rachel York, Michael Rupert, Julie Andrews, Christopher Durang, Scott Frankel), see PUTTINGIT1 [lyric changes by Sondheim; also included on the 2007 reissue of Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast recording, SUNDAYIN1] Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Daniel Evans, Company), see SUNDAYIN2 Anthony, Julie/Julie Anthony Live at the Tilbury, Cue/Polygram ORO21, 1996 Orchestra Manhattan (Byron Olson)/Digital Broadway (1986), see ORCHESTRAMAN1 [instrumental] Orquestra De Cambra Teatre Lliure/Stephen Sondheim (Nina), see ORQUESTRADECAM1 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “What Can You Lose?”] Starobin, David/New Music with Guitar, Volume 3 (Patrick Mason), see STAROBIND1 Streisand, Barbra/The Broadway Album, see STREISAND1 [lyric changes by Sondheim] Streisand, Barbra/Timeless, see STREISAND3 United States Air Force Heritage of America Band, The/Broadway Nights, US Air Force 0017, 1997 “The Q-Ladies’ Waltz” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) “Quintet,” see “Tonight (Quintet)” from West Side Story “Rag Me That Mendelssohn March” from A Mighty Man is He (1955) “Rain on the Roof” from Follies (1971) CFC, FPVS duet b♭-d2 [both] Follies in Concert (Betty Comden, Adolph Green), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (Pearl Carr, Teddy Johnson), see FOLLIES03 Follies, The Complete Recording (Natalie Mosco, Donald Saddler), see FOLLIES05 “Rainbows” for unproduced film version of Into the Woods “Ready for the Woods,” see “Moments in the Woods” “The Reason Why” from By George (1946) “Recent Past” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1

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“Reds” Theme from the Motion Picture “Reds” from Reds (1981), [see also “Goodbye for Now”] Piano score, Columbia Pictures Publications 1482RMX Reds Soundtrack, see REDS1 “Remember?” from A Little Night Music (1973) ASI, LNMVS solo version c♯1-g2, LNMPVS vocal quintet A Little Night Music Original Cast (Barbara Lang, Beth Fowler, Teri Ralston, Benjamin Ralston, Gene Varrone), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music London Cast (John J. Moore, Chris Melville, Liz Robertson, David Bexon, Jacquey Chappell), see LITTLEN02 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Dinah Harris, Hilary Western, Susan Flannery, Michael Bulman, Martin Nelson), see LITTLEN04 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Ron Baker, Peter Blanchet, Carol Meyer, Bronwyn Thomas, Blythe Walker), see SONDACELATC1 Putting It Together (Stephen Collins, Julie Andrews), see PUTTINGIT1 The Great Waltz (Hollywood Bowl Orchestra), see HOLLYWOODB1 [part of “The Night Waltzes”] A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Morag McLaren, Di Botcher, Ernestina Quarcoo, Stephen Hanley, Tim Goodwin), see LITTLEN05 A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Xavier Fernandez, Teresa de la Torre, Muntsa Rius, Anna Feu, Alberto Demestres), see LITTLEN06 A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Ramona Mallory, Alexander Hanson, Betsy Morgan, Jayne Paterson, Stephen R. Buntrock, Kevin David Thomas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Marissa McGowan), see LITTLEN07 Patinkin, Mandy/Oscar and Steve, see PATINKIN4 [in medley] Ralston, Teri/I’ve Gotta Get Back to New York, see RALSTONT1 [in medley] Trotter, Terry/Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, see TROTTERT1 [piano solo] “Rich and Happy” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) [replaced by “That Frank” in subsequent productions] MWRPVS c1-g2 + company Merrily We Roll Along Original Cast (Jim Walton, Company), see MERRILY1 Putting It Together (Stephen Collins, Julie Andrews, Michael Rupert, Christopher Durang, Rachel York), see PUTTINGIT1 [lyric changes by Sondheim] Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 “The Right Girl” from Follies (1971) CFC, FPVS c1-f2

Song Listing

407

Follies Original Cast (Gene Nelson), FOLLIES01 Follies in Concert (Mandy Patinkin), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (David Healy), see FOLLIES03 Follies, The Complete Recording (Tony Roberts), see FOLLIES05 “Riot at the Funeral” from the 1966 film of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum A Funny Thing . . . Film (instrumental), see FUNNY03 “The Road You Didn’t Take” from Follies (1971) CFC a-e♯2, FPVS a-e2 Follies Original Cast (John McMartin), FOLLIES01 Follies in Concert (George Hearn), see FOLLIES02 Follies, The Complete Recording (Laurence Guittard), see FOLLIES05 Friedman, Maria/Maria Friedman Live, see FRIEDM1 [with “In Buddy’s Eyes” & “Too Many Mornings”] Patinkin, Mandy/Experiment, see PATINKIN3 “Rose’s Turn” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne GPVS, GVS2 g-c2 Gypsy Original Cast (Ethel Merman), see GYPSY01 Gypsy Film (Lisa Kirk/Rosalind Russell), see GYPSY02 Gypsy London Cast (Angela Lansbury), see GYPSY03 Stairway to the Stars (Dolores Gray), First Night CD6021, 1989 Gypsy Revival Cast (Tyne Daly), see GYPSY04 Gypsy TV Cast (Bette Midler), see GYPSY05 Celebrating Gypsy . . . (Libby Morris), see CELEBRATGYP Kay Medford in “Gypsy” (Kay Medford), see GYPSY09 Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Bernadette Peters), see GYPSY10 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Patti LuPone), see GYPSY11 Billings, Alexandra/The Story Goes On, LMG Kidsource Music [n.n.], 2004 [with “She’s a Star”] Buckley, Betty/An Evening at Carnegie Hall, see BUCKLEYB3 Buckley, Betty/The London Concert, see BUCKLEYB2 Connelli, Judy/Back to Before—A Life In Song, ABC 461 883-2, 2001 MacKenzie, Gisele/ . . . In Person at the Empire Room of the WaldorfAstoria, Everest LPBR 5069, 1960; Collectables COL-CD-0852, 2006 [in medley] Merman, Ethel/Mermania!, see MERMANE1 [early version titled “Mama’s Turn”] Minnelli, Liza/Liza’s Back, J Records 80813-20045-2, 2002 Turner, Geraldine/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2, see TURNERG2

408

Song Listing

“Routine Blues” from By George (1946) “The Rumble” from West Side Story (1957), no lyric, music by Leonard Bernstein “Salon at the Claridge # 1” from Stavisky (1974) [based on “Yes” for The JetPropelled Couch] Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 Bennett, Richard Rodney/A Different Side of Sondheim, see BENNETTR1 “Salon at the Claridge # 2 “ from Stavisky (1974) [based on “Who Could Be Blue?” cut from Follies] Stavisky1 (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 Sandford, Luke/Shimmer, see SANDFORD1 [piano solo] “Sand” for Singing Out Loud (1992–93, unproduced) ASIV c1-f2 Sondheim at the Movies (Christiane Noll), see SONDATTHEM1 “Saturday Night” from Saturday Night (1954) ASIV, SNVS quartet a-f2 Marry Me a Little (Craig Lucas, Suzanne Henry), see MARRYME1 A Stephen Sondheim Evening (Company), see STEPHENSE1 Unsung Sondheim (Stan Chandler, David Engel, Larry Raben, Guy Stroman), see UNSUNGS1 Saturday Night Bridewell Cast (Maurice Yeoman, James Millard, Simon Greiff, Jeremy David), see SATURDAYN1 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Michael Benjamin Washington, Kirk McDonald, Greg Zola, Joey Sorge), see SATURDAYN2 Simply Sondheim (Kim Larsen, Steve Rhyne, Tom Orr, James Brewer), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] “Saturday Night (reprise)” from Saturday Night (1954) Saturday Night Bridewell Cast (Maurice Yeoman, Simon Greiff, Jeremy David, James Millard), see SATURDAYN1 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Michael Benjamin Washington, Kirk McDonald, Greg Zola, Joey Sorge), see SATURDAYN2 [2 versions] Simply Sondheim (Kim Larsen, Steve Rhyne, Tom Orr, James Brewer), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] “Searching” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS company number

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409

Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Vicky Pena, Constantino Romero), see SWEENEYT3 “Seattle to Los Angeles,” see “Some People” “Second Letter” from Passion (1995) PPVS duet a-a1 [both] Passion Original Cast (Marin Mazzie, Jere Shea), see PASSION1 Passion London Concert (Helen Hobson, Michael Ball), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Pia Douwes, Stanley Burleson), see PASSION4 “Second Midnight” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS company number [spoken] “Second Midnight” cut from Into the Woods (1987) Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (George Lee Andrews, Maureen Moore, Kim Crosby, John Cameron Mitchell) “Secret of Night” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “See What It Gets You” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Lee Remick), see ANYONE1 Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (Bernadette Peters), see ANYONE2 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 [with “Anyone Can Whistle”] “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music (1973) ASI, BSBA [additional lyrics], LNMVS, SCCH, SSS a♭-b♭1, LNMPVS g♭-a♭1 A Little Night Music Original Cast2, 7 (Glynis Johns), see LITTLEN01 A Trip to the Circus, Silver Touch Tunes for Children SS1000, 1978 A Little Night Music London Cast (Jean Simmons), see LITTLEN02 Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Jill Perryman), see SIDEBYS2 Songs of Sondheim Irish Cast (Gemma Craven), see SONGSOFSOND1 A Little Night Music Film (Elizabeth Taylor), see LITTLEN03 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Joyce Castle), see SOND1 A Little Sondheim Music (Rickie Weiner-Gole, Dale Morich), see LITTLES1 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Sian Phillips), see LITTLEN04

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A Stephen Sondheim Evening1 (Angela Lansbury, Sondheim at the piano), see STEPHENSE1 Songs of Stephen Sondheim/You Sing the Hits, see SONGSOFSTEP1 Met Stars on Broadway (Renata Scotto), MET/RCA MET-204, 1980, MET 204CD, 1989 Aspects of West Side Story, A Little Night Music . . . (Orchestra of the Americas), ProArte CDB 8303, 1992 The Magic of the Musicals (Marti Webb & Mark Rattray), see MAGICOF1 A Broadway Celebration, see BROADWAYCEL Everyone’s a Love Song, see EVERYONE1 Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental), see SYMPHONICSON1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Glenn Close), see SONDACELATC1 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Judi Dench), see LITTLEN05 A Little Light Music (Beryl Korman and/or Julia Meadows), see LITTLEL1 Showcase: The Musicals (Mary Carewe), Carlton Sounds/U.K. 30367 00672, 1995 Sondheim: A Celebration3 (Glynis Johns), see SONDACEL2 Scarlet and Gold Concert Royal Festival Hall, The Massed Bands of the Household Division (Grenadier Guards), The Valentine Music Group BNA 5131, 1997 Broadway Classics, Victorian Arts Centre’s “Morning Melodies” Volume 4 [n.n., Australia], 1998 Hey, Mr. Producer! (Judi Dench), see HEYMRP Hey, Mr. Producer! (Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber), see “Dueling Pianos” Celebrating the Musicals . . . (Anita Dobson), see CELEBRATTHEM More West End The Concert (Deborah Myers), see MOREWEST Sondheim Tonight (Cleo Laine, Maria Friedman, Clive Rowe), see SONDTON1 A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Vicky Pena), see LITTLEN06 10 Jahre Musical im Theater an der Wien (Susanne Almassy), Preiser Records [n.n., n.d.] Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Claudio Botelho), see SIDEBYS3 A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alexander Hanson), see LITTLEN07 3 Men & a Melody/Strictly Barbershop Doo Wop, First Run 0701, 2002 [barbershop quartet] 98 Mute/Slow Motion Riot, Epitaph 86574-2, 2000 [Punk rock] Acker, Bill/Stranger on the Shore, BMG Entertainment Int. 74321 709112, 1992 [clarinet with string orchestra] Adams Quintet, George/Paradise Space Shuttle, Timeless SJP-127, 1979 Akers, Karen/Presenting Karen Akers, Blackwood 81-750091, 1981; Rizzoli 1001

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411

Akers, Karen/If We Only Have Love, DRG 91483, 2004 Alexandria, Lorez/From Broadway to Hollywood, Trio (Jap) PAP3146, 1977 Allen Trio, Bob/Bob Allen Trio Live, Tetrachord Records 103142, 1980 Allis, Julie/Harping on the Hits, Ktel 3815-2, 1995 [harp and synthesizer] Allis, Julie/The Tranquil Sound of the Harp, Castle Communications/ Pulse PLS CD 299, 1998 [harp] Amaro, Saumell/Free Again, Lady Eagle Music MR13748, 198? American Orchestra Symphony/Soft Rock Greats III, Entertainment Corporation of America/ECA Records ECA-C3029, 1981 Anderson, Ernestine/Hello Like Before, Concord Jazz CJ-31, 1977, CD CCD-4031 Anderson, Chris/Love Locked Out, Mapleshade MS 56992, 1990 [piano] Andreas, Jamey/Touched to My Tenderness—Guitar Classics, Rebirth Records 3750, 1998 Andreasson, Elisabeth/Stemninger, Polydor 2322, 1994 Andrews, Vince/Hey, Vince!, Gerard Records GR 1022, 1984 [saxophone] Anthony, Julie/You and I, Polygram, 1995/U&I, 1996 Apollo Stompers/Phantasies II, Soul Note 121175-2, 1991 [piano, jazz ensemble] Arbors, The/The Arbors, Arbors Music Prod. Corp AR-67701, 197? Arpin, John/Broadway Baroque, Pro-Arte/Fanfare RCD 451, 1990 [piano] Arpin, John/The Music of New York, Intersound DW 8919, 1999 [piano] Arredondo, Maria/Sound of Musicals, Mountain Music/Universal 1784945, 2008 Artie Butler’s Hollywood Rainbow Pops/Classic Broadway, K-tel International [n.n.], 1995 Arundel Middle School Concert Band/Variations, Recorded Publications Z573901-2573902, 1981 Auldridge, Mike/Slidin’ Smoke, Flying Fish 080, 1979 Baker, Chet/Live at Ronnie Scotts (vocal: Van Morrison), DRG 91440, 1987 Ball, Michael/Centre Stage, Hip-O 440 016 071-2, 2001 Band of the Grenadier Guards, The/On Stage, Bandleader 5032, 1989 Band of the Royal Irish Regiment/Symphonic Celebration, Bandleader Recordings BNA5147, 1998 Banquells, Rocío/Un Sueño Alguna Vez Soñé, RCA Records 2144, 1990 Barduhn Big Band, Dave/Dave Barduhn Big Band, Barduhn RL-5135, 1977 Barrus, David/On Stage 2: More Broadway Favorites, Shadow 53632, 2000 Bassey, Shirley/Good, Bad But Beautiful, United Artists Records UALA542-G 0698, 1975

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Bassey, Shirley/“Send in the Clowns,” United Artist 45 rpm UAXW717-Y, 1975 Bassey, Shirley/I Am What I Am, Towerbell Records VG 651 600065, 1984 Bassey, Shirley/The Best of Shirley Bassey, EMI Records EMI 7492, 1987; MBH Records 110.017, 1999 Bassey, Shirley/The Great Shirley Bassey, Coldies GLD 63133, 2007 Bassoon Brothers/Captured!, Crystal Records CD875, 2002 [woodwinds] BBC Concert Orchestra/Showcase: The Musicals (Mary Carewe), Innovative Records 6700672, 1996 Beavis, Richard/The Other Side of Me, [n.l., n.n.], 2004 Ben-David, Sheera/On a Carousel, Sheera Ben-David 672487101701, 2008 Berner, Kenny/Beauty Secrets, BMG/RCA Victor 74321-69904-2, 1999 Bert/Hello Again, [n.l., n.n.], 2004 Bilk, Acker/20 Greatest Hits, Pye Records MCAB 20, 1977 Bilk, Acker/The Best of Acker Bilk, GNP Crescendo Records GNPD 2116, 1989 [clarinet and strings] Blair Woodwind Quintet, Blair School of Music BSM-420, 198[?] Bonfiglio, Robert/Romances, High Harmony 5253, 1994 [harmonica] Bonfiglio, Robert/Bonfiglio Always on My Mind, Time-Life R113-006, 1999 [harmonica] Boston Pops Orchestra/The Two Sides of Fiedler, Decca MOR 527, 1979 Boston Pops Orchestra/The Two Sides of Fiedler, London SPC 21190, 1979 Boston Pops Orchestra/That’s Entertainment/Pops on Broadway, Philips 7144 124, 6302 124, 198[?] Boston Pops Orchestra/That’s Entertainment, Philips 416 499-2, 1981 [with “Night Waltz”] Boston Pops/Music of the Night/Pops on Broadway, see BOSTON2 [instrumental] Boston Pops Orchestra, John Williams &/From Sousa to Spielberg, Sony Music Special Products A 28701, 1998 Boston Pops Orchestra, John Williams &/Encore!, Philips B0002606-02, 2004 Breau, Lenny & Brad Terry/The Living Room Tapes: Volume 2, Musical Heritage Society MHS 512627L, 1990; Art of Life Records AL 1004-2, 2003 [guitar, clarinet] Brewer, Teresa/Teresa Brewer’s New Album, Image Records IM-306, 1977 Brewer, Teresa/Teresa Brewer, Audiofidelity Enterprises GAS-738, 1983 Britto, Carol & Michael Moore/Inner Voices, Town Crier TC 512, 1985 [piano, bass] Broadway Workout, Power Music PWR 1359-2, 2000

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413

Bronhill, June/June Bronhill at the Sydney Opera House, M7 MLF-118, 1976 [reissued by BroadMusic BRCD073, or 510739, 1996] Bryant, Kimilee/My Favorite Things, Kimilee Bryant [n.n.], 2008 Buckley, Betty/The London Concert, see BUCKLEYB2 Buckley, Betty/Stars and Moon/Live at the Donmar, Concord CCD4949-2, 2001 Burstyn, Mike/Tomorrow, Kit Prod. KIT1003, 2002 Burton, Ann/A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening, 1977 [reissued by AMJ] Burton, Ann/Burton for Certain, 1977 [reissued by AMJ] Burton, Ann/Live in Japan, Absord 268, 2003 Butler, Artie/Classic Broadway, Dominion Ent./K-tel Int., 3576-2, 1995 Byard, Jackie & the Apollo Stompers/Phantasies, Vol. 2, Soul Note (Italy) 121175, 1993 Cable, Linda/Just for the Record, Move MD-3099, 1992 Cacia, Paul Jazz Orchestra/Quantum Leap: Digital Neophonics, Outstanding Records, OUTS 056, 1986 Cacia, Paul/Quantum Leap, Happy Hour Music [n.n.], 1987 Cain, Evelyn/“It’s Christmas Time Again,” Cain 45rpm CR 12976, 1977 Caine, Marti/Marti, BBC 17310 70042, 1994/Carlton 17310 70042, 1996 Callicrate, Tim/Serenade from Tahoe, T. Callicrate Prod. TC100, 1988 [piano] Canadian Brass/Brass on Broadway, Philips 442-133-2, 1994 Canadian Brass/Seen and Heard, Philips B0002695-00, 2004 Candlelight and Wine, CSP P2 15030, 1979 [Hagood Hardy] Capers, Valerie/Kool Jazz Festival, [n.l., n.n.], 1983 [piano] Carlson, Mary Beth/Treasures of the Heart, MBC Productions Inc. MBC 9079, 1998 [piano] Carlson, Mary Beth/Signature, MBC Productions MBC-9081, 2000 [piano with orchestra] Caro, Joanie/Jazzy Lady, [n.l.] 36469, [n.d.] Carr, Richard & Bucky Pizzarelli/String Thing, Savant SCD 2010, 1997–98 [violin, guitar] Carreras, Jose/Amigos para Siempre: Friends for Life : Romantic Songs of the World, Atlantic 82413-2, 1992 Carroll, Barbara/Barbara Carroll, Blue Note/BMG 2861, 1976/1994 [piano] Cassel, John/Dinner Music at the Trapp Family Lodge, Cassel Records [n.n.], 2007 [piano] Castle Singers/Cruisin’ Down the River, Design Studios, 1984 Castro-Neves, Oscar/Playful Heart, Mack Avenue Records MAC1011, 2003

414

Song Listing

Caymmi, Dori/If Ever . . . , Qwest/Warner Bros. 9 45604-2, 1994 [guitar, with Toots Thielemans on harmonica] Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra/Labor of Love, Chicago Lakeside Jazz CLJ602-2, 1999 Chung-oo, Invitation to Romance, Onr 9801, 1998 Clark, Petula/My Greatest, Madacy SA-2-6401, 1990[?] Clark, Sharon/Finally, Union Records [n.n.], 1997 Clef Hangers/Take II: Carolina Fight Songs, Clef Hangers, 1990? [A cappella men’s chorus] Clooney, Rosemary/Look My Way/Nice To Be Around, EMI Records/Capitol Nashville 7243 5 41671 26, (1977)/2002 Coates, John F./Rainbow Road, Omnisound N-1024, 1979 [jazz piano] Cold/13 Ways to Bleed on Stage, Flip/A&M/Geffen 069490726-2, 2000 Collins, Judy/Judith, Elektra 6E-111, 7E-1032, 1975; Direct Disc Labs, SD 1660, 1976 Collins, Judy/“Send in the Clowns,” Elektra 45 rpm 45253, 1975 Collins, Judy/“Send in the Clowns,” Elektra 45 rpm E-45076 Collins, Judy/So Early in the Spring: The First 15 Years, WEA Music of Canada, Elektra CEKJ-6002, 1977 Collins, Judy/Classic Broadway, Platinum 15095-3752-2, 1999 Collins, Judy/Judy Collins Live at Wolf Trap, Wildflower WFL 1298-2, 2000 Collins, Judy/The Very Best of Judy Collins, Elektra Traditions/Rhino R2 74374, 2001 Como, Perry/Perry Como Live on Tour, RCA Victor, AQL1-3826, 1981 Como, Perry/For the Good Times, Telstar STAR 2235, 1983 Conniff Singers, Ray/Send in the Clowns, Columbia KC 34170, 1976 Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim, see COOKB1 Cook, Matthew/The Rose and Other Songs, [n.l., n.n.], 2002 Corry, Peter/Peter Corry in Concert, Pet Cor CD 001, 2001 [with “Losing My Mind”; recorded in 1993] Cravin, Van/Broadway Ballads, Intersound 1067, 1994 Criss, Peter/One for All, Megaforce 02086105428, 2007 Crosby, Bing/That’s What Life Is All About, United Artists UA-LA554-6 [n.n.], 1976 Crosby, Bing/“That’s What Life Is All About,” United Artists 45 rpm UA-XW700-Y, 1976 Crosby, Bing/Bing Crosby Live at the London Palladium, K-Tel NE 951, 1976 Crosby, Bing/Beautiful Memories, Disky HR853142/BX853152-72, 1998 Crosby, Bing/Bing Crosby at His Best, EMI 7243 541342 6, 2002 Cruz, Edgar/Those Were the Days, ECI Recordings ECICS03, 1992 [guitar]

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415

Culbertson, Debbie/Reflections, Themeworks TW-02431, 1979 [organ] Damone, Vic/Vic Damone in San Francisco, Rebecca R-1214, 1979 Dave & Cindy/A Collection of Folk, Country & Spirituals, Silcox Prod. [n.n.], 1986 David and Mary/Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Gold Leaf Records GLM 00-02, 1980 Dearie, Blossom/1975 Vol. II, Daffodil Records BMD 102 A&B, 1975 Denver Symphony Orchestra/Fiedler’s Favorites, Maxiplay Pops CDM 8012, 1989 Denver Symphony Pops/A Touch of Fiedler, Pro-Arte Digital CDD 452, 1989 Devito, Alan/Romantic Moods on Accordion, triple d records 95079, 1994 Domingo, Placido/The Broadway I Love, see DOMINGO1 Don Lusher Big Band, The/The Don Lusher Big Band, Chandos 4512, 1992 Donegan, Dorothy/Sophisticated Lady, Ornament CM-8011, 1991 [piano] Donegan, Trio, Dorothy/Live at Jazzhus Slukefter, Storyville Records STCD 8262, 1996 Dow, Judith/Regards to Broadway, see DOWJ1 Drouillard, Kathy/Stay Awhile, Kale Records KLA-37302, 1982 East Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association/1981 All East Tennessee Clinic, [Silver] Crest Records ET-1981, 1981? Eaton, John/Horchow Presents John Eaton, [Horchow] 409427, 1984 [piano] Eckels, Steven Zdenek/Solo Guitar, Eckels 37829, 1980 [guitar] Elkinson, Ken/Borrowed Tracks, August Son Productions 072047, [n.d.] [piano] Elmhurst College Jazz Band/Just Friends, Elmhurst College, Music Dept. EC-1981, 1981 Ensemble Clarinesque/Fascinating Rhythm, Signum SIG X76-00, 1996 Evans, Bill/Living Time, TriStar Music 80888, 1994 [piano] Faith, Percy/Chinatown, Collectables COL-CD-7522, 2003 Farnon, Robert/Out of My Dreams, Dutton Vocalion 4102, 2000 [instrumental] Ferrante & Teicher/Killing Me Softly, United Artists UA-LA118-F, 1973 [two pianos] Ferrante & Teicher/30th Anniversary on Stage, Bainbridge BT-8003, 1983 Ferrante & Teicher/The Ferrante & Teicher Collection, Varese Sarabande VSD-5919, 1998 Fest, Manfredo/Manifestations, Tabu Records JZ 35636, 1979 [jazz ensemble] Fiedler, Arthur/The Two Sides of Fiedler, London SPC5 21190, 1979 Fields, Victor/52nd Street, Regina Records REG 50517, 2002

416

Song Listing

Finley, Paul/The Butterfly, New Bell [n.n.], 2009 [guitar] Fischer, Tim/Zarah Ohne Kleid, SMD 88697306082, 2008 Fisher, [David] Du Du/Over the Rainbow, Helicon Records HL 8064, 1989 [in Hebrew] Fisher, David “Dudu” and London Symphony Orchestra/Showstoppers, Pickwick Music PY, PK-4141, 1993 Fisher, Kathy/Fisher & Friends: Acoustic Café, Green Hill Productions 55560, 2008 Fitzgerald, Caroline/Empty Pockets, [n.l., n.n.], 2009 Florida State University Marching Chiefs, The/FSU Marching Chiefs, 1986 Florida Symphonic Pops/The Phantom of the Opera, see FLORIDA1 [instrumental] Forrester, Maureen/From Kern to Sondheim: Great American Theater Songs, Fanfare CDD 374, 1984 Forsyth, Dianne/Lady of the Landing, Sun-Scape Records, KGOM 16, 1982 Forty-Five Minutes of Broadway, B. Keck and P. Demaree [n.n], 1986 Foster, Frank/Frank Wess/Two for the Blues, Pablo 2310-905, 1984 [saxophone] Francis Moore Orchestra/Memories: Vol. 1., Bridge 100.011-2, 1987 Fredonia Brass Band, Mark Educational Recordings, Inc. MCBS-20736, 1986 Galway Pops Orchestra, James/The Wind Beneath My Wings, RCA Victor 60862-2-RC, 1991 [flute with orchestra] Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 Geiger, Fred/Fred Geiger, Ridge Runner RRR 0014, 1978 [banjo, rhythm guitar, instrumental ensemble] George Street/George Street Live, George Street Production GGS3424, 1984? [vocal group] Gibson, Jim/Music of the Night, Hickory Cove Music [n.n.], 2005 [piano solo] Gillies, Jodie/Jodie Gillies, TVD 93371 (Festival Records), [n.d.] Giovanni/Music from the World, Sony Music Distribution 186, 1992 [piano] Go for Baroque/Andante, [n.n.] 1993[?] [instrumental group] Goldstein, Marvin/Marvin Goldstein, Pianist, Vol. 1, MGP Productions [n.n.], 1995 Goodman/Live at Carnegie Hall: 40th Anniversary Concert, London 422 820 349-4R-2, 1978 [clarinet and band] Goodman, Benny/Seven Come Eleven, Columbia FC 38265, 1982 Goodman, Benny/Benny Goodman and Friends, Decca Record Co. 820 179-2, 1984

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417

Goodman, Benny/Farewell, TV Matters B.V. MUM9030, 2003 Goodwin, Penny/Live, P-Vine Records 23533, 2004 Goodwin, Rene/You Are the Music, Hot Productions 33185, 1997 Gorme, Eydie/Since I Fell For You, Applause Records APLP 1002, 1981 Gorme, Eydie/Eydie Gorme Sings/Canta, President Records, PRCD 238, 1985 Gorme, Eydie/ . . . Sings Great Songs from The Sound of Music and Other Broadway Shows, see GORMEE1 Granger, Kay/Elegance, Renaissance Sounds RS 101, 1979 Green and His Pops Concert Orchestra, Philip/The World’s Greatest Popular Standards, Alanna 5563, 1995 Greene, Ted/Solo Guitar, PMP Records A-5010, 1977, 1979 [guitar] Grenadier Guards/On Stage (Anthony Lamb), Bandleader [n.n.], 1996 Griffin, Harvi/Phase Three, [n.l.] 40093, 1985[?] [harp] Guerin, Dr. Phil/Songs My Father Taught Me, [n.l.] 12123, [n.d.] Guevera, Nacha/No Llores Por Mi Argentina, Hispa Vox 489802, 1977 Guillaume, Robert/There Is Love, SnailWorx [n.n.], 2009 Gustavus Adolphus College Band/The Gustavus Stage Band: The Adolphus Stage Band, Mark [Custom Recordings], 1980 Hall, Lani/Sweet Bird, A&M Records SP-4617, 1976 Hall, Lani/Collectable, A&M Records SP-4988, 1983 Hall, Lani/Lani Hall, A&M Records CD 2517, 1987 Hamaty, Renee & Mystic Moods/Stormy Memories, Bainbridge BCD 6284, 1990 [New-Age piano] Hanna, Roland/Everything I Love, IPO Recordings IPOC 1002, 2002 [piano] Hardy, Hagood/Maybe Tomorrow, Capitol ST-11552, 1976 [piano and vibraphone with orchestra] Harmon, Sally/Snap, Classical Pop!, Soulo SP108, 1991 [piano] Harold Wheeler Consort/Black Cream, RCA Victor BGLI-0849, 1975 Hartman, Johnny/This One’s for Tedi, Audiophile (D)AP-181, ACD-181, 1985, 1988 Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Haskins, Jim/Cocktail Piano Does Show Tunes, JFH 396, [n.d.] [piano] Hatch, David Glen/My Romantic Favorites, Covenant CCID-2800578, 1991 [piano] Hayes, Sharon/Velvet, Eroica Distribution 3088, 2004 Hazelton, Tom/Stairway to the Stars, Klavier Records 77006, 1994 [pipe organ] Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Henderson, Bill/Live at the Times, Trend/Discovery Records DSCD-779, 1987

418

Song Listing

Hendricks, John/Piano Lovers Anthology, WPP 8459, 1993 Hickland, Catherine/Sincerely, Broadway, After Nine, 1997; Original Cast Records 3333, 2001 [with “Being Alive”] Hirt, Al/Candlelite Music Proudly Presents the Living Legend of Al Hirt, Candlelite Music CU-754, 1983 [trumpet] Hirt, Al/A Living Legend, ERA Records NU 9174, 1984 Hoffman, Phyllis/Harp Artistry, Phyllis Hoffman 38, [n.d.] [harp] Hollier, Jan/Jan Hollier, Jan Hollier JH-25, 1981 Houston Pops Orchestra/Live from Carnegie, The Orchestra H.P.O. 1001, 1977? Houston Pops Orchestra/Top of the Pops, Tioch Records TD 1010, 1983 Hubbard, Edwin/Edwin Hubbard, Prana PL 12372, 1982 [flute, jazz ensemble] Hyman, Dick/There Will Never Be Another You, Jazz Connaisseur 9831, 1999 [piano] Indiana University Jazz Ensemble/Guest Recital, 1988 [trombone ensemble] Indios Tabajaras, Los/Beautiful Sounds, RCA AFL1-3990, BMG Music 2379-2-RL, 1981 [guitar] Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 Jackson, Milt/Sa Va Bella (For Lady Legends), Warner Bros./Qwest 9 46607-2, 1997 [jazz quartet] Jackson, Walter/Send in the Clowns, 20th Century Fox Records T-566, M586-AS, 1979; Westside WESM 619, 2000 Jacobs, David/Gentle Guitar, Greenhays 70719, 1992 [guitar] Jazz at the Movies Band/Sax on Broadway, Discovery 77068, 1997; Rhino Atlantic, 2005 Jenson Publications/Marching Band ’87: Vol. 1, Jenson Publications, JP8800, 1987 Jenson Publications/New Music for Concert Band: Vol. 27, Jenson Publications, HLP-74, 1990 Jim Galloway’s Wee Big Band/Blue Reverie, Sackville (Canada) 2068, 2008 João Maria & Aki Takase/Looking for Love, Enja 5075, 1988/1993/2005 John Bauer Brass/John Bauer Brass, Proprius PRCD 9163, 1997 [brass quintet; Swedish] John Fick Southern California Jazz Company, The/Open for Business (Michie Sahara), Sea Breeze 2115, 2001 John Moriarty Trio, The/Tenderly, John Moriarty Productions 1001, 1993 Jones, Grace/Portfolio, Island ILPS-9470, 1976, 1977 Jones, Jack/“You Need a Man,” Victor 45 rpm PB-10845, 1976 Jones, Jack/The Full Life, RCA APL1-2067, 1977

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419

Jones, Tom/26 Love Songs, Prism Leisure Corp. PLATCD 401, 1998 Jones, Tom/40 Golden Love Songs, Double Classics DC 31001, 1998 Jones, Tom/Love Songs & Ballads, [n.l.] 32113, 1999 Jones, Tom/Millennium Collection, International Music Company 20.4011/MI, 1999 Jones, Tom/Tom Jones Hot and Live, Castle Pie PIEDD 291, 2003 Judge, Buddy/Profiles in Clownhenge, Stereophonic 41015, 1998 Kaas, Patricia/Kabaret, 2008[?] Keel, Howard/With Love: for Yesterday and Today, Silver Eagle Records SE 1026, 1984 Keel, Howard/Live in Concert, BBC/Pickwick PWKS 860, 1991 Keel, Howard/The Way We Were, Prism Leisure 919, 2003 Kenton, Stan/Kenton ’76, Creative World ST1076, 1976, GNP/ Crescendo Records STD 1076, 1991 [big band] Kenton, Stan/Street of Dreams, Creative World Records 1079, 1979 Kidd, Carol/That’s Me, Linn Records AKD 044, 1995 King, Morgana/Portraits, Muse Records MC 5301, 1984 Knorr Orchestra, Johnny/Let’s Go Dancing, New Image Records NR 10294, 1980 [big band] Kostelanetz, Andre/Andre Kostelanetz Plays Broadway’s Greatest Hits: From Annie, I Love My Wife, Side by Side by Sondheim, The King and I, Columbia PC 34864, 1977 Kozelek, Mark/The Finally LP, Caldo Verde Records 007, 2008 Kozelek, Mark/Lost Verse Live, Caldo Verde Records 008, 2009 Kunzat, Kurt/First Impression, 88 Productions 8000, 1995 L.A. Connection/Big Hits: Vol. III, Springboard International SPB-4094, SLX-02487, 1977 Laine, Cleo/A Beautiful Thing, RCA Victor CPL1-5059, 1974 Laine, Cleo/“Send in the Clowns,” Victor 45 rpm APBO-0310m 1974 Laine, Cleo/Cleo Laine Live at Carnegie Hall, RCA Victor AYL1-3751, AFL1-5015, 09026-60960-2, 1973, 1974, 1975 Laine, Cleo/Themes, Sierra Records FEDC 2000, 1978[?] Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim5, see LAINEC2 Laine, Frankie/Life is Beautiful, Polydor 2383488, 1978 Laine, Frankie/Now and Then, CSP P 15166, 1980 Laine, Frankie/The Legendary Frankie Laine Volume 1, Prestige Elite Records CDSGP4014, 2002 Lansky, Elena J./Look of Love, Doremi Records 71118, 1996 LaRosa, Julius/Better than Ever, Egames 961, 1996 Larsen, Lyn/Give My Regards!, ProArte CDD 339, 1987 [organ] Leahey Trio, Harry/Still Waters, Omnisound N 1031, 1980 [jazz trio] Leander, Zarah/Schlager & Stars, EMI Music Distribution 3950582, 2007 Leone, Bruno/Pure Broadway, Patsy 93312, 1997 [piano]

420

Song Listing

Lear, Evelyn/Evelyn Lear Sings Sondheim and Bernstein, see LEARE1 Lear, Evelyn/The Art of the Recital, VAI Audio VAIA, 2001 Lee, Chang Woo/Invitation to Romance, Opening Night ONR 9801, 1998 [violoncello] LeMel, Gary/How Fast Forever Goes, Headfirst 10142, 1991 Lenk, Phil/Love is Alive and Well, Mixed Media Prod./Black Gold BG107L-2, 1980 [piano] Lettermen/The Time Is Right, Capitol SW-11470, 1975 [vocal group] Liberace/Showstoppers, AVI AVIC-6071 Avi, 1979 [piano] Liberace/Liberace’s 40th Anniversary Collection, Silver Eagle Records CE6651, 1984–1985 [piano] Liberace/Lounging with Lee, Hip-O Records HIPD-40116, 1998 [piano] Lindroth, Lloyd/Love Drops, [n.l.] C-LL-100, 198[?] [harp] Line, Lorie/Out of Line, Time Line Productions 1, 1989 [piano] Lippia, Steve/In Concert, Camazotz 68075, 2009 Living Strings/Feelings, RCA APL1-2383, 1977 [instrumental] Living Strings/After the Lovin’, Pickwick ACL-7039, 1977 London Brass/Clowning Around: London Brass Entertains, Teldec 229246069-2, 1990 [brass ensemble] London Philharmonic Orchestra/Broadway Gold, Audio Award AA-101, 1981 London Philharmonic Orchestra/A Pops Concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hits from 16 Shows, Stage & Screen Productions SSC-710, 1983 Looker, Kingsley/Piano Love, Madacy Entertainment Group TPF2 3978, 2003 Lorin, Martha/Blues Over Broadway, LMG Kidsource Music [n.n.], 2004 Love Singers, Geoff/Very Special Love Songs, Moss Music Group MMG B-703, 1977 Lyles, Al/My Shining Hour, Alcraft Records A00-1, 1980 Lyngstad, Anni-Frid/Frida Ensam, [n.l., n.n., n.d.] [sung in Swedish] Lytle, Johnny/Everything Must Change, Muse Records MR 5158, 1978 [vibes with jazz ensemble] MacNeil, Madeline/Soon It’s Going to Rain, Kicking Mule Records KMC-244, 1985 [vocals, hammer dulcimer, acc.] Mahar, Mark/Blame It on My Youth, Mark Mahar [n.n.], 2007 Mancini, Henry/Romantic Piano & Orchestra, Readers’ Digest RDK 5953, 1989, 1981 Manilow, Barry/The Complete Collection and Then Some, Arista 0782218714-2, 1992 Mann, Janis/So Many Stars a Tribute to Sarah Vaughan, Panache Records PPR0201, 2000/2001

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421

Mantovani Orchestra/The Greatest Gift Is Love, London Records LEF 5913, PS 913, 1975 Mantovani Orchestra/Mantovani Salutes America’s Great Songwriters, London C213621, 1977 Mantovani Orchestra/14 Dream Melodies, CDMA: Soundsational CDMA-4012, 1978[?] Mantovani Orchestra/The Magic of the Mantovani Orchestra: Live at Royal Festival Hall, Bainbridge BT 8001, BCD8001, RCA 224536, 1981 Mantovani Orchestra/Mantovani Magic, Telstar Records/RCA STAC 2237, 1983; Columbia River Entertainment Group CRG 1518, 1998 Mantovani Orchestra/Mantovani Orchestra: A Tribute, Breakaway Records BWY 80 & 81, 1983 Mantovani Orchestra/Live at Royal Festival Hall: Vol. II, Bellaphon, 28807-013, 1985 Mantovani Orchestra/Mantovani and His Orchestra: Live, InterTape 500.005, 1987 Mantovani Orchestra/The Magic of Mantovani, LDMI EGBR 2517, 198? Mantovani Orchestra/Mantovani, Delta Music Inc. 15134, 79008, 1990 Mantovani Orchestra/The Mantovani Orchestra, Retro Music MAN4 1992-8CD, 1998 Mantovani Orchestra/Lovely Way to Spend an Evening, Columbia River Entertainment Group CRG 218004, 1999 Marcovicci, Andrea/Here, There & Everywhere, Cabaret Records CD5026-2, 2000 Marie, Gayle/Lost and Found, Gayleo GM003, 1988 Marradi, Giovanni/Un Piano Por el Mundo, Orfeon 13838, 2001 [piano] Martell, Lena/One Day at a Time: An Anthology of Song, Castle Music Ltd. 72271, 2004 Martens Paul & Donna/First Gatherings, Fat Patches Music ST-LP 2291, 197[?] Martin, Wanda Mae/Jubilation, WM Productions, 1979 [music for floor exercise] Martino, Pat & Gil Goldstein/We’ll Be Together Again, Muse Records, 1976; 32 Jazz 32971, 1998 [guitar & jazz piano] Martino, Pat/Pat Martino, Savoy Jazz SVY17362, 2004 [guitar & jazz piano] Mathis, Johnny/I Only Have Eyes for You, Columbia AL or PC 34117, 1976 Mathis, Johnny/Johnny Mathis Looks at Love, CBS BT 16640, 1982 Mathis, Johnny/The Best of Johnny Mathis, Heartland Music M183-16, 1999 Matthews, Mark/What I Did for Love, RCA Victor APL1-2340, 1977

422

Song Listing

May, Tim/Happy Guitar, Sunnyvale Records 9330-315, 1977 [guitar] McCroby, Ron/Breezin’ the Classics, Intersound, Inc. PAD 258 Pro Arte Digital, 1985 [whistler with the Arion Consort] McCutcheon, Jim/Jim McCutcheon & Company: Solos and Ensembles with Classical Guitar, Guitar & Song 1002, 1986 McDaniel, John/John McDaniel at the Piano: Broadway, [n.l., n.n.], 2004 McDonald, Stuart/Sax Moods, Music Factory Music MF 1458, 2000 [saxophone] McDonough, Jim/Music of the Night, Jim McDonough [n.n.], 2004 [piano] McGlohon, Loonis/Loonis in London, Audiophile AP-166, 1982 McKenzie, Julia/The Musicals Album, see MCKENZIEJ1 McPartland, Marian/Solo Concert at Haverford, Halcyon Records HAL111, 1974, CD 111, 1990? [piano] McPartland, Marian/A Fine Romance, Improv 7115, 1976 [piano with jazz ensemble] McRae, Carmen/Recorded Live at Bubbas, Who’s Who in Jazz/RTV CD21020, 1977; Point PNT 8468, 2000 McRae, Carmen/Carmen McCrae, Who’s Who in Jazz WWLP 21020, 1981 McRae, Carmen/Sarah, Dedicated to You, Novus/BMG Music (RCA) 3110-2-N, 1990, 1991; Novus/BMG 8287652441-2, 2003 McRae, Carmen/Black Magic, ITM Media SDA 71896, 1993 McVay, Ray & His Orchestra/Playing Music from the Hit Parade, Theatreland DS008 Dansan Records, 1979 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim (Kathryn Gibson, Todd Kuczawa), see MENDELSSOHN1 Mercer, Mabel/Echoes of My Life, Audiophile AP-161 & AP-162, 1980; ACD-161, 1999 Merman, Ethel & Mary Martin/Together on Broadway [n.l., n.n., n.d.] Merritt, Ron/Romance, First Coast Music 1003, 1997 [piano] Milano, Michele/Touch of Class: Jazz Duo, Orchard 807612, 2005 Milster, Angelika/Ich Bin Wie Ich Bin, Polygram 825609, (1998)/2006 [in German] Montgomery, Doug/Me and My Baby Grand, Doug Mont Music DM013, 1999 Mottola, Tony/I Only Have Eyes for You, Project 3 PR 5094Sd, 1975 [guitar with orchestra] Murphy, Julie/Sophisticated Lady, Melrose Records, 1996 Music Box Waltzes and Popular Tunes, Porter Music Box 40853, 1982 [Porter twin disc music box] Mustin, Dene/Dene Mustin Sings Your Requests, Audiophile AP-134 Mutchler, Jon/Stardust & Other Love Songs, Too Mutch Music TMM9801, 1998

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Mutchler, Jon/Piercing the Heart Solo Piano Ballads, Too Mutch Music TTM-1592, 2001 Myric, Weldon/Pedalman, Woodsmoke [n.n., n.d.] Mystic Moods Orchestra/Stormy Memories, Bainbridge BCD 6284, 1990 (Renée Hamaty) [piano, New Age] Nadler, Rubano Sullivan/The Night They Invented Champagne (KT Sullivan), NadlerRubanoSullivan 79687301 2391, 2008 Nalle, Billy/Billy Live!, Wichita Theatre Organ WTO 1460, 1984 [organ] Nero, Peter/The Wiz, Crystal Clear Records CCS-6001, 1977 [piano] Nero, Peter/Peter Goes Pop, Applause Records APLP 1013, 1982, Allegiance Records AVCD-5040, 1987 New England Conservatory/The Enchanted Circle Presents Harvey G. Phillips, Tuba: December 11, 1984, 8:00 p.m. Newsome, Tommy/Live from Beautiful Downtown Burbank, Direct-Disc Labs DD103, 1978 [big band] New Virginians/Act III, Major Recording Co. MRLP 2224, 197[?] [vocal group] Newton-John, Olivia/Indigo Women of Song, Mushroom Records 33834, 2004; Universal UK/Zoom 602498709061, 2009 Nichols, Susie/So in Love, First American FA-7747, 1980 Nicholson, Carla & Michael/Just Duet, see NICHOLSONC1 Nievera, Martin/Return to Forever, Polyeast 316, 1999 Noel, Dick/A Time for Love, Legend Records SGS-5002, 1985 Nurulah, Shahida/The Ruby and the Pearl, Alembicarts 607, 2004 O’Brien, Sarah/Dans Mes Rêves je Reviens/In My Dreams I Return, Orchard 1856, 2000 O’Connor, Larry/Life in the Suburbs, 41321, 1983? O’Day, Anita/Angel Eyes, Emily ER-13081, 1981 Offenhauser, Deborah/Butterflies, Prelude 20021, 2002 [piano] Ogden, Nigel/This Is the Moment, Bandleader 8002, 2000 Oler, Newell/Fireside Piano, NOME Co. of Dallas, Inc. [n.n.], 2003 [piano] O’Meara, Serena/Collage, O’Meara Enterprises, 199? [harp] O’Neal, Tim & Ryan/On Broadway Instrumental Showtunes, ShamrockN-Roll BK1209, 2002 [piano with accompanying musicians] Opera Babes/Renaissance, Instant Karma (UK) 8, 2006 Opus II/Music for Oboe and Guitar, Fine Arts Recordings, 1985 Orchestra Manhattan (Byron Olson)/Digital Broadway (1986), see ORCHESTRAMAN1 [instrumental] Osborne, David/Music of the Night/Broadway Nights, North Star Records 78/157, 1995/2001 [piano] Paducah Tilghman High School Concert/Symphonic and Jazz Bands (Jetton Jr. High School Band, Brazelton Jr. High School Band), Audio Creations AC00087A, 1979, 1980

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Paige, Elaine/A Musical Touch of Elaine Paige, Dominion Records DN 6221, 1984 Paige, Elaine/Stages, K-Tel NE 1262, 1983; Atlantic 7 81776-1, 1987 Paige-Turner, Dorothy/I Love Being Here with You, Snapshot Music [n.n.], 1999; Orchard 6596, 2000 Pandolfi, Emile/By Request, MagicMusic MMC-901, 1990 [piano] Pandolfi, Emile/Unforgettable Love Songs, Revere Records RVR-985, 1998 [piano] Parker, Jann/Jann Parker and Friends, [n.l., n.n.], 1993 Parris, Rebecca/Double Rainbow, Weston-Blair Productions BEC-3, 1987; Shira Records SH 1003, 1999 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Patterson, Frank/Frank Patterson’s Broadway, Rego Irish Records & Tape, 1995; E.P. 8095, 2003 Patrizia/All the Things You Are, [n.l.] 75002, 2006 Peacock, Christopher/Pianoforte, Opus 1: Popular Requests, Pure & Simple 9007, 1994 Penn State Blue Band/1976 Penn State University Marching Blue Band, Mark MC-9128, 1976? Percy Faith & His Orchestra/Summer Place ’76, Columbia KC 33915, 1975 Perks, Jeff/The Gold Collection, Swallowtail Records 8002, 1993 [piano] Perryman, Jill/Leading Lady, EMI EMC 2524, 1975 Pizzarelli, Bucky/Bucky’s Bunch, Monmouth Evergreen Records MES/7082, 198? [jazz band] Pizzarelli, Bucky & John/Live at the Vineyard Theatre, Challenge Records 70025, 1996 [guitars] Prior, Marina/Somewhere, see PRIORM1 Przybyla, Andrew/She’s So Pretty at Noon, Przybla Muzyka Entertainment 805136122820, 2001 [piano] Quadre/The Voice of Four Horns, Quadre QR177, 2000 Ralston, Bob/Feelings, Ranwood R-8158, 1976 [keyboard/organ] Random Lake High School Band and Choir/Spring Concert 1979 Rava, Stefania/Send in the Clowns, Deja Vu/Norma Blu (Japan) 485293, 2009 Rawls, Lou/Lou Rawls Live, CBS/Philadelphia International PZ2-35517, Z-35518, Z-35519, 1978; Right Stuff/Philadelphia International 72438-2910-2-6, 1999 Rawls, Lou/Let Me Be Good To You: Lou Rawls Live, Westside WESD 220, 1999 Rawls, Lou/Lady Love, Digimode LT-5065A, 2000s Reed, Eric, Reginald Veal, Gregory Hutchison/Pure Imagination, Impulse! IMPD-244, 1997-8 [piano, bass, and drums]

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Reeves, Dianne/The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan, Blue Note 7243 5 27694 2 1, 2001 Reverte, Ana/A Mi Manera, Horus CD-08.388, 1999 Rice, Tony & John Carlini/River Suite for Two Guitars, Sugar Hill Records 3837, 1995 Richard Hayman & His Symphony Orchestra/Love Is Blue: Music for Lonely Lovers, Naxos 990022, 1994 Riemer, Dian/Straight from the Harp, Realane 47478, 1999 [harp] Reu, André/Dreaming, Polydor 589306-2, 2001 Robinson, Janet/Piano Solo, ANS 12061, 1996 Rochester Pops Orchestra/Opening Night, see ROCHESTERP1 [instrumental] Romantic Strings & Romantic Voices/You Light Up My Life, Readers Digest RDA-027/A (RD4A-027-1, RD4A-027-8), 1980 Rose, Earl/Grand Piano, Earl Rose STJ-10077, 1976 Rosen, Judy/You Sing Judy Collins, Pocket Songs PS 554, 1990 Ross, Diana/An Evening with Diana Ross, Motown Record Co. 3746352682, 1992, M7-877R2, 1977 Rossen, Stig/Love Changes Everything, see ROSSENS1 Rotz, Corey Evan/Keep the Music Playing, see ROTZC1 Rowan, Jo and the Philadelphia Orch./Pops, Polkas and Waltzes, Statler Records SLP 1304, 1981 Rowe, Bob/Tom Thumb’s Blues, September 90177, 2001 Roy Budd Trio/Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Musical . . . Sondheim, see ROYBUDD1 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The/ . . . Plays the Shows, Fabulous 236, 2003 Royal Scot Dragoon Guards/In the Finest Tradition, Attic Records Limited BLC-178 Attic/Bandleader, 1988, BNA 5017 [bagpipe and band] Rubin, Vanessa/“I’m Glad There is You,” RCA/BMG 01241 63170-2, 1994 Russo, Renato/The Stonewall Celebration Concert, EMI Music Distribution 829850, 1998/2007 Russo, Renato/Para Sempre, EMI Music Distribution 34464, 2002 Ryerson, Ali/Brasil: Quiet Devotion, Concord Jazz 4762, 1997 [flute] Salonisti/Transatlantic, London Records 425 210-2, 1989 [salon orchestra] Salonisti/Bon Voyage!, Decca 460 814-2, 1999 [salon orchestra] Sandler, Tony & Ralph Young/Sing Your Favorite Love Songs, K-tel International 3376-2, 1994 Sax on Broadway/Jazz at the Movies Band, Discovery 77068, 1997 Saxe, Emily/Broadway & All That Jazz, see SAXEE2 Schneider, Helen/Right as the Rain, Tomato R2 72244, 1995 Schwartz, Andre/The Musicals, Select Music SEL BCD 537, 2005

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Scott’s Pipes & Strings of Scotland, Tommy, Vol. 2: ’Tis a Gift, Scotdisc ITV 394, 1985, CDITV 394, 1987 [bagpipe] Scott, Lee/Lee Scott Volume 1, Blue Heron 101, 1980 [jazz piano] Scott, Ronnie/Serious Gold, Pye 18542, 1977 Send in the Clowns, Golden West College, 1983[?] [recorded accompaniments] Shaw Bell Choir, Dorothy/Here a Christmas—There a Christmas, January Sound Studios JSS-DSBC-83, 1983? [handbells] Shearing, George/My Ship, Verve/Polygram/MPS 821664-2, 821 6641(2), G-22369, 1975, 1987? Sheppard, Meg/Vintage Romantic Songs, Éditions Shelan esp-9402, 1992 Short, Bobby/Live at the Cafe Carlyle, see SHORTB1 Simpsons: Songs in the Key of Springfield, The, Rhino R472723, 1997; R2 75985, 1999 Sims, Zoot/Nirvana, Groove Merchant GM 533, 1974 Sims, Zoot and Buddy Rich/Zoot Sims, CBS Records BT 18079; 51 West Q-16079, 1979 Sims, Zoot, Bucky Pizzarelli, Buddy Rich/Somebody Loves Me, Denon DC-8514, 1987; LRC Ltd. CDC-8514, 1989; LRCLth 28514, 2003 Sims, Zoot & Bucky Pizzarelli/Send in the Clowns, M.C.R. Productions 2625082, 1990 Sinatra, Frank/Ol’ Blue Eyes is Back, Reprise 2155-2, 1973 Sinatra, Frank/“Let Me Try Again (Ilaisse Moi Le Temps),” Reprise 45 rpm REP 1181, 1973 Sinatra, Frank/“Send in the Clowns,” Reprise 45 rpm RPS 1382, 1976 Sinatra, Frank/The Voice, Dominion DN 6212, 1983 Sinatra, Frank/The Reprise Collection, Reprise 9 26349-2, 1990 Sinatra, Frank/Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years, Reprise 9 26501-2, 1991 Singers Unlimited/A Little Light Music (Beryl Korman), see SINGERSUN1 Singing Hoosiers in Concert, 1981, Indiana University School of Music no. 671 Singing Hoosiers in Concert, 1982, Indiana University School of Music no. 683 Singing Hoosiers in Concert, 1983, Indiana University School of Music no. 766 Singing Hoosiers in Concert, 1986, Indiana University School of Music no. 504 Skaroulis, George/Imagine, Evzone Music 2009, 2009 [piano] Smith, Paul/Monty Budwig/Frank Capp/Barney Kessel/The Good Life, Voss D2-72937, 1988 Snow College Jazz Orchestra/A Place in the World, [n.l., n.n., n.d.] Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72), see SONDSINGS01

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Songs of Barbra Streisand, Pocket Songs PS 2238, 1994 (Carol Willis) SoundStroke/Laser Woodcuts, Second Hearing GS 9008, 1986 [xylophone] Stafford, Terrell/Time to Let Go, Candid CCD79702, 1995 [trumpet/ flugelhorn] Stairs, Michael/Longwood Pops: The Longwood Gardens Organ CD, Vol. 4, DTR/Direct-To-Tape 8605, 1996 [organ] Starlight Orchestra/Love Songs from the Movies, Object Enterprise OP0038, 1991 Starlite Orchestra & Singers/The Best of Broadway, Intercontinental Records 4018, 1997 Starlite Orchestra and Singers/Love at the Theatre, Quality Entertainment Division QED 118, 2000–2004? Starsound Orchestra/Best Movie Broadway Themes, Dominion 4136-2, 1993/1998 Steele, Joan/’Round Midnight, Audiophile AP-94, 1976 Stenson, Bobo/Goodbye, ECIM 982 5173, 2005 [piano trio] Stewart, Louis/Louis the First, Hawk Jazz 147, 1975 Stewart, Robert/Heaven and Earth, Nagel Heyer 2045, 2004 [tenor saxophone] Strazzeri, Frank/Relaxin’, Sea Breeze SB-1007 Streisand, Barbra/The Broadway Album, see STREISAND1 [lyric changes by Sondheim] Streisand, Barbra/One Voice, CBS Inc. CK 40788, 1987 [lyric changes by Sondheim, music change by Streisand] Streisand, Barbra/Timeless, see STREISAND3 Streisand, Barbra/The Essential Barbra Streisand, Sony Music Entertainment/Columbia Records C2K 86123-4, 2002 Strolling Strings/Over the Rainbow, United States Air Force Band, 198? Strong, Walter/Walter Strong Plays the Chicago Theater Wurlitzer, W. Strong Prod. WSP1, 1976 [organ] Stuarti, Enzo/You Touched My Life, 51 West Q 16004, 1979 Sullivan, Ira/Peace, Galaxy GXY-5114, 1979 [jazz quintet] Sullivan, KT/The Night They Invented Champagne, Prosody Records 796873013291, 2008 Sumi Jo/Only Love, Erato 8573-80241-2, 2000 Summer Squash/Of the Garden Wall, [n.l.], 8506X59-A, 8506X59-B, 1985 Swingle II/Lovin’ You: Vol. II: Words & Music, CBS S 81546, 1976 Syme, David/Play It Again, Syme, JB Records JB-1001-2, 1995 [piano] Terfel, Bryn/Simple Gifts, Deutsche Grammophon DG 477 5919, 2005 Theatre Orchestra & Chorus/Best of Broadway [Vol. 1], Til Records, 1977 Thelin, Eje with E.T. Project/E.T. Project live at Nefertiti, Dragon DRLP 128, 1986 [trombone with inst.]

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Thomas, Mark & Christine Croshaw/Sounds of Gold, Golden Crest Records RE7095, 1980 [flute and piano] Thomas, Richard “Cookie”/The Pleasure of Your Company, Orchard 1168, 2000 Tiger Lillies, The/Circus Songs, Warner Classics 8573839212, 2001 Topilow, Carl & Arthur/Come in from the Cold Music to Warm Your Heart, A&C Topilow [n.n.], 2001, 2002 [clarinet & piano] Tormé, Mel/Tormé, A New Album, Gryphon Records G-916, 1980 Tormé, Mel/The London Sessions, Sandstone Music D233083-2, 1990 Treorchy Male Chorus/Music from Wales, Bandleader 12, 2000 Trip to the Circus, A, Silver Touch SS 10001, 1978 Tropman, Matt/Continuum, Summit Records DCD 279, 2000 [euphonium with piano & percussion] Trotter, Terry/Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, see TROTTERT1 [piano solo] Turner, Geraldine/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2, see TURNERG2 Two For the Blues, Pablo 2310-905, 1984 [jazz combo] Ulster County Band/1981 Ulster County Band Festival, Mark Custom Recording Services MC-20123, 1981 University of Colorado Golden Buffalo Marching Band, University of Colorado USR 9275, 1975 University of Utah Ute Marching Band, Meteor Sound, 1979 University of Utah A Capella Choir, 1979–80, Location Recording Service CAV 0-2, 1980 Vail, Greg/Sax by Moonlight: Just the Way You Are, Delta Distribution 9006, 1997 Vaughan, Sarah/Send in the Clowns, Mainstream, 1974 Vaughan, Sarah and the Count Basie Orchestra/Send in the Clowns, Pablo Records 2312-130, 1981 Vaughan, Sarah/Sarah Vaughn’s 20 Hits, Phoenix 20 P20-628, 1983 Vaughan, Sarah/A Foggy Day, Astan Music 20117, 1984 Vaughan, Sarah/Thanks for the Memory, Instant CD INS 5049, 1985 Vaughan, Sarah/The Divine One, Audiofidelity CRCD 2038 Chiaroscuro, 1985 Vaughan, Sarah/Sarah Vaughan in the City of Lights, Justin Time JTR 8474/5-2, 1999 Vegas East Big Band/Piece of the Action, Century Productions LP 520604, LP33008, 198[?] Venuti, Joe and Dave McKenna/Alone at the Palace, Chiaroscuro 160, 1977 Vondrackova, Helen/The Broadway Album, Supraphon LC 0358, 1993

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Walters, Bill/I Wanna Sing Like You Know Who . . . , Jennifer Records JRC 98031, 1998 Warner, Evelyn/Here I Am, Wuppertaler Stadtwerke, 1999 [?] Watson, Joan/“Songs My Mother Taught Me,” Peros Music Studios PM 0211-2, 1998 [horn] Weedon, Bert/Blue Echoes, Polydor 2384095, 1977 [guitar with inst. ensemble] Werner, Bettan & Jan/Over the Rainbow and Other Musical Highlights, Universal Music Norway 601215908428, 2000 Werner, Kenny/Beauty Secrets, BMG 74321-699042, 2000 West Coast Harmony Chorus/All Fired Up!, The Chorus [n.n.], 2003 Whittaker, Roger/Imagine, RCA Victor AFL1-3077, 1978 Whittaker, Roger/Evergreens, RCA C 234263, 1979 Whittaker, Roger/The Roger Whittaker Album, K-TEL International NE 1105, 1981 Whittaker, Roger/The Best of Roger Whittaker, Reader’s Digest RD6A 141, RDK 5355, 1983 Whittaker, Roger/The World of Roger Whittaker, Pair Records PDC21212, 1988 Whittaker, Roger/You Are My Miracle, RCA Special Products DPC10955, 1991 Whittaker, Roger/Feelings, RCA Victor/BMG Music 09026-61984-2, 1994 Whittaker, Roger/On Broadway, RCA Victor 9026-68305-2, 1995 Whitmore, Stan/Piano on Broadway, GreenHill GHD5009, 1994 [solo piano] Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 Williams, Darren/Encore!, [n.l., n.n.], 1999[?] Williams, Darren/Showtime, see WILLIAMSDA1 Willner, Gary/Professional Sound Tracks, Pocket Songs PS 2570, 1997 Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 Wittenberg, Cindy Keller/Wander In/Silver, Wood & Ivory, Cindy Keller Wittenberg [n.n.], 2002 Woodward, Edward/Love Is the Key, DJM records DJF 20495, 1977 Woodward, Edward/Feelings, Pickwick Music PWKS 4102P, [n.d.] Wright, Danny/Black and White, Nichols-Wright Records NIW 101, 1986 [piano] Wright, Danny/Healer of Hearts, Real Music RM5518, 2003 [piano] Wright, Danny/The Best of Black and White, Moulin D’Orrecordis NIW032, 2003 [piano] Wright Big Band, The Steve/Nice ’n’ Easy, Jensen Pub. 603-14018 Dark Orchid Records, 1983

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Yandall, Mary & Rodger Fox, Circular 11A, 11. 011, 1987 Young, Michael/Songs for My Friends, [n.l., n.n.], 2000 Young, Thomas/High Standards, Ess.A.Y Records CD1025, 1992 Zamfir, Gheorghe/Love Songs, Mercury 314 510 213-2, 1991 [panpipes with orchestra] Zemarel Dance Band, The Zim/The Swazze Sound of Zim Zemarel Dance Band: featuring “Copacabana” and Other Favorites, Columbia C 35616, 1978 “Send in the Clowns (Reprise)” from A Little Night Music (1973) LNMPVS duet a-b1 [both] A Little Night Music Original Cast (Glynis Johns, Len Cariou), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music London Cast (Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland), see LITTLEN02 A Little Night Music Film (Elizabeth Taylor, Len Cariou), see LITTLEN03 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Sian Phillips, Eric Flynn), see LITTLEN04 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Judi Dench, Laurence Guittard), see LITTLEN05 A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Vicky Pena, Constantino Romero), see LITTLEN06 A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alexander Hanson), see LITTLEN07 “Senior Waltz” from By George (1946) “Shaw” from the 2004 revised version of The Frogs The Frogs Original Broadway Cast (Nathan Lane, Daniel Davis, Company), see FROGS2 “She Needs Me” cut from Ilya Darling (1967), music by Manos Hadjidakis “Sheep’s Song” from 1974 production of Candide, music by Leonard Bernstein CaPVS quartet a-b1/a-b1/a-e2/a-b1 Candide Revival (Becky McSpadden, Renee Semes, Jim Corti, Deborah St. Darr), see CANDIDE01 Candide New York City Opera (Ivy Austin, Rhoda Butler, Robert Brubaker, Maris Clement, Chorus), see CANDIDE02 Candide New Broadway Cast (Nanne Puritz, D’vorah Bailey, Seth Malkin, Stacey Logan, Ensemble with Jim Dale), see CANDIDE05

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“Show Me” from Hot Spot (1963), music with Mary Rodgers, lyric with Martin Charnin, [see also “Don’t Laugh”] Hey, Love (Faith Prince), see HEYLOVE1 “Side by Side by Side” from Company (1970) [show versions include “What Would We Do Without You?”] CPVS, CVS2, CVS3 company number, CVS, HTSS solo version c1-e2 Company Original Cast (Dean Jones, Company), see COMPANY01 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Company), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie, David Kernan, Ned Sherrin, and pianists), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Company), see SIDEBYS2 Songs of Sondheim Irish Cast (Company), see SONGSOFSOND1 Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental), see SYMPHONICSON1 Stephen Sondheim’s Company . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see COMPANY03 Company London Revival Cast (Adrian Lester, Company), see COMPANY04 Company Revival Cast (Boyd Gaines, Company), see COMPANY05 A Gala Concert for Hal Prince (Company & Raier Wallraf), see GALA1 Sondheim: A Celebration (Julia McKenzie, Millicent Martin, David Kernan), see SONDACEL1 Sondheim—A Celebration (The Company), see SONDACEL2 [with “Our Time” and “Sunday”] Hey, Mr. Producer! (David Kernan, Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie, Ned Sherrin, Stephen Sondheim), see HEYMRP Sondheim Tonight (Company), see SONDTON1 [listed as “Finale”; includes Sondheim] Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “I Do Like You,” “Old Friends”] Company Brazilian Cast (Claudio Botelho, Company), see COMPANY06 Company German Cast (Ensemble), see COMPANY07 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Company), see SIDEBYS3 Company Accompaniment CD (Miles Phillips, Company/accompaniment), see COMPANY08 Company Second Revival Cast (Raúl Esparza, Company), see COMPANY09 Boston Pops Orchestra/Songs of the ’60s (instrumental), see BOSTON1 Feliu, Nuria/Nuria de Nit, Hispavox Estel HHS 11-231/Hispavox 130 026, 1972 Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 Moore, Wayne & Brenda Silas Moore/What’s a Brayne & Wenda? Ducy Lee Recordings DLR900103, 2000

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Song Listing

“Silly People” cut from A Little Night Music (1973) ASII c1-f2 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (George Lee Andrews), see SONDAMUST1 Marry Me a Little1 (Craig Lucas), see MARRYME1 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Stephen Sondheim) Chaffin, Philip/Warm Spring Night, PS Classics 527, 2005 Eichorn-Young, Susan/Taking My Turn, see EICHORNS1 Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 New York City Gay Men’s Chorus/New York, New York, A Broadway Extravaganza, see NEWYORKCITYGAY1 Orquestra De Cambra Teatre Lliure/Stephen Sondheim, see ORQUESTRADECAM1 Wilson, Lambert/Musicals, see WILSONL1 Young, Susan Eichorn/Taking My Turn, see YOUNGSU1 “Simple” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) [waltz section originally private birthday song for Mary Rodgers] ACWPVS company number Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Angela Lansbury, Harry Guardino, Gabriel Dell, Larry Roquemore, Janet Hayes, Harvey Evans, Lester Wilson, James Frawley, Arnold Soboloff, Ensemble), see ANYONE1 Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (Scott Bakula, Walter Bobbie, Madeline Kahn, David Lowenstein, Donna Lee Marshall, Harvey Evans, Francis Ruvivar, Chip Zien, Ensemble), see ANYONE2 “Singing Out Loud” for Singing Out Loud (1992–93, unproduced) “Small World” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne GPVS f♯-a♯1 [+ duet at very end], GVS b♭-e♭2 Gypsy Original Cast (Ethel Merman, Jack Klugman), see GYPSY01 Herb Geller and His All-Stars play selections from Gypsy (Barbara Lang), see GELLERH Gypsy Film (Rosalind Russell, Lisa Kirk, Karl Malden), see GYPSY02 David Merrick Presents Hits from His Broadway Shows (John Gary), RCA Victor LPM-2947/LSP-2947, 1964 Gypsy London Cast (Angela Lansbury, Barrie Ingham), see GYPSY03 Gypsy Revival Cast (Tyne Daly, Jonathan Hadary), see GYPSY04 Gypsy TV Cast (Bette Midler, Peter Riegert), see GYPSY05 Celebrating Gypsy . . . (Libby Morris), see CELEBRATGYP Selections from “Gypsy” and “Flower Drum Song” (Florence Henderson), see GYPSY08 Kay Medford in “Gypsy” (Kay Medford, Jimmy Blackburn), see GYPSY09

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Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Bernadette Peters, John Dossett, MacIntyre Dixon), see GYPSY10 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Patti LuPone, Boyd Gaines), see GYPSY11 Bailey, Pearl/Come on Let’s Play with Pearlie Mae, Roulette (S)SR-25181, 1964 Bryant, Anita/Anita Bryant, Carlton (S)118, 1960 Chacksfield, Frank/Lawrence of Arabia, London LL-3298, (S)PS-298, 1964 Clary, Robert/Sings Harry Warren & Jule Styne, Original Cast 6040, 2005 [with “You’ll Never Get Away from Me” & “Together Wherever We Go”] Comstock, Eric/No One Knows, Harbinger HCD-2201, 2004 Crawford, Jesse/Sound of Jesse Crawford, Decca (S)DL7-4028, 1962 Damme, Art Van/Everything’s Coming Up Music, Columbia CL-1382, (S)CS-8177, 1960 Feinstein, Michael/Michael Feinstein Sings the Jule Styne Songbook, see FEINSTEIN1 Fields, Gracie, Decca F 11561, [n.d.] Fisher, Eddie/Tonight with Eddie Fisher, Ramrod (S)ST-6002, 1962 Four Aces/Hits from Broadway, Decca (S)DL7-8855, 1959 Four Aces/Four Aces Sing, Decca (S)ED7-2665, 1960 Gary, John/David Merrick Presents Hits from His Broadway Hits, Victor LPM/(S)LSP-2947, 1964 Gary, John/John Gary on Broadway, RCA Victor LPM-3928, 1968 Gorme, Eydie/Sound of Music, Columbia CL-2300, (S)CS-9100, 1966 Gorme, Eydie/ . . . Sings Great Songs from The Sound of Music and Other Broadway Shows, see GORMEE1 Harris, Margaret Wakeley/Quality Times, Original Cast 9855, 1998 Henderson, Florence/Selections from Gypsy and Flower Drum Song, see HENDERSONF1 Hi-Lo’s, The/Broadway Playbill, see HILOS Horne, Lena/ . . . At the Sands, RCA Victor LPM 2364, 1961 [in medley] Horne, Marilyn/The Men in My Life, RCA Victor CD 9026-62647-2, 1994 (duet with Spiro Malas) King, Wayne/Listening Time, Decca (S)DL7-8972, 1960 Kral, Irene/Where Is Love?, Candid Choice CHCD71012, 1974/1996 [with “A Time for Love”] Lawrence, Steve/Lawrence Goes Latin, United Artists UAL-3114, (S)UAS-6114, 1962 Lawrence, Steve/Steve Lawrence Conquers Broadway, United Artists UAL-3368, (S)UAS-6368, 1966 MacKenzie, Gisele/ . . . In Person at the Empire Room of the WaldorfAstoria, Everest LPBR 5069, 1960; Collectables COL-CD-0852, 2006 [in medley]

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Martin, Tony/Days of Wine and Roses, Chrysallis (S)CLS-100, 1964 Mathis, Johnny, Columbia 45rpm 4-41410, 1959 Mathis, Johnny/You Are Everything to Me, Columbia 33rpm (S)7-30410, 1959 Mathis, Johnny/More Johnny’s Greatest Hits, Columbia CL-1344, (S)CS8150, 1959 Mathis, Johnny/Golden Dozen (Best of Jule Styne), Columbia CL-1462, 1960 Mathis, Johnny, Columbia 45rpm 4-33056, 1964 Mathis, Johnny/The Great Years, Columbia C2L-34, (S)C2S-834, 1964 McKenzie, Rita/Ethel Merman’s Broadway, see MCKENZIER1 Melis, Jose/Jose Melis on Broadway, Mercury MG-20610, (S)SR-60610, 1962 Merman, Ethel/Merman in Vegas, Reprise R9-6062, 1962 Merman, Ethel/A Gala Tribute to Joshua Logan, [n.l.] Merman, Ethel/Mermania!, see MERMANE1 [2 versions, 1 in medley] Molaskey, Jessica/A Good Day, PS Classics CD311, 2003 Mozian, Roger King/Spectacular is the Sound of It, MGM (S)SE-3883, 1962 O’Connell, Helen/Era Reborn, Cameo (S)SC-1045, 1964 O’Shaughnessy, Carol/Live at Scullers, Songkeepers 001, 2000 [with “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”] Pringle, Anne & Mark Burnell/Little Things We Do Together, Spectrum SR003, 2000 Ross, Annie/Gypsy, see ROSSANNIE Roy Budd Trio/Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Musical . . . Sondheim, see ROYBUDD1 Sherwood, Roberta/Live Performance, Decca (S)DL7-4100, 1962 Smith, Ethel/Sound of Music, Decca 45rpm 9-25518, 1962 Smith, Ethel/Ethel Smith on Broadway, Decca (S)DL7-8993, 1962 Styne, Jule/My Name Is Jule, see STYNEJ1 Suzuki, Pat/Looking at You, Victor (S)LSP-2186, 1960 We Five, A&M 45rpm 770, 1966 We Five/You Were on My Mind, A&M (S)4-111, 1966 Wilson, Nancy/Live from Las Vegas, EMI Music Distribution 3118012/Capitol/EMI Records 75938, 2005 “Smile, Girls” cut from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Patti LuPone), see GYPSY11 “So Happy (Act II Opening, Part II)” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS company number Into the Woods Original Cast (Tom Aldredge, Company), see INTOTHE1

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Into the Woods London Cast (Nicholas Parsons, Company), see INTOTHE2 Into the Woods Revival Cast (John McMartin, Company), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Ferran Frauca, Company), see INTOTHE5 “So Many People” from Saturday Night (1954) ASII, SNVS solo version b♭-e♭2 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Susan Browning, Jack Cassidy), see SONDAMUST1 Marry Me a Little1, 5 (Suzanne Henry, Craig Lucas), see MARRYME1 Stage1/how I love you (Richard True, Michael Fawcett), DINK Records DIDX 037070, 1996 Saturday Night Bridewell Cast (Anna Francolini, Sam Newman), see SATURDAYN1 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Lauren Ward, David Campbell), see SATURDAYN2 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Tami Tappan), see STEPHENSA1 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Loving You,” “Not a Day Goes By”] Simply Sondheim (Amy Dondy), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] Abernathy, John/Live Out Loud!, John Abernathy 884501220606, 2009 [with “Loving You”] Bennett, Richard Rodney/A Different Side of Sondheim, see BENNETTR1 Bergman, Anna/Souvenír, LML CD-147, 2002 Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (Malcolm Gets), see COOKB1 [with “Another Hundred People”] Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook at the Met, see COOKB2 [with “Another Hundred People”] Duchak, Roberta/Intersections, [n.l.] 37101 30645, 2007 Ebersole, Christine/Sunday in New York, Ghostlight Records 8-3310, 2008 Gets, Malcolm see Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 Mackay, Meg/So Many People, On Stage Music BP1234, 1994 Malmberg, Myrra/What Can You Lose?, see MALMBERG1 McKinley, Bill/Everything Possible, Everything Possible EPCD922-0, 1992 Molaskey, Jessica/Make Believe, PS Classics CD22, 2004 Orquestra De Cambra Teatre Lliure/Stephen Sondheim (Nina), see ORQUESTRADECAM1 Patinkin, Mandy/Experiment, see PATINKIN3 Quade, Verity & Robert Archibald/A Different Kind of Love, [n.l., n.n., n.d.] [with “Fallin’”]

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St. George, Elaine/That Old Fashioned Love, Two E Music TEM002, 2004 Turner, Geraldine/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2, see TURNERG2 “Social Dancing” added to the 1987 London production of Follies Follies London Cast (Company), see FOLLIES03 “Soldiers and Girls” cut from Sunday in the Park with George (1984), [see also “The One on the Left”] “Soldier’s Gossip (Scenes 8, 10 & 11)” from Passion (1995) PPVS company numbers Passion Original Cast (Francis Ruivivar, George Dvorsky, Cris Groenendaal, Marcus Olson, William Parry), see PASSION1 Passion London Concert (Michael Cantwell, Simon Green, Michael Dove, Nigel Williams), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Alberto ter Doest, Bert Simhoffer, Jurko van Veenendaal, Jochem Feste Roozemond, Richard Spijkers, ensemble), see PASSION4 “Some People” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne GPVS, GVS2 g♯-c2, GVS c♯1-e♯2, SSS b-d♯2 Gypsy Original Cast2 (Ethel Merman), see GYPSY01 Gypsy Film (Rosalind Russell, Lisa Kirk), see GYPSY02 Gypsy London Cast (Angela Lansbury), see GYPSY03 Gypsy Revival Cast (Tyne Daly), see GYPSY04 Gypsy TV Cast (Bette Midler), see GYPSY05 A Broadway Celebration, see BROADWAYCEL Celebrating Gypsy . . . (Libby Morris), see CELEBRATGYP Gypsy German Cast (Angelika Milster), see GYPSY07 Selections from “Gypsy” and “Flower Drum Song” (Florence Henderson), see GYPSY08 Kay Medford in “Gypsy” (Kay Medford), see GYPSY09 Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Bernadette Peters, William Parry), see GYPSY10 Bravo Broadway II (Debbie Gravitte), see BRAVOBROAD2 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Patti LuPone), see GYPSY11 Akers, Karen/Simply Styne, DRG 91506, 2008 [with “I’ve Heard That Song Before” Suite] Andreas, Christine/Here’s to the Ladies, PS Classics 208, 2002 Arthur, Bea/Bea Arthur on Broadway . . . Just Between Friends, DRG 12993, 2002 Bailey, Jim/Voices, DCC Compact Classics DZS-164, 1998 Baron, Miriam/Listen, Miram Baron 101, 1998

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Billings, Alexandra/Being Alive, Southport S-SSD 0080, 2000 Clooney, Rosemary, The Les Brown Orchestra with/Sweet Sounds, Sounds of Yester Year 600, 2002 Eder, Linda/Broadway, My Way, Atlantic 83580-2, 2003 Garland, Judy/Just for Openers, Capitol (S)DW-2062, 1964, M-12034, [1988] Garland, Judy/Judy Garland Live!, Capitol CDP 7923432, 1989 Gravitte, Debbie/Defying Gravity, JAY Records CDJAY 1393, 2006 Henderson, Florence/Selections from Gypsy and Flower Drum Song, see HENDERSONF1 Hines, Mimi/Mimi Hines is a Happening, Decca (S)74834, 1967, reissued as The Mimi Hines Albums, Cabaret Records CD 5017-2, 1995 Horne, Lena/Lena at the Sands, RCA Victor LPM/(S)LSP-2364, 1961 [in medley] Lamond, Toni/ . . . At the School of Arts Café, Larrikin LRF 369, [n.d.] Lewis, Monica/ . . . Swings Jule Styne, DRG 802, 1991 McKenzie, Rita/Ethel Merman’s Broadway, see MCKENZIER1 Merman, Ethel/Ethel’s Ridin’ High, Decca/London PS 909, 1974 Merman, Ethel/The Disco Album, A&M Records SP-4775, 1979 Merman, Ethel/Ethel Merman at Carnegie Hall [n.l.] Merman, Ethel/Mermania!, see MERMANE1 Minnelli, Liza/Liza Minnelli at Carnegie Hall, Telarc CD-85502, 1987 Minnelli, Liza/Liza Minnelli Live at Carnegie Hall, CALTEL, 1981 Minnelli, Liza/Aznavour/Minnelli: Paris-Palais . . . , see MINNELLI1 Minnelli, Liza/Liza Live from Radio City Music Hall, Columbia CD 746453169-2, 1992 Minnelli, Liza/Liza’s Back, J Records 80813-20045-2, 2002 Minnelli, Liza/Life is a Cabaret—The Very Best of Liza Minnelli, Sony 507808 2, 2002 Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., see PETERSB1 Prince, Faith/A Leap of Faith, DRG 91460, 2000 [incomplete] Ross, Annie/Gypsy, see ROSSANNIE Styne, Jule/My Name Is Jule, see STYNEJ1 Syms, Sylvia/Torch Song, Koch KOC-CD-7936, 1997 [previously available only as a Columbia 45rpm single, 1959]; reissued on The Columbia Years, Collectibles [n.n], 2003 Whitfield, Weslia/Weslia Whitfield Live in San Francisco, Landmark LCD-1531-2, 1991 “Someone in a Tree” from Pacific Overtures (1976) POPVS company number Pacific Overtures1 Original Cast (James Dybas, Mako, Gedde Watanabe, Mark Hsu Syers), see PACIFICOVER1

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Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (instrumental), see SOND1 A Stephen Sondheim Evening (Bob Gunton, George Hearn, Steven Jacob, Cris Groenendaal), see STEPHENSE1 Pacific Overtures English National Opera (Eric Roberts, Richard Angas, Harry Nicoll, Alan Woodrow), see PACIFICOVER2 Sondheim: A Celebration (Deborah Nishimura, Sab Shimono, Gedde Watanabe), see SONDACEL2 Pacific Overtures New Broadway Cast (Alvin Y. F. Ing, B. D. Wong, Telly Leung, Evan D’Angeles), see PACIFICOVER3 “Someone Is Waiting” from Company (1970) CPVS c♯1-f♯2 [+ chorus], CVS, SCCH c1-f2, CVS2, CVS3 b-e2 Company Original Cast (Dean Jones and the Vocal Minority), see COMPANY01 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Richard Muenz), see SONDACELATC1 Stephen Sondheim’s Company . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see COMPANY03 Company Revival Cast (Boyd Gaines), see COMPANY05 Company London Revival Cast (Adrian Lester), see COMPANY04 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Multitudes of Amys,” “No, Mary Ann,” “Johanna”] Company Brazilian Cast (Claudio Botelho), see COMPANY06 Company Accompaniment CD (Miles Phillips/accompaniment), see COMPANY08 Company Second Revival Cast (Raúl Esparza), see COMPANY09 Boston Pops Orchestra/Songs of the ’60s (instrumental), see BOSTON1 Patinkin, Mandy/Experiment, see PATINKIN3 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 “Someone Like You” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS e1-f2, DIHVS d1-e♭2 Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Cast (Sergio Franchi), see DOIHEAR1 Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Anthony Crivello, Alyson Reed), see DOIHEAR2 Franchi, Sergio/Songs of Richard Rodgers, Victor (S)LSP-3365, 1966 “Someone to Trust” cut from Bounce (2003) “Someone Woke Up” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS a♭-b1

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Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Cast (Elizabeth Allen, Ensemble), see DOIHEAR1 Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Alyson Reed, Eddy Martin), see DOIHEAR2 “Something Just Broke” added to the 1992 London production of Assassins APVS company number [included in reprint, also published as separate number Warner Bros. VS6153] Assassins Broadway Cast (Ensemble), see ASSASSINS2 “Something’s Coming” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein BOB, BSBA, SS, WSSVS d1-f2, WSSPVS e1-g2 West Side Story Original Cast2 (Larry Kert), see WESTSIDE01 West Side Story film (Jim Bryant), see WESTSIDE02 West Side Story Studio Cast (José Carreras), see WESTSIDE03 Bernstein on Broadway (Peter Hofmann), see BERNSTEINON1 West Side Story Studio Cast London (Michael Ball), see WESTSIDE04 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Paul Manuel), see WESTSIDE05 West Side Story, The Songs of (All 4 One), see WESTSIDE06 West Side Story London Studio Cast (David Holliday), see WESTSIDE09 West Side Story Original Score (Mike Eldred), see WESTSIDE10 Broadway Unplugged 4 (Aaron Lazar), see BROADWAYUNPL4 West Side Story Broadway Revival (Matt Cavenaugh), see WESTSIDE11 Abernathy, John/Look Straight Ahead, John Abernathy 786851106824, 2005 Addinsall, Beven & Matt Hetherington/Musically Speaking, Addinsall Entertainment 887875645532, 2002 Ball, Michael/The Musicals, see BALLM1 Ball, Michael/I Dreamed a Dream, Spectrum/Universal International 67873, 2003 Bassey, Shirley/Broadway Bassey’s Way, EMI SHZE 371/Columbia SCX6515, 1972 Bassey, Shirley/Shirley Bassey Stops the Shows, EMI BGOCD826, 2008 Black, Stanley/Broadway Blockbusters, London (S)SP-44088, 1967 Buckley, Betty/An Evening at Carnegie Hall, see BUCKLEYB3 Buckley, Betty/Quintessence, see BUCKLEYB4 Burton, Gary/Something’s Coming, Victor (S)LSP-2880, 1965 Carl, Christopher & Brian Lane Green/Truly Human, Umano CD-4928, 2000 Connelli, Judi/Judi Connelli Live in London, see CONNELLI2 [with “Where is It Written” & “The Way He Makes Me Feel”]

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Connor, Chris & Maynard Ferguson/Two’s Company, Roulette (S)SR52068, 1961; CD: CDP 7243 8 37201 2 5, 1996 Connor, Chris/’S Wonderful, Blue Moon BMCD 3074 (rec. 1963) 1998[?] Connor, Chris/At the Village Gate, Roulette Records 71346, 2006; Toshiba EMI 6880, 2007 Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (sung by Malcolm Gets), see COOKB1 [with “Tonight”] Cook, Barbara/No One is Alone, see COOKB3 Corey, Jill & Billy Maxted’s Manhattan Jazz Band/Let’s Go to Town, Sounds of Yester Year DSOY795, 2009 Cousens, Peter/Corner of the Sky, First Night OCRCD 6043, 1994 Cousens, Peter/A Life on Earth, Middle Eight PCG-01, 2001 [Australian] [with “Tonight”] Damone, Vic/On the Street Where You Live, see DAMONE1 Davis Jr., Sammy/Sammy Davis Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove, see DAVISS [part of West Side Story medley] Davis Jr., Sammy/Sammy Davis Jr. Belts the Best of Broadway, Reprise (S)R9-2010, 1961 Davis Jr., Sammy/What Kind of Fool Am I?, Reprise (S)R9-6051, 1963 Davis Jr., Sammy/The Great Sammy Davis Jr., Columbia PCT 11299, 198[?] Dee & Tee, Coral 45rpm 62057, 1967 Desmond, Trudy/Make Me Rainbows, Koch Jazz KOC 3-7803, 1995 Evingson, Connie/I Have Dreamed, Minnehaha Music MM2001, 1995 Fisher, Eddie/ . . . At the Wintergarden, Ramrod Records RR1-2, Taragon TARCD-1054, 1962, 69 [with “Maria” and “Tonight”] Ford, Anne Kerry/Something Wonderful, see FORDA1 Frangoulis, Mario/Short Stories: The Acropolis Concert, Balboa Recording Corp. 89552, 2002 [with “Maria” & “Tonight”] Freeman, Ethan/Is This Home?, Sound of Music [n.n.], 2008 Garland, Judy/Judy Garland Live!, Capitol CDP 7923432, 1989 Garland, Judy/Judy Duets (with Vic Damone), see GARLAND [in West Side Story medley] Group, The/The Group, Victor (S)LSP-2663, 1963 Hi-Lo’s, The/The Hi-Lo’s and All That Jazz, Columbia CL-1259, (S)CS8077, 1960 Johnson, J. J./Broadway Express, Victor (S)LSP-3544, 1967 Kert, Larry/Larry Kert Sings Leonard Bernstein, Seeco CE-467, (S)CES4670, 1964 Kert, Larry/Spotlight on Larry Kert, see KERTL1 King’s Singers, The/The King’s Singers Believe in Music, Columbia/EMI SCX 6637, 1981; Angel Records CDC-49117, 1987 LaBrecque, Doug/Opening Doors, Jay Records CDJAY 1388, 2005

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Lawrence, Carol/Tonight at 8:30, see LAWRENCEC Mansfield, Martin and Gayle Ashkenazy/Demarcations, see MANSFIELDM1 Mason, Karen/Not So Simply Broadway, Second Hearing GS 9015, 1986; Zeverly Records 9537, 1997 Masse, Laurel/Again, Disques Beaupre DB820C, 1990 Mathis, Johnny/The Shadow of Your Smile, Mercury 21073, (S)61073, 1966 Mathis, Johnny/The Global Collection, Columbia/Legacy 64894, 1997 McDermott, Sean/My Broadway, see MCDERMOTTS1 McVey, J. Mark/Broadway and Beyond, Marimach MP1-970601, 1997 Metzger, Derek/Me and My Songs, BMG METCD001, 1996 Michael, Tom/Written in the Stars, LML CD-157, 2002 [with “There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This”] Migenes, Julia/Live at the Olympia, see MIGENES1 Mitchell, Brian Stokes/Brian Stokes Mitchell, see MITCHELLBS1 O’Connell, Kevin J./Kevin J. O’Connell, Orchard 1402, 1999 O’Connor, Jeanne/Something’s Coming, Perldisc 810, 2007 Orchestra Manhattan (Byron Olson)/Digital Broadway (1986), see ORCHESTRAMAN1 [instrumental] Pachl, Connie/Coming Through, Thoroughbred Records TBR 1[?]1, [n.d.] Paige, Elaine/Essential Musicals, Universal 2006 Patinkin, Mandy/Experiment, see PATINKIN3 Richards, Ann/Many Moods of Ann Richards, Capitol (S)ST-1406, 1960 Ross, Edmundo/Broadway Goes Latin, London LL-3277, (S)PS-277 Schlongs/Punk Side Story (Andrew Asp), see SCHLONG1 Sommers, Joanie/Let’s Talk About Love, Warner Bros. (S)WS-1474, 1962 Steele, Tommy/Everything’s Coming Up Broadway, Liberty LRP-3426, (S)LST-7426, 1965 Storm, Rebecca/We Never Said Goodbye, Shearer Music Ltd. 5030822000488, 1997 Streisand, Barbra/The Broadway Album, see STREISAND1 Streisand, Barbra/One Voice, CBS Inc. CK 40788, 1987 Streisand, Barbra/Timeless (with Lauren Frost), see STREISAND3 Tanner, Tony/Something’s Coming!, Audio Fidelity AFLP 2171, 1967 Testani, Grace/Something’s Coming, Grace Note Productions [n.n.], 2006 Toro, Natalie/Natalie Toro, see TORON1 Utopia/Another Live, JVC Compact Discs 64209, (1975)/2008 Valente, Caterina/I Happen to Like New York, London LL-3362, (S)PS362, 1964; Dutton Vocalion UK 4193, 2004 Warren, Fran/Something’s Coming, Warwick (S)ST 2012, 1960 Welch, Helen/One Dream, Big Wow Productions BWP25, 2007 [with “Somewhere”]

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Williams, Darren/Something’s Coming, [n.l., n.n., n.d.] Williams, Darren/Showtime, see WILLIAMSDA1 Yes/Yes [Bonus Tracks], Elektra/Rhino 73786, (1969)/2003 “Somewhere” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein BOB, WSSPVS b-f♯2, BSBA, BSC, SSS, WSSVS b♭-f2 West Side Story Original Cast (Reri Grist, Ensemble), see WESTSIDE01 West Side Story film (Jim Bryant, Marni Nixon), see WESTSIDE02 West Side Story Studio Cast (Marilyn Horne), see WESTSIDE03 Bernstein on Broadway (Debbie Sasson), see BERNSTEINON1 Jerome Robbins Broadway (Dorothy Benham, Christophe Caballero, Ensemble), see JEROMER1 West Side Story Studio Cast London (?), see WESTSIDE04 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Sally Burgess), see WESTSIDE05 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Paul Manuel, Tinuke Olafimihan), see WESTSIDE05 [Motion Picture Version] West Side Story, The Songs of (Aretha Franklin), see WESTSIDE06 West Side Story, The Songs of (Phil Collins), see WESTSIDE06 Leonard Bernstein’s New York (Dawn Upshaw), see LEONARDB1 West Side Story, Dave Grusin presents (Jon Secada), see WESTSIDE07 Afterglow (Tom Waits), Sony 2BTU, 1998 The 3 Divas (Judi Connelli, Suzanne Johnston, Jennifer McGregor), CDP 2000/DIVA003-1, 2000 West Side Story Original Score (Michelle Prentice), see WESTSIDE10 Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2 (instrumental), see SINGTHESONGS2 Broadway Unplugged 4 (Sarah Uriate Berry), see BROADWAYUNPL4 West Side Story Broadway Revival (Nicholas Barasch, Matt Cavenaugh, Josefina Scaglione, Company), see WESTSIDE11 Adams, Johnny/The Tan Canary: New Orleans Soul 1973–1981, Shout 36, 2007 Agawa, Yasuko/Tea for Two, JVC Compact Discs 60114/63035, 1997/ 2008 Akers, Karen/If We Only Have Love, DRG 91483, 2004 [with “I Have a Love”] Ames, Ed/Opening Nights, Victor (S)LSP-2781, 1964 Ames, Ed/Time for Living, A Time for Hope, Victor (S)LSP-4128, 1970 Andrew, Leo/A World of Possibilities, [n.l.] LAVW 1, 2001 Astley, Rick/Portrait, BMG 31187, 2006 Aznavour, Charles/Of Flesh and Soul, Monument (S)18130, 1970 Ball, Michael/Songs of Love, Sony Music Distribution 492988, 2001 Barry, Len/The Very Best of Len Barry, Taragon Records 1004, 1995

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Barry, Sis/Too Smart (For My Own Good), Colpix 45rpm 796, 1963 Barry, Len, Decca 45rpm 62336, 1966 Bassey, Shirley/Shirley Bassey Belts the Blues, United Artists UAL-3419, (S)UAS-6419, 1965 Bassey, Shirley/Shirley Bassey in Person, United Artists UAL-3463, (S)UAS-6463, 1967 Bassey, Shirley/Shirley Bassey Stops the Shows, EMI BGOCD826, 2008 Berglund, Eric/Somewhere, Oreade Music 60692, 2002 Black, Ben/Remembered Face/Private Places, Origin Records 82387, 2003 Blackwell, Harolyn/A Simple Song: Blackwell Sings Bernstein, see BLACKWELL1 Borchert/Thomas/Strictly Musical Live, SoulMadeRecords, 2009 Boyd, Neal E./My American Dream, Decca 001289702, 2009 Brightman, Sarah/Sarah Brightman in Concert, WEA 428571, 2008 Brothers Four, Columbia 45rpm 4-43211, 1965 Brothers Four/Honey Wind Blows, Columbia CL-2305, (S)CS-9105, 1965 Bryant, Kimilee/My Favorite Things, Kimilee Bryant [n.n.], 2008 Butler, Henry/Fivin’ Around, MCA Records MCAD-5707, 1986 Campbell, Glen/Glen Campbell: Live, Beat Goes On 790, (1969)/2008 Campbell, James, Gene Di Novi, Dave Young/Manhattan Echoes, Marquis Records 81267, 2000 Cant, Donald/Donald Cant, see CANTD1 Carreras, Jose/Amigos para Siempre: Friends for Life: Romantic Songs of the World, Atlantic 82413-2, 1992 Carse, Steph/Reach Out, Cargo Records 4318, 2006 Cedeno, David/Put a Little Salsa in Your Life, Mambo Maniacs Records 5002, 2003 Celtic Woman/Celtic Woman [Bonus Tracks], Angel Records [n.n.], 2005 Church, Charlotte/Enchantment, Columbia CK 89710, 2001 Cook, Barbara/All I Ask of You, DRG 91456, 1999 Couch, Danny/Something to Remember, Danny Couch Records 002, 2003 Cramer, Floyd/Here’s What’s Happening, Victor (S)LSP-3746, 1967 Crawford, Michael/Songs from the Stage & Screen, see CRAWFORDM1 Curtis, King/Instant Groove, Atco (S)293, 1970 D’Rone, Frank/Brand New Morning, Cadet (S)806, 1970 Darin, Bobby/Venice Blue, Capitol ST2322, [n.d.] Darin, Bobby/West Side Story, see DARIN1 Davidson, John/My Best to You, Columbia CL-2648, (S)CS-9448, 1967 Diddley, Bo/Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger, Checker 2977, 1961 Domingo, Placido & Paloma San Basilio/Por Fin Juntos, Capitol Records 42624, 1991 Domingo, Placido/The Broadway I Love, see DOMINGO1

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Domingo, Placido & Renee Fleming/Star-Crossed Lovers, Decca 460 7932, 1999 Douglas, Mike/It’s Time for Mike Douglas, Epic LN-24169, (S)BN-26169, 1965 Drake, Alfred/Alfred Drake & Roberta Peters Sing the Popular Music of Leonard Bernstein, see DRAKEA Dudley, Dave/George, Mercury (S)61242, 1970 Duprees, The/Today, Collectables Records 8699, 2008 Escorts, Coral 45rpm 62336, 1963 Faithfull, Marianne/Easy Come Easy Go, Naïve (France) 81441, 2008 Feinstein, Michael/Michael Feinstein with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Concord Records CCD-4987-2, 2001 Four Seasons/Four Seasons Entertain You, Phillips PHM-200164, (S)PHS600164 Franklin, Aretha/Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky), Atlantic [n.n.], 1973; Rhino Atlantic [n.n.], 2008 Gary, John/Choice, Victor LPM/(S)LSP-3501, 1966 Garland, Judy/Judy Duets (with Vic Damone), see GARLAND [in West Side Story medley] Garrick, David/The Pye Anthology, Castle Music Ltd. 72216, 2002 Gott, Karel/Kdyz Muz Se Zenou Snídá: Rarity, Supraphon 5950, 2009 Goulet, Robert/Traveling On, Columbia CL-2541, (S)CS-9341, 1967 Guest, Rob/Standing Ovation, EMI Music (Australian Group) 7986212, 1991 [in medley] Hall, Vince/Vince Hall at the Club, Tower (S)DT-5064, 1967 Holmes, Jerry/Jerry Holmes Dramatic New Voice, Warner Bros. (S)WS1593, 1965 Horne, Lena/Lena in Hollywood, United Artists (S)6470, 1966; CD: EMI Records E2-37394, 1996 Horne, Marilyn/The Men in My Life, RCA Victor CD 9026-62647-2, 1994 Hyland, Brian/Brian Hyland, Fontana/Hip-O Select 000288102, (1970)/2006 [with “Maria”] Il Divo/Siempre, Syco/Columbia 702673, 2006 Imogen Children’s Chorale/Australian Sunset, Larrikin 364, 1995 Intimate Broadway/My Favorite Things, Intersound 8311, 1996 Itoh, Kimiko/For Lovers Only, Sony Music Distribution 1010, 1987 Itoh, Kimiko/At Montreaux Music Festival, One Voice 1029, 1998; Video Arts 1029, 2005 Ivir, Jasna/Musical Diva Delights, Jankowski JST 298, 1995 James, Etta/All the Way, RCA Victor 79147, 2006 Jenkins, Katherine/Rejoice, Decca 001264702, 2009 Jöback, Peter/Storybook, [n.l., n.n.], 2004 Jones, Jack/If You Ever Leave Me, Victor (S)LSP-3969, 1968

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Jolley, Willie/Money Making Music and Minutes, Somersault 100542, 2007 Kelly, Nancy/Live Jazz, Amherst Records AMH-93317, 1990 Kert, Larry/Larry Kert Sings Leonard Bernstein, Seeco CE-467, (S)CES4670, 1964 Kert, Larry/Spotlight on Larry Kert, see KERTL1 King Richard’s Fluegel Knights/Knights on Broadway, MTA (S)5008, 1970 King Sisters/New Sounds of the Fabulous King Sisters, Warner Bros. (S)1647, 1967 Knight, Bob/Memories, Four Josie 45rpm 899, 1963 Köhler, Barbara/Laziest Girl, GEMA LC 05699, 2007 Kröger, Uwe/Musical Moments Vol. 2, SR International [n.n.], 2005 [with “Home”] Laine, Cleo/Themes, Sierra Records FEDC 2000, 1978[?] Lee, Brenda/Coming on Strong, Decca (S)4825, 1967 Leeds, Len/From Law Suite to Love Songs, L&L Productions 1001, 2005 LeMel, Gary/Moonlighting, Atlantic 831782, 1999 Leyton, Jeff/Music of the Night, Linn AKD098, 1998 London’s Broadway Players/The Essential Broadway Musicals, Mirana 8504, 2008 Longthorne, Joe/The Christmas Album, Telstar 2385, 1993; Hallmark Recordings (UK) 705292, 1994 Lymon, Frankie/Sweet & Lovely, Columbia 45rpm 4-43094, 1964 Lytle, Johnny/Sound of Velvet Soul, Solid State (S)18026, 1968 MacRae, Gordon/If She Walked into My Life, Capitol (S)ST-2578, 1967 Mann Singers, Johnny/Daydream, Liberty 3447, (S)7447, 1966 Marie, Kelly/Applause!, Pinacle CDKOPY 146, 2004 Martin, Felix/Musical Changes, EBM/Pool Music 4012772019735, 2001 [in medley with “Maria” and “Tonight”] Martino, Al/This Is Love, Capitol (S)ST-2592, 1967 Mathis, Johnny/Tender is the Night, Mercury MG-20890, (S)SR-60890, 1964 Mattila, Karita/Wonderful, Ondine 848, 1995 Maxwell, Linn/Times Like This, Original Cast [n.n.], 2003 [hidden track] May, Tina/Fun, 33Jazz Records 013, 1993 McClelland, Jean & Bill/At Long Last Love . . . (Jean McClelland), Muzen 3643, 2007 McDonald, Audra/How Glory Goes, Nonesuch 79580-2, 2000 McDonald, Jane/Inspiration, Universal Music TV 157 861-2, 2000 McKenzie, Julia/The Musicals Album, see MCKENZIEJ1 McNair, Sylvia & Daniel Kobialka/Silver Linings, Cymekob Records 802, 1995

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Mirettes/In the Midnight Hour, Revue (S)7205, 1970 Mitchell, Keith/Keith Mitchell Sings Broadway, Spark SPA-03, 1972 Mitchell, Rubin/Remarkable Rubin, Capitol (S)ST-2658, 1967 Monro, Matt/From Russia with Love, Liberty LRP-3356, (S)LST-7356, 1964 Monro, Matt/Heart of the Man, Night Owl Music, [n.l., n.n., n.d.] Montgomery, Wes/Fusion, Riverside (S)RS9-472, 1964 Morgan, John/Baritone in Love, [n.l, n.n.], 2007 Mormon Tabernacle Choir/Curtain Up! Stage & Screen Show-Stoppers, Sony Music Distribution 21480, (1978) 1995 Nash, Johnny, Atlantic 45rpm 2344, 1968 New Orleans Social Club, The/Sing Me Back Home (Henry Butler), BMG 31195, 2006 Newell, Norman/I Gave My Love a Flower, O:Epic 24323, (S)26323, 1968 Newton, Wayne/One More Time, MGM (S)4549, 1970 Nicholson, Carla & Michael/Just Duet, see NICHOLSONC1 [with “I Feel Pretty” and “Tonight”] Ofarim, Esther/Is It Really Me?, Phillips PHM-200185, (S)PHS-600185, 1966 Paul, Billy/Feelin’ Good at the Cadillac Club, Gamble (S)5002, 1970 Pet Shop Boys/Somewhere [UK CD Single #1], EMI Music Distribution 84296, 1998 [and reissued on several subsequent collections] Peter & Gordon/Woman, Capitol (S)ST-2477, [n.d.] Pieces of Eight/Falling Together, Orchard 802445, 2003 Poon, Richard/I’ll Take Care of You, Universal Distribution 5244, 2007 Price, Ray/Sweetheart of the Year, Columbia (S)CS-9822, 1970 Prior, Marina/Somewhere, see PRIORM1 Proby, P. J., Liberty 45rpm 55757, 1965 Proby, P. J./Somewhere, Liberty LRP-3406, (S)LST-7406, 1966 Ralston, Bob/Lawrence Welk Presents Bob Ralston, Raynote (S)8031, 1970 Reed, Vivian/Vivian Reed, Epic (S)26412, 1970 Reno, Ginette/Vocally Yours, Vol. 7–8, Melon-Miel 521, 2004 Reverte, Ana/A Mi Manera, Horus CD-08.388, 1999 Righteous Brothers/Standards, Verve (S)6-5051, 1968 Rokes, The/Let’s Live for Today: The Rokes in English 1966–1968, Rev-Ola Records 262, 2008 Rossen, Stig/Love Changes Everything, see ROSSENS1 Russo, Renato/The Stonewall Celebration Concert, EMI Music Distribution 829850, 1998/2007 Russo, Renato/Para Sempre, EMI Music Distribution 34464, 2002 Schlongs/Punk Side Story (Andrew Asp), see SCHLONG1 Secombe, Harry & Moira Anderson/Golden Memories: A Treasury of 20 Unforgettable Love Songs, Warwick WW 5107, 1981

Song Listing

447

Shaw, Ian/Ghostsongs, Jazz House Music 207, 2000 Shepard, Vicki/The Essential Vicki Shepard: Greatest Remixes and More, Redzone Records 2002, 2002 Smith, Faryl/Faryl, Decca B00236AJ14, 2009 Spiritas, Kevin/Night and Days, Kritzerland KR 20010-5, 2007 Starlite Orchestra & Singers/The Best of Broadway, Intercontinental Records 4018, 1997 Starr-Levitt, Megan/Beautiful Broadway, RJP Video Productions 899387001003, 2007 Stewart, Billy/Billy Stewart, Chess (S)1513, 1967 Storm, Rebecca/Broadway by Storm, Sony/BMG COL5109872, 1980/ 2003 Strassen, Michael/Chasing the Clouds, Dress Circle, 1999 Streisand, Barbra/The Broadway Album, see STREISAND1 Streisand, Barbra/The Concert, Columbia C2K 66109, 1994 Streisand, Barbra/Timeless (with Lauren Frost), see STREISAND3 [with “I Believe”] Streisand, Barbra/Streisand Live in Concert 2006 (with Il Divo), Columbia 88697019222, 2007 Stuarti, Enzo, Jubilee 78rpm/45rpm 5234, 1961 Sun Kil Moon/Ghosts of the Great Highway (Mark Kozelek), Caldo Verde Records 004, 2007 Supremes, The/Motortown Revue in Paris, Tamla (S)264, 1966 Supremes, The/The Supremes Live at the Copa, Motown (S)636, 1966 Supremes, The/In Japan, Hip-O Select 000318402, 2004 Tate, Linda/We Belong Together, Southport Records 38, 1996 Temptations/In a Mellow Mood, Gordy (S)924, 1968 Toronto Children’s Choir/Songs of the Lights, Marquis Records 71253, 2000 Traits, Scepter 45rpm 12169, 1967 Tres Bien Quartet/Four of a Kind, Decca (S)7-4958, 1968 Tucker, Richard/What Now My Love?, Columbia ML-6295, (S)MS-6895, 1967 Turtle Creek Chorale/Family, Turtle Creek Chorale 1070, 1995 Vale, Jerry, Columbia 45rpm 4-43895, 1967 Vale, Jerry/More Jerry Vale’s Greatest Hits, Columbia CL-2659, (S)CS9459, 1967 Valente, Caterina/Valente and Violins, London LL-3363, (S)PS-363, 1964 Van Horn, John/Sky High, Moonglow 45rpm 225, 1963 Velasquez, Regine/Regine Live: Songbird Sings the Classics, Viva Records 00018, 2000 Vondrackova, Helen/The Broadway Album, Supraphon LC 0358, 1993 Waits, Tom/Blue Valentine, Elektra 7559603361, (1978)1985; Elektra Asylum 162, 2006

448

Song Listing

Warner, Evelyn/Here I Am, Wuppertaler Stadtwerke, 1999[?] Warwick, Dionne/The Windows of the World, Scepter (S)SPS 563, 1968 Warwick, Dionne, Scepter 45rpm 21033, 1970 Warwick, Dionne/Greatest, Scepter (S)575, 1970 Warwick, Dionne/ . . . Sings the Standards, Connoisseur 30255, 1998 Watson, Russell/Encore, Decca 4703002, 2001 We Five, AAM 45rpm 800, 1966 We Five/Make Someone Happy, AAM (S)4-138, 1978 Welch, Helen/One Dream, Big Wow Productions BWP25, 2007 [with “Something’s Coming”] Werner, Bettan & Jan/Over the Rainbow and Other Musical Highlights, Universal Music Norway 601215908428, 2000 Westenra, Hayley/Hayley Westenra, Universal International 14285, 2004 Weston, Kim/This is America, MGM (!)4561, 1970 Whittaker, Roger/On Broadway, RCA Victor 9026-68305-2, 1995 Wilkinson, Colm/Stage Heroes, BMG/RCA Victor 74321-25856-2, 1997 Williams, Andy/The Shadow of Your Smile, Columbia CL-2499, (S)CS9279, 1966 Wilson, Nancy/From Broadway with Love, Capitol (S)CST-2433, 1966 Younger Brothers/High School Girl, Warner Bros. 45rpm 5386, 1963 “A Song for Humming” from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) “Soon” from A Little Night Music (1973) [linked with “Now” and “Later”] LNMPVS c1-g♯2 A Little Night Music Original Cast (Victoria Mallory), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music London Cast (Veronica Page), see LITTLEN02 A Little Night Music Film (Lesley-Anne Down), see LITTLEN03 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Janis Kelly), see LITTLEN04 The Great Waltz (Hollywood Bowl Orchestra), see HOLLYWOODB1 [part of “The Night Waltzes”] A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Joanna Riding), see LITTLEN05 A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Constantino Romero, Angel Llacer, Alicia Ferrer), see LITTLEN06 [and reprise by Teresa de la Torre] Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Laura Benanti), see WALLTOWALLS1 A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Ramona Mallory, Hunter Ryan Herilicka, Alexander Hanson), see LITTLEN07 Trotter, Terry/Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, see TROTTERT1 [piano solo] “Sooner or Later” from Dick Tracy (1990) ASIV, SSFTS b♭-e♭2, DTVS, SCCH f-b♭1

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449

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Karen Ziémba), see SONDACELATC1 Putting It Together (Rachel York), see PUTTINGIT1 Sondheim at the Movies3 (Jane Krakowski), see SONDATTHEM1 Sondheim: A Celebration (David Cassidy), see SONDACEL2 Out on Broadway (Keith Thompson), see OUTONB1 Stephen Sondheim Songs (instrumental accompaniment), see STEPHENSS1 Simply Sondheim (Shay Oglesby-Smith), see SIMPLYSOND1 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Madonna) [from the soundtrack] Akers, Karen/Unchained Melody, DRG 5214, 1991 Egan, Susan/So Far4, JAY Records CDJAY 1359, 2002 Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erick Kunzel/Movie Love Themes, Telarc Distribution 80243, 1991 Governors, The (Debrajane & Jennifer)/United, LML CD-184, 2005 [with “I Never Know When to Say When”] Hateley, Linzi/Sooner or Later, LHL 4, 1994 Ivir, Jasna/Musical Diva Delights, Jonkowski JST 298, 1995 Langford, Bonnie/Jazz at the Theatre, [n.l., n.n.], 2003 Madonna/I’m Breathless, see MADONNA1 McBryde, Deian/Love . . . & Other Distractions, EvAnMedia evan35700CD, 2000 [with “The Man That Got Away] Millennium Dance Party All-Stars/Millennium Swing Dance Party, St. Clair 5411, 1999 North, Robyn/Make Believe, JAY Records CDJAY 1406, 2009 O’Day, Anita/Rules of the Road, Pablo CD 2310-950-2, 1993 Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., see PETERSB1 Prior, Marina/Somewhere, see PRIORM1 Saxe, Emily/Whistling: Broadway to Berk’ley Square, see SAXEE1 Scott, Jacqui/Jacqui Scott, Highnote [n.n.], 2003 Ver Planck, Marlene/Marlene Ver Planck Meets Saxomania, Audiophile ACD-288, 1994 Wheatley, Rebecca/Sooner or Later, SB Music SB2401, [n.d.] Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 York, Rachel/Let’s Fall in Love, Hylo Productions HP214-80032, 2005 “Sorry-Grateful” from Company (1970) ASI, CVS, SSS solo version a-d2, CPVS trio version b-e2 [all 3], CVS2, CVS3 c-f2 [all 3] Company Original Cast (Charles Kimbrough, George Coe, Charles Braswell, Dean Jones), see COMPANY01 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Timothy Nolen), see SOND1 Putting It Together5 (Stephen Collins), see PUTTINGIT1 Stephen Sondheim’s Company . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see COMPANY03

450

Song Listing

Company Revival Cast (Robert Westenberg, John Hillner, Timothy Landfield), see COMPANY05 Company London Revival Cast (Clive Rowe, Teddy Kempner, Paul Bentley), see COMPANY04 Sondheim: A Celebration (Bill Hutton), see SONDACEL2 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Guy Haines), see STEPHENSA1 Company Brazilian Cast (Daniel Boaventura, Mauro Gorini, Paulo Mello), see COMPANY06 Company Accompaniment CD (Alan Gillespie, Kristofer Monroe, Booth Daniels/accompaniment), see COMPANY08 Company Second Revival Cast (Keith Buterbaugh, Fred Rose, Bruce Sabath), see COMPANY09 Buckley, Betty/Children Will Listen, see BUCKLEYB1 Burke, Simon/Something About Always, Simon Burke [n.n.], 2009 Gines, Christopher/The Way It Goes, Miranda, 2001; Bayview 5197, 2005 Harvey, Jane/Jane Harvey Sings Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Orquestra De Cambra Teatre Lliure/Stephen Sondheim, see ORQUESTRADECAM1 Patinkin, Mandy/Dress Casual, see PATINKIN2 Short, Bobby/Live at the Cafe Carlyle, see SHORTB1 Siegel, Janis/Sketches of Broadway, Telarc 83633, 2004 Traina, Joe/Only in New York, Filigree 9801, 1999 Wright, Bill/It Takes Two, see WRIGHTB1 “The Sound of Poets,” see “Exodus” “Souvenir” cut from Bounce (2003) “The Spell Is on My House (Opening Part VII)” from Into the Woods (1987) [see “Into the Woods” for recording information] ITWPVS trio e♭1-d♭2/d♭1-e♭2/e♭1-g♭2 “A Star Is Born” (1954) Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SINGS2 “Stars Give Light,” see “Chris and David I” “Stavisky Suite” (parts One, Two, and Three) Sondheim at the Movies (Orchestra), see SONDATTHEM1 “Stavisky Suite” Sondheim Tonight (Orchestra), see SONDTON1

SOND-

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451

“Stay” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS e♭1-b♭2, DIHVS c1-g2 [e2 optional] Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Cast (Sergio Franchi), see DOIHEAR1 Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Alyson Reed, Anthony Crivello), see DOIHEAR2 Kirby Stone Four, Columbia 45rpm 4-43250, 1966 Sloane, Carol, Columbia 45rpm 4-43307, 1966 Sullivan, KT/Sings the Sweetest Sounds of Richard Rodgers, DRG 91462, 2000 [with “Can’t You Do a Friend a Favor?” and “Look No Further”] “Stay Right Where You Are” cut from Bounce (2003) “Stay with Me” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS b♭-d♭2, ITWVS d1-f2 Into the Woods Original Cast (Bernadette Peters), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Julia McKenzie), see INTOTHE2 No. 1 Australian Musicals Album (Judy Connelli), Polydor 539 736-2, 1998 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Vanessa Williams, Melissa Dye), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Amanda J. Brizzi), see INTOTHE4 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Mone), see INTOTHE5 Buckley, Betty/Children Will Listen, see BUCKLEYB1 Connelli, Judi/Judi Connelli Live in London, see CONNELLI2 [with “Married,” “You Better Sit Down Kids,” and “Move On” (which includes “We Do Not Belong Together”)] Connelli, Judy/On My Way to You, see CONNELLI1 Dussault, Nancy/Heart and Soul, Nand Records 424, 1998 Kirchschlager, Angelika/When Night Falls, Sony Classical SK 64498, 1999 O’Connor, Caroline/What I Did for Love4, JAY Records CDJAY 1314, 1998 Soper, Gay/Flying Fish and Fallen Angels, see SOPERGAY1 “Still Got My Heart” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) PRSM c1-e♭2 “The Story of Lucy and Jessie” from Follies (1971) ASIV, CFC, FPVS g-b♭1 Follies Original Cast (Alexis Smith), FOLLIES01 Follies in Concert6 (Lee Remick), see FOLLIES02 Follies, The Complete Recording (Dee Hoty, Ensemble), see FOLLIES05 Harvey, Jane/Jane Harvey Sings Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Siegel, Janis/Sketches of Broadway, Telarc 83633, 2004

452

Song Listing

Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson at Brothers & Sisters Vol. Two, see WILSONJ1 [with “Beautiful Girls,” “Losing My Mind,” and “Could I Leave You?”] Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 “Strength Through Sex” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) “Study Hall Dirge” from By George (1946) “Suicide Sequence” from All That Glitters (1949) “Suite at the Claridge” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “The Sun Is Blue” from Mary Poppins (1950, unproduced) “The Sun Sits Low,” see “Night Waltz—II” “The Sun Won’t Set,” see “Night Waltz—I” “Sunday” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) ASII, SCC2, SPGVS solo version c♯1-a2, SPGPVS company number [2 versions] Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast (Company), see SUNDAYIN1 MERRILY1 [see also Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall below] Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Bernadette Peters, Broadway Chorus), see SONDACELATC1 [also included on the 2007 reissue of Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast recording, SUNDAYIN1] No One Is Alone . . . (Company), see NOONEIS1 Sondheim: A Celebration (The Company), see SONDACEL2 [with “Our Time” and “Side by Side”] Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Juilliard Choral Union), see WALLTOWALLS1 Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Company), see SUNDAYIN2 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Porter, Billy/At the Corner of Broadway and Soul, Sh-K-Boom Records 791558300-2, 2005 Rubano, Craig/Finishing the Act, see RUBANOC1 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1

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453

Singing Hoosiers, The/The Singing Hoosiers in Concert, 1986, Indiana University School of Music no. 504 “Sunday in the Park with George” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) SPGPVS e-d2 Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast (Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin), see SUNDAYIN1 No One Is Alone . . . (Peta Belinda Ashton), see NOONEIS1 [with “Color & Light”] Celebrating Sondheim (Mary Carewe, Stephen Hill), see CELEBRATSON Sondheim Tonight (The Soloists, The West End Chorus), see SONDTON1 [with “Being Alive” and “Another Hundred People”] Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Jenna Russell, Daniel Evans), see SUNDAYIN2 Simply Sondheim (Kelly Ground, Tom Orr), see SIMPLYSOND1 “Sunrise Letter” from Passion (1995) PPVS duet a♭-e2/b♭-g2 Passion Original Cast (Marin Mazzie, Jere Shea), see PASSION1 Passion London Concert (Helen Hobson, Michael Ball), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Pia Douwes, Stanley Burleson), see PASSION4 “Sweeney Todd Suite” Symphonic Sondheim (instrumental), see SYMPHONICSON1 [also included on the 2007 reissue of Sweeney Todd Original Cast, SWEENEYT1] “Sweet Polly Plunkett” from Sweeney Todd (1979), [see “Parlor Songs” for other recordings] STPVS d1-g2 Putting It Together (Julie Andrews), see PUTTINGIT1 “Take Me to the World” from Evening Primrose (1966) ASII, SSFTS solo version b♭-e♭2 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Marti Rolph), see SONDAMUST1 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Mary D’Arcy), see SOND1 Sondheim at the Movies (Liz Callaway, Gary Beach), see SONDATTHEM1 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Move On,” “I Know Things Now,” “Everybody Says Don’t”] The Frogs/Evening Primrose Studio Recording (Theresa McCarthy, Neil Patrick Harris), see FROGS1 Simply Sondheim (Stephanie Rhoads, James Brewer), see SIMPLYSOND1 Evening Primrose Original Television Soundtrack7 (Charmian Carr, Anthony Perkins), see EVENPRIM1

454

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Anthony, Julie/Lush, MHM [n.n.], 2001 [Australian] Argent, Monique/Moonfall, see ARGENTM1 Barnett, Peter & Julia Early/In So Many Words, see BARNETTEARLY1 Bennett, Richard Rodney/A Different Side of Sondheim, see BENNETTR1 Day, Courtenay/State of Bliss, LML Records LML CD-151, 2002 [with “Anyone Can Whistle”] DeVito, Michael/Take Me to the World, [n.l.] 6022, 2007 Dore, Michael/Simply, [n.l., n.n.], 2002 [with “Being Alive” and “Not a Day Goes By”] Green, Simon/Take Me to the World, see GREENS1 [with “All Things Bright and Beautiful”] Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Jamieson, Suzanne/A Sun Up Sky, LML Records 241, 2009 [with “You’re Gonna Hear from Me”] Jobson, Mark deVille/My House, see JOBSON1 Malmberg, Myrra/What Can You Lose?, see MALMBERG1 Mars, Susannah/Take Me to the World, see MARSS1 Nease, Byron/When I Fall in Love, Audible Difference AD CD002, 1992 [with “You and I”] New York City Gay Men’s Chorus/New York, New York, A Broadway Extravaganza, see NEWYORKCITYGAY1 Nova, Christian/Walking Happy, Original Cast Records OC9750, 1997 [with “Moon River”] Patinkin, Mandy/Dress Casual (Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin), see PATINKIN2 Roy Budd Trio/Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Musical . . . Sondheim, see ROYBUDD1 Turner, Geraldine/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2, see TURNERG2 Upshaw, Dawn/I Wish It So, see UPSHAWD1 Williams, Bob/Ballads for a Rainy Afternoon, Bob Williams [n.n.], 2003 [piano] “Take the Acorn” (incomplete) for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) “Take the Moment” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS d1-a♭2, DIHVS c1-e♭2 Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Cast (Sergio Franchi), see DOIHEAR1 Leading Men Don’t Dance, 1997 Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Alyson Reed), see DOIHEAR2

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455

Bennett, Tony/If I Ruled the World—Tony Bennett Songs for the Jet Set, Columbia CL-2343, (S)CS-9143, 1965; CBS/Sony CD 25DP-5320, 199[?] Davis Jr., Sammy/Sammy’s Back on Broadway, Reprise (S) R-6169, 1968; Collector’s Choice [n.n.], 2004 Horne, Lena/Feelin’ Good, United Artists (S)6433, 1968 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Rubano, Craig/Finishing the Act, see RUBANOC1 [with “Before the Parade Passes By”] “Talent” from Bounce (2003) and Road Show (2008) Bounce Original Cast (Gavin Creel), see BOUNCE1 Road Show Original Cast Recording (Claybourne Elder), see SHOW1

ROAD-

“Tamate’s Dance,” see “There is No Other Way” “Tea” from Mary Poppins (1950, unproduced) “Ten Years Old” cut from the television special The Fabulous Fifties (1960) Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SONDSINGS2 “Thank You for Coming” cut from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) “Thank You So Much” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS duet b♭-d2/d1-d2, DIHVS, SSS duet c1-c2 [both] Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Cast (Elizabeth Allen, Sergio Franchi), see DOIHEAR1 Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Alyson Reed, Anthony Crivello), see DOIHEAR2 “That Dirty Old Man” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) FTPVS b-f♯2 A Funny Thing . . . Original Cast (Ruth Kobart), see FUNNY01 A Funny Thing . . . London Cast (Linda Gray), see FUNNY02 A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Mary Testa), see FUNNY05 Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing . . . Forum . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see FUNNY04 “That Frank” added to 1985 revival of Merrily We Roll Along [replaces “Rich and Happy”]

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Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast (Malcolm Gets, Company), see MERRILY2 Merrily We Roll Along London Cast (Michael Cantwell, Company), see MERRILY3 “That Good Old American Dollar” from All That Glitters (1949) “That Kind of a Neighborhood” from Saturday Night (1954) [includes “Fair Brooklyn”] SNVS company number Saturday Night Bridewell Cast (Maurice Yeoman, Simon Greiff, Jeremy David, Ashleigh Sendin, Tracie Bennett, Mark Haddigan, James Millard), see SATURDAYN1 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (Michael Benjamin Washington, Kirk McDonald, Greg Zola, Joey Sorge), see SATURDAYN2 “That Old Piano Roll” cut from Follies (1971) [included as instrumental in 1st section of the “Overture,” and used in “Social Dancing” for the London revival] ASIV, CFC c1-e2, FPVS instrumental [in “Overture”] Unsung Sondheim3 (Harry Groener, taps: Lynette Perry), see UNSUNGS1 Follies, The Complete Recording (Tony Roberts), see FOLLIES05 New York City Gay Men’s Chorus/Love Lives On, see NEWYORKCITYGAY2 “That Was a Year” from Road Show (2008) Road Show Original Cast Recording (Michael Cerveris, Company), see ROADSHOW1 “That’ll Show Him” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) FTPVS c1-g2, FTVS b♭-f2 [e♭2 optional] A Funny Thing . . . Original Cast (Preshy Marker), see FUNNY01 A Funny Thing . . . London Cast (Isla Blair), see FUNNY02 A Funny Thing . . . Revival Cast (Jessica Boevers), see FUNNY05 Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing . . . Forum . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see FUNNY04 Shore, Dinah, Capitol 45rpm 4774, 1962 “That’s Good, That’s Bad,” see “Don’t Laugh” “Theme” from Reds (1981), see also “Goodbye for Now” Reds Soundtrack7, (Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute; Claude Bolling, piano), see REDS1

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457

“Theme” from Stavisky (1974) ASIV, SSFTS piano solo Stavisky1, 7 (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 [European version; arr. by Jim Tyler, cond. by Ettore Stratta]7 RCA single # PB-50060, 1975 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (instrumental), see SOND1 Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 “There Is No Other Way” from Pacific Overtures (1976), [also known as “Tamate’s Dance”] ASIV, POPVS duet, e1-g2/e1-b1 Pacific Overtures Original Cast (Alvin Ing, Ricardo Tobia), see PACIFICOVER1 Sondheim (Book-of-the Month) (instrumental), see SOND1 Pacific Overtures English National Opera (Edward Byles, Alan Woodrow), see PACIFICOVER2 New York City Opera Orchestra/Broadway’s Best (instrumental), see NEWYORKCITYOP1 Pacific Overtures New Broadway Cast (Evan D’Angeles, Telly Leung), see PACIFICOVER3 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Stephen Sondheim) “There Won’t Be Trumpets” cut from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) ACWPVS g-c2, ACWVS a-d2 Anyone Can Whistle1 Original Cast (Lee Remick), see ANYONE1 [CD only] Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin, David Kernan, Julia McKenzie), see SIDEBYS1 Marry Me a Little (Suzanne Henry), see MARRYME1 Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (Bernadette Peters), see ANYONE2 Sondheim: A Celebration (Joan Ryan), see SONDACEL2 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON The Broadway Musicals of 1964 (Liz Callaway), Bayview RNBW022, 2003 Broadway Unplugged (Ann Harada), see BROADWAYUNPL1 Barr, John/In Whatever Time We Have, see BARRJ1 Brindley, Susan/With So Little to Be Sure Of, see BRINDLEYS1 [with “A Quiet Thing”] De Ferranti, Margie/Margie De Ferranti, see DEFERRANT1 DiMarzio, Diana/Diana DiMarzio, Dina Dimarzio 800718, 2001 [with “Anyone Can Whistle”] Harvey, Jane/Jane Harvey Sings Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Hastings, Ruth/Ruth Hastings Plays the Geary, see HASTINGSR1 [with “Welcome to the Theatre”]

458

Song Listing

Kostelanetz, Andre/Andre Kostelanetz Plays Broadway’s Greatest Hits: from Annie, I Love My Wife, Side by Side by Sondheim, The King and I, Columbia PC 34864, 1977 Mansfield, Martin and Gayle Ashkenazy/Demarcations, see MANSFIELDM1 New York City Gay Men’s Chorus/New York, New York, A Broadway Extravaganza, see NEWYORKCITYGAY1 Patinkin, Mandy/Oscar and Steve, see PATINKIN4 Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., see PETERSB1 Streisand, Barbra/Just for the Record, Columbia C4K 44111/CK 48646, 1991 Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 [in medley] Upshaw, Dawn/I Wish It So, see UPSHAWD1 VerPlanck, Marlene/A Breath of Fresh Air, Audiophile ACD 109, 1993 “There’s a Hole in the World,” see “No Place Like London” “There’s a Parade in Town” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) ACWPVS g♭-b♭1 + chorus, ACWVS, ASI c♭1-e♭2 Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast2, 7 (Angela Lansbury, Ensemble), see ANYONE1 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Angela Lansbury), see SONDAMUST1 A Broadway Extravaganza (instrumental), see BROADWAYEX [in medley] Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (Madeline Kahn, Ensemble), see ANYONE2 Simply Sondheim (Guy Haines), see SIMPLYSOND1 Carson, Jeannie/The Girl with S. Q., London LL-3504, 1967; reissued on Dutton Vocalion 8111, 2004 Croson, Ruth/Memories of You, Ruth Croson [n.n.], 2007 [with “Before the Parade Passes By”] Kaye, Judy/Diva by Diva, Varese Sarabande VSD-5589, 1995 [in medley] Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 [in medley] “There’s Always a Woman” cut from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) Unsung Sondheim3 (Kaye Ballard, Sally Mayes), see UNSUNGS1 Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (Madeline Kahn, Bernadette Peters), see ANYONE2 “There’s Something About a War” cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) A Stephen Sondheim Evening1 (Cris Groenendaal and Men), see STEPHENSE1 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Stephen Sondheim)

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“They Ask Me Why I Believe in You” from I Believe in You (1956, unproduced) ASIV d1-g2 Unsung Sondheim (Rebecca Luker), see UNSUNGS1 Color and Light: Jazz Sketches . . . (Herbie Hancock, Stephen Sondheim on piano), see COLOR1 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Stephen Sondheim) Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., Etc. see PETERSB2 “They Do an Awful Lot of Dancing, the Dead,” see “Evoe for the Dead” “They Hear Drums (Scene 3, Part III)” from Passion (1995) PPVS e♯-c♯2, PVS g♯-e2 “Thinking” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS duet b-d♯2/a♯-c♯2 Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Cast (Sergio Franchi, Elizabeth Allen), see DOIHEAR1 Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Anthony Crivello, Alyson Reed), see DOIHEAR2 “Third Letter” from Passion (1995) PPVS company number Passion Original Cast (Marin Mazzie, Jere Shea), see PASSION1 Passion London Concert (Helen Hobson, Michael Ball), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Pia Douwes, Stanley Burleson), see PASSION4 “This Is Nice, Isn’t It?” see “Isn’t It?” “This Is Show Biz” for Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) [incomplete] “This Turf Is Ours” cut from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein “This Week, Americans” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS a-b♭1 Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Cast7 (Carol Bruce), see DOIHEAR1 Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Carol Lawrence), see DOIHEAR2 “This World (Candide’s Lament)” added to 1974 production of Candide, music by Leonard Bernstein

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CaPVS, CaVS b♭-e♭2 Candide Revival Cast (Mark Baker), see CANDIDE01 Alexander, Roberta & Tan Crone/Leonard Bernstein: Songs, Etcetera ETC 1037, 1985; Et’Cetera 1037, 2007 Mendelssohn Choir/Mendelssohn Sings Sondheim, see MENDELSSOHN1 “Three Wishes for Christmas” cut from Gypsy (1957), music by Jule Styne Cabaret Noel: A Broadway Cares Christmas, Lockett-Palmer 932512, 1993 A Christmas Wish (Chris Groenendahl), Broadway Cares CDH041, 199? Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Tony Yazbeck, Girls), see GYPSY11 Anderson, D. C./All Is Calm, All Is Bright, LML CD-136, 2001 Groenendaal, Chris/A Christmas Wish, [n.l.] 45990/2, [n.d.] “Tick-Tock” from Company (1970) [arr. by David Shire using themes from the show, cut in later productions] CPVS instrumental Company Original Cast (Orchestra), see COMPANY01 Company Revival Cast (Orchestra), see COMPANY05 “Together Wherever We Go” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne GPVS trio a-b1 [1 voice goes up to d2], GVS duet c1-d2 [both], GVS2 duet a-b1 [both] Gypsy Original Cast (Ethel Merman, Jack Klugman, Sandra Church), see GYPSY01 Herb Geller and His All-Stars Play Selections from “Gypsy” (Barbara Lang), see GELLERH Gypsy Film (Lisa Kirk/Rosalind Russell, Karl Maden, Natalie Wood), see GYPSY02 The Odd Couple Sings (Tony Randall, Jack Klugman), London Records XPS 903, 1973 Gypsy London Cast (Angela Lansbury, Barry Ingham, Zan Charisse), see GYPSY03 Gypsy Revival Cast (Tyne Daly, Jonathan Hadary, Crista Moore), see GYPSY04 Gypsy TV Cast (Bette Midler, Peter Riegert, Cynthia Gibb), see GYPSY05 Selections from “Gypsy” and “Flower Drum Song” (Florence Henderson), see GYPSY08 Kay Medford in “Gypsy” (Kay Medford, Lorraine Smith, Jimmy Blackburn), see GYPSY09 Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Bernadette Peters, Tammy Blanchard, John Dossett), see GYPSY10

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Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Patti LuPone, Boyd Gaines, Laura Benanti), see GYPSY11 Buffalo Bills/Together, Warner Bros. (S)WS-1520, 1963 Carroll, Barbara/Old Friends, Audiophile Records 254, 1994 Clary, Robert/Sings Harry Warren & Jule Styne, Original Cast 6040, 2005 [with “Small World” & “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”] Egan, Susan/Susan Egan Live!, LML Music LML CD 222, 2008 [in medley] Four Lads, Columbia 45rpm 4-41409, 1960 Four Lads/Golden Dozen (Best of Jule Styne), Columbia CL-1462, 1960 Garland, Judy & Ethel Merman, The Judy Garland Show, Broadcast Tributes BTRIB 00002, 1964; later issued as The Greatest Duets, Paragon 1001, and as Great Garland Duets [in medley] Garland, Judy & Liza Minnelli/ . . .“Live” at the London Palladium, Capitol ST-11191, 1964 Garland, Judy & Liza Minnelli/Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, Capitol (S)SWBO-2295, 1966 Garland, Judy/Judy Duets (with Liza Minnelli), see GARLAND [in medley] Garland, Judy/Judy Duets (with Ethel Merman), see GARLAND [in medley] Harnar, Jeff/Jeff Harnar Sings the 1959 Broadway Songbook, see HARNARJ1 Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 [part of “Rose’s Medley”] Hayman, Dick/After Six, MGM (S)SE-3827, 1960 Henderson, Florence/Selections from Gypsy and Flower Drum Song, see HENDERSONF1 Hi-Lo’s, The/Broadway Playbill, see HILOS Jackie & Roy/Double Take, Columbia CL-1704, (S)CS-8504, 1962 Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection, see JACKIE&1 Kirby Stone Four/Things are Swingin’, Warner Bros. (S)WS-1540, 1965 Lee, Peggy/Ole Ala Lee, Capitol (S)ST-1475, 1960; EMI Int’l 8560562, 1998 Lewis, Monica/ . . . Swings Jule Styne, DRG 802, 1991 MacKenzie, Gisele/ . . . In Person at the Empire Room of the WaldorfAstoria, Everest LPBR 5069, 1960; Collectables COL-CD-0852, 2006 [in medley] Marie, Rose/Songs for Single Girls, Kapp (S)KRS-4500, 1964 Merman, Ethel/Mermania!, see MERMANE1 Minnelli, Liza/Liza, Capitol (S)ST-2174, 1966 Parker, John/Sound of Conversations in Music, Medallion (S)MS-7504, 1960

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Patty, Sandi & Kathy Troccoli/Together, Monarch Records, Mona 1022, 1999 Pringle, Anne & Mark Burnell/Little Things We Do Together, Spectrum SR003, 2000 Rory/Rory’s Little Broadway—Showtunes for Kids, Sony 7464-48697-2, 1992; Sony 57669, 1994 Rose, Jodi/Hope for the Future, see ROSEJ1 Ross, Annie/Gypsy, see ROSSANNIE Salonga, Lea/The Broadway Concert, see SALONGAL1 [with “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”] Sherwood, Roberta/Live Performance, Decca (S)DL7-4100, 1961 Skinner, Emily/Emily Skinner (duet with Alice Ripley), Fynsworth Alley 302 062 102 2, 2000 [with “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”] Steve & Eydie/We Got Us, ABC-Paramount ABC-300, 196[?]; MCA 20850, 2004 Styne, Jule/My Name Is Jule, see STYNEJ1 Sullivan, Maxine/Together: Maxine Sullivan Sings the Music of Jule Styne, Atlantic 7 81783-1, 1987 “Tomorrow’s Mother’s Day” cut from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Sami Gayle, Emma Rowley), see GYPSY11 “Tonight (Balcony Scene)” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein BOB, WSSPVS duet b♭-a♭2 [both], SSS, WSSVS solo version a-e♭2 West Side Story Original Cast7 (Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence), see WESTSIDE01 West Side Story film (Jim Bryant, Marni Nixon), see WESTSIDE02 West Side Story Studio Cast (Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras), see WESTSIDE03 Bernstein on Broadway (Peter Hofmann, Debbie Sasson), see BERNSTEINON1 West Side Story Studio Cast London (Michael Ball, Barbara Bonney), see WESTSIDE04 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Paul Manuel, Tinuke Olafimihan), see WESTSIDE05 West Side Story, The Songs of (Kenny Loggins, Wynonna), see WESTSIDE06 West Side Story London Production (Don McKay, Marlys Watters), see WESTSIDE08 Showcase: The Musicals (Mary Carewe, Michael Dore), Carlton Sounds/U.K. 30367 00672, 1995 Shakespeare on Broadway (Glory Crampton, Sal Viviano), Varese Sarabande VSD-5622, 1996

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Leonard Bernstein’s New York (Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin), see LEONARDB1 West Side Story, Dave Grusin presents (Gloria Estefan), see WESTSIDE07 West Side Story London Studio Cast (David Holliday, Jill Martin), see WESTSIDE09 West Side Story Original Score (Betsi Morrison, Mike Eldred), see WESTSIDE10 Bravo Broadway II (Christiane Noll, Gary Mauer), see BRAVOBROAD2 Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2 (instrumental), see SINGTHESONGS2 Simply Sondheim (Steve Rhyne, Stephanie Rhoads), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] Broadway Unplugged 4 (Sarah Jane McMahon & Max von Essen), see BROADWAYUNPL4 West Side Story Broadway Revival (Matt Cavenaugh, Josefina Scaglione), see WESTSIDE11 Aleman, Robin/Tonight, [n.l.] 10891, [n.d.] Allen, Thomas & Valerie Masterson/If I Loved You (Love Duets from the Musicals), TER Limited, 1993 [reissued on JAY Records as CDJAY 1233, 1996] Bassey, Shirley/I Wish You Love, MFP/EMI MFP 50330, 1965 Beauchamps, Arlette/Love Again, Renesants 2807, 2001 Brightman, Sarah/Sarah Brightman in Concert, WEA 428571, 2008 Bronhill, June & David Gray/Together, Endeavour Records END 001, 1979 Carreras, Jose/Love Is . . . , Philips 412270, 1984 Carreras, Jose/Jose Carreras in Concert, Legacy 420, 1995 Catenacci, Richard with Bob Egan at the Piano/The Colors of My Life, [n.l., n.n., n.d.] Chakiris, George/George Chakiris, Capitol (S)ST-1750, 1962 Church, Charlotte/Enchantment, Columbia CK 89710, 2001 Clooney, Rosemary/Love Songs, Columbia 90900, (1957)/2004 Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (sung by Malcolm Gets), see COOKB1 [with “Something’s Coming”] Cousens, Peter/A Life on Earth, Middle Eight PCG-01, 2001 [Australian] [with “Something’s Coming”] Crawford, Michael/Songs from the Stage & Screen, see CRAWFORDM1 Crawford, Michael/Michael Crawford in Concert, Atlantic 83131, 1998 Damone, Vic/On the Street Where You Live, see DAMONE1 Davis Jr., Sammy/Sammy Davis Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove, see DAVISS [part of West Side Story medley] Domingo, Placido/The Broadway I Love, see DOMINGO1 Domingo, Placido & Renee Fleming/Star-Crossed Lovers, Decca 460 7932, 1999

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Drake, Alfred/Alfred Drake & Roberta Peters Sing the Popular Music of Leonard Bernstein, see DRAKEA Drifters, The/The Good Life with the Drifters, Atlantic [n.n.], 1965/2005; Collectables Records 6417, 2000 Eckstine, Billy/Broadway, Bongos and Mr. B., Mercury M6-20637, SR60637, 1961 Fisher, [David] Du Du/Over the Rainbow, Helicon Records HL 8064, 1989 [in Hebrew] Fisher, Eddie/Tonight with Eddie Fisher, Ramrod (S)ST-6002, 1962 Fisher, Eddie/ . . . At the Wintergarden, Ramrod Records RR1-2, Taragon TARCD-1054, 1962, 69 [with “Maria” and “Something’s Coming”] Four Aces/Hits from Broadway, Decca (S) DL7-8855, 1959 Four Lads, The/Love Affair, Columbia CL 1502, CS 8293, 1960 [reissued with Stage Show on Collectibles, 2004] Franchi, Sergio/Broadway, I Love You!, RCA Victor LSC 2674, 1963 Frangoulis, Mario/Short Stories: The Acropolis Concert, Balboa Recording Corp. 89552, 2002 [with “Maria” & Something’s Coming”] Garland, Judy/Judy Duets (with Vic Damone), see GARLAND [in West Side Story medley] Garrett, Lesley/Lesley Garrett (with John Hudson), Marks & Spencer MS 4824/BMG 75605 51338 2, 2000 Gary, John/ . . . Sings Your All-Time Favorite Songs, [reissued on various John Gary collections including Collectables Records 2844/10408/ 1143, 2002/2006/2008] Gaynor, Gloria/The Collection, Spectrum Music 551839, 1998 [disco; included on several collections] Gerry & the Pacemakers/You’ll Never Walk Alone: The EMI Years 1963–1966, Caroline Distribution 19257, 2008 Gott, Karel/Kdyz Muz Se Zenou Snídá: Rarity, Supraphon 5950, 2009 Goulet, Robert/Sincerely Yours, Columbia CL 1931/CS 8731, 1963; Collectables 5847, 1997 Guest, Rob/Standing Ovation, EMI Music (Australian Group) 7986212, 1991 [in medley] Harnar, Jeff/Jeff Harnar Sings the 1959 Broadway Songbook, see HARNARJ1 Heller, Andrew/Broadway Love, Diamonddisc Records 800, 2008 Hooper, Jeff/As Long as I’m Singing, Silverword CDSMG0004, 2001 Jaramillo, Pepe/A Mexican on Broadway, Parlophone PMCO 1183, [n.d.] Jay and the Americans/Other Girls. United Artists 45rpm UAL-353, 1961 Jay and the Americans/She Cried/Come a Little Bit Closer, Beat Goes On 656, 2005 Kert, Larry/Spotlight on Larry Kert, see KERTL1

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Koelbl, Kevin/Somewhere in Time (with Cari Golden), LML CD-120, 2003 Kole, Bob/The Two Sides of Bob Kole, Festival LL 30091, 1961 Lawrence, Carol/Tonight at 8:30, see LAWRENCEC Lawrence, Steve, Lawrence Goes Latin, United Artists UAL-3114, (S) UAS-6114, 1961 Lellis, Tom & Toninho Horta/Tonight, Adventure Music 1044, 2008 London’s Broadway Players/The Essential Broadway Musicals, Mirana 8504, 2008 Martin, Felix/Musical Changes, EBM/Pool Music 4012772019735, 2001 [in medley with “Maria” and “Somewhere”] Mathis, Johnny/Faithfully, Columbia EPB-14221, CL-1422, (S)CS-8219, 1960 McKenzie, Julia/The Musicals Album, see MCKENZIEJ1 Melis, Jose/Jose Melis on Broadway, Mercury MG-20610, (S) SR-6-610, 1960 Mendieter, Anna Maria/Broadway Center Stage, Sugo Music SR9674, 1996 Migines Johnson, Julia/In Love, RCA ARL1-7034, 1985 Migenes, Julia/Live at the Olympia, see MIGENES1 Milano, Michele/Legendary Broadway, Orchard 808866, 2005 Nicholson, Carla & Michael/Just Duet, see NICHOLSONC1 [with “I Feel Pretty” and “Somewhere”] Noll, Christiane/My Personal Property (with Max von Essen), JAY Records 1401, 2008 North, Robyn/Make Believe (with Ramin Karimloo), JAY Records CDJAY 1406, 2009 O’Brien, Joanne & Lee Lessack/An Enchanted Evening: The Music of Broadway, LML Music, LML CD-104, 1998 [with “Some Enchanted Evening”] Paris, Jackie/The Song is Paris, Impulse! MVCI-23054, 1962; 9065, 2002 Pitney, Gene/Looking Through the Eyes of Love/Sings the Great Songs of Our Time/Sings Great Ballads, Castle Pie 135, 2000 Pot Pourri/Something Familiar, Something Peculiar, Move MCD086, 2000 Prior, Marina/Somewhere, see PRIORM1 Ray Charles Singers, The/Young Lovers on Broadway, Command 890, 1965 Roy Budd Trio/Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Musical . . . Sondheim, see ROYBUDD1 San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus/Diva’s Revenge, SFGMC [n.n.], 2005 Sanders, Felicia/Shall I Take My Heart and Go, Decca 45rpm 9-30798, 1959

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Schlongs/Punk Side Story (Andrew Asp), see SCHLONG1 Stapleton, Cyril/Dancing Down Broadway, London LL-3033, (S) PS-134, 1959 Stephenson, Laurie Gayle/I Believe My Heart: Duets with All My Leading Men (with Doug LaBrecque), JAY 1398, 2007 Sterling, Clark/Sterling Broadway, [n.l., n.n.], 2003 Suzuki, Pat/Pat Suzuki’s Broadway ’59, Victor (S) LSP-1965, 1959; reissued as part of The Very Best of Pat Suzuki, Taragon 1061, 1999 Vaughn, Sarah/Live in Japan, Mainstream MFCD 2-844-1, 1973, 1975 Vojtek, Roman/Îivot Je Muzikál (with Markétou Sedláãkovou), popron music 54816-2, 2007 Waring, Fred/Broadway Cavalcade, Capitol (S) SWBO-1079, 1959 Waring, Fred/The Time, the Place, the Girl, Capitol (S) ST-1298 Westenra, Hayley/Prayer, Decca 1120, 2007 Williams, Andy/Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes, Columbia CL-1809, (S)CS08609, 1963/Columbia CK-8609, 1987 Wilson, Jackie/Jackie Wilson at the Copa, Brunswick 5001, (1962)/2000 Wilson, Nancy/Broadway My Way. Blue Note/Capitol Jazz 64638, 1964/2006 Winston, Vic, BTP 78rpm 3012, 1959 Zuniga, Nanoy/Pure and Golden Love Songs, Vol. 2, Dypro 86/272-4, 1997 “Tonight (Quintet)” from West Side Story (1957), music by Leonard Bernstein WSSPVS quintet or company number West Side Story Original Cast (Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence, Chita Rivera, Ken Le Roy, Mickey Calin, Ensemble), see WESTSIDE01 West Side Story film (Jim Bryant, Marni Nixon, Betty Wand, The Jets, The Sharks), see WESTSIDE02 West Side Story Studio Cast (Kurt Ollmann, Richard Harrell, Sharks, Jets, Tatiana Troyanos, José Carreras, Kiri Te Kanawa), see WESTSIDE03 [also included on Showstoppers from Broadway, JAY Records, CDJAY 1266, 199?] West Side Story Studio Cast London (Michael Ball, Barbara Bonney, La Verne Williams, Christopher Howard, Ensemble), see WESTSIDE04 West Side Story Studio Cast Leicester Haymarket (Nicholas Warnford, Jets, Nick Ferranti, Sharks, Paul Manuel, Caroline O’Connor, Tinuke Olafimihan), see WESTSIDE05 A Gala Concert for Hal Prince (Teri Bibb, Dave Willetts, Company), see GALA1 West Side Story Original Score (Betsi Morrison, Mike Eldred, Marianne Cooke, Michael San Giovanni, Sharks and Jets), see WESTSIDE10

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West Side Story Broadway Revival (Company), see WESTSIDE11 [Sharks in Spanish] Schlongs/Punk Side Story, see SCHLONG1 “Too Many Mornings” from Follies (1971) ASIV solo version c♭1-a♭2, FLVS, FVS solo version c♭1-f2, CFC, FPVS duet b1-e2/c1-g2 Follies Original Cast (John McMartin, Dorothy Collins), FOLLIES01 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Dorothy Collins, John McMartin), see SONDAMUST1 [sung with “Pleasant Little Kingdom”] Side by Side by Sondheim1 (Julia McKenzie, David Kernan), see SIDEBYS1 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Cris Groenendaal, Betsy Joslyn), see SOND1 Follies in Concert5 (George Hearn, Barbara Cook), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (Daniel Massey, Julia McKenzie), see FOLLIES03 Follies/Themes from the Legendary Musical (The Trotter Trio), see FOLLIES04 Celebrating Sondheim (Claire Moore, Michael Ball), see CELEBRATSON Follies, The Complete Recording (Laurence Guittard, Donna McKechnie), see FOLLIES05 Andrew, Leo/Sweet Dreams, (with Claire Moore), Dress Circle ALAVW2, 2008 Clary, Robert/Louis Lebeau Remembers . . . Stephen Sondheim . . . , see CLARYR1 Friedman, Maria/Maria Friedman Live, see FRIEDM1 [with “In Buddy’s Eyes” & “The Road You Didn’t Take”] Harvey, Jane/Jane Harvey Sings Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Jahana, Raishel/Sondheim Songs, see JAHANA1 Mazzie, Marin & Jason Danieley/Opposite You, see MAZZIEDANIELEY1 Patinkin, Mandy/Oscar and Steve, see PATINKIN4 (duet with Judy Blazer) [sung with “Pleasant Little Kingdom”] Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Roy, William/When I Sing Alone, Audiophile (D)AP-213, 1986; ACD213, 1996 Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 “Toreadorables” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne GPVS g1-g2 company number Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Tammy Blanchard, Bernadette Peters, Jenna Gavigan, Pamela Remler, Dontee Kiehn, Ginifer King, Julie Martell), see GYPSY10

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Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Patti LuPone, Laura Benanti, Nicole Mangi, Alicia Sable, Mindy Dougherty, Nancy Renée Braun, Sarah Marie Hicks, Beckley Andrews), see GYPSY11 “The Tower of Bray” from Sweeney Todd (1979), [see “Parlor Songs” for recordings] STPVS trio d1-e3 [f2 alternate]/d1-d3 [f2 alternate]/d1-f “Transition(s)” from Passion (1995) PPVS company numbers Passion Original Cast (Various), see PASSION1 Stephen Sondheim’s Passion . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see PASSION2 Passion London Concert (Company), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Various), see PASSION4 “Transition(s),” see “Merrily We Roll Along” from Merrily We Roll Along “Traveling Music” from The Frogs (1975) The Frogs/Evening Primrose Studio Recording (Nathan Lane, Brian Stokes Mitchell, & Male Chorus), see FROGS1 “Trio (Scene Seven)” from Passion (1995) PPVS trio Passion Original Cast (Donna Murphy, Jere Shea, Marin Mazzie), see PASSION1 Passion London Concert (Maria Friedman, Michael Ball, Helen Hobson), see PASSION3 Passion Dutch Cast (Vera Mann, Pia Douwes, Stanley Burleson), see PASSION4 “Trotsky at Saint-Palais” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “Truly Content” from Passionella (1962) [part of The World of Jules Feiffer] ASIII g-c2 Unsung Sondheim (Judy Kaye), see UNSUNGS1 Malmberg, Myrra/What Can You Lose?, see MALMBERG1 Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72)7, see SONDSINGS01 “Two by Two” cut from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers Bennett, Tony/If I Ruled the World—Tony Bennett Songs for the Jet Set, Columbia CL-2343, (S)CS-9143, 1965, CBS/Sony CD 25DP-5320, 199[?]

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“Two Fairy Tales” cut from A Little Night Music (1973) ASIII b-f2/a♯-f♯52 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Mark Lambert, Victoria Mallory), see SONDAMUST1 Marry Me a Little1 (Suzanne Henry, Craig Lucas), see MARRYME1 “The Two of You” for Kukla, Fran and Ollie (1952) ASIV b♭-e♭2 Unsung Sondheim (Christa Moore), see UNSUNGS1 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Stephen Sondheim) “Unworthy of Your Love” from Assassins (1991) APVS, ASIV, AVS duet b-f♭2/a-d2 Assassins Original Cast5 (Greg Germann, Annie Golden), see ASSASSINS1 Assassins Broadway Cast (Alexander Gemignani, Mary Catherine Garrison), see ASSASSINS2 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Alexander Gemignani, Annie Golden), see WALLTOWALLS1 “Uptown, Downtown” cut from Follies (1971) ASII a-c♯2 Marry Me a Little1 (Craig Lucas), see MARRYME1 Songs of New York (Judy Kaye), Book-of-the-Month Records 11-7500, 1984 Sondheim—A Celebration (Millicent Martin), see SONDACEL1 Follies, The Complete Recording (Dee Hoty, Ensemble), see FOLLIES05 Bennett, Richard Rodney/A Different Side of Sondheim, see BENNETTR1 Maxwell, Linn/Times Like This, Original Cast [n.n.], 2003 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 “Variations on a Theme (Katie Malone)” (1947) Sondheim Tonight (Dominic John, pianist), see SONDTON1 “A Very Nice Prince” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS duet a♭-c2/e♭1-a♭1, (Reprise) a-c♭2/[dialogue] Into the Woods Original Cast (Kim Crosby, Joanna Gleason), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Jacqueline Dankworth, Imelda Staunton), see INTOTHE2 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Laura Benanti, Kerry O’Malley), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Gisela, Annabel Totusaus), see INTOTHE5

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“A Very Short Violin Sonata” (1951) Sondheim Tonight (Christina Sunnerstam, violinist), see SONDTON1 “Vincent and Vanessa,” see “Bolero d’Amour” “Wait” from Sweeney Todd (1979) ASIII, STVS c1-f2, STPVS b♭-e♭2 Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Angela Lansbury), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Vicky Pena), see SWEENEYT3 Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Patti LuPone), see SWEENEYT4 The MUSICality of Sondheim4 (Judy Kaye), JAY Records CDJAZ 9006, 2002 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (Patti LuPone), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Helena Bonham Carter), see SWEENEYT6 Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim, see GAYMENSCLA1 [in medley] Gets, Malcolm/The Journey Home, PS Classics CD76, 2009 “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs” from Follies (1971) CFC, FPVS, SCCH octet, FLVS, FVS solo version b♭-c2 Follies Original Cast (Gene Nelson, John McMartin, Dorothy Collins, Alexis Smith, Harvey Evans, Kurt Peterson, Virginia Sandifur, Marti Rolph), FOLLIES01 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Jill Perryman, Bartholomew John), see SIDEBYS2 Follies in Concert7 (Jim Walton, Howard McGillin, Mandy Patinkin, George Hearn, Lee Remick, Barbara Cook, Liz Callaway, Daisy Prince), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (Diana Rigg, Julia McKenzie, Daniel Massey, David Healy, Gillian Bevan, Deborah Poplett, Simon Green, Evan Pappas), see FOLLIES03 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (George Lee Andrews, Michael Jeter, James Naughton), see SONDACELATC1 Follies/Themes from the Legendary Musical (The Trotter Trio), see FOLLIES04 Follies, The Complete Recording (Tony Roberts, Laurence Guittard, Dee Hoty, Donna McKechnie, Billy Hartung, Michael Gruber, Meredith Patterson, Danette Holden), see FOLLIES05 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “Losing My Mind”] “Wallflowers’ Waltz” from By George (1946)

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“Waltz” from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) “Waste” from Road Show (2008) [based on “Bounce” from Bounce] Road Show Original Cast Recording (Company), see ROADSHOW1 “Water Under the Bridge” for Singing Out Loud (1992–93, unproduced) SCCH, SSFTS a-e2, sheet music published as Warner Bros. VS6208 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall7 (Liza Minnelli, Billy Stritch), see SONDACELATC1 Unsung Sondheim (Debbie Shapiro Gravitte), see UNSUNGS1 Out on Broadway (Eddie Webb), see OUTONB1 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON Aro, Eric Van/Friends, Orchard 103145/Eraki 6002, 2005 “We Do Not Belong Together” from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) BSBB [incorporated into “Move On”], SPGPVS duet g-d2/a-e2 Sunday in the Park . . . Original Cast (Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin), see SUNDAYIN1 Sunday in the Park . . . 2006 London Cast (Daniel Evans, Jenna Russell), see SUNDAYIN2 Stanke, Patrick/Ich bin Musik, AnythingGoes 4260024290054, 2009 [with “Move On”] “We Float” cut from Pacific Overtures (1976) [related to “The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea”] “The Wedding Is Off” cut from Company (1970) CVS3 a-c♯1 [into scream]/d1-d2 “Wedding Sequence” from All That Glitters (1949) “A Weekend in the Country” from A Little Night Music (1973) LNMPVS, SCCH sextet and vocal quintet A Little Night Music Original Cast2 (Company), see LITTLEN01 A Little Night Music1 London Cast (Company), see LITTLEN02 A Little Night Music Film (Company), see LITTLEN03 A Little Sondheim Music (Janet Smith, Michael Gallup, Ensemble), see LITTLES1 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Company), see LITTLEN04 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Kevin Anderson, George Lee Andrews, Mark Jacoby, Beverly Lambert, Maureen Moore, Susan Terry, Quintet), see SONDACELATC1 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Company), see LITTLEN05

472

Song Listing

Celebrating the Musicals . . . (Ensemble), see CELEBRATTHEM A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Company), see LITTLEN06 [and reprise by Quintet] Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2 (instrumental), see SINGTHESONGS2 A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Company), see LITTLEN07 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “In Praise of Women”] “Welcome to Kanagawa” from Pacific Overtures (1976) POPVS c1-e2 & chorus Pacific Overtures1, 7 Original Cast (Ernest Harada, Timm Fujii, Patrick Kinser-Lau, Gedde Watanabe, Leslie Watanabe, Mako), see PACIFICOVER1 Pacific Overtures English National Opera (Terry Jenkins, Gordon Christie, Michael Sadler, John Cashmore, Leon Berger, Richard Angas), see PACIFICOVER2 Pacific Overtures New Broadway Cast (Francis Jue, B. D. Wong & Girls), see PACIFICOVER3 “We’re Bringing Back Style to the White House,” see “Bobby and Jackie and Jack” “We’re Gonna Be All Right” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS duet a-e♭2/a-d2 Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Cast2 (Stuart Damon, Julienne Marie), see DOIHEAR1 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Laurence Guittard, Teri Ralston), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin, David Kernan), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Bartholomew John, Geraldene Morrow), see SIDEBYS2 Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Benjamin Sprunger, Annie Wersching), see DOIHEAR2 Singers Unlimited/A Little Light Music (Beryl Korman, Julia Meadows), see SINGERSUN1 “We’re Gonna Have a Meeting” from Phinney’s Rainbow (1948) “What a Day,” see “Auto da fé” “What Can You Lose?” from Dick Tracy (1990) ASIV, SSFTS b-f♯2, DTVS c1-g2

Song Listing

473

Color and Light: Jazz Sketches . . . (Jim Hall, guitar), see COLOR1 Unsung Sondheim (Judy Kuhn), see UNSUNGS1 Sondheim at the Movies3 (Guy Haines), see SONDATTHEM1 Sondheim: A Celebration (Billy Porter), see SONDACEL2 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] Songs Without Words/A Windham Hill Collection (Stephen Sondheim), Windham Hill 01934-11212-2, 1997 [piano solo] Out on Broadway (Quenten Schumacher), see OUTONB1 Heart and Soul on Broadway (Billy Porter), see HEART&S1 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] Madonna/I’m Breathless (Madonna, Mandy Patinkin), see MADONNA1 Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . .7 (Mandy Patinkin, Madonna) [from soundtrack] McDowell, Kristopher/Faces of Love, Jerome 660355895326, 2001 Malmberg, Myrra/What Can You Lose?, see MALMBERG1 Prior, Marina/Somewhere, see PRIORM1 Schürmann, Samuel/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim, see SCHÜRMANN1 [with “Back in Business”] Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 [with “Love I Hear”; added to 1997 reissue] Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 [duet with Guri Schanke] “What Do We Do? We Fly!” from Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), music by Richard Rodgers DIHPVS quintet c1-a♭2 [all] Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Cast (Madelaine Sherwood, Jack Manning, Elizabeth Allen, Julienne Marie, Stuart Damon), see DOIHEAR1 Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (Elmarie Wendel, Jack Riley, Annie Wersching, Benjamin Sprunger), see DOIHEAR2 “What Do You Do with a Woman?” (incomplete) for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) “What More Do I Need?” from Saturday Night (1954) ASII, SNVS b♭-e♭2 A Stephen Sondheim Evening1 (Liz Callaway), see STEPHENSE1 Saturday Night Bridewell Cast (Anna Francolini, Sam Newman, Company), see SATURDAYN1 Saturday Night Original New York Cast (David Campbell, Lauren Ward, Company), see SATURDAYN2 Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Who Wants to Live in New York?” Broadway Romances Manhattan (Judy Kaye), BC/EFA, 2002 Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (Liz Callaway), see WALLTOWALLS1

474

Song Listing

Simply Sondheim (Stephanie Rhoads), see SIMPLYSOND1 Brightman, Sarah/Encore, Decca Broadway/Really Useful, 2002 Burns, Andrea/A Deeper Shade of Red, PS Classics 756, 2007 Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Mansfield, Martin and Gayle Ashkenazy/Demarcations, see MANSFIELDM1 O’Donnell, Kerryn/What More Do I Need?, [n.l. n.n.], 2001, [Australian] Turner, Geraldine/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2, see TURNERG2 Upshaw, Dawn/I Wish It So, see UPSHAWD1 Woodfield, Ann/Shades of Reflection, Guild Music Ltd/Zah Zah ZZCD 9805, 1998 “What to Do at George School” from By George (1946) Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SINGS2 [piano solo; incomplete]

SOND-

“What Would We Do Without You?” from Company (1970) [usually considered a part of “Side by Side by Side”] Putting It Together (Company [with lyric changes by Sondheim]), see PUTTINGIT1 Boston Pops Orchestra/Songs of the ’60s (instrumental), see BOSTON1 “What’s Next” cut from Bounce (2003) “What’s Your Rush?” from Bounce (2003) Bounce Original Cast (Michelle Pawk, Howard McGillin), see BOUNCE1 “When?” from Evening Primrose (1966) SSFTS duet b♭-f2/a♭-e2 Sondheim at the Movies (Liz Callaway, Gary Beach), see SONDATTHEM1 The Frogs/Evening Primrose Studio Recording (Neil Patrick Harris, Theresa McCarthy), see FROGS1 Patinkin, Mandy/Dress Casual (Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters), see PATINKIN2 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Evening Primrose Original Television Soundtrack7 (Charmian Carr, Anthony Perkins), see EVENPRIM1 “When I Get Famous” from Climb High (1952, unproduced) Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SINGS2 “When I See You” from All That Glitters (1949) ATGVS b♭-e♭2

SOND-

Song Listing

475

“Where Do I Belong?” from Climb High (1952, unproduced) Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SONDSINGS2 “Where Have You Been All My Life?” cut from Bounce (2003), see “You” “Who Could Be Blue?” cut from Follies (1971) [usually paired with “Little White House”; music used for “Salon at Claridge # 2” in Stavisky] ASII, CFC duet d♭1-g♭2/b♭-g♭2 [with “Little White House”] Marry Me a Little1 (Craig Lucas), see MARRYME1 Follies, The Complete Recording (Laurence Guittard), see FOLLIES05 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Norm Lewis), see STEPHENSA1 [with “With So Little to Be Sure Of”] Heart and Soul on Broadway (Norm Lewis), see HEART&S1 [with “With So Little to Be Sure Of”] “Who Knows?/I Know” from Hot Spot (1963), music with Mary Rodgers, lyric with Martin Charnin, new lyrics by Mark Waldrop Hey, Love (Faith Prince, Mark Waldrop, Jason Workman), see HEYLOVE1 “Who Needs Him?” cut from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne Gypsy Original Cast (Laura Leslie), see GYPSY01 [2009 reissue only] Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Patti LuPone), see GYPSY11 “Who Wants to Live in New York?” from Merrily We Roll Along (1981) [usually found as a section of “Opening Doors”] Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “What More Do I Need?”] “Who’s That Woman?” from Follies (1971) CFC e-a1/f♯-d2, FPVS e-f2 + chorus, FLVS, FVS b-g2 + chorus Follies Original Cast (Mary McCarty, Company), FOLLIES01 Follies in Concert (Phyllis Newman, Women, Chorus, Dancers), see FOLLIES02 Follies London Cast (Lynda Baron, Women), see FOLLIES03 Sondheim: A Celebration (Susan Johnson), see SONDACEL2 Follies/Themes from the Legendary Musical (The Trotter Trio), see FOLLIES04 Follies, The Complete Recording (Phyllis Newman, “The Weismann Girls”), see FOLLIES05 Harvey, Jane/Jane Harvey Sings Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 “Wigmaker Sequence” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS duet B♭-d1/c♭1-d2 + quintet Sweeney Todd Original Cast (Len Cariou, Victor Garber), see SWEENEYT1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Constantino Romero, Pep Molina), see SWEENEYT3

476

Song Listing

Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (George Hearn, Davis Gaines), see SWEENEYT4 “Willy—King of New York” cut from Bounce (2003), see “I Love This Town” “Window Across the Way” cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) “Wise Guys” cut from Bounce (2003) “Witch’s Lament” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS a-d2 Into the Woods Original Cast (Bernadette Peters), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Julia McKenzie), see INTOTHE2 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Vanessa Williams), see INTOTHE3 Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Amanda J. Brizzi), see INTOTHE4 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Mone), see INTOTHE5 “With So Little to Be Sure Of” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) ACWPVS duet a-c♯2/b-e2, ACWVS, ASIV, SCCH solo version b-e2 Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast2 (Lee Remick, Harry Guardino), see ANYONE1 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Chamber ensemble), see SOND1 A Little Sondheim Music (Darlene Romano, Paul Johnson), see LITTLES1 A Stephen Sondheim Evening (Victoria Mallory, George Hearn), see STEPHENSE1 Everyone’s a Love Song, see EVERYONE1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall5 (Jerry Hadley, Carolann Page), see SONDACELATC1 Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (Scott Bakula, Bernadette Peters), see ANYONE2 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Norm Lewis), see STEPHENSA1 [with “Who Could Be Blue?”] Moving On (Company), see MOVINGON [with “Our Time”] Heart and Soul on Broadway (Norm Lewis), see HEART&S1 [with “Who Could Be Blue?”] Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2 (instrumental), see SINGTHESONGS2 Bennett, Richard Rodney/A Different Side of Sondheim, see BENNETTR1 Breach, Joyce/This Moment, Audiophile ACD-293, 1996 Brindley, Susan/With So Little to Be Sure Of, see BRINDLEYS1

Song Listing

477

Ford, Anne Kerry/Something Wonderful, see FORDA1 Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 Intimate Broadway/My Favorite Things, Intersound 8311, 1996 Jiear, Alison/Simply Alison Jiear, Dress Circle DAD 007/1, 1995 Jobson, Mark deVille/My House, see JOBSON1 Lawrence, Steve/Steve Lawrence Sings, Columbia CL-2540, (S)CS-9340, 1967 Lawrence, Steve/ . . . Sings of Love and Sad Young Men/Portrait of Steve, Sony Music Distribution 421252, 2002/GL Records 125, 2004 Lesser, Debbie/let’s misbehave, LML CD-161, 2002 O’Connor, Grace/A Time for Love, [n.n., n.n.], 2000 [with “Everybody Says Don’t”] Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., Etc. see PETERSB2 Stage 3/True Colors (Charlie Owens), Dink Records 1000, 1998/2008 [with “Alfie”] Turner, Geraldine/Old Friends, see TURNERG1 Whyte, Ronny/All in a Night’s Work, Audiophile ACD-247, 1989 [reissued] Wilk, Oystein/Too Many Mornings, see WILKO1 [duet with Guri Schanke] Wilson, Julie/Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, see WILSONJ2 “With So Little to Be Sure Of” (first version) cut from Anyone Can Whistle (1964) Anyone Can Whistle Original Cast (Stephen Sondheim), see ANYONE1 “A Woman’s Place Is in the Home,” see “Simple” “Women and Death” from Stavisky (1974) Stavisky (instrumental), see STAVISKY1 “Women Were Born to Wait” cut from A Little Night Music (1973) [related to “In Praise of Women”] “The World’s Full of Girls/ . . .Boys” cut from Follies (1971) [music used as “Operetta” in Stavisky] ASIV, CFC b-e2/c1-c2/c2-e2/a-f2/b1-c♭2/d1-b1 “The Worst Pies in London” from Sweeney Todd (1979) STPVS b-e♭2 Sweeney Todd Original Cast6 (Angela Lansbury), see SWEENEYT1 Sondheim (Book-of-the Month) (Joyce Castle), see SOND1 Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (Vicky Pena), see SWEENEYT3

478

Song Listing

Het Beste Uit De Musicals (Simone Kleinsma), Endemol Entertainment 871295413177, 1998 [in Dutch] Sweeney Todd Live at the NYP (Patti LuPone), see SWEENEYT4 Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival7 (Patti LuPone), see SWEENEYT5 Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (Helena Bonham Carter), see SWEENEYT6 “The Year of the . . .” cut from The Exception and the Rule (1968, unproduced), music by Leonard Bernstein “Yes” for The Jet-Propelled Couch (1958, unproduced) [music became “Salon at the Claridge # 1” in Stavisky] “Yoo-hoo!” from Climb High (1950–52, unproduced) “Yoo-hoo!” cut from Sunday in the Park with George (1984) [portions can still be heard in the score] “You” from Bounce (2003) and Road Show (2008) Bounce Original Cast (Richard Kind, Gavin Creel, Ensemble), see BOUNCE1 Road Show Original Cast Recording (Alexander Gemignani, Claybourne Elder, Company), see ROADSHOW1 “You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover,” see “Simple” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” from Company (1970) CPVS trio [voices range from b-a2, CVS, HTSS, SCCH trio d1-d2 [one voice rises to a g2], CVS2, CVS3 trio [voices range from a-g2] Company Original Cast (Donna McKechnie, Susan Browning, Pamela Myers), see COMPANY01 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Donna McKechnie, Susan Browning, Pamela Myers), see SONDAMUST1 Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin, David Kernan, Julia McKenzie), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Jill Perryman, Bartholomew John, Geraldene Morrow), see SIDEBYS2 Songs of Sondheim Irish Cast (Company), see SONGSOFSOND1 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Dorothy Loudon), see SONDACELATC1 [in medley] Putting It Together (Christopher Durang), see PUTTINGIT1 Stephen Sondheim’s Company . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see COMPANY03 Company Revival Cast (La Chanze, Charlotte d’Amboise, Jane Krakowski), see COMPANY05

Song Listing

479

Company London Revival Cast (Hannah James, Kiran Hocking, Anna Francolini), see COMPANY04 Sondheim: A Celebration3 (David Cassidy, Patrick Cassidy, Shaun Cassidy), see SONDACEL2 Hey, Mr. Producer! (Maria Friedman, Ruthie Henshall, Millicent Martin, Lea Salonga), see HEYMRP Celebrating Sondheim (Claire Moore, Rosemary Ashe, Mary Carewe), see CELEBRATSON

The 3 Divas (Judi Connelli, Suzanne Johnston, Jennifer McGregor), CDP 2000/DIVA003-1, 2000 Company Brazilian Cast (Doriana Mendes, Sabrina Korgut, Patricia Levy), see COMPANY06 Side by Side . . . Brazilian Cast (Ester Elias, Marya Bravo, Sabrina Korgut), see SIDEBYS3 [with “Company”] Simply Sondheim (Stephanie Rhoads, Kelly Ground, Shay OglesbySmith), see SIMPLYSOND1 [in medley] Company Accompaniment CD (Christina Bianco, Liz Donathan, Sarah Downs/accompaniment), see COMPANY08 Company Second Revival Cast (Elizabeth Stanley, Kelly Jeanne Grant, Angel Desai, Raúl Esparza, Fred Rose), see COMPANY09 Abel, Amanda/Night of Neurotica, Original Cast 6246, 2007 [with “Losing My Mind”] Clary, Robert/Robert Clary Sings at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, Original Cast Records 9799, 1997 [with “Not While I’m Around” and “Losing My Mind”] Cook, Barbara/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim, see COOKB1 East West Players/East West Overtures (Cindy Cheung, Jennifer Fujii, MaryAnn Hu), see EASTWEST1 Gillan, James/James Gillan, Butterfly James BJR001, 2001 [with “Live Alone and Like It”] Laine, Cleo/Cleo Sings Sondheim, see LAINEC2 Mager, Eileen/Broadway: Love and Laughter, see MAGERE1 McKechnie, Donna/Inside the Music, see MCKECHNIED1 Patinkin, Mandy/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, PATINKIN5 Peters, Bernadette/Sondheim, Etc., see PETERSB1 Prior, Marina/Somewhere, see PRIORM1 “You Don’t Want Me to Go” cut from Bounce (2003) “You Gotta Have a Gimmick” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne GPVS, GVS2 trio g-d2/b♭-d2/b♭-d2, HTSS solo version g-d2 Gypsy Original Cast2 (Faith Dane, Chotzi Foley, Maria Karnilova), see GYPSY01 Gypsy Film (Roxanne Arlen, Faith Dane, Betty Bruce), see GYPSY02

Song Listing

480

Gypsy London Cast (Kelly Wilson, Judy Cannon, Valerie Walsh), see GYPSY03 Jerome Robbins Broadway6 (Debbie Shapiro, Faith Prince, Susann Fletcher), see JEROMER1 Gypsy Revival Cast (Jana Robbins, Anna McNeely, Barbara Erwin), see GYPSY04 Gypsy TV Cast (Linda Hart, Anna McNeely, Christine Ebersole), see GYPSY05 Hey, Mr. Producer! (Ruthie Henshall, Julia McKenzie, Bernadette Peters, Michael Ball, Judi Dench, Maria Friedman, David Kernan, Millicent Martin, Lea Salonga), see HEYMRP Gypsy German Cast (Pascale Camele, Janet Calvert, Michelle Becker), see GYPSY07 Kay Medford in “Gypsy” (Janet Webb, Janette Gale, Betty Winsett), see GYPSY09 Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Heather Lee, Kate Budeke, Julie Halston), see GYPSY10 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Lenora Nemetz, Marilyn Caskey, Alison Fraser), see GYPSY11 Akers, Karen/Simply Styne, DRG 91506, 2008 [with “Let Me Entertain You”] Vondrácková, Helena & Jirí Korn/Tech Pár Dnu, Supraphon 579823, 2007 “You Must Meet My Wife” from A Little Night Music (1973) ASI, LNMVS, SSS solo version d♭1-f2, LNMPVS duet c1-e2 A Little Night Music Original Cast2 (Len Cariou, Glynis Johns), see LITTLEN01 Side by Side by Sondheim6 (Millicent Martin, David Kernan), see SIDEBYS1 Side by Side . . . Australian Cast (Jill Perryman, Bartholomew John), see SIDEBYS2 A Little Night Music London Cast (Joss Ackland, Jean Simmons), see LITTLEN02 A Little Night Music Film (Len Cariou, Elizabeth Taylor), see LITTLEN03 Sondheim (Book-of-the-Month) (Chamber ensemble), see SOND1 A Little Night Music Studio Cast (Eric Flynn, Sian Phillips), see LITTLEN04 A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre (Judi Dench, Laurence Guittard), see LITTLEN05 Celebrating the Musicals . . . (Stephen Hill, Anita Dobson), see CELEBRATTHEM

A Little Night Music Barcelona Cast (Vicky Pena, Constantino Romero), see LITTLEN06 [and reprise by Alberto Demestres]

Song Listing

481

A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (Alexander Hanson, Catherine Zeta-Jones), see LITTLEN07 Bennett, Richard Rodney/A Different Side of Sondheim (piano solo), see BENNETTR1 Goodman, Benny/The King Swings, Star Line 9007, 1973/1995 Goodman, Benny/B. G. World Wide, TCB Records 43012, 1993 [instrumental] Goodman, Benny/Verve Jazz Masters 33, Polygram 844410, 1994 [instrumental] Goodman, Benny/Berlin 1980, TCB Records 43022, 1996/2002 Heller, Marc/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim, see HELLERM1 Hyman, Dick/A Waltz Dressed in Blue, Four Star 40051, 1994 [instrumental] Trotter, Terry/Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, see TROTTERT1 [piano solo] “You Would Love My Wife” incomplete for Follies (1971) “You’ll Never Get Away from Me” from Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne [same music as “I’m In Pursuit of Happiness” from Ruggles of Red Gap, lyric by Leo Robin, and “Why Did You Have To Wait So Long” for Pink Tights, unfinished lyric by Sammy Cahn] GPVS duet f♭-c2/b-g♭1, GVS solo version a-e♭2, GVS2 f♭-c2 Gypsy Original Cast (Ethel Merman, Jack Klugman), see GYPSY01 Gypsy Film (Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden), see GYPSY02 Gypsy London Cast (Angela Lansbury, Barrie Ingham), see GYPSY03 Gypsy Revival Cast (Tyne Daly, Jonathan Hadary), see GYPSY04 Gypsy TV Cast (Bette Midler, Peter Riegert), see GYPSY05 Gypsy German Cast (Angelika Milster, Cusch Jung), see GYPSY07 Selections from “Gypsy” and “Flower Drum Song” (Florence Henderson), see GYPSY08 Kay Medford in “Gypsy” (Kay Medford, Jimmy Blackburn), see GYPSY09 Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast (Bernadette Peters, John Dossett), see GYPSY10 Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast (Patti LuPone, Boyd Gaines), see GYPSY11 Bennett, Tony, Columbia 45rpm 4-41381, 1960 Bennett, Tony/More Tony’s Greatest Hits, Columbia CL-1535, (S)CS8335, 1960 Bennett, Tony/Mr. Broadway, Columbia CL-1763, (S)CS-8563, 1962 Betts/Harry O. & Brown Singers/Now Playing, AVA (S)AS-23, 1963 Clary, Robert/Sings Harry Warren & Jule Styne, Original Cast 6040, 2005 [with “Small World” & “Together Wherever We Go”] Davis Jr., Sammy, Decca 45rpm 9-30898, 1960

482

Song Listing

Dijon, Coby, Epic 45rpm 5-9347, 1960 Feinstein, Michael/Michael Feinstein Sings the Jule Styne Songbook, see FEINSTEIN1 Harvey, Jane/The Other Side of Sondheim, see HARVEYJ1 [part of “Rose’s Medley”] Harnar, Jeff/Jeff Harnar Sings the 1959 Broadway Songbook, see HARNARJ1 Henderson, Bill, GM 45rpm K13155, 1964 Henderson, Florence/Selections from “Gypsy” and “Flower Drum Song,” see HENDERSONF1 Hi-Lo’s, The/Broadway Playbill, see HILOS Kuhn, Judy/Just in Time—Judy Kuhn Sings Jule Styne3, Varese Sarabande VSD-5472, 1995 Lawrence, Carol/Tonight at 8:30, see LAWRENCEC Merman, Ethel/Mermania!, see MERMANE1 Ross, Annie/Gypsy, see ROSSANNIE Salonga, Lea/The Broadway Concert, see SALONGAL1 [with “Together Wherever We Go”] Sherwood, Roberta/Live Performance, Decca (S)DL7-4100, 1961 Skinner, Emily/Emily Skinner (duet with Alice Ripley), Fynsworth Alley 302 062 102 2, 2000 [with “Together Wherever We Go”] Smith, Ethel/Ethel On Broadway, Decca (S)DL7-8993, 1960 Styne, Jule/My Name Is Jule, see STYNEJ1 Turrentine, Stanley/Never Let Me Go, BLN (S)BST8-4129, 1964 “Your Eyes Are Blue” cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), [see also “Love Story”] Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (Harvey Evans, Pamela Hall), see SONDAMUST1 Marry Me a Little1 (Craig Lucas, Suzanne Henry), see MARRYME1 Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing . . . Forum . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio), see FUNNY04 Mayes, Sally/Boys and Girls Like You and Me (with Brent Barrett), see MAYESS1 [with “All Things Bright and Beautiful”] “Your Fault” from Into the Woods (1987) ITWPVS vocal quintet Into the Woods Original Cast (Chip Zien, Ben Wright, Danielle Ferland, Bernadette Peters, Kim Crosby), see INTOTHE1 Into the Woods London Cast (Ian Bartholomew, Richard Dempsey, Tessa Burbridge, Julia McKenzie, Jacqueline Dankworth), see INTOTHE2 Into the Woods Revival Cast (Stephen DeRosa, Molly Ephraim, Vanessa Williams, Laura Benanti), see INTOTHE3

Song Listing

483

Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (Mark Weekes, Kristopher Monroe, Samantha Meckes, Amanda J. Brizzi, Christina Bianco), see INTOTHE4 Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (Josep Maria Gimeno, Marc Pujol, Anna Moliner, Mona, Gisela), see INTOTHE5 “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow” from Follies (1971) [double duet with “Love Will See Us Through”] CFC, FPVS double duet c♯1-g♭2/c♭1-e2/d♭1-g♭2/d1-g♭2 Follies Original Cast (Kurt Peterson, Virginia Sandifur), FOLLIES01 Follies in Concert (Howard McGillin, Daisy Prince), see FOLLIES02 A Stephen Sondheim Evening1 (Cris Groenendaal, Judy Kaye), see STEPHENSE1 [not on cd, available on A Collector’s Sondheim] Follies London Cast (Simon Green, Gillian Bevan), see FOLLIES03 Follies, The Complete Recording (Michael Gruber, Meredith Patterson), see FOLLIES05 Out on Broadway (Keith Thompson, Chris Brenner, Quenten Schumacher, Tracy Collins), see OUTONB1 The Stephen Sondheim Album (Christiane Noll), see STEPHENSA1 [with “Not a Day Goes By”] “You’re Only as Old as You Look” (1955) [birthday song for Julian “Jerry” Beaty] Sondheim, Stephen/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60), see SONDSINGS2 “You’ve Broken My Heart” from All that Glitters (1949)

Primary Sondheim Recordings Roberta Alexander/With You (1996[?]) Et’Cetera CD: KTC 1190 Songs: “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Good Thing Going,” “I Remember”

ALEXR1:

Anyone Can Whistle Original Broadway Cast Recording (1964) Columbia Records LP: KOL-6080 (M)/KOS-2480 (S) S-32608 (S); reissue AS-32608 (S) [Columbia Special Products] CD: CK-02480 Cassette: JST-02480 CD: SK 86860 [2003 Sony Classical/Columbia/Legacy reissue; includes 5 demo recordings by Sondheim, asterisked below] Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,”* “Come Play Wiz Me,”* “The Cookie Chase,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “I’m Like the Bluebird,”* “I’ve Got You to Lean On,” “The Lame, the Halt and the Blind,”* “Me and My Town,” “Miracle Song,” “A Parade in Town,” “Prelude,” “See What It Gets You,” “Simple,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of”* [first version]

ANYONE1:

Anyone Can Whistle Live at Carnegie Hall (1995) Columbia CD: CK 67224 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Come Play Wiz Me,” “Cookie Chase,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “I’m Like the Bluebird,” [included in “Miracle

ANYONE2:

485

Primary Sondheim Recordings

486

Introduction”] “I’ve Got You to Lean On,” “Me and My Town,” “Miracle Song,” “A Parade in Town,” “Prelude,” [listed as “Overture”] “See What It Gets You,” “Simple,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” “There’s Always a Woman,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of” ANYONE3: Anyone Can Whistle Studio Cast Recording (ca. 2002, unreleased)

JAY Records CD: TBD; 2-disc set ARGENTM1:

Monique Argent/Moonfall (2002) The artist CD: [n.n.] Songs: “Broadway Baby,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “The Girls of Summer,” “Losing My Mind,” “Take Me to the World”

Assassins Original Cast Recording (1991) RCA Records CD: 60737-2-RC [DDD] Cassette: 60737-4-RC Songs: “Another National Anthem,” “The Ballad of Booth,” “The Ballad of Czolgosz,” “The Ballad of Guiteau,” “Everybody’s Got the Right,” “Gun Song,” “How I Saved Roosevelt,” “Unworthy of Your Love”

ASSASSINS1:

Assassins Broadway Cast Recording (2004) PS Classics CD: PS-421 Songs: “Another National Anthem,” “The Ballad of Booth,” “The Ballad of Czolgosz,” “The Ballad of Guiteau,” “Everybody’s Got the Right,” “Gun Song,” “How I Saved Roosevelt,” “Something Just Broke,” “Unworthy of Your Love”

ASSASSINS2:

Michael Ball/The Musicals (1996) Polygram TV CD: 533892-2 Songs: “Losing My Mind,” “Loving You,” “Something’s Coming”

BALLM1:

Peter Barnett and Julia Early/In So Many Words (1996) A Barnett Early Production CD: PBJECD001 Songs: “The Boy From . . . ,” “Live Alone and Like It,” “Marry Me a Little,” “Take Me to the World”

BARNETTEARLY1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

487

John Barr/In Whatever Time We Have (1998) Dress Circle CD: MBJBTDM2 Songs: “Multitudes of Amys,” “Not While I’m Around,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets”

BARRJ1:

John Barrowman/Reflections From Broadway (2000) JAY Records CD: CDJAY 1333 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Being Alive, “ “Good Thing Going,” “Not While I’m Around”

BARROWMAN1:

Laurie Beechman/No One Is Alone (1996) Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-5623 Songs: “Being Alive,” “No One Is Alone,” “One Hand, One Heart”

BEECHMAN1:

Richard Rodney Bennett/A Different Side of Sondheim (1979) DRG Records LP: SL 5182 Cassette: SLC-5182 CD: 5182 (issued on CD in 1995) Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Barcelona,” “I Do Like You,” “I Remember,” “Night Waltz (I),” “Salon at the Claridge # 1,” “So Many People,” “Take Me to the World,” “Uptown, Downtown,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of,” “You Must Meet My Wife”

BENNETTR1:

Bernstein On Broadway/Peter Hofmann & Debbie Sasson (1985) Horzu/CBS [German release] LP: FM 39535/CB 321 CBS [American release] LP: 7464-39535-1 Songs: “Cool,” “I Feel Pretty,” “Maria,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Prologue,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight”

BERNSTEINON1:

The Birdcage Motion Picture Soundtrack (1996) United Artists/e.a.r. CD: 0029782EDL Songs: “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Little Dream,” “Love Is in the Air”

BIRDCAGE:

BLACKWELL1:

(1996)

Harolyn Blackwell/A Simple Song: Blackwell Sings Bernstein

488

Primary Sondheim Recordings

RCA Victor CD: 09026-68321-2 Songs: “America,” “A Boy Like That,” “I Have a Love,” “Somewhere” Vivian Blaine/For You (1983) AEI Records LP: AEI 1145 CD: AEI-CD 604 [1999 reissued under the title Vivian Blaine Live in Hollywood] Songs: “Broadway Baby,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “The Ladies Who Lunch”

BLAINEV1:

Boston Pops Orchestra/Songs of the ‘60s (1981) [instrumental] Time-Life STLF-0022 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Being Alive,” “Company,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Poor Baby,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Someone Is Waiting,” “What Would We Do without You?”

BOSTON1:

[Boston] Pops on Broadway/Music of the Night 1990 Sony Classical CD: SK 45567 Songs: “Comedy Tonight,” “No One Is Alone,” “Send in the Clowns”

BOSTON2:

Bounce Original Cast (2004) Nonesuch CD: 79830-2 Songs: “Addison’s City,” “Addison’s Trip,” “The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened,” “Boca Raton,” “Boca Raton Aftermath,” “Bounce” (3), “The Game” (2), “Get Out of My Life,” “Gold!,” “Gold!—part 2,” “I Love This Town,” “Isn’t He Something!,” “A Little House for Mama,” “Next to You,” “Opportunity,” “Overture,” “Talent,” “What’s Your Rush?,” “You”

BOUNCE1:

Susan Brindley/With So Little to Be Sure Of (2007) Susan Brindley CD: 822371121524 Songs: “Could I Leave You?,” “Good Thing Going,” “Goodbye for Now,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of”

BRINDLEYS1:

A Broadway Celebration (1989) [Lainie Nelson, Susan Watson, George Ball] “A Broadway Celebration”

BROADWAYCEL:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

489

CD: [n.n.] Cassette: [n.n.] Songs: “Pretty Women,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Some People” A Broadway Extravaganza (1987) [instrumental] MCA Classics CD: MCAD-6219 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “A Parade in Town”

BROADWAYEX:

The Broadway Musicals of 1962: Town Hall Broadway by the Year Series (2008) Original Cast CD: OC 6228 Songs: “Comedy Tonight,” “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” “I’m Calm,” “Love I Hear”

BROADWAYMUS62:

Broadway Unplugged (2004) Bayview CD: RNBW032 Songs: “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Finishing the Hat,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets”

BROADWAYUNPL1:

Broadway Unplugged 4 (2008) Original Cast Records CD: OC 6237 Songs: “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight”

BROADWAYUNPL4:

BRUSSELL1:

Barbara Brussell/patterns (1998) LML Music CD: LML-CD 111 Songs: “Buddy’s Blues,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Marry Me a Little,” “Move On”

Betty Buckley/Children Will Listen (1993) Sterling CD: S1001-2 Cassette: S1001-4 Songs: “Children and Art,” “Children Will Listen,” “I Remember,” “No One Is Alone,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “SorryGrateful,” “Stay with Me”

BUCKLEYB1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

490

Betty Buckley/The London Concert (1995) Sterling (BBC) CD: S1010-2 Cassette: S1010-4 Songs: “Finishing the Hat,” “Marry Me a Little,” “Old Friends,” “Rose’s Turn,” “Send in the Clowns”

BUCKLEYB2:

Betty Buckley/An Evening at Carnegie Hall (1996) Sterling CD: S1012-2 Cassette: S1012-4 Songs: “Every Day a Little Death,” “Now You Know,” “Rose’s Turn,” “Something’s Coming”

BUCKLEYB3:

BUCKLEYB4:

Betty Buckley/Quintessence (2008) Sony CD: 722058 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “No One Is Alone,” “Something’s Coming” Debra Byrne/New Ways to Dream (1997) Polydor CD: 537 324-2 Songs: “Being Alive,” “Children Will Listen,” “No One Is Alone”

BYRNED1:

Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway/Sibling Revelry (1996) Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-5622 Songs: “A Boy Like That,” “Every Day a Little Death,” “If Momma Was Married,” “Our Time”

CALLAWAYA&L:

Candide Revival Cast Recording (1974) Columbia Records LP: S2X 32923; 2-record set Sony/BMG CD: 82876-88391-2; 2006 reissue Songs: “Auto da fé (What a Day),” “Life Is Happiness Indeed,” “Sheep’s Song,” “This World”

CANDIDE01:

Candide New York City Opera Cast Recording (1986) New World Records LP: NW 340/341

CANDIDE02:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

491

CD: NW 340/341-2 Songs: “Life Is Happiness Indeed,” “Sheep’s Song” Candide/Scottish Opera Cast Recording (1988) TER Classics CD: CDTER 1156 Cassette: ZCTER 1156

CANDIDE03:

Candide, Leonard Bernstein Conducts (1991) Deutsche Grammophon CD: 429734-2; 431328-2 (highlights only) Cassette: 429734-4; 437328-4 (highlights only) Songs: “Life Is Happiness Indeed”

CANDIDE04:

Candide New Broadway Cast (1997) RCA Victor CD: 09026-68835-2 Songs: “Auto da fé (What a Day),” “Life Is Happiness Indeed,” “Old Lady’s False Entrance/Old Lady’s Second False Entrance,” “Sheep’s Song”

CANDIDE05:

Candide The 1999 Royal National Theatre Recording (2000) [recording does not make clear which lyrics are by Sondheim] First Night Records CD: Cast CD 75 Songs: “Auto da fé (What a Day),” “Life Is Happiness Indeed”

CANDIDE06:

Donald Cant/Donald Cant (n.d.) New Market Music CD: 87-91 Songs: “Johanna,” “Losing My Mind,” “No One Is Alone,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Somewhere”

CANTD1:

Celebrating Gypsy, Funny Girl, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: A Tribute to Jule Styne (1998) BBC Radio 2 CD: WMEU 0019-2 Songs: “All I Need Is the Girl,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Let Me Entertain You,” “Rose’s Turn,” “Small World,” “Some People”

CELEBRATGYP:

Celebrating Sondheim (Follies, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George (1998) BBC Radio 2

CELEBRATSON:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

492

CD: WMEU 0018-2 Songs: “Being Alive,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Everybody Loves Louis,” “Franklin Shepard, Inc.,” “I Remember,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “Johanna,” “Me and My Town,” “Move On,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Old Friends,” “Our Time,” “Overture to Merrily We Roll Along,” “Sunday in the Park with George,” “Too Many Mornings,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” Celebrating the Musicals Kismet, Guys and Dolls, A Little Night Music (1998) BBC Radio 2 CD: WMEU 0020-2 Songs: “Send in the Clowns,” “A Weekend in the Country,” “You Must Meet My Wife”

CELEBRATTHEM:

Petula Clark/here for you (1998) Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-5978 Songs: “Children Will Listen,” “I Never Do Anything Twice,” “Losing My Mind,” “Not a Day Goes By”

CLARKP1:

Clary, Robert/Louis Lebeau Remembers Cole Porter, Not Stephen Sondheim (But Sings Their Songs Anyway) (2000) Original Cast Records CD: OC-2101 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Beautiful Girls,” “I Remember,” “I’m Calm,” “Live, Laugh, Love,” “Love, I Hear,” “Marry Me a Little,” “Old Friends,” “Pretty Women,” “Too Many Mornings”

CLARYR1:

Color and Light: Jazz Sketches on Sondheim (1995) Sony Classical CD: SK 66566 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Children and Art,” “Color and Light,” “Every Day a Little Death,” “Losing My Mind,” “Loving You,” “One More Kiss,” “Poems,” “Pretty Women,” “They Ask Me Why I Believe in You,” “What Can You Lose?”

COLOR1:

Company Original Broadway Cast Recording (1970) Columbia Records LP: OS-3530 (S)/SQ-30993 (Q) CD: CK-03550 Cassette: JST-03550

COMPANY01:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

493

Sony Classical/Columbia/Legacy [1998 reissue, remastered w/ bonus track] CD: SK 65283 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Barcelona,” “Being Alive,” “Bobby-Baby,” “Company,” “Getting Married Today,” “Have I Got a Girl for You,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Poor Baby,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Someone Is Waiting,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “Tick-Tock,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” Company London Cast Recording [This is the same recording as the Original Broadway Cast Recording except for an all-new recording of “Barcelona” and Larry Kert tracking in all of Dean Jones’s vocals] (1971) E/CBS Records LP: 70108 (S) CD: SMK 53496 [reissue on Sony West End] Songs: see COMPANY01 and note above

COMPANY02:

(Stephen Sondheim’s) Company . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio) (1995) Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-5673 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Barcelona,” “Being Alive,” “Company,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Someone Is Waiting,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

COMPANY03:

Company London Revival Cast Recording (1996) RCA Victor/BMG Classics CD: 09026-68589-2 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Barcelona,” “Being Alive,” “Bobby-Baby,” “Company,” “Getting Married Today,” “Have I Got a Girl for You,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Poor Baby,” “Marry Me a Little,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Someone Is Waiting,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

COMPANY04:

Company Revival Cast Recording (1996) Angel CD: 55608 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Barcelona,” “Being Alive,” “Bobby-Baby,” “Company,” “Getting Married Today,” “Have I Got a Girl for You,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “The Little Things You Do

COMPANY05:

494

Primary Sondheim Recordings

Together,” “Marry Me a Little,” “Poor Baby,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Someone Is Waiting,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “Tick-Tock,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” Company Brazilian Cast Recording (2001) [The label name is unclear, though information on the CD includes “cod. VSCD0001” and barcode number “7 897999 300555.” In addition, the following website address is given: www.showguide.com .br/company] Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Barcelona,” “Being Alive,” “Bobby-Baby,” “Company,” “Getting Married Today,” “Have I Got a Girl for You,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Marry Me a Little,” “Poor Baby,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Someone Is Waiting,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “Tick-Tock,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

COMPANY06:

Company German Cast Recording (2001) [No label name or number, though the CD is apparently based on a production at the Prinzregententheater, Beyerische Theaterakademie. The recording includes eight numbers from Company with the lyrics translated into German, followed by four songs from other shows sung in English] Songs: “Barcelona,” “Being Alive,” “Bobby-Baby,” “Company,” “Could I Leave You?,” “Getting Married Today,” “Have I Got a Girl for You,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “The Miller’s Son,” “Move On,” “Not a Day Goes By,” Side by Side by Side”

COMPANY07:

Company Accompaniment CD (2006) Stage Stars Records CD: RPT 510; 2-disc set [The first disc includes vocal tracks, the second disc is accompaniments only] Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Barcelona,” “Being Alive,” “Company,” “Getting Married Today,” “Have I Got a Girl for You,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Marry Me a Little,” “Overture,” “Poor Baby,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Someone Is Waiting,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

COMPANY08:

Company Second Revival Cast Recording CD (2007) Nonesuch/PS Classics CD: 106876-2 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Barcelona,” “Being Alive,” “Company,” “Getting Married Today,” “Have I Got a Girl for You,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Marry Me

COMPANY09:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

495

a Little,” “Opening,” “Poor Baby,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Someone Is Waiting,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “What Would We Do without You?,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” Judi Connelli/On My Way To You (1997) “I Hear Voices” Entertainment CD: IHV 001 Songs: “Losing My Mind,” “Move On” (includes uncredited portion of “We Do Not Belong Together”), “Stay with Me”

CONNELLI1:

Judi Connelli/Live in London (1998) Dress Circle CD: DG CD 1 Songs: “Being Alive,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “Move On” (includes uncredited portion of “We Do Not Belong Together”), “Something’s Coming,” “Stay with Me”

CONNELLI2:

Judi Connelli and Suzanne Johnston/Perfect Strangers (1999) ABC CD: 465068-0 Songs: “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Johanna,” “Our Time,” “Pretty Women”

CONNELLI3:

Barbara Cook/Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (2001) DRG Records CD: 91464; 2-disc set Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Giants in the Sky,” “Happiness,” “Into the Woods,” “Losing My Mind,” “Loving You,” “Move On,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Send in the Clowns,” “So Many People,” “Something’s Coming,” “Tonight,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

COOKB1:

Barbara Cook/Barbara Cook at the Met (2006) DRG Records CD: 91487 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “Losing My Mind,” “Move On,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “So Many People”

COOKB2:

Barbara Cook/No One Is Alone (2007) DRG Records CD: 91501

COOKB3:

496

Primary Sondheim Recordings

Songs: “Goodbye for Now,” “I Wish I Could Forget You,” “No More,” “No One Is Alone,” “One More Kiss,” “Something’s Coming” Michael Crawford Songs from the Stage and Screen (1992) Atlantic Records CD: 82472-2 Songs: “Not a Day Goes By,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight”

CRAWFORDM1:

Vic Damone/On the Street Where You Live (1964) Capitol Records LP: (S)ST-2133 Capitol/EMI CD: [592658]; 2003 reissue as On the Street Where You Live/The Liveliest Songs: “Maria,” “Something’s Coming,” “Tonight”

DAMONE1:

Bobby Darin/West Side Story (1962) Atco Records LP: (S)141 Songs: “America,” “Somewhere”

DARIN1:

Sammy Davis Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove (1961?) Reprise Records LP: 2R-6063 [West Side Story medley included in 4-CD box set: Yes I Can/The Sammy Davis Jr. Story, on Warner Archives/Reprise R2 75972/Rhino, 1999] Songs, in medley: “America,” “Cool,” “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “Jet Song,” “Something’s Coming,” “Tonight”

DAVISS:

Courtenay Day/Courtenay Day Live at Don’t Tell Mama (2000) Green Street Dance CD: 0713 Songs: “Every Day a Little Death,” “I’ve Got You to Lean On,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Pretty Women”

DAYC1:

Margie De Ferranti/Margie De Ferranti, Live in New York, Live at ’88’s (1999[?]) [No label name, Australian] CD: [n.n.] Songs: “Being Alive,” “No One Is Alone,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets”

DEFERRANT1:

Dea DeLaria/Play It Cool (2001) Warner Bros. Jazz CD: 9 47993-2 Songs: “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “Cool,” “Losing My Mind”

DELARIA1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

497

Brian De Lorenzo/Found Treasures (1999) Cabaret Classics CD: CC9901 Songs: “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” “Giants in the Sky,” “No One Has Ever Loved Me”

DELORENZ1:

Do I Hear a Waltz? Original Broadway Cast Recording (1965) Columbia Records LP: KOL-6370 (M)/KOS-2770 (S) AKOS-2770 (S); reissue Columbia Special Products Sony Broadway (reissue 1992) CD: SK-48206 [ADD] Cassette: ST-48206 Songs: “Bargaining,” “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” “Here We Are Again,” “Moon in My Window,” “No Understand,” “Perfectly Lovely Couple,” “Someone Like You,” “Someone Woke Up,” “Stay,” “Take the Moment,” “Thank You So Much,” “Thinking,” “This Week, Americans,” “We’re Gonna Be All Right,” “What Do We Do? We Fly!”

DOIHEAR1:

Do I Hear a Waltz? Pasadena Playhouse Production (2001) Fynsworth Alley CD: 302 062 126 2 Songs: “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” “Everybody Loves Leona,” “Here We Are Again,” “Last Week Americans,” “Moon in My Window,” “No Understand,” “Perfectly Lovely Couple,” “Someone Like You,” “Someone Woke Up,” “Stay,” “Take the Moment,” “Thank You So Much/Finale,” “Thinking,” “This Week, Americans,” “We’re Gonna Be All Right,” “What Do We Do? We Fly!”

DOIHEAR2:

Placido Domingo/The Broadway I Love (1991) Atlantic Records CD: 7 82350-2 Songs: “Send in the Clowns,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight”

DOMINGO1:

Judith Dow/Regards to Broadway (1981) Centerline Records LP: CPI8002 Songs: “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” “Being Alive,” “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” “Night Waltz,” “Send in the Clowns”

DOWJ1:

Alfred Drake & Roberta Peters Sing the Popular Music of Leonard Bernstein (1963) Command Records LP: RS 855D

DRAKEA:

498

Primary Sondheim Recordings

reissued as: Show Time/Carousel (Complete)/West Side Story/On the Town/Candide (1973) Command Records LP: RSSD 982-2 (2-record set) Songs: “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “I Feel Pretty,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight” Early, Julia, see Words

BARNETTEARLY1:

Peter Barnett & Julia Early/In So Many

East West Players/East West Overtures (1996–97) EWP [there is no label name, number or date] CD: [n.n.] Songs: “The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea,” “Agony,” “Another Hundred People,” “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “Barcelona,” “Giants in the Sky,” “Good Thing Going,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “Into the Woods,” “My Friends,” “Next,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Our Time,” “Pretty Lady,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

EASTWEST1:

Susan Eichorn-Young/Taking My Turn (2007) Susan Eichorn Young CD: [n.n.] Songs: “Ah, But Underneath,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Silly People”

EICHORNS1:

Evening Primrose Original Television Soundtrack (2008) Kritzerland CD: KR 20011-5 Songs: “I Remember,” “If You Can Find Me, I’m Here,” “Take Me to the World,” “When?” [Original recordings from 1966; CD includes several additional tracks of underscoring at least some of which are purported to have been composed by David Shire]

EVENPRIM1:

Evening Primrose, see also FROGS1: The Frogs/Evening Primrose (2001) Evening Primrose, see also PATINKIN2: Mandy Patinkin/Dress Casual (1990) Evening Primrose, see also SONDATTHEM1: Sondheim at the Movies (1997) Everyone’s A Love Song (1979) Silver Flutes Productions LP: JACW7779 Songs: “Being Alive,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Send in the Clowns,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of”

EVERYONE1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

499

Michael Feinstein Sings The Jule Styne Songbook with Jule Styne, piano (1991) Elektra Nonesuch CD: 79274-2 Cassette: 79274-4 Songs: “All I Need Is the Girl,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Home Is the Place,” “Nice She Ain’t,” “Small World,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”

FEINSTEIN1:

Michael Ferreri/Sweet Dreams (2000) Lumiere Musique CD: FR293585 Songs: “Every Day a Little Death,” “Move On,” “Marry Me a Little”

FERRERI1:

Renée Fleming and Bryn Terfel/Under the Stars (2003) Decca CD: 289 473 250-2 Songs: “I Wish I Could Forget You,” “Loving You,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Pretty Women”

FLEMINGTERFEL1:

Florida Symphonic Pops (John Cacavas)/The Phantom of the Opera (1989) [instrumental] ProArte CD: D475 or Rochester Pops Orchestra & Florida Symphonic Pops Orchestra/ Opening Night (1990) ProArte CD: S 528, 1990 Songs: “Broadway Baby,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Send in the Clowns”

FLORIDA1:

Follies Original Broadway Cast Recording (1971) Capitol Records LP: SO-761 (S) CD: CDP7 920942, 1989 Broadway Angel CD: ZDM-64666 Cassette: EG-64666 Songs: “Ah, Paris!,” “Beautiful Girls,” “Broadway Baby,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “Could I Leave You?,” “Don’t Look at Me,” “Finale-Chaos,” “I’m Still Here,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “Live Laugh Love,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love Will See Us Through,” “One More Kiss,” “Overture,” “The Right Girl,” “The Road You Didn’t Take,” “The Story of Lucy and

FOLLIES01:

500

Primary Sondheim Recordings

Jessie,” “Too Many Mornings,” “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs,” “Who’s That Woman?,” “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow” Follies in Concert (1985) RCA Records LP: HBC2-7128 CD: RCD2-7128; 2-disc set [includes the soundtrack to Stavisky] Cassette: HBE2-7128 Songs: “Ah, Paris!,” “Beautiful Girls,” “Broadway Baby,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “Could I Leave You?,” “Don’t Look at Me,” “Finale-Chaos,” “I’m Still Here,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “Live Laugh Love,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love Will See Us Through,” “Loveland,” “One More Kiss,” “Overture,” “Rain on the Roof,” “The Right Girl,” “The Road You Didn’t Take,” “The Story of Lucy and Jessie,” “Too Many Mornings,” “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs,” “Who’s That Woman?,” “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow”

FOLLIES02:

Follies Original London Cast Recording (1987) First Night Records CD: Encore CD 2; (FIR-CD-3 [DDD]) Songs: “Ah, But Underneath . . . ,” “Ah, Paris!,” “Beautiful Girls,” “Broadway Baby,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “Could I Leave You?,” “Country House,” “Don’t Look at Me,” “I’m Still Here,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love Will See Us Through,” “Loveland [2],” “Make the Most of Your Music,” “One More Kiss,” “Rain on the Roof,” “The Right Girl,” “The Road You Didn’t Take,” “Social Dancing,” “Too Many Mornings,” “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs,” “Who’s That Woman?,” “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow”

FOLLIES03:

(Stephen Sondheim’s) Follies/Themes From the Legendary Musical (The Trotter Trio) (1998) Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-5934 Songs: “Broadway Baby,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “Could I Leave You?,” “I’m Still Here,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “Live Laugh Love,” “Losing My Mind,” “Loveland,” “Opening [Overture],” “Too Many Mornings,” “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs,” “Who’s That Woman?”

FOLLIES04:

Follies, The Complete Recording (1998) TVT Records/TVT Soundtrax CD: TVT 1030-2; 2-disc set [includes appendix of cut songs] Songs: “Ah, But Underneath . . . ,” “Ah, Paris!,” “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” “Beautiful Girls,” “Beautiful Girls (Bring On the

FOLLIES05:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

501

Girls),” “Bolero d’Amour,” “Broadway Baby,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Could I Leave You?,” “Don’t Look at Me,” “Finale-Chaos,” “I’m Still Here,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “Little White House,” “Live Laugh Love,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love Will See Us Through,” “Loveland,” “One More Kiss,” “Overture,” “Pleasant Little Kingdom,” “Prologue,” “Rain on the Roof,” “The Right Girl,” “The Road You Didn’t Take,” “The Story of Lucy and Jessie,” “That Old Piano Roll,” “Too Many Mornings,” “Uptown, Downtown,” “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs,” “Who’s That Woman?,” “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow” Anne Kerry Ford/Something Wonderful (Songs of Oscar Hammerstein and Stephen Sondheim) (1998) LML Music CD: LML CD-109 Songs: “Being Alive,” “Goodbye for Now,” “The Miller’s Son,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Something’s Coming,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of”

FORDA1:

Maria Friedman/Maria Friedman Live (2004) [No Label] CD: MARFRI01 Songs: “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “Move On,” “The Road You Didn’t Take,” “Too Many Mornings”

FRIEDM1:

Maria Friedman/Now and Then (2006) Sony Classical CD: 82876-81427-2 [Note: previously issued as Maria Friedman, Carlton Sounds 30360 00012, 1995, with one less track] Songs: “Broadway Baby,” “Children and Art” [featuring Sondheim on the piano], “Finishing the Hat”

FRIEDM2:

The Frogs/Evening Primrose (2001) Nonesuch CD: 79638-2 Songs: “Evoe for the Dead,” “Exodus: The Sound of Poets,” “Fanfare,” “Fear No More,” “Hymnos: Evoe!,” “I Remember,” “If You Can Find Me I’m Here,” “Invocation to the Muses,” “Parabasis: It’s Only a Play,” “Parados: The Frogs,” “Prologos: Invocation and Instructions to the Audience,” “Take Me to the World,” “Traveling Music,” “When?”

FROGS1:

The Frogs Original Broadway Cast Recording (2005) PS Classics CD: PS-525

FROGS2:

502

Primary Sondheim Recordings

Songs: “All Aboard,” “All Aboard (reprise),” “Ariadne,” “Dress Big,” “Fear No More,” “Final Instructions to the Audience,” “The Frogs,” “Hades,” “Hymn to Dionysus,” “Hymn to Dionysus (reprise),” “I Love to Travel,” “I Love to Travel (reprise),” “Invocation and Instructions to the Audience,” “It’s Only a Play,” “Opening Fanfare,” “Shaw” Mark Fuller/Songs About Adam (1996 or 97) Pride Music CD: PRIDE010LPD Festival CD: D31717 Blue Pie Download (2007) Songs: “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Losing My Mind,” “Not a Day Goes By”

FULLERM1:

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Original Broadway Cast Recording (1962) Capitol Records LP: WAO (M)/SWAO (S)-1717; reissue W (M)/SW (S)-1717 Bay Cities (1990, reissue) CD: BCD: 3002 EMI/Broadway Angel (1993, reissue) CD: ZDM 64770 Songs: “Bring Me My Bride,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” “Free,” “Funeral Sequence,” “I’m Calm,” “Impossible,” “Love, I Hear,” “Lovely,” “Lovely (Reprise),” “Overture,” “Pretty Little Picture,” “That Dirty Old Man,” “That’ll Show Him”

FUNNY01:

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Original London Cast Recording (1963) His Master’s Voice/EMI Records (England) LP: CLP: 1685 (M)/CSD 1518 (s) DRG Records (reissue) LP: Stet DS-15028 (S) Cassette: STET DSC-15028 First Night Records (England; reissue) LP: OCR 3, Cassette: OCR C3 Angel EMI (reissue) CD: 7 89060 2 Songs: “Bring Me My Bride,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” “Free,” “Funeral Sequence,” “I’m Calm,” “Impossible,” “Love, I Hear,” “Lovely,” “Lovely (Reprise),” “Overture,” “Pretty Little Picture,” “That Dirty Old Man,” “That’ll Show Him”

FUNNY02:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

503

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Motion Picture Soundtrack Recording (1966) [incidental music by Ken Thorne] United Artists Records LP: UAL-4144 (M)/UAS-5144 (S); reissue UA-LA284-G (S) Cassette: UA-EA284-H RYCO CD: RCD 10727 [1998 reissue] Songs: “[Bring Me] My Bride,” “The Chase,” “Comedy Tonight,” “The Dirge [Funeral Sequence],” “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” “Lovely,” “Lovely (Reprise),” “Riot at the Funeral”

FUNNY03:

FUNNY04: (Stephen Sondheim’s) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fo-

rum . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio) (1996) Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-5707 Songs: “Comedy Tonight,” “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” “Free,” “I’m Calm,” “Impossible,” “Love, I Hear,” “Lovely,” “That Dirty Old Man,” “That’ll Show Him,” “Your Eyes Are Blue” A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Revival Cast (1996) Broadway Angel Records CD: 52223 Songs: “Bring Me My Bride,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” “Free,” “Funeral Sequence,” “The House of Marcus Lycus,” “I’m Calm,” “Impossible,” “Love, I Hear,” “Lovely,” “Lovely (Reprise),” “Overture,” “Pretty Little Picture,” “That Dirty Old Man,” “That’ll Show Him”

FUNNY05:

Amor al Reves es Roma [A Funny Thing . . . ] Mexican Cast Recording (n.d.) CBS/Columbia 45rpm: EPC 274 “Comedy Tonight,” “Love, I Hear,” “Lovely,” “Pretty Little Picture”

FUNNY06:

A Gala Concert for Hal Prince (1996) First Night Records/TriStar CD: DOCRCD 2; 2-disc set Songs: “The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea,” “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “Beautiful Girls,” “Broadway Baby,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Losing My Mind,” “March to the Treaty House,” “Next,” “Night Waltz,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Tonight (Quintet)”

GALA1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

504

Judy Garland/Judy Duets (The Platinum Judy Garland in Commemoration of her 75th Birthday) (1998) Wiley Entertainment, Ltd. CD: 96883 67442 Songs: “Maria,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere,” “Together Wherever We Go” (2), “Tonight”

GARLAND:

Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles/Simply Sondheim (2001) Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles CD: GMCLA09 Songs: “Could I Leave You?,” “Good Thing Going,” “Goodbye for Now,” “I Remember,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Loving You,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “No One Is Alone,” “Old Friends,” “Our Time,” “Pleasant Little Kingdom,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Sunday,” “Sweeney Todd Rhapsody”

GAYMENSCLA1:

Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C./You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught . . . The Songs of Sondheim and Hammerstein (2002) Federal City Performing Arts Association CD: 60662 82212 Songs: “Good Thing Going,” “Johanna,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Not While I’m Around,” “On the Steps of the Palace”

GAYMENSCWDC1:

GELLERH: Herb Geller/Herb Geller and His All-Stars Play Selections from

Gypsy Atco Records LP: Atco 33-109 Songs: “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Momma’s Talkin’ Soft,” “Small World,” “Together Wherever We Go” [These songs, with vocals by Barbara Lang, are the only ones included in the body of the discography] Eydie Gorme/ . . . Sings Great Songs From The Sound of Music and Other Broadway Shows (1965/2004) Columbia LP: [n.n.] GL Music Co. CD: 209 [+ 9 bonus tracks] Songs: “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Small World”

GORMEE1:

Simon Green/Take Me to the World (2004) Reynolds Ensemble CD: Reynolds CD01

GREENS1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

505

Songs: “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” “Isn’t It,” “Old Friends,” “Take Me to the World” Gypsy Original Broadway Cast Recording (1959) Columbia Records LP: OL-5420 (M)/OS-2017 (S) S-32607 (reissue, 1973) CD: CK 32607 Cassette: JST-3260K CD: SK 60848 [1999 reissue, includes bonus tracks of previously unreleased material, and alternate or re-edited takes] Sony Masterworks Broadway CD: 88697 49406-2 (reissue, 2009) Songs: “All I Need Is the Girl,” “Dainty June and Her Farmboys,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Gypsy Strip Routine,” “If Momma Was Married,” “Little Lamb,” “Mr. Goldstone,” “Momma’s Talkin’ Soft” [1999 reissue only], “Nice She Ain’t” [1999 reissue only], “Rose’s Turn,” “Small World,” “Some People,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “Who Needs Him” [2009 reissue only], “You Gotta Have a Gimmick,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”

GYPSY01:

Gypsy Motion Picture Cast Recording (1962) Warner Bros. Records LP: B (M)-1480/BS (S)-1480 Rhino CD: 73873 [2003 reissue] Songs: “All I Need Is the Girl,” “Dainty June and Her Farmboys” [2003 reissue only], “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Gypsy Strip Routine,” “Mr. Goldstone,” “Rose’s Turn,” “Small World,” “Some People,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “You Gotta Have a Gimmick,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me” [Note: 2003 reissue includes Rosalind Russell outtakes of several songs; some also include Karl Malden and Natalie Wood]

GYPSY02:

Gypsy Original London Cast Recording (1974) RCA Records LP: SER-5686 (S) LP: LBL 1-500 [American release] CD: 60571-2-RG Songs: “All I Need Is the Girl,” “Dainty June and Her Farmboys,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Gypsy Strip Routine,” “If Momma Was Married,” “Little Lamb,” “Mr. Goldstone,” “Rose’s Turn,” “Small World,” “Some People,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “You Gotta Have a Gimmick,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”

GYPSY03:

506

Primary Sondheim Recordings

Gypsy Revival Cast Recording (1990) Elektra Nonesuch LP: 79239-1 CD: 79239-2 Cassette: 79239-4 Songs: “All I Need Is the Girl,” “Baby June and Her Newsboys,” “Dainty June and Her Farmboys,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Gypsy Strip Routine,” “If Momma Was Married,” “Little Lamb,” “Mr. Goldstone,” “Rose’s Turn,” “Small World,” “Some People,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “You Gotta Have a Gimmick,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”

GYPSY04:

Gypsy TV Cast Recording (1993) Atlantic Records CD: 82551-2 Cassette: 82551-4 Songs: “All I Need Is the Girl,” “Baby June and Her Newsboys,” “Dainty June and Her Farmboys,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Gypsy Strip Routine,” “If Momma Was Married,” “Little Lamb,” “May We Entertain You,” “Mr. Goldstone,” “Rose’s Turn,” “Small World,” “Some People,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “You Gotta Have a Gimmick,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”

GYPSY05:

Gypsy Mexican Cast Recording (1998)[?] [no label name] CD: 11460503 [the contents of this recording are not listed in the body of the discography, because the lyrics are based on, but not a translation of, Sondheim’s. The leads are played by Silvia Pinal and Alejandra Guzman.]

GYPSY06:

Gypsy German Cast Recording (1997) Theater Des Westens/Pallas Group Worldwide CD: LC 6377 Songs: “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Gypsy Strip Routine,” “If Momma Was Married,” “Some People,” “You Gotta Have a Gimmick,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”

GYPSY07:

Selections From “Gypsy” and “Flower Drum Song”/ (Florence Henderson) (1959) RCA Camden LP: CAS 560 Songs: “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Small World,” “Some People,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”

GYPSY08:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

507

Kay Medford in “Gypsy” (1969) mfp (Music For Pleasure) LP: MFP 50090 Songs: “All I Need Is the Girl,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “If Momma Was Married,” “Let Me Entertain You,” “Mr. Goldstone,” “Overture,” “Rose’s Turn,” “Small World,” “Some People,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “You Gotta Have a Gimmick,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”

GYPSY09:

Gypsy 2003 Revival Cast Recording (2003) Angel Records CD: 83858 Songs: “All I Need Is the Girl,” “Baby June and Her Newsboys,” “Broadway,” “Curtain,” “Dainty June and Her Farmboys,” “Entr’acte,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Gypsy Strip (Let Me Entertain You),” “If Momma Was Married,” “Incidental Music,” “Let Me Entertain You,” “Little Lamb,” “Madame Rose’s Toreadorables,” “May We Entertain You,” “Mr. Goldstone,” “Overture,” “Rose’s Turn,” “Small World,” “Some People,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “You Gotta Have a Gimmick,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”

GYPSY10:

Gypsy 2008 Revival Cast Recording (2008) Time Life CD: 80020-D Songs: “All I Need Is the Girl,” “Baby June and Her Newsboys/Let Me Entertain You,” “Broadway,” “Dainty June and Her Farmboys,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “If Momma Was Married,” “Little Lamb,” “Madame Rose’s Toreadorables,” “May We Entertain You,” “Mother’s Day (alternate version),”* “Mr. Goldstone, Have an Eggroll,” “Nice She Ain’t,”* “Overture,” “Rose’s Turn,” “Seattle to Los Angeles,” “Small World,” “Small World/Momma’s Talkin’ Soft,”* “Smile, Girls,”* “Some People,” “The Strip,” “Three Wishes for Christmas,”* “Together Wherever We Go,” “Tomorrow’s Mother’s Day,”* “Who Needs Him?,”* “You Gotta Get a Gimmick,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me” [*Additional cut songs recorded] [Exclusive Barnes & Noble version includes bonus CD with eight tracks of instrumental music and dialogue scenes, including underscoring, “Entr’acte,” change music, and “Exit Music”]

GYPSY11:

Gypsy, see also CELEBRATGYP: Celebrating Gypsy, Funny Girl, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: A Tribute to Jule Styne (1998) Gypsy, see also FEINSTEIN1: Michael Feinstein Sings The Jule Styne Songbook

508

Primary Sondheim Recordings

Gypsy, see also GELLERH: Herb Geller/Herb Geller and His All-Stars Play Selections from Gypsy Gypsy, see also HARNARJ1: Jeff Harnar Sings the 1959 Broadway Songbook Gypsy, see also HENDERSONF1: Henderson, Florence/Selections from Gypsy and Flower Drum Song Gypsy, see also HILOS: The Hi-Lo’s/Broadway Playbill (1960) Gypsy, see also MERMANE1: Ethel Merman/Mermania! (volume 1) Gypsy, see also ROSSANNIE: Annie Ross/Gypsy (1959, 1960) Gypsy, see also STYNEJ1: Jule Styne/My Name is Jule (1966) Jeff Harnar Sings the 1959 Broadway Songbook (1991) Original Cast Records CD: OC 916 Songs: “All I Need Is the Girl,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Let Me Entertain You,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Tonight,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”

HARNARJ1:

Jane Harvey/The Other Side of Sondheim (1988) Atlantic Records LP: 81833-1 CD: 81833-2 Cassette: 81833-4 Jane Harvey Sings Sondheim (2009 reissue) SSJ Records (Japan) CD: XQAM-1039 [asterisked songs added to the reissue] Songs: “Another Hundred People,”* “Broadway Baby,”* “Buddy’s Blues,”* “Could I Leave You?,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Good Thing Going,” “I’m Still Here,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “It Wasn’t Meant to Happen,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “The Little Things You Do Together,”* “Losing My Mind,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Old Friends,” “Pretty Women,” “Send in the Clowns,”* “Sorry-Grateful,”* “The Story of Lucy and Jessie,”* “There Won’t Be Trumpets,”* “Together Wherever We Go,” “Too Many Mornings,”* “What More Do I Need?,” “Who’s That Woman?,”* “With So Little to Be Sure Of,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”

HARVEYJ1:

Ruth Hasting/Ruth Hastings Plays the Geary (1979) Topaz Records LP: TRS-3079 Songs: “Could I Leave You?,” “Every Day a Little Death,” “Getting Married Today,” “The Miller’s Son,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets”

HASTINGSR1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

509

Heart and Soul on Broadway (2002) Fynsworth Alley CD: 302 062-148 2 Songs: “Not a Day Goes By,” “What Can You Lose?,” “Who Could Be Blue?,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of”

HEART&S1:

Marc Heller/Take Me to the World: Songs by Stephen Sondheim (1996) Et’Cetera Records Company B.V. the Netherlands CD: KTC 1185 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Being Alive,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Good Thing Going,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “The Hills of Tomorrow,” “Johanna,” “Later,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love, I Hear,” “Loving You,” “Not While I’m Around,” “One More Kiss,” “Pretty Women,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Silly People,” “Sunday,” “Take Me to the World,” “You Must Meet My Wife”

HELLERM1:

Florence Henderson/Selections from Gypsy and Flower Drum Song (1959) RCA Camden LP: CAL 560 Songs: “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Small World,” “Some People,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “You’ll Never Get Away From Me”

HENDERSONF1:

Hey, Love: The Songs of Mary Rodgers (1997) Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-5772 Songs: “The Boy From . . . ,” “Once I Had a Friend,” “Show Me,” “Who Knows?/I Know”

HEYLOVE1:

Hey, Mr. Producer! (The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh) (1998) First Night Records/Phillips CD: 314 538 030-2; 2-disc set Songs: “Being Alive,” “Broadway Baby,” “Dueling Pianos,” “Losing My Mind,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Side by Side by Side,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy,” “You Gotta Have a Gimmick”

HEYMRP:

The Hi-Lo’s/Broadway Playbill (1960) Columbia LP: CL1416, (S)CS8213

HILOS:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

510

Collectables CD: 6465; 2000 reissue [with Now Hear This] Songs: “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Little Lamb,” “Mr. Goldstone,” “Small World,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me” Hollywood Bowl Orchestra/The Great Waltz (1993) [instrumental] Phillips CD: 438 685-2 Songs: “The Glamorous Life,” “Night Waltz,” “Remember,” “Soon”

HOLLYWOODB1:

Into the Woods Original Broadway Cast Recording (1987) RCA Records CD: 6796-2-RC [DDD] DCC: 09026-56795-5 Cassette: 6796-4-RC9 Sony BMG Music Entertainment Masterworks Broadway CD: 82676-68636-2 [2007 reissue; includes 3 bonus tracks asterisked below] Songs: “Agony,” “Any Moment,” “Back to the Palace,”* “Boom Crunch,”* “Children Will Listen,” “Cinderella at the Grave,” “Ever After,” “First Midnight,” “Giants in the Sky,” “Giants in the Sky,”* “Hello Little Girl,” “I Guess This Is Goodbye,” “I Know Things Now,” “Into the Woods,” “It Takes Two,” “Jack, Jack, Jack,” “Last Midnight,” “Maybe They’re Magic,” “Moments in the Woods,” “No More,” “No One Is Alone,” “On the Steps of the Palace,” “So Happy,” “Stay with Me,” “A Very Nice Prince,” “Witch’s Lament,” “Your Fault”

INTOTHE1:

Into the Woods Original London Cast Recording (1991) RCA Records CD: 60752-2-RC [DDD] Cassette: 60752-4-RC Songs: “Agony,” “Any Moment,” “Children Will Listen,” “Cinderella at the Grave,” “Ever After,” “First Midnight,” “Giants in the Sky,” “Hello Little Girl,” “I Guess This Is Goodbye,” “I Know Things Now,” “Into the Woods,” “It Takes Two,” “Jack, Jack, Jack,” “Last Midnight,” “Maybe They’re Magic,” “Moments in the Woods,” “No More,” “No One Is Alone,” “On the Steps of the Palace,” “Our Little World,” “So Happy,” “Stay with Me,” “A Very Nice Prince,” “Witch’s Lament,” “Your Fault”

INTOTHE2:

Into the Woods Revival Cast Recording (2002) Nonesuch

INTOTHE3:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

511

CD: 79686-2 Songs: “Agony,” “Any Moment,” “Children Will Listen,” “Cinderella at the Grave,” “Ever After,” “First Midnight,” “Giants in the Sky,” “Hello, Little Girl,” “I Guess This Is Goodbye,” “I Know Things Now,” “Into the Woods,” “It Takes Two,” “Jack, Jack, Jack,” “Lament,” “Last Midnight,” “Maybe They’re Magic,” “Moments in the Woods,” “No More,” “No One Is Alone,” “On the Steps of the Palace,” “Our Little World,” “So Happy,” “Stay with Me,” “A Very Nice Prince,” “Your Fault” Into the Woods Accompaniment CD (2006) Stage Stars Records CD: RPT 508; 2-disc set, one with vocals, one without Songs: “Agony,” “Any Moment,” “Finale Act 1,” “Finale Act 2,” “Giants in the Sky,” “Hello, Little Girl,” “I Guess This Is Goodbye,” “I Know Things Now,” “It Takes Two,” “The Last Midnight,” “Maybe They’re Magic,” “Moments in the Woods,” “No More,” “No One Is Alone,” “On the Steps of the Palace,” “Opening,” “Stay with Me,” “Witch’s Lament,” “Your Fault”

INTOTHE4:

Into the Woods/Boscos Endins Original Barcelona Cast (2008) Tempsrecord CD: TR 1113-GEO8 Songs: “Agony,” “Any Moment,” “Finale Act 1,” “Finale Act 2,” “Giants in the Sky,” “Hello, Little Girl,” “I Guess This Is Goodbye,” “I Know Things Now,” “Into the Woods,” “It Takes Two,” “The Last Midnight,” “Maybe They’re Magic,” “Moments in the Woods,” “No More,” “No One Is Alone,” “On the Steps of the Palace,” “Opening,” “Stay with Me,” “Witch’s Lament,” “Your Fault”

INTOTHE5:

Jackie & Roy/A Stephen Sondheim Collection (1982) Finesse Records LP: FW 38324 (S) Cassette: FWT 38324 DRG Records (1990, reissue) CD: DSCD 25102 Cassette: DSC 25102 Red Baron (reissued as Sondheim) CD: JK 57338 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Barcelona,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “I Do Like You,” “I Remember,” “Johanna,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Love Is in the Air,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Send in the

JACKIE&1:

512

Primary Sondheim Recordings

Clowns,” “Side by Side by Side,” “So Many People,” “Theme” from Stavisky, “Together Wherever We Go” Raishel Jahana/Sondheim Songs (2000) Cab-Art CD: Cab-Art 3377 Songs: “Being Alive,” “Broadway Baby,” “Children Will Listen,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Move On,” “No More,” “No One Is Alone,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Too Many Mornings”

JAHANA1:

Jerome Robbins Broadway Original Broadway Cast Recording (1989) RCA Records CD: 60150-2-RC; 2-disc set Songs: “America,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Cool,” “Somewhere,” “You Gotta Have a Gimmick”

JEROMER1:

Mark deVille Jobson/My House (1998) Musical Journeys of the Heart CD: MJOTHCD002 Songs: “The Hills of Tomorrow,” “Move On,” “No One Is Alone,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Take Me to the World,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of”

JOBSON1:

Johnston, Suzanne, see ston/Perfect Strangers

CONNELLI3:

Judi Connelli and Suzanne John-

Larry Kert/Spotlight on Larry Kert/Larry Kert Sings/Larry Kert Sings Leonard Bernstein (1958; 1963; reissue 2009) Seeco LP: CELP 4670 Stage Door Records CD: STAGE 9016 Songs: “Maria,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight”

KERTL1:

Lado a Lado com Sondheim see SIDEBYS3: Lado a Lado com Sondheim, Original Brazilian cast recording of Side by Side by Sondheim Cleo Laine Return to Carnegie (1977) RCA Records LP: APL1-2407 Cassette: APK1-2407 Songs: “Being Alive,” “Broadway Baby,” “Company,” “The Miller’s Son”

LAINEC1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

513

Cleo Sings Sondheim/Cleo Laine (1988) RCA Records LP: 7702-1-RC CD: 7702-2-RC Cassette: 7702-4-RC Songs: “Ah, But Underneath,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “I Remember,” “I’m Calm,” “I’m Still Here,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Liaisons,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Losing My Mind,” “The Miller’s Son,” “No One Is Alone,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Send in the Clowns,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

LAINEC2:

Carol Lawrence/Tonight at 8:30 (1962) Chancellor Records LP: (S)CHLS-5015 Fresh Sound CD: [n.n.]; 2003 reissue Songs: “Something’s Coming,” “Tonight,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”

LAWRENCEC:

Evelyn Lear Sings Sondheim and Bernstein (1981) Mercury Records Golden Imports LP: MR 75136 Cassette: MRI 75136 Songs: “Could I Leave You?,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “I Remember,” “Losing My Mind,” “Send in the Clowns”

LEARE1:

Ute Lemper/City of Strangers (1995) London CD: 444 400-2 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Being Alive,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Losing My Mind”

LEMPER1:

Leonard Bernstein’s New York (1996) Nonesuch CD: 79400-2 Songs: “One Hand, One Heart,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight”

LEONARDB1:

A Little Light Music (1996) Upbeat/Showbiz/UK CD: URCD123 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Old Friends,” “Send in the Clowns”

LITTLEL1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

514

A Little Night Music Original Broadway Cast Recording (1973) Columbia Records LP: KS (S)/SQ (Q)-32265 Cassette: ST 32265 CD: CK 32265 Sony Classical/Columbia/Legacy [1998 reissue, remastered w/ bonus tracks] CD: SK 65284 (1998) Songs: “Every Day a Little Death,” “The Glamorous Life,” “The Glamorous Life (The Letter Song)” [1998 reissue only], “In Praise of Women,” “It Would Have Been Wonderful,” “Later,” “Liaisons,” “The Miller’s Son,” “Night Waltz,” “Night Waltz II (The Sun Sits Low)” [1998 reissue only], “Now,” “Overture,” “Perpetual Anticipation,” “Remember,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Send in the Clowns (Reprise),” “Soon,” “A Weekend in the Country,” “You Must Meet My Wife”

LITTLEN01:

A Little Night Music Original London Cast Recording (1975) RCA Records LP: LRL1-5090 (S) Cassette: CRK1-5090; reissue 5090-4-RG CD: RCD1-5090; reissue 5090-2-RG Songs: “Every Day a Little Death,” “The Glamorous Life,” “In Praise of Women,” “It Would Have Been Wonderful,” “Later,” “Liaisons,” “The Miller’s Son,” “Night Waltz,” “Now,” “Overture,” “Perpetual Anticipation,” “Remember,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Send in the Clowns (Reprise),” “Soon,” “A Weekend in the Country,” “You Must Meet My Wife”

LITTLEN02:

A Little Night Music Motion Picture Soundtrack Recording (1978) Columbia Records LP: JS 35333 (S) Cassette: JST 3533 Songs: “Every Day a Little Death,” “The Glamorous Life (The Letter Song),” “It Would Have Been Wonderful,” “Later,” “Love Takes Time,” “Night Waltz” [instrumental only], “Now,” “Overture,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Send in the Clowns (Reprise),” “Soon,” “A Weekend in the Country,” “You Must Meet My Wife”

LITTLEN03:

A Little Night Music Studio Cast Recording (1990) TER—That’s Entertainment Records (England) Cassette: ZCTER 1179 CD: CDTER 1179

LITTLEN04:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

515

Songs: “Every Day a Little Death,” “The Glamorous Life,” “In Praise of Women,” “It Would Have Been Wonderful,” “Later,” “Liaisons,” “The Miller’s Son,” “Night Waltz,” “Night Waltz II (The Sun Sits Low),” “Now,” “Overture,” “Perpetual Anticipation,” “Remember,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Send in the Clowns (Reprise),” “Soon,” “A Weekend in the Country,” “You Must Meet My Wife” A Little Night Music Royal National Theatre’s Cast Recording (1996) Tring CD: TRING001 Songs: “Dinner Table Scene,” “Every Day a Little Death,” “The Glamorous Life,” “The Glamorous Life (The Letter Song),” “In Praise of Women,” “It Would Have Been Wonderful,” “Later,” “Liaisons,” “The Miller’s Son,” “My Husband the Pig,” “Night Waltz,” “Night Waltz II (The Sun Sits Low),” “Now,” “Overture,” “Perpetual Anticipation,” “Remember,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Send in the Clowns (Reprise),” “Soon,” “A Weekend in the Country,” “You Must Meet My Wife”

LITTLEN05:

A Little Night Music [musica per a una nit d’estiu] Barcelona Cast (2001) [translated into Catalonian] K Industria Cultural CD: KO26CD Songs: “Every Day a Little Death,” “The Glamorous Life,” “In Praise of Women,” “It Would Have Been Wonderful,” “Later,” “Liaisons,” “The Miller’s Son,” “Night Waltz,” “Night Waltz II (The Sun Sits Low),” “Now,” “Overture,” “Perpetual Anticipation,” “Remember,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Send in the Clowns (Reprise),” “Soon,” “A Weekend in the Country,” “You Must Meet My Wife”

LITTLEN06:

A Little Night Music Broadway Revival Cast (2010) Nonesuch/PS Classics CD: 523488; 2-disc set Songs: “Every Day a Little Death,” “The Glamorous Life,” “In Praise of Women,” “It Would Have Been Wonderful,” “Later,” “Liaisons,” “The Miller’s Son,” “Night Waltz,” “Night Waltz II (The Sun Sits Low),” “Now,” “Overture,” “Perpetual Anticipation,” “Remember,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Send in the Clowns (Reprise),” “Soon,” “A Weekend in the Country,” “You Must Meet My Wife” [In addition to the songs listed, the recording includes significant amounts of underscoring and reprises.]

LITTLEN07:

A Little Night Music, see also A Little Night Music (1997)

TROTTERT1:

Terry Trotter/Stephen Sondheim’s

516

Primary Sondheim Recordings

A Little Sondheim Music/Los Angeles Vocal Arts Ensemble (1984) EMI/Angel Records LP: EMI DS-37347 (S) Cassette: EMI 4DS-3747 Songs: “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “By the Sea,” “Cora’s Chase” [listed as “Waltz I”], “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “The Hills of Tomorrow,” “In Praise of Women,” “Night Waltz,” “Night Waltz II (The Sun Sits Low),” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Overture” from A Little Night Music, “Pretty Lady,” “Pretty Women,” “Send in the Clowns,” “A Weekend in the Country,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of”

LITTLES1:

Madonna/I’m Breathless (1990) Sire/Warner Bros. Records CD: 9 26209-2 Cassette: 26209-4 Songs: “More,” “Sooner or Later,” “What Can You Lose?”

MADONNA1:

Eileen Mager/Broadway: Love & Laughter (2001/2003) Eroica Classical CD: 70342 Songs: “I Feel Pretty,” “Losing My Mind,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

MAGERE1:

The Magic of the Musicals (1992) Quality Television (Great Britain) CD: QTVCD 013 Songs: “Losing My Mind,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Send in the Clowns”

MAGICOF1:

Myrra Malmberg/What Can You Lose? (1995) Arietta Discs CD: ADCD1 Songs: “Could I Leave You?,” “Everybody Loves Louis,” “The Glamorous Life (The Letter Song),” “I Remember,” “Isn’t It?,” “Like It Was,” “Marry Me a Little,” “No One Is Alone,” “So Many People,” “Take Me to the World,” “Truly Content,” “What Can You Lose?”

MALMBERG1:

Sue Malmberg/Musical Theatre Classics (1990) H. Leonard Cassettes: HL00660150-51 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Could I Leave You?,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “Losing My Mind”

MALMBERGS1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

517

MANSFIELDM1:

Martin Mansfield with Gayle Ashkenazy [on the piano]/ Demarcations (2008) Martin Mansfield CD: 07505 Songs: “Being Alive,” “I Remember,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Something’s Coming,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” “What More Do I Need?”

Enda Markey/Another Place and Time (2001) Middle Eight Music CD: EMCD01 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Broadway Baby,” “Good Thing Going,” “Losing My Mind,” “Not a Day Goes By”

MARKEY1:

Marry Me A Little (1981) RCA Records LP: ABL1-4159 (S) Cassette: ABK1-4159; reissue 7142-4-RG CD: 7142-2-RG Songs: “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” “Bang!,” “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “The Girls of Summer,” “Happily Ever After,” “It Wasn’t Meant to Happen,” “Little White House,” “Marry Me a Little,” “A Moment with You,” “Pour le sport,” “Saturday Night,” “Silly People,” “So Many People,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” “Two Fairy Tales,” “Uptown, Downtown,” “Who Could Be Blue?,” “Your Eyes Are Blue”

MARRYME1:

Susannah Mars/Take Me to the World (1998) LML Music CD: LML CD-106 Songs: “Gun Song,” “Loving You,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Take Me to the World”

MARSS1:

Sally Mayes/Boys and Girls Like You and Me (2000) Bayview Recording Company CD: RNBW007 Songs: “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” “Nice She Ain’t,” “Your Eyes Are Blue”

MAYESS1:

Marin Mazzie & Jason Danieley/Opposite You (2005) PS Classics: CD: PS-536 Songs: “Good Thing Going,” “Happiness,” “Move On,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Too Many Mornings”

MAZZIEDANIELEY1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

518

Sean McDermott/My Broadway (1999) JAY Records CD: CDJAY 1316 Songs: “Being Alive,” “Good Thing Going,” “Loving You,” “Maria,” “Something’s Coming”

MCDERMOTTS1:

Donna McKechnie/Inside the Music (2002) Fynsworth Alley CD: FA2124 Songs: “All I Need Is the Girl,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “Lovely,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

MCKECHNIED1:

Julia McKenzie/The Musicals Album (1992) Telstar CD: TCD 2612 Songs: “The Boy From . . . ,” “Losing My Mind,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight”

MCKENZIEJ1:

Rita McKenzie/Ethel Merman’s Broadway (1995) Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-5665 Songs: “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Small World,” “Some People”

MCKENZIER1:

Morag McLaren/i never do anything twice (1998) Dress Circle CD: MM777 Songs: “Every Day a Little Death,” “I Never Do Anything Twice,” “Make the Most of Your Music”

MCLAREN1:

The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh/Mendelssohn sings Sondheim (1994) atr digital Cassette: 26187 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “The Ballad of Booth,” “Being Alive,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” “I Remember,” “Johanna,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Let Me Entertain You,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Losing My Mind,” “No One Is Alone,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Old Friends,” “Our Time,” “Pretty Lady,” “See What It Gets You,” “Send in the Clowns,” “There’s a Parade in Town,” “This World”

MENDELSSOHN1:

MERMANE1:

Ethel Merman/Mermania! (Vol. 1) (1999) Harbinger Records

Primary Sondheim Recordings

519

CD: HCD 1711 Songs: “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Little Lamb,” “Mr. Goldstone,” “Rose’s Turn,” “Small World,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me” Merrily We Roll Along Original Broadway Cast Recording (1982) RCA Records LP: CBL1-4197 (S) CD: RCD1-5840 Cassette: CBK1-4197 Sony BMG Music Entertainment Masterworks Broadway CD: 82876-68637-2 [2007 reissue; includes 2 bonus tracks asterisked below] Songs: “Bobby and Jackie and Jack,” “Franklin Shepard, Inc.,” “Good Thing Going,” “The Hills of Tomorrow,” “It’s a Hit!,” “It’s a Hit!,”* “Like It Was,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not a Day Goes By,”* “Not a Day Goes By, part II,” “Now You Know,” “Old Friends,” “Opening Doors,” “Our Time,” “Overture,” “Rich and Happy”

MERRILY1:

Merrily We Roll Along Revival Cast Recording (1994) Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-5548 Songs: “Act Two Opening,” “The Blob,” “Bobby and Jackie and Jack,” “Franklin Shepard, Inc.,” “Good Thing Going,” “Growing Up,” “It’s a Hit!,” “Like It Was,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not a Day Goes By, part II,” “Now You Know,” “Old Friends,” “Opening Doors,” “Our Time,” “Overture,” “That Frank”

MERRILY2:

Merrily We Roll Along London Cast Recording (1994, 1997) TER—That’s Entertainment Records (England) CD: CDTER 1225 JAY Records (England) CD: CDJAY2 1245, 2-disc set Songs: “Act Two Opening,” “The Blob,” “Bobby and Jackie and Jack,” “Franklin Shepard, Inc.,” “Good Thing Going,” “Growing Up,” “It’s a Hit!,” “Like It Was,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not a Day Goes By, part II,” “Now You Know,” “Old Friends,” “Opening Doors,” “Our Time,” “Overture,” “That Frank”

MERRILY3:

Julia Migenes/Live at the Olympia (1989) Milan CD: GH 503 Songs: “One Hand, One Heart,” “Something’s Coming,” “Tonight”

MIGENES1:

520

Primary Sondheim Recordings

Minnelli, Liza/Aznavour/Minnelli Paris-Palais des Congrès Intégrale du Spectacle (1991, 1995) EMI Music Holland CD: 8324262 Songs: “Losing My Mind,” “Old Friend,” “Some People”

MINNELLI1:

Brian Stokes Mitchell/Brian Stokes Mitchell (2006) Playbill Records/Legacy CD: 82876 80980 2 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Being Alive,” “Losing My Mind,” “Pretty Women,” “Something’s Coming”

MITCHELLBS1:

More West End The Concert (1999) JAY Records CD: [n.n.] Songs: “Comedy Tonight,” “Company,” “Send in the Clowns”

MOREWEST:

Moving On (A 70th Birthday Celebration of Stephen Sondheim) (2000) Goldcrest Films International CD: GF1001CD [Note: Devised by David Kernan for the Bridewell Theatre London. Performers: Geoffrey Abbott, Linzi Hately, Belinda Land, Robert Meadmore, Angela Richards; not listed by cut] Songs: “Ah, But Underneath . . . ,” “Another Hundred People,” “Broadway Baby,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Goodbye for Now,” “I Do Like You,” “I Know Things Now,” “I Wish I Could Forget You,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “Johanna,” “Loving You,” “Me and My Town,” “The Miller’s Son,” “Move On,” “Multitudes of Amys,” “No, Mary Ann,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Opening Doors,” “Old Friends,” “Our Time,” “Pretty Women,” “Side by Side by Side,” “So Many People,” “Someone Is Waiting,” “Take Me to the World,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” “Water Under the Bridge,” “What More Do I Need?,” “Who Wants to Live in New York?,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of”

MOVINGON:

New York City Gay Men’s Chorus/New York, New York A Broadway Extravaganza (1984, 1987) ProArte Records CD: CDG-3198; CDD-594 Cassette: PCD-5995 Songs: “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Our Time,” “Silly People,” “Take Me to the World,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets”

NEWYORKCITYGAY1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

521

New York City Gay Men’s Chorus/Love Lives On (1991) Virgin Records America, Inc. CD: 2-91647 Cassette: 91647-4 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “No One Is Alone,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “That Old Piano Roll”

NEWYORKCITYGAY2:

New York City Opera Orchestra/Broadway’s Best (1993) [instrumental] MusicMasters Classics CD: 01612-67099-2 Songs: “The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea,” “March to the Treaty House,” “Night Waltz,” “Tamate’s Dance (There Is No Other Way)”

NEWYORKCITYOP1:

Carla and Michael Nicholson/Just Duet (2001) Duophon CD: [n.n.] Songs: “I Feel Pretty,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight”

NICHOLSONC1:

No One Is Alone . . . the Modern Sondheim (1995 or ’96) [Cast album of an Australian revue. There is no label name or number] CD: [n.n.] Songs: “Agony,” “Another National Anthem,” “Any Moment,” “The Ballad of Booth,” “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “Beautiful,” “Children Will Listen,” “Color and Light,” “Everybody’s Got the Right,” “Finishing the Hat,” “Good Thing Going,” “Gossip Sequence,” “Gun Song,” “Hello, Little Girl,” “I Know Things Now,” “Live, Laugh, Love,” “Moments in the Woods,” “My Friends,” “No One Is Alone,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “On the Steps of the Palace,” “Sunday,” “Sunday in the Park with George”

NOONEIS1:

Orchestra Manhattan (Byron Olson)/Digital Broadway (1986) [instrumental] Manhattan CD: P-7-46288-2 Songs: “Johanna,” “Losing My Mind,” “Pretty Women,” “Putting It Together,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Something’s Coming”

ORCHESTRAMAN1:

ORQUESTRADECAM1:

Orquestra De Cambra Teatre Lliure, featuring Nina/ Stephen Sondheim (2001)

522

Primary Sondheim Recordings

Satchmo Jazz Records CD: SJR CD 00032J Songs: “Bang!,” “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Greens, Greens (Opening, Part III)” [listed on CD as “Witch Entrance”], “Not a Day Goes By,” “Overture” from Follies, “Putting it Together,” “Silly People,” “So Many People,” “Sorry-Grateful” Out On Broadway (2000) Original Cast CD: OC2015 Songs: “Not a Day Goes By,” “Our Time,” “ Sooner or Later,” “Water Under the Bridge,” “What Can You Lose?,” “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow”

OUTONB1:

Pacific Overtures Original Broadway Cast Recording (1976) RCA Records LP: ARL1-1367 (S) CD: RCD1-4407 Cassette: ARK1-4407 Songs: “The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea,” “A Bowler Hat,” “Chrysanthemum Tea,” “Four Black Dragons,” “Next,” “Please Hello,” “Poems,” “Pretty Lady,” “Someone in a Tree,” “Tamate’s Dance (There Is No Other Way),” “Welcome to Kanagawa”

PACIFICOVER1:

Pacific Overtures English National Opera (1988) TER Records CD: CDTER 1151 Cassette: ZCTED 1151 RCA Records CD: 7995-2-RC (highlights only) Cassette: 7995-4-RC (highlights only) Jay Records CD: CDJAY 1382 (highlights only; remastered and reissued in 2004) Songs: “The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea,” “A Bowler Hat,” “Chrysanthemum Tea,” “Four Black Dragons,” “Next,” “Please Hello,” “Poems,” “Pretty Lady,” “Someone in a Tree,” “Tamate’s Dance (There Is No Other Way),” “Welcome to Kanagawa”

PACIFICOVER2:

Pacific Overtures New Broadway Cast Recording (2005) PS Classics CD: PS-528 Songs: “The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea,” “A Bowler Hat,” “Chrysanthemum Tea,” “Four Black Dragons,” “March to

PACIFICOVER3:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

523

the Treaty House,” “Next,” “Please Hello!,” “Poems,” “Prayers,” “Pretty Lady,” “Prologue,” “Someone in a Tree,” “There Is No Other Way,” “Welcome to Kanagawa” Passion Original Broadway Cast Recording (1994) Angel Records CD: CDQ 7243 5 55251 23 Cassette: 4DQ 7243 5 55251 47 Songs: “Farewell Letter,” “Finale,” “First Letter,” “Flashback,” “Forty Days,” “Fourth Letter,” “Garden Sequence,” “Happiness,” “I Read,” “I Wish I Could Forget You,” “Is This What You Call Love?,” “Loving You,” “No One Has Ever Loved Me,” “Second Letter,” “Soldier’s Gossip,” “Sunrise Letter,” “Third Letter,” “Transition(s),” “Trio”

PASSION1:

(Stephen Sondheim’s) Passion . . . in Jazz (The Trotter Trio) (1994) Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-5556 Songs: “Fourth Letter,” “Happiness,” “I Wish I Could Forget You,” “Love Like Ours,” “Loving You,” “No One Has Ever Loved Me,” “Transition(s)”

PASSION2:

Passion London Concert (1997) First Night Records CD: CAST CD61 Songs: “Farewell Letter,” “Finale,” “First Letter,” “Flashback,” “Forty Days,” “Fourth Letter,” “Garden Sequence,” “Happiness,” “I Read,” “I Wish I Could Forget You,” “Is This What You Call Love?,” “Love Like Ours,” “Loving You,” “No One Has Ever Loved Me,” “Second Letter,” “Soldier’s Gossip,” “Sunrise Letter,” “Third Letter,” “Transition(s),” “Trio”

PASSION3:

Passion Dutch Cast Recording (2004) [translated into Dutch] Stage Music/Universal CD: 986 921-5 Songs: “Farewell Letter,” “Finale,” “First Letter,” “Flashback,” “Forty Days,” “Fourth Letter,” “Garden Sequence,” “Happiness,” “I Read,” “I Wish I Could Forget You,” “Is This What You Call Love?,” “Love Like Ours,” “Loving You,” “No One Has Ever Loved Me,” “Second Letter,” “Soldier’s Gossip,” “Sunrise Letter,” “Third Letter,” “Transition(s),” “Trio”

PASSION4:

Mandy Patinkin/Mandy Patinkin (1989) CBS Records

PATINKIN1:

524

Primary Sondheim Recordings

CD: MK44943 [DDD] Cassette: FMT-44943 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “No More,” “No One Is Alone,” “Pretty Lady” Mandy Patinkin/Dress Casual (1990) CBS Records CD: MK45998 Cassette: FMT-45998 Songs: “Being Alive,” “Giants in the Sky,” “I Remember,” “If You Can Find Me I’m Here,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “Take Me to the World,” “When?”

PATINKIN2:

PATINKIN3:

Mandy Patinkin/Experiment (1994) Elektra Nonesuch CD: 79330-2 Cassette: FMT-79330-4 Songs: “Good Thing Going,” “Multitudes of Amys,” “The Road You Didn’t Take,” “So Many People,” “Someone Is Waiting,” “Something’s Coming”

Mandy Patinkin/Oscar and Steve (1995) Nonesuch CD: 79392-2 Cassette: 79392-4 Songs: “Children Will Listen,” “I Wish I Could Forget You,” “Loving You,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Pleasant Little Kingdom,” “Poems,” “Remember,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” “Too Many Mornings”

PATINKIN4:

Mandy Patinkin/Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim (2002) Nonesuch CD: 79690-2; 2-disc set Songs: “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” “Another Hundred People,” “Beautiful,” “Broadway Baby,” “Company,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Finishing the Hat,” “Free,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “If You Can Find Me, I’m Here,” “In Someone’s Eyes,” “It Takes Two,” “Johanna,” “Lesson # 8,” “Liaisons,” “Live Alone and Like It,” “Live, Laugh, Love,” “Losing My Mind,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Opening” from Sunday in the Park with George, “Our Time,” “Pleasant Little Kingdom,” “Pretty Women,” “Rich and Happy,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Someone Is Waiting,” “Sunday,” “Take the Moment,” “Too Many Mornings,” “Uptown, Downtown,” “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs,” “When?,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

PATINKIN5:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

525

Bernadette Peters/Sondheim, Etc. (Live at Carnegie Hall) (1997) Angel Records CD: 55870 Songs: “Any Moment,” “Being Alive,” “Broadway Baby,” “Happiness,” “Hello, Little Girl,” “Johanna,” “Move On,” “No One Is Alone,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Some People,” “Sooner or Later,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

PETERSB1:

Bernadette Peters/Sondheim, Etc., Etc.—Live at Carnegie Hall: The Rest of It (2005) Angel Records CD: 7243 4 74748 2 8 Songs: “Children Will Listen,” “Later,” “(They Ask Me Why) I Believe in You,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of”

PETERSB2:

Peters, Roberta, see also DRAKEA: Alfred Drake & Roberta Peters Sing the Popular Music of Leonard Bernstein PRIORM1:

Marina Prior/Somewhere (1994) Columbia Records CD: 478068 2 Songs: “The Boy From . . . ,” “A Boy Like That,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “I Have a Love,” “Move On,” “Not While I’m Around,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Somewhere,” “Sooner or Later,” “Tonight,” “What Can You Lose?,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” Putting It Together Original Cast Recording (1993) RCA Records CD: 09026-61729-2 Cassette: 09026-61729-4 Songs: “Ah, But Underneath . . . ,” “Back in Business,” “Bang!,” “Being Alive,” “Could I Leave You?,” “Country House,” “Every Day a Little Death,” “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” “Getting Married Today,” “Gun Song,” “Have I Got a Girl for You,” “Hello, Little Girl,” “I’m Calm,” “Impossible,” “In Praise of Women,” “Invocation and Instructions to the Audience,” “Like It Was,” “A Little Priest,” “Live Alone and Like It,” “Love Takes Time,” “Lovely,” “Marry Me a Little,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “The Miller’s Son,” “My Husband the Pig,” “Now,” “Perpetual Anticipation,” “Pretty Women,” “Putting It Together,” “Remember,” “Rich and Happy,” “Sooner or Later,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “Sweet Polly Plunkett,” “What Would We Do without You?,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

PUTTINGIT1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

526

Teri Ralston/I’ve Gotta Get Back to New York (2008) LML Music CD: LML CD-230 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Company,” “Getting Married Today,” “In Buddy’s Eyes.” “Losing My Mind,” “Make the Most of Your Music,” “Perpetual Anticipation,” “Poor Baby,” “Remember”

RALSTONT1:

Reds (Original Soundtrack) (1981) [music for some cuts by Dave Grusin] Columbia Records LP: BJS 37690 Razor & Tie Entertainment CD: 7940182203-2 [1999 reissue] Songs: “Goodbye for Now”

REDS1:

Road Show Original Cast Recording (2009) Nonesuch/PS Classics CD: 518940-2 Songs: “Addison’s City,” “Addison’s Trip,” “The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened,” “Boca Raton,” “Brotherly Love,” “Finale,” “The Game,” “The Game (Reprise),” “Get Out/Go,” “Gold!,” “Isn’t He Something!,” “It’s in Your Hands Now,” “Land Boom!,” “Talent,” “That Was a Year,” “Waste,” “You”

ROADSHOW1:

Rochester Pops Orchestra (Erich Kunzel)/Opening Night (1990) [instrumental] ProArte CD: CDS 528 Songs: “Broadway Baby,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Send in the Clowns”

ROCHESTERP1:

Rochester Pops, see also FLORIDA1: Florida Symphonic Pops (John Cacavas)/The Phantom of the Opera Jodi Rose/Hope for the Future (2008) Opera on the go CD: 837101446709 Songs: “Children Will Listen,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Losing My Mind,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Together Wherever We Go” [Note: The album also includes a “West Side Story Medley” whose individual cuts are not listed]

ROSEJ1:

ROSSANNIE:

Annie Ross/Gypsy (1959, 1960) World Pacific Records

Primary Sondheim Recordings

527

LP: (S)ST-1276, WP-1028 Pacific Jazz (1995 reissue) CD: CDP 7243 8 33574 2 0 Songs: “All I Need Is the Boy,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Let Me Entertain You,” “Small World,” “Some People,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me” Stig Rossen/Love Changes Everything (2002) DPTV Media CD: [n.n.] Songs: “Being Alive,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Somewhere”

ROSSENS1:

Corey Evan Rotz/Keep the Music Playing (2002) Corey Evan Rotz CD: [n.n.] Songs: “Being Alive,” “Maria,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Send in the Clowns”

ROTZC1:

The Roy Budd Trio/Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Musical World of Stephen Sondheim (1976) Pye Records LP: NSPL 18494 Songs: “All I Need Is the Girl,” “Another Hundred People,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Beautiful Girls,” “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Blues,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Small World,” “Take Me to the World,” “Tonight”

ROYBUDD1:

Craig Rubano/Finishing the Act (1999) AF Records CD: HR 13680 Songs: “Now You Know,” “Sunday,” “Take the Moment”

RUBANOC1:

Lea Salonga/The Broadway Concert (2002) BMG CD: [n.n.] Songs: “Being Alive,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”

SALONGAL1:

SANDFORD1:

Luke Sandford/Shimmer (2000) [piano solo] Luke Sandford CD: 11357 60082 Songs: “Giants in the Sky,” “Night Waltz,” “Salon at the Claridge # 2”

Primary Sondheim Recordings

528

Saturday Night Bridewell Cast Recording (1998) First Night Records CD: CAST CD65 Songs: “All for You,” “Class,” “Exhibit ‘A,’” “I Remember That,” “In the Movies,” “Isn’t It?,” “Love’s a Bond,” “A Moment with You,” “One Wonderful Day,” “Saturday Night,” “Saturday Night (reprise),” “So Many People,” “That Kind of a Neighborhood,” “What More Do I Need?”

SATURDAYN1:

Saturday Night Original New York Cast (2000) Nonesuch CD: 79809-2 Songs: “All for You,” “Class,” “Delighted, I’m Sure,” “Exhibit ‘A,’” “Gracious Living Fantasy,” “I Remember That,” “In the Movies,” “Isn’t It?,” “Love’s a Bond,” “Love’s a Bond (Blues),” “A Moment with You,” “One Wonderful Day,” “One Wonderful Day (Finale),” “Overture,” “Saturday Night,” “Saturday Night (Reprise) [2 versions],” “So Many People,” “That Kind of a Neighborhood,” “What More Do I Need?”

SATURDAYN2:

Saturday Night, see also UNSUNGS1: Unsung Sondheim (1993) Emily Saxe/Whistling: Broadway to Berk’ley Square (1996/99) Orchard/Miss Emily Productions CD: 3285/657979110126 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Sooner or Later”

SAXEE1:

Emily Saxe/Broadway & All That Jazz (2000) Orchard CD: [n.n.] Songs: “Losing My Mind,” “Old Friends,” “Send in the Clowns”

SAXEE2:

Schlongs/Punk Side Story (1994–95) Hopeless Records CD: HR602-2 Songs: “America,” “A Boy Like That,” “Cool,” “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “I Feel Pretty,” “I Have a Love,” “Jet Song,” “Maria,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight (Balcony Scene),” “Tonight (Quintet)”

SCHLONG1:

Helen Schneider/A Voice and a Piano (200) Preiser Records CD: PR93429

SCHNEIDERH1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

529

Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Broadway Baby,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Move On” Samuel Schürmann/Sunday: Samuel Schürmann singt Sondheim (2007) Sound of Music CD: SOM CD 034 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Back in Business,” “Being Alive,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Good Thing Going,” “Hello, Little Girl,” “I Remember,” “I’m Calm,” “In Praise of Women,” “Johanna,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Losing My Mind,” “Moments in the Woods,” “No One Is Alone,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Pretty Women,” “Putting It Together,” “Sunday,” “Waiting For the Girls Upstairs,” “A Weekend in the Country,” “What Can You Lose?”

SCHÜRMANN1:

Tim Seelig/Everything’s Possible (1995) Passport/Turtle Creek Chorale CD: 1040 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “I Remember,” “No One Is Alone,” “Not While I’m Around”

SEELIGT1:

Bobby Short/Live at the Cafe Carlyle (1974) Atlantic Records LP: SD 2609; 2-record set Songs: “Losing My Mind,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Sorry-Grateful”

SHORTB1:

Side by Side by Sondheim Original Cast (1976) RCA Records LP: CBL2-1851 (s); 2-record set Cassette: CBK2-1851; reissue 1851-4-RG CD: 1851-2-RG; 2-disc set Songs: “Ah, Paris!,” “Another Hundred People,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Barcelona,” “Beautiful Girls,” “Being Alive,” “The Boy From . . . ,” “A Boy Like That,” “Broadway Baby,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Company,” “Could I Leave You?,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Getting Married Today,” “I Never Do Anything Twice,” “I Remember,” “If Momma Was Married,” “I’m Still Here,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love Is in the Air,” “Pretty Lady,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Side by Side by Side,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” “Too Many Mornings,” “We’re Gonna Be All Right,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy,” “You Must Meet My Wife”

SIDEBYS1:

530

Primary Sondheim Recordings

Side by Side by Sondheim Original Australian cast recording (1977) RCA Red Seal (Australia) LP: VRL2-0156; 2-record set Cassette: VRK2-0156; 2-tape set Songs: “Ah, Paris!,” “Another Hundred People,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Barcelona,” “Beautiful Girls,” “The Boy From . . . ,” “Broadway Baby,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Company,” “Could I Leave You?,” “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Getting Married Today,” “I Never Do Anything Twice,” “I Remember,” “If Momma Was Married,” “I’m Still Here,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love Is in the Air,” “Marry Me a Little,” “Pretty Lady,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs,” “We’re Gonna Be All Right,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy,” “You Must Meet My Wife”

SIDEBYS2:

SIDEBYS3: Lado a Lado com Sondheim Original Brazilian cast recording of Side

by Side by Sondheim (2006) Axion CD: 7 89270 413827 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Barcelona,” “Being Alive,” “The Boy From . . . ,” “A Boy Like That,” “Broadway Baby,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Company,” “Could I Leave You?,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Getting Married Today,” “I Have a Love,” “I Never Do Anything Twice,” “I’m Still Here,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love Is in the Air,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Pretty Lady,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Side by Side by Side,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

Side by Side by Sondheim, see also nal Irish Cast

SONGSOFSOND1:

Songs of Sondheim Origi-

Simply Sondheim: A 75th Birthday Salute (2006) Kritzerland CD: KR 20020-8; 2-disc set Songs: “Agony,” “Ah, But Underneath,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Back in Business,” “Bounce,” “Broadway Baby,” “Children Will Listen,” “Come Play Wiz Me,” “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Everybody’s Got the Right,” “Farewell,” “Getting Married Today,” “The Girls of Summer,” “The Glamorous Life,” “Good Thing Going,” “Hades,” “Happiness,” “Hello, Little Girl,” “I Know Things Now,” “I Remember,” “If Momma Was Married,” “I’m in Love with a Boy,” “I’ve Got You to Lean On,” “Last Midnight,” “The Little Things You Do To-

SIMPLYSOND1:

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gether,” “Love, I Hear,” “Love Is in the Air,” “Lovely,” “Make the Most of Your Music,” “A Moment with You,” “More,” “No More,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Pretty Lady,” “Pretty Women,” “Saturday Night,” “So Many People,” “Sooner or Later,” “Sunday in the Park with George,” “Take Me to the World,” “There’s a Parade in Town,” “Tonight,” “What More Do I Need?,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim Vol. 2: “A Weekend in the Country” (2005) [instrumental tracks only; see Stephen Sondheim Songs for vol. 1] Pocket Songs/Just Tracks CD: JTG336 Songs: “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “The Boy From . . . ,” “Finishing the Hat,” “The Glamorous Life,” “I Feel Pretty,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “Johanna,” “Maria,” “The Miller’s Son,” “Pretty Women,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight,” “A Weekend in the Country,” “With So Little To Be Sure Of”

SINGTHESONGS2:

SINGERSUN1:

Singers Unlimited (Beryl Korman, Julia Meadows, Jennifer Partridge)/A Little Light Music (1996) Upbeat Recordings CD: URCD123 Songs: “Ah, Paris!,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “A Boy Like That,” “Broadway Baby,” “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Losing My Mind,” “Old Friends,” “Send in the Clowns,” “We’re Gonna Be All Right”

Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley/Raw at Town Hall (2006) Kritzerland CD: KR 20011-0 Songs: “Broadway Baby,” “Every Day a Little Death,” “No One Is Alone”

SKINNERRIPLEY01:

Sondheim (1985) Book-of-the-Month Records LP: 81-7515 (S); 3-record set CD: 11-7517; 2-disc set (71-7016) Cassette: 91-7516; 2-tape set Songs: “The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Fear No More,” “Finishing the Hat,” “The Glamorous Life (The Letter Song),” “Good Thing Going,” “Goodbye for Now,” “Honey,” “I Do Like You,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “It’s a Hit!,” “Johanna,” “Liaisons,” “Like It Was,” “A Little Priest,” “The Little Things You Do

SOND1:

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Primary Sondheim Recordings

Together,” “Losing My Mind,” “March to the Treaty House,” “Me and My Town,” “Next,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Old Friends,” “Pretty Lady,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Someone in a Tree,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “Take Me to the World,” “Tamate’s Dance (There Is No Other Way),” “Theme” from Stavisky, “Too Many Mornings,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of,” “The Worst Pies in London,” “You Must Meet My Wife” Sondheim—A Celebration (1997) Carlton Sounds CD: 30362 00382 Songs: “Back in Business,” “Being Alive,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “By the Sea,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Could I Leave You?,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “It Takes Two,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Liaisons,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Old Friends,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Uptown, Downtown”

SONDACEL1:

Sondheim: A Celebration (1997) Varese Sarabande CD: VSD2-5820; 2-disc set Songs: “The Ballad of Booth,” “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “Barcelona,” “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Children Will Listen,” “Everybody Loves Louis,” “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” “Everybody’s Got the Right,” “Franklin Shepard, Inc.,” “Getting Married Today,” “Good Thing Going,” “Invocation and Instructions to the Audience,” “Losing My Mind,” “Loving You,” “The Miller’s Son,” “More,” “Move On,” “Multitudes of Amys,” “No More,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Our Time,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Someone in a Tree,” “Sooner or Later,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “Sunday,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” “What Can You Lose?,” “Who’s That Woman?,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

SONDACEL2:

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1993) RCA Records CD: 09026-61484-2 [DDD] (2-disc set) Cassette: 09026-6184-4 CD: 09026-61516-2 (highlights only) Cassette: 09026-61516-4 (highlights only) Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Back in Business,” “The Ballad of Booth,” “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “Barcelona,” “Being Alive,” “Broadway Baby,” “Children Will Listen,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Company,” “Getting Married Today,” “Good Thing Going,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “I Never Do Anything Twice,” “Johanna,” “Live Alone and Like It,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love, I Hear,” “Loveland,”

SONDACELATC1:

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“Not a Day Goes By,” “Old Friends,” “Our Time,” “Pretty Lady,” “Pretty Women,” “Remember,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Someone Is Waiting,” “Sooner or Later,” “Sunday,” “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs,” “Water Under the Bridge,” “A Weekend in the Country,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” SONDAMUST1: Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (1973) [also known as the “Scrab-

ble Album”] Warner Bros. Records LP: 2WS 2705 (S); 2-record set RCA Records (1990, reissue) Cassette: 60515-4-RC CD: 60515-2-RC Songs: “America,” “Another Hundred People,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Beautiful Girls,” “Being Alive,” “Broadway Baby,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “Could I Leave You?,” “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” “Getting Married Today,” “Happily Ever After,” “I Remember,” “If Momma Was Married,” “I’m Still Here,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love Is in the Air,” “Me and My Town,” “One More Kiss,” “Pleasant Little Kingdom,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Silly People,” “So Many People,” “Take Me to the World,” “There’s a Parade in Town,” “Too Many Mornings,” “Two Fairy Tales,” “We’re Gonna Be All Right,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy,” “Your Eyes Are Blue” Sondheim at the Movies (1997) Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-5895 Songs: “Back in Business,” “Dawn,” “The Glamorous Life (The Letter Song),” “Goodbye for Now,” “I Remember,” “If You Can Find Me I’m Here,” “It Takes All Kinds,” “Little Dream,” “More,” “Sand,” “Sooner or Later,” “Stavisky Suite” [in 3 parts], “Take Me to the World,” “What Can You Lose?,” “When?”

SONDATTHEM1:

Stephen Sondheim/Sondheim Sings: Volume I (1962–72) (2005) PS Classics CD: PS-9529 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Broadway Baby,” “Don’t Look at Me,” “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “The Glamorous Life,” “A Hero Is Coming,” “Invocation,” “The Lame, the Halt and the Blind,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love Is in the Air,” “Marry Me a Little,” “Miracle Song,” “Multitudes of Amys,” “No, Mary Ann,” “Pleasant Little Kingdom,” “Pretty Little Picture,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Truly Content”

SONDSINGS1:

534

Primary Sondheim Recordings

Stephen Sondheim/Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946–60) (2005) PS Classics CD: PS-9533 Songs: “Bitterness,” “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” “The Girls of Summer,” “High Life,” “How Do I Know?,” “I Remember That,” “I Wouldn’t Change a Thing,” “In No Time At All,” “Men,” “A Moment With You,” “New York Song,” “Pour le Sport,” “A Star is Born,” “Ten Years Old,” “What to Do at George School,” “When I Get Famous,” “Where Do I Belong?,” “You’re Only as Old as You Look”

SONDSINGS2:

Sondheim Tonight (Live from the Barbican Centre, London) (1999) JAY Records CD: CDJAY2 1313 (2-disc set) Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “Barcelona,” “Beautiful Girls,” “Being Alive,” “Broadway Baby,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Company,” “Good Thing Going,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “I Never Do Anything Twice,” “I Remember,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Losing My Mind,” “Loving You,” “March to the Treaty House,” “More,” “Next,” “Night Waltz,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Stavisky Suite,” “Sunday in the Park with George,” “Variations on a Theme (Katie Malone),” “A Very Short Violin Sonata”

SONDTON1:

Songs of Sondheim Original Irish cast recording of Side by Side by Sondheim (1977) RAM Records LP: RMLP 1026 Cassette: RMCS 1026 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Barcelona,” “The Boy From . . . ,” “Broadway Baby,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Could I Leave You?,” “I Never Do Anything Twice,” “I’m Still Here,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Love Is In the Air,” “Pretty Lady,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Side by Side by Side,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy”

SONGSOFSOND1:

Songs of Stephen Sondheim/You Sing the Hits (1991) [Side A has complete tracks; Side B has background tracks without vocals] MMO Music Group Cassette: PS 198 Songs: “Being Alive,” “Could I Leave You?,” “I’m Still Here,” “Losing My Mind,” “Send in the Clowns”

SONGSOFSTEP1:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

535

Gay Soper/Flying Fish and Fallen Angels (2005) Dress Circle CD: GAY001 Songs: “The Boy From . . . ,” “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Stay with Me”

SOPERGAY1:

David Starobin/New Music with Guitar, Volume 3; “Sunday Set” [Patrick Mason, baritone] (1985) Bridge LP: BDG-2006 CD: BCD-9009 ; reissued on New Music with Guitar, a compilation from volumes 1–3 (1988) Songs: “Color and Light,” “Finishing the Hat,” “Lesson # 8,” “Putting It Together”

STAROBIND1:

Stavisky (1975) [CD recording on Follies in Concert—FolIC] RCA Records LP: ARL1-0952 Cam Original Soundtracks CD: 8012355010940; 1993 reissue Songs: “Airport at Biarritz,” “Arlette and Stavisky,” “Arlette by Day,” “Arlette by Night,” “Auto Show,” “Distant Past,” “Easy Life,” “Erna,” “Erna Remembered,” “The Future,” “Goodbye Arlette,” “Hideout Chamonix,” “Montalvo at Biarritz,” “Old House,” “Operetta (C’est moi),” “Recent Past,” “Salon at the Claridge # 1,” “Salon at the Claridge # 2,” “Secret of Night,” “Suite at the Claridge,” “Theme” from Stavisky, “Trotsky at Saint-Palais,” “Women and Death”

STAVISKY1:

The Stephen Sondheim Album (2000) Fynsworth Alley CD: FA-2101-SE Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Broadway Baby,” “Children Will Listen,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Getting Married Today” [on special edition only], “Giants in the Sky,” “I Must Be Dreaming,” “I’m Still Here,” “It Wasn’t Meant to Happen,” “Losing My Mind,” “Make the Most of Your Music,” “A Moment with You,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “So Many People,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “Who Could Be Blue?,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of,” “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow”

STEPHENSA1:

A Stephen Sondheim Evening (1983) RCA Records LP: CBL2-4745 (S); 2-record set Cassette: CBK2-4745; 2-tape set

STEPHENSE1:

536

Primary Sondheim Recordings

CD: 09026-61174-2 (reissue) [“Fear No More” and “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow” were not included on the CD reissue] Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Broadway Baby,” “Children Will Listen,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “Getting Married Today,” “Giants in the Sky,” “I Must Be Dreaming,” “I’m Still Here,” “It Wasn’t Meant to Happen,” “Losing My Mind,” “Make the Most of Your Music,” “A Moment with You,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “So Many People,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “Who Could Be Blue?,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of,” “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow” Stephen Sondheim Songs (2002) [instrumental accompaniments without vocals; see Sing the Songs of Stephen Sondheim for volume 2] MMO Music Group/Pocket Songs CD: JTG 068 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Being Alive,” “Broadway Baby,” “Children Will Listen, “Comedy Tonight,” “Could I Leave You?,” “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “I’m Still Here,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Losing My Mind,” “Loving You,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Putting It Together,” “Sooner Or Later”

STEPHENSS1:

Barbra Streisand/The Broadway Album (1985) Columbia Records LP: OC 40092 CD: CK 40092 Cassette: OCT 40092 Minidisc: CM 40092 Songs: “Being Alive,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Pretty Women,” “Putting It Together,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere”

STREISAND1:

Barbra Streisand/Back to Broadway (1993) Columbia Records CD: CK 44189 Cassette: CT 44189 Minidisc: CM 44189 Songs: “Children Will Listen,” “Everybody Says Don’t,” “I Have a Love,” “Move On,” “One Hand, One Heart”

STREISAND2:

Barbra Streisand/Timeless—Live in Concert (2000) Columbia CD: C2K 63778; 2-disc set Songs: “Being Alive,” “Putting It Together,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere”

STREISAND3:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

537

Elaine Stritch/Elaine Stritch at Liberty (2002) DRG Records CD: DRG-12994 Songs: “Broadway Baby,” “I’m Still Here,” “The Ladies Who Lunch”

STRITCHE1:

Jule Styne/My Name is Jule (1966) United Artists LP: UAS-6469 Songs: “All I Need Is the Girl,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Let Me Entertain You,” “Small World,” “Some People,” “Together Wherever We Go,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”

STYNEJ1:

Sunday in the Park with George Original Broadway Cast Recording (1984) RCA Records LP: HBC1-5042 (S) Cassette: HBE1-5042 CD: RCD1-5042 Sony BMG Music Entertainment Masterworks Broadway CD: 82876-68638-2 [2007 reissue; includes 2 bonus tracks asterisked below] Songs: “Beautiful,” “Children and Art,” “Chromolume # 7,” “Color and Light,” “The Day Off,” “Everybody Loves Louis,” “Finishing the Hat,” “Gossip Sequence,” “It’s Hot Up Here,” “Lesson # 8,” “Move On,” “No Life,” “Putting It Together,” “Putting It Together,”* “Sunday,” “Sunday,”* “Sunday in the Park with George,” “We Do Not Belong Together”

SUNDAYIN1:

Sunday in the Park with George 2006 London Cast Recording (2006) PS Classics CD: PS-640; 2-disc set Songs: “Beautiful,” “Children and Art,” “Chromolume # 7,” “Color and Light,” “The Day Off,” “Everybody Loves Louis,” “Finishing the Hat,” “Gossip Sequence,” “It’s Hot Up Here,” “Lesson # 8,” “Move On,” “No Life,” “The One on the Left” [complete version], “Putting It Together,” “Sunday,” “Sunday in the Park with George,” “We Do Not Belong Together”

SUNDAYIN2:

Sunday in the Park with George, see also STAROBIND1: David Starobin/New Music with Guitar, Volume 3; “Sunday Set” Sweeney Todd Original Broadway Cast Recording (1979) RCA Records LP: CBL2-3379 (S); 2-record set

SWEENEYT1:

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538

Cassette: CBK2-3379; 2-tape set CD: 3379-2-RC; 2-disc set CD: RCD1-5033 (highlights only) Sony BMG Music Entertainment Masterworks Broadway CD: 82876-68639-2; 2-disc set [2007 reissue; includes 2 bonus tracks asterisked below] Songs: “Ah, Miss,” “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “The Barber and His Wife,” “By the Sea,” “City on Fire,” “The Contest,” “Epiphany,” “Final Scene,” “Fogg’s Asylum/Fogg’s Passacaglia,” “God, That’s Good!,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,”* “Johanna,” “Johanna (Act 2),” “Johanna (Judge Turpin),” “Kiss Me,” “Ladies in Their Sensitivities,” “The Letter,” “A Little Priest,” “My Friends,” “No Place Like London,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Parlor Songs,” “Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir,” “Poor Thing,” “Prelude,” “Pretty Women,” “Searching,” “Symphonic Sweeney Todd,”* “Wait,” “Wigmaker Sequence,” “The Worst Pies in London” (Stephen Sondheim’s) Sweeney Todd . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio) (1995) Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-5603 Songs: “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “By the Sea,” “The Contest,” “Finale [Final Scene],” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “Johanna,” “Johanna (Judge Turpin)” [included in “Finale”], “Kiss Me,” “A Little Priest,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Parlor Songs,” “Pretty Women”

SWEENEYT2:

Sweeney Todd Barcelona Cast (1995) [translated into Catalonian] Horus [E.M. Horus, S.A.] CD: CD-25002; 2-disc set Songs: “Ah, Miss,” “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “The Barber and His Wife,” “By the Sea,” “City on Fire,” “The Contest,” “Epiphany,” “Final Scene,” “Fogg’s Asylum/Fogg’s Passacaglia,” “God, That’s Good!,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “Johanna,” “Johanna (Act 2),” “Johanna (Judge Turpin),” “Kiss Me,” “Ladies in Their Sensitivities,” “The Letter,” “A Little Priest,” “My Friends,” “No Place Like London,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Parlor Songs,” “Pirelli’s Death,” “Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir,” “Poor Thing,” “Pretty Women,” “Searching,” “Wait,” “Wigmaker Sequence,” “The Worst Pies in London”

SWEENEYT3:

Sweeney Todd Live at the New York Philharmonic (2000) New York Philharmonic Special Editions CD: NYP 2001/2002 (19054-1855-2); 2-disc set

SWEENEYT4:

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Songs: “Ah, Miss,” “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “The Barber and His Wife,” “[Beggar Woman’s] Lullaby” [included in “City on Fire” sequence], “By the Sea,” “City on Fire,” “The Contest,” “Epiphany,” “Final Scene,” “Fogg’s Asylum/Fogg’s Passacaglia,” “God, That’s Good!,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “Johanna,” “Johanna (Act 2),” “Johanna (Judge Turpin),” “The Judge’s Return,” “Kiss Me,” “Ladies in Their Sensitivities,” “The Letter,” “A Little Priest,” “My Friends,” “No Place Like London,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Parlor Songs,” “Pirelli’s Death,” “Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir,” “Poor Thing,” “Prelude,” “Pretty Women,” “Wait,” “Wigmaker Sequence,” “The Worst Pies in London” Sweeney Todd 2005 Broadway Revival (2006) Nonesuch CD: 79946-2; 2-disc set Songs: “Ah, Miss,” “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “The Barber and His Wife,” “By the Sea,” “The Contest,” “Epiphany,” “Final Scene,” “God, That’s Good!,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “Johanna,” “Johanna (Act 2),” “Johanna (Judge Turpin),” “The Judge’s Return,” “Kiss Me,” “Ladies in Their Sensitivities,” “A Little Priest,” “My Friends,” “No Place Like London,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir,” “Poor Thing,” “Pretty Women,” “Wait,” “The Worst Pies in London”

SWEENEYT5:

Sweeney Todd Motion Picture Soundtrack (2007) Nonesuch CD: 388572-2 Songs: “Alms! Alms!,” “By the Sea,” “The Contest,” “Epiphany,” “Final Scene,” “God, That’s Good!,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “Johanna,” “Johanna [2],” “Ladies in Their Sensitivities,” “A Little Priest,” “My Friends,” “No Place Like London,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Opening Title,” “Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir,” “Poor Thing,” “Pretty Women,” “Wait,” “The Worst Pies in London”

SWEENEYT6:

Symphonic Sondheim/Don Sebesky Conducts The London Symphony Orchestra (1990) WEA Records (London) LP: 9031-72 119-1 Cassette: 9031-72 119-4 CD: 9031-72 119-2 EMI Classics (1991 reissue) CD: CDC 7 54285 2 Songs: “Barcelona,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Finishing the Hat,” “Into the Woods Suite,” “Losing My Mind,” “Multitudes of Amys,” “Not a Day

SYMPHONICSON1:

540

Primary Sondheim Recordings

Goes By,” “Pretty Lady,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Side by Side by Side,” “Sweeney Todd Suite” Terfel, Bryn, see the Stars

FLEMINGTERFEL1:

Renée Fleming and Bryn Terfel/Under

Natalie Toro/Natalie Toro (2008) Natalie Toro CD: 891674002045 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “I Remember,” “Something’s Coming”

TORON1:

TROTTERT1: Terry Trotter/Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music (1997) [pi-

ano solo] Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-5819 Songs: “Every Day a Little Death,” “The Glamorous Life,” “The Glamorous Life (The Letter Song),” “Later,” “Night Waltz,” “Night Waltz II (The Sun Sits Low),” “Now,” “Remember,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Soon,” “You Must Meet My Wife” Trotter Trio, see COMPANY03: (Stephen Sondheim’s) Company . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio) Trotter Trio, see FOLLIES04: (Stephen Sondheim’s) Follies/Themes from the Legendary Musical (The Trotter Trio) Trotter Trio, see FUNNY04: (Stephen Sondheim’s) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum . . . in Jazz (The Trotter Trio) Trotter Trio, see PASSION2: (Stephen Sondheim’s) Passion . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio) Trotter Trio, see SWEENEYT2: (Stephen Sondheim’s) Sweeney Todd . . . In Jazz (The Trotter Trio) Turned-On Broadway 2/Standing Room Only (1982) [contains 10 Sondheim songs as instrumentals within medleys, usually very foreshortened; individual titles are not included in the previous song listing] RCA Records LP: AFL1-4512 Geraldine Turner/Old Friends [Geraldine Turner Sings the Songs of Stephen Sondheim] (1986) Larrikin Records (Australia) LP: LRF-169

TURNERG1:

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541

Cassette: TC-LRF-169 Silva Screen Records (London) [under the title The Stephen Sondheim Songbook] LP: Song 001 CD: Song CD001 Cassette: Song C001 [1997 reissue with additional cuts] CD: Silvad 3011 Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Being Alive,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “Could I Leave You?,” “Goodbye for Now,” “I Remember,” “I Wish I Could Forget You,” “Like It Was,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love, I Hear,” “The Miller’s Son,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Old Friends,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” “There’s a Parade in Town,” “What Can You Lose?,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of” Geraldine Turner/ . . . Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2 (2002) Bayview Records CD: RNBW016 Songs: “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “I Never Do Anything Twice,” “I’m Still Here,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Loving You,” “Moments in the Woods,” “No More,” “Not A Day Goes By,” “Pretty Little Picture,” “Rose’s Turn,” “Send in the Clowns,” “So Many People,” “Take Me To the World,” “What More Do I Need?”

TURNERG2:

Unsung Sondheim (1993) Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-5433 Cassette: VSC-5433 Songs: “All for You,” “Goodbye for Now,” “In the Movies,” “Incidental Music” from Invitation to a March, “Incidental Music” from The Enclave, “Love’s a Bond,” “Multitudes of Amys,” “No, Mary Ann,” “Saturday Night,” “That Old Piano Roll,” “There’s Always a Woman,” “They Ask Me Why I Believe in You,” “Truly Content,” “The Two of You,” “Water Under the Bridge,” “What Can You Lose?”

UNSUNGS1:

Dawn Upshaw/I Wish It So (1994) Elektra Nonesuch CD: 79345-2 Cassette: 79345-4 Songs: “The Girls of Summer,” “I Feel Pretty,” “Like It Was,” “Take Me to the World,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” “What More Do I Need?”

UPSHAWD1:

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542

Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim (2006) Symphonyspace CD: [n.n.] Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Bowler Hat,” “Broadway Baby,” “Finishing the Hat,” “Free,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “I’m in Love with a Boy,” “Later,” “Losing My Mind,” “Marry Me a Little,” “Merrily We Roll Along Overture,” “The Miller’s Son,” “Move On,” “No One Is Alone,” “Now,” “Sunday,” “Soon,” “Unworthy of Your Love,” “What More Do I Need?”

WALLTOWALLS1:

West Side Story Original Broadway Cast Recording (1957) Columbia Records LP: JS 32603 CD: CK 32603 Cassette: JST-32603 Songs: “America,” “A Boy Like That,” “Cool,” “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “I Feel Pretty,” “I Have a Love,” “Jet Song,” “Maria,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight (Balcony Scene),” “Tonight (Quintet)”

WESTSIDE01:

West Side Story Film (1963) Columbia Records LP: OS 2070 CD: SK-48211 [ADD] [includes previously unreleased material, all instrumental] Cassette: ST-48211 Songs: “America,” “A Boy Like That,” “Cool,” “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “I Feel Pretty,” “I Have a Love,” “Jet Song,” “Maria,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight (Balcony Scene),” “Tonight (Quintet)”

WESTSIDE02:

West Side Story Studio Cast (1985) Deutsche Grammophon LP: 415 253-1[GH2]; 2-record set CD: 289 457 199-2 Songs: “America,” “A Boy Like That,” “Cool,” “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “I Feel Pretty,” “I Have a Love,” “Jet Song,” “Maria,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight (Balcony Scene),” “Tonight (Quintet)”

WESTSIDE03:

West Side Story London Studio Cast (1993) IMG Records

WESTSIDE04:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

543

CD: IMGCD 1801 Songs: “America,” “A Boy Like That,” “Cool,” “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “I Feel Pretty,” “I Have a Love,” “Jet Song,” “Maria,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight (Balcony Scene),” “Tonight (Quintet)” West Side Story London Studio Cast (based on Leicester Haymarket Theatre Production) (1993) [includes multiple versions of some songs in both their stage and film versions] TER Classics CD: CDTER2 1197 Cassette: ZCTED 1197 Songs: “America,” “A Boy Like That,” “Cool,” “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “I Feel Pretty,” “I Have a Love,” “Jet Song,” “Maria,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight (Balcony Scene),” “Tonight (Quintet)”

WESTSIDE05:

West Side Story, The Songs of (1996) RCA Victor/BMG CD: 09026-63707-2 Cassette: 09026-62707-4 Songs: “America,” “A Boy Like That,” “Cool,” “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “I Feel Pretty,” “I Have a Love,” “Jet Song,” “Maria,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight (Balcony Scene)”

WESTSIDE06:

West Side Story, Dave Grusin presents (1997) N2K Encoded Music CD: N2K-10021 Songs: “America,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight (Balcony Scene)”

WESTSIDE07:

West Side Story London Production (1959) E.M.I. Records/His Master’s Voice 45rpm: 7EG/8429 Songs: “I Feel Pretty,” “Maria,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Tonight”

WESTSIDE08:

West Side Story London Studio Cast (1966) MFP (Music For Pleasure) LP: MFP 50363 [previously released as MFP 1256] Songs: “America,” “A Boy Like That,” “Cool,” “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “I Feel Pretty,” “I Have a Love,” “Jet Song,” “Maria,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Something’s Coming,” “Tonight”

WESTSIDE09:

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West Side Story [inaccurately described as “Original London Cast”; individual song listings not included in body of discography as there is no casting or other information] La Brea LP: L 8003 Songs: “America,” “A Boy Like That,” “The Dance at the Gym,” “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “I Feel Pretty,” “Jet Song,” “Maria,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Tonight” West Side Story [individual song listings not included in body of discography as there is no casting or other information] (1962) Pickwick International/Design LP: DLP-167 Songs: “Finale,” “I Feel Pretty,” “I Have a Love,” “Maria,” “Tonight” West Side Story [described in one version as “Original English Cast”; individual song listings not included in body of discography] SAGA 10” LP: STL 9100 LP: ERO 8106 FORUM LP: SF 9045 Songs: “A Boy Like That,” “Cool,” “I Feel Pretty,” “I Have a Love,” “Maria,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “The Rumble,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight” West Side Story (Bernstein’s Original Score) (2002) [Nashville Symphony Orchestra] Naxos CD: 8.559126 Songs: “America,” “A Boy Like That,” “Cool,” “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “I Feel Pretty,” “I Have a Love,” “Jet Song,” “Maria,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight (Balcony Scene),” “Tonight (Quintet)”

WESTSIDE10:

West Side Story Broadway Revival Cast (2009) Sony Masterworks/Masterworks Broadway CD: 752391 CD: 73085 [Barnes & Noble exclusive with 3 bonus tracks] CD: 88697 53974-2 [limited edition includes a playbill] [Mp3s: at iTunes, features 2 bonus tracks] Songs: “America,” “A Boy Like That,” “Cool,” “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “I Feel Pretty,” “I Have a Love,” “Jet Song,” “Maria,” “One Hand, One

WESTSIDE11:

Primary Sondheim Recordings

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Heart,” “Something’s Coming,” “Somewhere,” “Tonight (Balcony Scene),” “Tonight (Quintet)” [In addition to the recordings of West Side Story listed above, there are also dozens of other recordings, many of them in foreign languages and/or foreign pressings. As information about these recordings has mostly come from recently available online sources, adding the information to this discography seems of limited benefit and arguably not worth the space it would require.] West Side Story, see also BERNSTEIN1: Bernstein On Broadway West Side Story, see also DAVISS: Sammy Davis Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove West Side Story, see also DRAKEA: Alfred Drake & Roberta Peters Sing the Popular Music of Leonard Bernstein West Side Story, see also GARLAND: Judy Garland/Judy Duets Oystein Wilk/”Too Many Mornings” Songs by Sondheim (1991) Minos CD: MCD 0000004 [Several songs reissued in Wilk’s West End Favoritter: 20 Musical År, Polydor 5399962, 2008] Songs: “Another Hundred People,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Finishing the Hat,” “Good Thing Going,” “I Remember,” “Johanna,” “Losing My Mind,” “No One Is Alone,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Pretty Women,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Someone Is Waiting,” “Sooner or Later,” “Too Many Mornings,” “What Can You Lose?,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of”

WILKO1:

WILLIAMSDA1:

Williams, Darren/Showtime (2003) [n.l.] CD: [n.n.] Songs: “Being Alive,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Something’s Coming” Julie Wilson at Brothers & Sisters Volume Two (1975) Arden LP: B&S2 Songs: “Beautiful Girls,” “Could I Leave You?,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Losing My Mind,” “The Story of Lucy and Jessie”

WILSONJ1:

Julie Wilson Sings the Stephen Sondheim Songbook (1988) DRG Records LP: SL 5206 CD: CDSL 5206

WILSONJ2:

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Cassette: SLC 5206 Songs: “Beautiful Girls,” “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Could I Leave You?,” “Good Thing Going,” “I Do Like You,” “I Never Do Anything Twice,” “I’m Still Here,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love, I Hear,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Send in the Clowns,” “The Story of Lucy and Jessie,” “Too Many Mornings,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of” WILSONL1:

Lambert Wilson/Musicals (1989) EMI Records CD: C 7 49792 2 Songs: “Finishing the Hat,” “Johanna,” “Maria,” “Silly People”

Bill Wright/It Takes Two (1994) Wright/Marshall CD: GVCD 9416 Songs: “It Takes Two” [2 versions], “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Live Alone and Like It,” “Old Friends,” “Sorry-Grateful”

WRIGHTB1:

James Wright/Center Stage: Songs of Spirit from the Musical Theatre (2008) James Wright CD: 615864080725 Songs: “No One Is Alone,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Our Time”

WRIGHTJ1:

Joe York/My Favorite Year (1998) [n.l.] CD: [n.n.] Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “No One Is Alone,” “Not While I’m Around”

YORKJ1:

Susan Eichorn-Young/Taking My Turn (2007) Susan Eichorn-Young CD: 837101305747 Songs: “Ah, But Underneath,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Silly People”

YOUNGSU1:

The following collections contain previously issued recordings: A Collector’s Sondheim (1985) [tracks with a superscript this collection] RCA Records LP: CRL4-5359 (S); 4-record set

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Cassette: CRK4-5359; 4-tape set CD: RCD3-5480; 3-disc set Songs: “Ah, Paree!,” “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” “Auto Show,” “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “Bang!,” “Beautiful Girls,” “Being Alive,” “Broadway Baby,” “Buddy’s Blues,” “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Children and Art,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Could I Leave You?,” “Epiphany,” “Fear No More,” “The Glamorous Life,” “The Glamorous Life (Letter Song),” “Happily Ever After,” “The House of Marcus Lycus,” “I Never Do Anything Twice,” “I Remember,” “I’m Still Here,” “In Praise of Women,” “Invocation and Instructions to the Audience,” “It Wasn’t Meant to Happen,” “It’s a Hit!,” “Liaisons,” “A Little Priest,” “Little White House,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love Is in the Air,” “Love Will See Us Through,” “Marry Me a Little,” “The Miller’s Son,” “Move On,” “Night Waltz,” “Night Waltz II,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Old Friends,” “Our Time,” “Please Hello,” “Pour le Sport,” “Pretty Little Picture,” “Pretty Women,” “Salon at the Claridge # 2,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Silly People,” “So Many People,” “Someone in a Tree,” “Theme from Stavisky,” “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” “There’s Something About a War,” “Too Many Mornings,” “Two Fairy Tales,” “Uptown, Downtown,” “A Weekend in the Country,” “Welcome to Kanagawa,” “What More Do I Need?,” “Who Could Be Blue?,” “Your Eyes Are Blue,” “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow” Stephen Sondheim [includes original Broadway cast albums of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, and A Little Night Music] Time-Life Records “American Musicals” series LP: STL-AM12 Cassette: 4TL-AM12 The Stephen Sondheim Songbook (1993) [tracks with a superscript 2 are included in this collection] Sony Broadway CD: SK-48201 [ADD] Cassette: ST-48201 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle, “Barcelona,” “Being Alive,” “The Boy From . . . ,” “Every Day a Little Death,” “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Liaisons,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “Moon in My Window,” “A Parade in Town,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Some People,” “Something’s Coming,” “A Weekend in the Country,” “We’re Gonna Be All Right,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of,” “You Gotta Have a Gimmick,” “You Must Meet My Wife”

548

Primary Sondheim Recordings

The Sondheim Collection (1999) [tracks with a superscript 3 are included in this collection] Varese Sarabande CD: VSD-6012 Songs: “By the Sea,” “Children Will Listen,” “Every Day A Little Death,” “Goodbye for Now,” “I Remember,” “Loving You,” “Mama’s Talkin’ Soft,” “Marry Me a Little,” “More,” “No One Is Alone,” “Old Friends Part II,” “Opening from Follies,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Sooner or Later,” “That Old Piano Roll,” “There’s Always a Woman,” “What Can You Lose?,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy,” “You’ll Never Get Away from Me” The MUSICality of Sondheim (2002) [tracks with a superscript 4 are included in this collection] JAY Records CD: CDJAZ 9006 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Being Alive,” “Broadway Baby,” “Honey,” “I Remember,” “Liaisons,” “Lion Dance,” “Lovely,” “Loving You,” “Sooner or Later,” “Stay with Me,” “Wait,” [“Honey,” “Lovely,” and “Wait” are new recordings] Send in the Clowns: The Ballads of Stephen Sondheim (2002) [tracks with a superscript 5 are included in this collection] BMG Heritage/RCA Victor CD: 09026 67300 2 Songs: “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Finishing the Hat,” “I Remember,” “In Buddy’s Eyes,” “Johanna,” “Liaisons,” “Like It Was,” “Losing My Mind,” “No One Is Alone,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not While I’m Around,” “Pretty Women,” “Send in the Clowns,” “So Many People,” “Sorry-Grateful,” “Too Many Mornings,” “Unworthy of Your Love,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of” Comedy Tonight!: Stephen Sondheim’s Funniest Songs (2002) [tracks with a superscript 6 are included in this collection] BMG Heritage/RCA Victor CD: 09026 67301 2 Songs: “Agony,” “Agony (Reprise),” “The Boy From . . . ,” “Can That Boy Foxtrot!,” “Chrysanthemum Tea,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” “Getting Married Today,” “I Never Do Anything Twice,” “It’s Hot Up Here,” “A Little Priest,” “The Little Things You Do Together,” “The Story of Lucy and Jessie,” “The Worst Pies in London,” “You Gotta Have a Gimmick,” “You Must Meet My Wife”

Primary Sondheim Recordings

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Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far . . . (2008) [tracks with a superscript 7 are included in this collection] Sony BMG /Masterworks Broadway/Legacy CD: 82796-94255-2; 4-disc set Songs: “America,” “Another Hundred People,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Arlette by Night,” “Arts and Crafts,” “Auto Show,” “Back in Business,” “The Ballad of Booth,” “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” “Being Alive,” “Bounce,” “The Boy From . . . ,” “Broadway Baby,” “Can That Boy Fox Trot!,” “Children Will Listen,” “Class,” “Comedy Tonight,” “Don’t Laugh,” “Everybody Loves Leona,” “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” “Everybody’s Got the Right,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Finishing the Hat,” “Gee, Officer Krupke,” “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” “Happily Ever After,” “Happiness,” “Have to Give Her Someone,” “A Hero Is Coming,” “I Must Be Dreaming,” “I Never Do Anything Twice,” “I Remember Sky,” “I Wish I Could Forget You,” “I’m All for You,” “I’m Still Here,” “(If You Can Find Me) I’m Here,” “In the Movies,” “Incidental Music” from Invitation to a March, “Incidental Music” from The Enclave, “Interesting Questions,” “Invocation and Instructions to the Audience,” “Isn’t He Something!,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Liaisons,” “A Little Priest,” “Live Alone and Like It,” “Losing My Mind,” “Love’s a Bond,” “The Miller’s Son,” “More” (end credits), “Night Waltz (Love Takes Time),” “No, Mary Ann,” “Not a Day Goes By,” “Not Quite Night,” “Old Friends,” “Operetta,” “A Parade in Town,” “Perhaps,” “Prayers,” “Pretty Lady,” “Second Midnight,” “Send in the Clowns,” “Silly People,” “Sooner or Later,” “Take Me to the World,” “Theme” from Reds, “Theme” from Stavisky, “Theme” from Stavisky (European version), “There Is No Other Way,” “There’s Something About a War,” “They Ask Me Why I Believe in You,” “This Week, Americans,” “Tonight,” “Truly Content,” “The Two of You,” “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs,” “Water Under the Bridge,” “Welcome to Kanagawa,” “What Can You Lose?,” “When?,” “The Worst Pies in London” The following are (predominantly) instrumental albums of Sondheim lyric-only scores. Do I Hear a Waltz? Percy Faith/Do I Hear a Waltz?, Columbia CL 2317, 1965 The Ralph Sharon Trio/Do I Hear a Waltz?, Columbia CL 2321/CS 9121 Gypsy Herb Geller and His All Stars Play Selections from Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim’s Music for “Gypsy,” ATCO 33-109, [n.d.]

550

Primary Sondheim Recordings

Teddy Wilson and His Trio/Gypsy in Jazz, Columbia CL 1353, [n.d.] The Jack Sterling Quintet/Music from Gypsy, Columbia HL 7210, [n.d.] Tony Scott/Tony Scott Plays “Gypsy”, Signature SM6001, [n.d.] Urbie Green His Trombone and Rhythm, The Best of New Broadway Show Hits, RCA Victor LPM-1969, 1959 [“Small World” and “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”] West Side Story Stan Kenton/Kenton’s “West Side Story,” Capitol T 1609, [n.d.] Manny Alban and His Jazz Greats/Manny Alban and His Jazz Greats Play Music from the Broadway Musical “West Side Story,” Coral CRL 57207, [n.d.] Bill Barron Orchestra/West Side Story Bossa Nova, Dauntless DS 6312, mono DM 4312, stereo DLP 25673, 1963 Cal Tjader/West Side Story, Fantasy 3310, [n.d.] Oscar Peterson Trio/West Side Story, Verve V-8454, 1962

Music Acknowledgments

ASSASSINS Words and Music by Stephen Sondheim © 1991 RILTING MUSIC, INC. All Rights Administered by WB MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved Used by Permission BOUNCE Words and Music by Stephen Sondheim © 2003 RILTING MUSIC, INC. All Rights Administered by WB MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved Used by Permission CANDIDE “Life Is Happiness Indeed” from Candide, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. © Copyright by The Leonard Bernstein Estate Copyright renewed by Amberson Holdings LLC Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., sole agent. International copyright secured. Reprinted by Permission COMPANY Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Copyright © 1970 by Range Road Music Inc., Jerry Leiber Music, Silver Seahorse Music LLC and Rilting Music, Inc. Copyright Renewed

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All Rights Administered by Herald Square Music Inc. International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved Used by Permission DICK TRACY Words and Music by Stephen Sondheim Copyright © 1990 Rilting Music, Inc. (Rilting Music, Inc. administered by WB Music Corp.)/Touchstone Pictures Music & Songs, Inc. All Rights Reserved Used by Permission FOLLIES Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Copyright © 1971 by Range Road Music Inc., Jerry Leiber Music, Mike Stoller Music, Rilting Music, Inc., and Burthen Music Co., Inc. Copyright Renewed All Rights Administered by Herald Square Music, Inc. International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved Used by Permission INTO THE WOODS Words and Music by Stephen Sondheim © 1988 RILTING MUSIC, INC. All Rights Administered by WB MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved Used by Permission A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Words and Music by Stephen Sondheim © 1973 (Renewed) RILTING MUSIC, INC. All Rights Administered by WB MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved Used by Permission MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Words and Music by Stephen Sondheim © 1981 RILTING MUSIC, INC. All Rights Administered by WB MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved Used by Permission PACIFIC OVERTURES Words and Music by Stephen Sondheim © 1975 (Renewed) RILTING MUSIC, INC. All Rights Administered by WB MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved Used by Permission

Music Acknowledgments

PASSION Words and Music by Stephen Sondheim © 1994 RILTING MUSIC, INC. All Rights Administered by WB MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved Used by Permission SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE Words and Music by Stephen Sondheim © 1984 RILTING MUSIC, INC. All Rights Administered by WB MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved Used by Permission SWEENEY TODD Words and Music by Stephen Sondheim © 1978 RILTING MUSIC, INC. All Rights Administered by WB MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved Used by Permission

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Index

AABA/ABAB form, 169 “Aase’s Death,” 69 accompaniments, 3, 5, 120–22, 133–34, 152, 171, 197–98, 202–5, 210, 211–12, 216–18, 222–23, 226; clashing with the voice, 120, 197; rhythms, periodicised, 132, 205 Adams, Lee, 249 “Addison’s City,” 182 “Addison’s Trip,” 170–71 “The Advantages of Being Set in the Middle of the Sea,” 155–57 “Ah, But Underneath . . . ,” 123 “Ah, Miss,” 137 “Alaska,” 175 “All the Things You Are,” 42, 86 Allegro, 244 alternate (harmonies, notes, rhythms), 7, 15–16, 32–33, 104–6, 112, 114–16, 138 “America,” 241 “Another Hundred People,” 235 “Another National Anthem,” 63, 64, 65, 66 anthems, 106 Anyone Can Whistle, 69, 73–74, 78, 130, 166, 253, 188–89, 191, 241, 244

“Anyone Can Whistle,” 207 Anything Goes, 200 “April Snow,” 208 architectonics, 101 arioso writing, 6 Arlen, Harold, 46, 48, 100, 168, 174, 192, 202, 246–47 Armstrong, Alun, 11–12 arrows (notations in sketches), 7 Art Institute of Chicago, 95, 100–101 art songs, 199 Assassins, 33, 49, 57–79, 233, 234, 240 Astaire and Rogers, 144 “Asylum Song,” 147 atonalism, 117 audiences, 179–80, 220, 235, 240–41; involving, 220; reading, 78–79 authenticity in music and language, 38–41, 133 Babbitt, Milton, 10, 31, 86, 101, 117, 121, 129, 135, 188, 228 “The Ballad of Booth,” 33, 57, 58–59, 60, 61 “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” 128, 133, 213, 219, 220, 236 ballet music, 20, 73

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“Bambalelê,” 246 Banfield, Stephen, 62, 163–64, 221, 259 barbershop songs, 109 Barrow, Robert, 231 bass lines, 17, 139 Bates, Charles, 246 Bathing at Asnières, 95 “bean theme,” 81, 84, 85, 86, 88 Beatty, Warren, 226 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 198, 209 Bennett, Michael, 229 Berg, Alban, 16 Berlin, Irving, ix, 246, 247 Bernstein, Leonard, ix, xvi, 8, 9, 12, 19, 50–51, 87, 106, 146, 153, 159–60, 184, 209, 221, 238, 241–42, 247 “The Best Is Yet to Come,” 247 “The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened,” 174–76, 182–83 “Better,” 245, 248 Bigelow, Bob, 246 “bilious,” 170 bird calls, 132–33 “Birth of the Blues,” 247 biwa, 162 Blane, Ralph, 248 “The Blob,” 225 Blodgette, Kristen, 181 “Bluellow,” 247 “Blues in the Night,” 100, 246 “Bobby and Jackie and Jack,” 223 “Boca Raton” sequence, 180, 181 Bock, Jerry, 247, 249 Bock and Harnick, 174 Bond, Christopher, 142, 148–49 bossa novas, 192 Bounce, v–vii, 169–85, 228; epic scope in, 176–77. See also Road Show; Wise Guys “Bounce,” 183 Bowles, Paul, 50 Brahms, Johannes, 126, 198, 209 Brecht, Bertolt, 219 Brel, Jacques, 192 British music, 129–30, 143 Britten, Benjamin, 130, 221, 226 Broadway Boogie Woogie, 50 Brown, Lew, 247

“Buds Won’t Bud,” 247 bugle calls, 5, 38–39, 81–82 Burke, Johnny, 176, 247 Burns, David “Davy,” 188 Burton, Tim, 143, 220, 222 “By Myself,” 249 “By the Sea,” 148 Byck, Samuel, 67 Caddick, David, 174, 181, 184 cadences, 63–65, 93–94 Cage, John, 160 Cahn, Sammy, 176 “Canción de Cuna Para Dormir a un Negrito,” 248 Candide, 87, 106, 237 Carcopino, Jérôme, 222 Carnival, 244 Carousel, 210 Carr, Jason, 230 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 242 characters, 239–40, 243 Charlap, Moose, 247, 251 “Charm,” 249 “Children and Art,” 99–100 “Children Will Listen,” 84 Chocolate Factory, 230 Chopin theme, 21, 26, 29 choral writing, 106–11 chord(s): clusters, 161; favorite, 29–30; spelling, xv chordal structures, 7 “Christ,” 13–14 “Chromolume # 7,” 99, 116, 117 “Chrysanthemum Tea,” 161, 189 Circle in the Square, 13 Citizen Kane, 176 “City on Fire,” 147, 221 “Clara/Giorgio.” See “Happiness” clarity in exposition, 78 Climb High, 209 Cockney slang, 133 Coleman, Cy, 246, 247, 249–50 collaboration, 69–70, 123 Collins, Judy, 55 “Color and Light,” 91, 92, 93–95, 99, 103, 104, 105, 106, 117–18, 226

Index Comden, Betty, 249 Company, 51, 69, 75, 76, 87, 108–9, 121–22, 165, 191–92, 203–4, 205, 234–35, 253 composers, influences on, 50–51 composing linearly, 228–29 “content dictates form,” 223 “The Contest,” 137 Cook, Barbara, 61 Copland, Aaron, 51, 198, 209, 247 copyists, 14–15, 119 copyright/rights, 235–36 Cortot, Alfred, 232 “Could I Leave You?,” 134–35 “Country House,” 87 craft of composing, 168 cut material/songs, 122–23, 136–37, 147–48 Czolgosz, Leon, 67 Daily Life in Ancient Rome, 222 “Dance at the Gym,” 241 dance in musicals, 241 dance music, 20 “Dance of the Hours,” 20 Daphnis and Chloe, 140 “Darling,” 224–25 dating on manuscripts, 119–20 Daumier, Honoré, 102 Davies, Peter Maxwell, 221 “The Day Off,” 99–101 De Sylva, B. G. “Buddy,” 247 Debussy, Claude, 231 developing ideas and music, 10 Dick Tracy, 225–26 Dies Irae, 140 d’Indy, Vincent, 231 Do I Hear a Waltz?, 55, 244 Donnelan, Declan, 11, 150 “Don’t Look at Me,” 151, 206, 233 Doyle, John, vi, 228, 234 Dramatist’s Guild, 235, 236 dramaturgs, 228 Dubey, Matt, 248 duets, 97, 146–47, 148 Duke, Vernon, ix dynamics, 54

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“The Eagle and Me,” 246, 247 Ebb, Fred, 248, 251. See also Kander and Ebb Eight Songs for a Mad King, 221 “Emperor Waltz,” 51 “Enigma Variations,” 159 “Epiphany,” 129, 139, 140, 141, 149, 152 erasures, 14 Eustis, Oskar, 228 “Every Time We Say Goodbye,” 248 “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” 188 “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” 71 “Ev’ry Time,” 248 extended pieces, 9 Fields, Dorothy, xvi, 208–9, 210, 249 figured bass, xv, 15 film musicals, 144, 220, 222 film scores, 71–73 “Final Scene,” 131, 144, 145, 146–47 finding the right note/harmony, 41–42 “Finishing the Hat,” 94, 99, 100 Finn, William, ix, 229 “Flashback,” 51–52 Flaubert, Gustave, 42 Floyd Collins, 19, 169 Follies, 40, 48, 69, 76, 87, 123, 151, 165, 193–98, 200–202, 205, 206–8 “Follow the Yellow Brick Road,” 88 Ford, Gerald R., 67 form, 8–9, 132 “Fosca’s Entrance,” 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27–28, 29–32 Foster, Stephen, 68 “Four Black Dragons,” 67, 164 four-letter words, 242 The Fourposter, 177 “Fourth Letter,” 21, 22 “Free,” 165 friendship, 238 Friml, Rudolf, xvi, 212 The Frogs, 109, 163, 245 Fromme, Lynette “Squeaky,” 67 “Funeral March,” 187

558 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, vii, 19, 51, 69, 70–71, 75, 165, 167, 169, 182, 184, 187–88, 205, 222 Furth, George, 122, 192, 204, 239–40 gagaku (Japanese court music), 161 Gallet, Luciano, 247 “The Game,” 174 Garber, Victor, 173, 174 Garfield, James A., 66 “Gee, Officer Krupke,” 242 Gelbart, Larry, 187 Gemignani, Paul, 39, 52–54, 62, 106–7, 109, 110, 145, 174, 238, 245, 249, 250 Gershon, Freddy, 68 Gershwin, George, ix, 3, 10, 48, 222, 247 Gershwin, Ira, 209, 249 “Get Rich Quick,” 174 “Getting Married Today,” 203–4, 204 “Giants in the Sky,” 190 Gilbert, L. Wolfe, 248 Gilbert and Sullivan, 49, 163 Ginzler, Red, 165 “Glamorous Life (The Letter Song),” 123 “Glitter and Be Gay,” 247 “God,” 13–14 “God That’s Good,” 12, 189, 193, 220 “Gold,” 173 “Golden Willow Tree,” 246, 247 Goldman, Jim, 123, 187 Gone with the Wind, 176 “Good Thing Going,” 223, 224 Goodman Theatre, vi “Gotta Dance,” 248 Green, Adolph, 249 “Green Finch and Linnet Bird,” 132–33, 134, 135, 136, 137, 220 Groundhog Day, 238–39 “Growing Up,” 223, 225 Guettel, Adam, 19, 168, 245, 247, 250 “Gun Song,” 68, 109 Guthrie, Woody, 60

Index Guys and Dolls, 144 Gypsy, 165 “Hail to the Chief,” 57, 76 Hair, 192 Hamlet, 233 Hammerstein, Oscar, II, ix, xvi, 10, 42, 71, 77, 86, 155, 208–10, 211, 244, 248 “Happiness (part 1),” 3, 4, 5, 6, 7–8, 9, 10, 11, 12–18 “Happiness (part 2),” 13, 14, 15 Harbach, Otto, xvi Harburg, E. Y. (Yip), 209, 210, 247 “Hard Hearted Hannah, the Vamp of Savannah,” 246 harmonic: accompaniment, 37; movement, 198; progression, 37, 181, 198–99, 203; rhythm, 199; structure, 26, 158; style, 48; surprise, 9 harmony, xv, 4–5, 6–7, 9–10, 15–19, 28–32, 42–43, 55, 93–94, 98, 111–14, 139, 158–59, 198–99, 215–16, 226–27; block, 16–17; dissonant, 16, 159; keyboard, 4; uncertain, 89–90. See also alternate; inversions; long-line development/composition Harnick, Sheldon, 247, 250. See also Bock and Harnick Hart, Lorenz “Larry,” 209, 248 Hart, Moss, 222 Hastings, Hal, 108–9 “He Had Refinement,” 249 Hearn, George, 152 Hellzapoppin’, 192 Henderson, Ray, 247 Herbert, Victor, 40, 212 Herman, Jerry, ix Herrmann, Bernard, xvi, 72, 73, 128 Heyward, DuBose, 246, 247 Hinckley, John, 67 historical accuracy, 163 history through the eyes of the bystander, 67 Hitchcock, Alfred, 72 Holst, Gustav, 109 “Home,” 172

Index Hope–Crosby, 169, 176 Horowitz, Mark, 152, 245 “How I Saved Roosevelt,” 67 “Hymnos,” 163 “I Am So Eager,” 248 “I Got Lost in His Arms,” 247 “I Had Myself a True Love,” 246 “I Have a Love,” 146 “I Love This Town,” 177–78 “I Wanna Be Good ‘n’ Bad,” 248 “I Wish,” 76–77, 81–84 “I Wish I Could Forget You.” See “Scene 7” “I Wonder What Became of Me,” 246 “Ice Cream,” 247, 250 “If Momma Was Married,” 224 “I’ll Never Go There Anymore,” 247 “I’m All Smiles,” 248 “Impossible,” 188 “In Buddy’s Eyes,” 206–7 “In Praise of Women,” 212 individual voice, artists having an, 50 inflection, 35–36, 83, 204 inspiration, 166–67 instruments associated with characters, 81, 91 intellectual property rights, 236 International Records, 231 “Interrogations,” 191. See also “Simple” intervals, 82–83 Into the Woods, 13, 33, 72, 75, 76, 81–90, 91, 101, 135, 190, 234, 253 inversions, xv, 16–18, 97, 128, 139 Invitation to a March, 51 “It Would Have Been Wonderful,” 212, 212, 218 “It’s Hot Up Here,” 75, 98, 99, 100, 101 Ives, Burl, 242 Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well . . . , 192 Japanese culture/art, 155–56, 157–58 Japanese music, 39, 69, 161–63 Jarrell, Randall, 102 Jaws, 71–72 Jenkins, Gordon, 55 “Johanna,” 40, 41–42

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Laurents, Arthur, 189, 209, 242, 243, 244 Lawrence, Carol, 146 Lawrence, Eddie, 247, 251 Leacock, Stephen, 88 Lee, Christopher, 220 “Left-hand Piano Concerto,” 232 “Legends and Lyrics: A Lost Chord,” 37 Leigh, Carolyn, 246, 247, 249 leitmotifs, 72–73, 81, 117. See also motifs; themes Leonard, Michael, 248, 251 Lerner, Alan Jay, ix “less is more,” viii, 43, 48, 75, 157–58, 199. See also “making the most out of the least” “Let’s Be Buddies,” 248 “Let’s Do It,” 71 “Let’s Face the Music and Dance,” 247 “Let’s Not Talk about Love,” 248 “The Letter (Quintet),” 11–12 “Liaisons,” 236 Library of Congress, ix, 10, 245 Lieberson, Goddard, 153, 210 “Life Is Happiness Indeed,” 237–38 Lincoln, Abraham, 66 Lindsey-Nassif, Robert, 174 “little,” 167 “A Little House for Mama,” 173 A Little Night Music, 76, 122, 123, 131, 149, 165, 210–18, 230 “A Little Priest,” 152–53, 193 “Live Alone and Like It,” 225–26, 225 Loesser, Frank, ix, xvi, 208, 209, 248 Loewe, Frederick, ix Logan, John, 220 London Labour and the London Poor, 222 long-line development/composition, 8, 9, 17, 21–22, 26, 30, 37, 57–60, 112–13, 135–36, 193, 194–98 Lorimer, E. O., 222 “Losing My Mind,” 18, 48, 69, 181, 208 Loudon, Dorothy, 131 “Lover,” 55 “Loving You,” 44–45, 46–48

“Lullaby to a Negro Baby,” 151, 233, 248 Lulu, 22 “Lunch,” 177 lyric(s), 41, 236–38; clarity in, 110–11, 157; conversational, 36, 121, 141; coordination with music, 199; difficulties of writing, 73; inflection in, 36, 37, 83–84, 121, 204; pastiches, 208–10; setting, 35–37, 83, 204, 210–11; sketches, 155–57; subtext in, 205; word choice in, 170–71 Mackintosh, Cameron, 123, 174 major and minor. See key(s) “Make a Miracle,” 248 “making the most out of the least,” 223. See also “less is more” Mako, 164 Mallory, Victoria, 131 Maltby, Richard, Jr., 249, 252 “The Man I Love,” 48 “The Man That Got Away,” 48 Mantello, Joe, 233, 234 “Maria,” 12, 146 “Marry Me a Little,” 122–23 Marshall, Kathleen, 245 Martin, Herbert E., 248, 252 Martin, Hugh, 248, 252–53 Mass, 184 Matisse, Edouard, 50 Mayhew, Henry, 222 McGillin, Howard, 173, 174 McKenzie, Julia, 125 McKinley, William, 66 The Medium, 144 melodic: idea, 6, 34, 204; line, 202; outline, 34; ranges, 61–62, 202; rhythm, 32, 210–11; shape/structure, 37, 135 melody, 10, 34–36, 41–42, 44–46, 82–83, 166, 168; from the lyric, 210–11 Mendes, Sam, vi Mendes, Sergio, 150 La Mer, 231 Mercer, Johnny, 246 Merrick, David, 244

Index Merrill, Bob, 248 Merrily We Roll Along, vii, 19–20, 33, 42, 57, 122, 165, 169, 184, 210, 222–25, 234 meters, 33, 141 metronome markings, 54 Michelangelo, 139 Milhaud, Darius, 144 Milk, Harvey, 69 “The Miller’s Son,” 69, 212 “Miracle Song,” 130 “Miscellaneous Ideas, Numbers and Notions” for Pacific Overtures, 161, 162, 163 “Miscellaneous Notes” for Sunday in the Park with George, 112, 113, 114, 116, 118 Mizner, Addison, 102–3, 183 Mizner, Wilson, 79, 183 modes, 163 modulation, 4–5, 16, 31, 201 Mondrian, Piet, 50 Montsalvatge, Xavier, 151, 233, 248 Moore, Sara Jane, 67 motifs, 5, 34, 73, 143. See also leitmotifs; themes “Motifs” for Into the Woods, 81, 82, 83, 84 “Move On,” 93, 94, 95, 96, 97–98, 167, 227, 236–37 Mozart, Amadeus, 10, 135, 168 MTI, 68, 76, 84–85 Muir, Lewis F., 248 “Multitudes of Amys,” 205 Murphy, Donna, 25 music: appreciation of, and listening to, 230–31; as architecture, 103; the art of, 167–68; associations with, 68, 72; character of, 198; characterizing with, 30, 133–35, 140; diegetic, 62; editing/shortening, 220–22; expressing emotion, 205; difficulty of his, 120–21; evolution of, 167–68; genetics and, 168; inevitability in, 8, 19, 35; relating sections of, 58–60, 84; scene change, 53–54; simplicity in, 43, 46–48; source, 51–52; subtext

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“On the Farm,” 248 “On the Steps of the Palace,” 88, 89, 90 “One Hand, One Heart,” 221 “One More Kiss,” 76 “One Wonderful Day,” 209 opening arpeggios in Sunday in the Park with George, 93, 112, 113, 114–15, 116, 117 “Opening Doors,” 42, 110–11 “Opening” Into the Woods, 193 opening numbers, 75, 76–77, 79, 155–57, 161, 219 “Opening Shooting Gallery,” 74, 75, 76, 77 opera, 19, 22–23, 37, 111, 189; composers, 20; singers, 130–32 orchestra size, 230 orchestrations, 54–55, 61, 108, 109, 128–29, 228–30 organ, 126–27 ostinato bass, 17 Othello, 140 “The Other Side of the Tracks,” 247 “Our Time,” 106 “Overture” Merrily We Roll Along, 224–25 overtures, 165, 170

Plautus, 182 Playwrights Horizons, 101, 229 playwriting through song, 25, 79 “Pleasant Little Kingdom,” 200 “Please Hello,” 49, 111, 163 plotting songs, 189, 214 “Poor Thing,” 138 Porgy and Bess, 10, 170, 218 Porter, Cole, ix, xv, 1, 8–9, 17, 41, 46, 48, 49, 68, 204, 210, 211, 246, 248 Les Poseuses, 100, 101 “Prayer,” 159, 160, 161 pre-recorded sounds, 65 “Prelude” from Sweeney Todd, 126–27 “Pretty Little Picture,” 19 “Pretty Women,” 136 Prince, Harold (Hal), vi, 12–13, 53, 76, 123, 126, 136–37, 147, 149, 156, 157, 161, 165, 175, 182, 183, 217, 218 Prince, Judy, 192 process of writing a song, 37 progressions. See harmony prosody, 35 Psycho, 72 Public Theater, 228 Puccini, Giacomo, 30, 134 “Putting It Together,” 99, 100

Pacific Overtures, vii, 39, 49, 53, 67, 69, 76, 155–64, 205, 236 Paper Mill Playhouse, 123 Papp, Joseph, 228 “Parlor Songs,” 142–43 Passion, vii, 3–55, 81, 87, 167 pastiche, 48–49, 76, 87, 170, 212–13 Patinkin, Mandy, 97–98, 99, 202 pedal points/pedal tones, 17, 158–59, 161, 199 “People Will Say We’re in Love,” 86 personal voice, 4 Peters, Bernadette, 97, 101 Phantom of the Opera, 126 phase music, 158 piano versus instrumental accompaniments, 120–21, 229–30 Pinchus, Mathilda (Mattie), 14, 144 Pissarro, Camille, 95

Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 30, 95–97, 98, 212, 213 Radio City Music Hall, 126 Ravel, Maurice, 43, 86, 117, 140, 213, 232 “Real Live Girl,” 247 recitative, 34, 126 record collection/collecting, 231–32 recordings, 152–53 Reed, Susan, 219 registers, 4, 97–98, 109, 121–22, 129, 145, 201–2 Reich, Steve, 158 research, 38–40, 101, 132–33, 143, 156, 161–63, 221–22 Resnais, Alain, 73 revisions, 119–20 revivals, 233–34 rewriting, 189–90

Index rhapsodic writing, 6 “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,” 96, 212 rhyme, 236–37 rhythm, 25, 104–6, 144–45; pointillism in, 91–93, 103–4; South-American, 151; variety in, 205 rhythmic themes, 94 Riddle, Nelson, 55 “Riddle Song,” 169, 171 Riding, Joanna, 131 “Road” pictures, 169, 176 Road Show, v–vii, 228, 233. See also Bounce; Wise Guys “The Road You Didn’t Take,” 135, 205, 206, 207 Robbins, Jerome, 12, 20, 78, 208, 241–42 Rodgers and Hammerstein, 70, 71, 87, 159, 169 Rodgers, Mary, 168 Rodgers, Richard, ix, xvi, 17, 46, 48, 49, 55, 86, 168, 202, 211, 248 Romberg, Sigmund, xvi, 209, 212 Rome, Harold, ix Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 49, 67 root position, 17, 18 Ross, Herb, 241 Rossini, Gioachino, 125 Roy, William, 249, 253 Rudin, Scott, 46 “The Rules of the Road,” 247 Russian music, 30 “Sad Was the Day,” 247 Sams, Jeremy, 52 “San Francisco,” 248 Satie, Erik, 198 Saturday Night, 51, 209 “Scene 3 (Part III)” 32 “Scene 7” 33, 34, 35–36, 46 “Scene 10,” 38 scene-change music, 52–53 Schenker, Heinrich, 117 Schillinger, Joseph, 166 Schöenberg, Arnold, 159 Schwartz, Arthur, ix, 249

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37; finding his “cow,” 51; dark side, tendency to see the, 184; difficulties of aging, 183–84; evolution as a composer, 126, 163–64; as an experimental writer, 244; favorite kind of songs to write, 189; fear of repeating himself, 184; finding his voice, 191; influence on musical theater, 244; listening choices, 117, 230–33; musical memory, 52; musical style, 49; musical voice, 51, 224; orchestrating, 51; organ playing, 126–27; pride in accomplishments, 185; regrets, 243–44; responses to other people’s work, 184–85; selfconfidence, 43; self-conscious about being square, 132, 141; thinking instrumentally/pianistically, 61, 121–22, 129, 228; thinking orchestrally/contrapuntally, 228; voice, 4, 61 song(s): conversational, 141, 206; form, 8, 9; ideas for/selection of what to turn into, 69–70, 152, 155–57; length, 199–200; rewriting, 189–90; shows/scores versus arioso, 33, 57; thirty-two bar, 19–20, 121, 126; time it takes to write, 149 “The Song Is You,” 248 “Songs I Wish I’d Written (At Least in Part),” 245–54 songwriting: the process of, 37, 79; versus arioso writing, 33 sonic texture/color, 52 Sousa, John Philip, 39, 49 South Pacific, 230, 234 Spielberg, Steven, 71 staging, 11–13 Starobin, Michael, 61, 229 Stavisky, 73 Stendhal, 42 “The Story of Lucy and Jessie,” 89, 123 Stravinsky, Igor, 128–29 “Stravinsky motif,” 128–29 Streisand, Barbra, 148 stress in lyrics and music, 36, 37

Strouse, Charles, 249, 253 structural sketch, 193–94 structures of three, 177 Styne, Jule, xvi, 188, 249 subtext, 205 “Summertime,” 218 “Sunday,” 102, 104, 106, 107, 108, 111, 112, 113, 114–15, 116, 132 Sunday in the Park with George, 33, 40, 43, 61, 71, 75, 91–118, 167, 188, 202–3, 226–27, 229, 230, 253; major/minor juxtaposition in the score for, 93–94; parallels in the score for, 98–101; plotting the score for, 100–101 “Sunday in the Park with George,” 98, 99, 101, 227 A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, xiii, 95, 100–101, 103, 104 sung-through musicals, 20 suspensions, 150 Sutherland, Joan, 131 Swayne, Steve, 174 “Sweeney chord,” 127, 128 Sweeney Todd, 11–12, 37, 40, 41, 43, 71, 72, 73, 75, 109, 125–53, 167, 188, 219–22, 234; ease to write, 148–49; figuring out how to musicalize scenes, 125–26, 142–43, 151–52; film of, 142, 143–44, 151–52, 220; structure/texture of, 136–38, 142 “Sweet Polly Plunkett,” 142–43 Symphonic Sondheim, 55 “Talent,” 178–79 teaching, 168 “Tell Me I Look Nice,” 247, 250 tempos, 54, 152–53 tessitura, 4, 61–62, 97–98, 131, 146, 202 “Thank You for Coming,” 223 thematic ideas, 52, 87–88, 139–40, 227 themes: associated with characters, 72–73, 81–84; developing, 72–73, 81–85, 94, 223; inversions of, 85–86. See also leitmotifs; motifs “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” 191

Index “There’s a Parade in Town,” 191 “There’s Always a Woman,” 74 “There’s No Holding Me,” 249 “There’s No Place Like London,” 127, 128, 137 thirty-two bar songs, 19–20, 121, 126, 169, 205 “This Was a Real Nice Clambake,” 210 Thompson, Kay, 191 “Thoughts on the Terrace,” 212. See also “It Would Have Been Wonderful” The Three Faces of Eve, 140 “Tick-Tock,” 123 tonal centers, 9 tonality, 16 tone, 235 tone rows, 116, 118 tonicization, xv, 31, 201 “Too Many Mornings,” 9, 193, 194–98, 195, 196, 197, 200–202, 201, 233 Tormé, Mel, 226 Tosca, 23 “The Tower of Bray,” 142–43 “Train Song, Scene Eleven,” 44, 47, 48. See also “Loving You” “Transition (Scenes 10–11),” 52, 53 “Travel,” 249 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 209 “Trio,” 189 “The Trolley Song,” 248 “True Love,” 46 Tunick, Jonathan, vi, 54, 55, 108, 109, 129, 165, 170, 181, 185, 214, 218, 228–29, 229–30, 245, 249, 253 twelve-tone music, 117 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 144 unconscious, 10, 86–87, 94 underscoring, 71–73 unions, 235–36 “Unworthy of Your Love,” 61, 62, 63 Valdés, Ildefonso Pereda, 248 Valéry, Paul, 184 Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, 213

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“You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun,” 246, 247 “You Could Drive a Person Crazy,” 75, 235 Youmans, Vincent, ix, xvi YouTube, 235 “You’ve Got Possibilities,” 249 Ziegfeld era, 40 The Ziegfeld Follies, 48

About the Author

Mark Eden Horowitz is a senior music specialist in the music division of the Library of Congress, where he has been the archivist or coarchivist of the following collections: Charlie Barnet, Leonard Bernstein, Budapest String Quartet, Billy Byers, Ella Fitzgerald, Vernon Duke, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jascha Heifetz, Jerome Kern, Jonathan Larson, Frederick Loewe, Peter Matz, John McGlinn, David Merrick, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Arthur Schwartz, Don Walker, George Wright and Robert Forrest, and Vincent Youmans. He coproduced the Library concerts for Stephen Sondheim’s 70th birthday (broadcast on NPR), “Celebrating Jonathan Larson,” “West Side Story 50th Anniversary Celebration,” and “The Sound of Broadway Music: A Symposium on Orchestrators and Orchestrations”; curated the exhibit “West Side Story: Birth of a Classic”; and was on the advisory panel for the Songwriter Series CDs (Sammy Sings Fain, Irving Sings Berlin, Hugh Sings Martin, Charles Sings Strouse, Jonathan Sings Larson, and Howard Sings Ashman). He presented the lecture series “Masters of the Musical” and “Six by Sondheim” for the Smithsonian Resident Associates Program, the latter a joint presentation with the Library of Congress. He has taught courses at Georgetown University on “The History of the Musical on Stage and Screen,” “The American Musical,” and “Stephen Sondheim.” A frequent contributor to The Sondheim Review, he wrote the ten-article series “Biography of a Song,” and is currently the magazine’s contributing editor. Prior to working at the Library, Horowitz worked at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., for eleven years. Among the shows he worked on there

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were Merrily We Roll Along, Tomfoolery, Animal Crackers, and God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, the latter directed by Howard Ashman. He is a graduate of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and studied musical composition privately with Asher Zlotnick.