Sondheim was a genius at rhyming, alliteration and hidden meaning in his lyrics. Some of my favorites are: (from Company - "The Little Things You Do Together") The hobbies you pursue together, Savings you accrue together, Looks you misconstrue together, That marriage a joy. Also from Company - "Getting Married Today" - But I thank you all for the gifts and the flowers, thank you all now it's back to the showers, Don't tell Paul, but I'm not getting married today. From "The Ladies Who Lunch"- Here's to the girls who play wife- aren't they too much? Keeping house, but clutching a copy of Life, just to keep in touch. This words are so clever since Life magazine and women clinging onto life itself seems to be referenced here. Finally, from Sunday in the Park with George, "Move On' - I chose, and my world was shaken- so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. Sondheim chose his words carefully in this one by using variations of the word chose. This was a fun exercise!
I know there's a fair bit of Into the Woods here already but I was hoping for Your Fault, especially: "It's your father's fault that the curse got placed and the place got cursed in the first place." Great stuff to put this together
Ones that (I don’t think) were included here: 1) “I mean…with the price of meat what it is, when you get it…if you get it… “Aha!”…”Good, you got it”. 2) “She has skin white as snow.” “Did you learn her name?” “No, there’s a dwarf standing guard.” 3) “She’d strike you as unenlightened.” “No, I’d strike her first.”
Sondheim was a genius at rhyming, alliteration and hidden meaning in his lyrics. Some of my favorites are: (from Company - "The Little Things You Do Together") The hobbies you pursue together, Savings you accrue together, Looks you misconstrue together, That marriage a joy. Also from Company - "Getting Married Today" - But I thank you all for the gifts and the flowers, thank you all now it's back to the showers, Don't tell Paul, but I'm not getting married today. From "The Ladies Who Lunch"- Here's to the girls who play wife- aren't they too much? Keeping house, but clutching a copy of Life, just to keep in touch. This words are so clever since Life magazine and women clinging onto life itself seems to be referenced here. Finally, from Sunday in the Park with George, "Move On' - I chose, and my world was shaken- so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. Sondheim chose his words carefully in this one by using variations of the word chose.
This was a fun exercise!
Ohmigosh, I could literally choose every line in "Please, Hello" from "Pacific Overtures."
I know there's a fair bit of Into the Woods here already but I was hoping for Your Fault, especially:
"It's your father's fault that the curse got placed and the place got cursed in the first place."
Great stuff to put this together
Ones that (I don’t think) were included here:
1) “I mean…with the price of meat what it is, when you get it…if you get it… “Aha!”…”Good, you got it”.
2) “She has skin white as snow.” “Did you learn her name?” “No, there’s a dwarf standing guard.”
3) “She’d strike you as unenlightened.” “No, I’d strike her first.”