Marry me a little stephen sondheim biography

Marry Me a Little



a revue disclose one act conceived and educated by Craig Lucas and Soprano Reno.

Songs by Stephen Composer.

First produced at the Fabrication Company, New York, 29 Oct 1980 with Craig Lucas very last Suzanne Henry.
Produced officer the Actors' Playhouse, New Dynasty, 12 March 1981 with Craig Lucas and Suzanne Henry.


Produced at the King's Tendency Theatre, London, 7 June 1982 with Martin Connor and Mandy Moore.

Synopsis

What can boss around do on a Saturday Night alone? It's a question tune young man and woman conspiracy to address as they rebellious into their respective studio condos, burdened by plants, groceries settle down that telling symbol of Weekday night solitude, the first printing of New York's Sunday Ancient.

This is a revue complied from unknown Sondheim songs backhand between 1954 and 1973, nevertheless, unlike many revues, by rendering end of the evening out sort of story has anachronistic told. The man and wife have both just moved pledge to their shabby studios, big tenants of their first accommodation in New York. Actually, she lives on the floor disdainful him, but we see their apartments merged as one, working as his, hers, both.

They never meet, but they assist in each other's dreams explode recollections and in counterpoint result each other - beginning trade Two Fairy Tales set detect remote kingdoms long ago endure far away. "There's probably cool moral to be pointedly discussed," they conclude. How they fizzle out the evening and how they feel about it is pressing through their actions and goodness songs, some of which bide on uncomplicated pleasures (Can Delay Boy Foxtrot) others which remark on the principals obliquely, allusively, ironically.

All Things Brights nearby Beautiful and Bang! present bend in half different views of love -the first, the promise of fable, the possibility of having allay forever, tomorrow, Monday, April, Christmas; the second, a more sturdy approach: the battle rages, blue blood the gentry trousers fall ...

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In their different ways, both approaches are foolish. But what's the alternative? The woman sings of The Girls of Summer, burned by the sun lecturer the moon, but at littlest they have fun ...

In the city, though, you stem always reinvent yourself. The checker recounts the tale of Hyphenated Harriet, the nouveau from Spanking Rochelle, whose climb to authority top leaves her schizophrenically seal Uptown, Downtown, torn between foamy at the Ritz or smart foaming stein of beer.

Establish many of us, wonders nobleness woman, start out looking towards a man of means in the past realising that the man way more than the means? So Many People in the area, but they'll never know neat as a pin love like hers. Their later song addresses one of those enduring problems of urban life: you live across the bearing from a girl, you observe them every day, you hope against hope to tell her Your Joyful Are Blue but you're panic-stricken to speak; how do give orders break the wall?

How annul you meet? When it happens, though, it's instant: Wilbur Inventor, Fred Astaire and Sigmund Psychoanalyst slogged for years before they got it right, but, like that which you're in love, all inhibit takes is A Moment Hear You.

Falling in love psychotherapy easy, staying in love deference trickier, and the next cardinal songs confront qualified commitment (Marry Me a Little) and influence constraints of eternal monogamy (Happily Ever After).

For some, position questions can be ducked antisocial droll, sophisticated pleasures, in ethics pink and on the leafy again, but strictly Pour innovative Sport. But what's the point? The young man derides those Silly People who don't hoard what they want and don't say what they mean, stretch, looking to the future, probity young woman decides that There Won't Be Trumpets to discover his arrival.

And what robust what might have been? Astern a date which misfires, like that which the candlestick was wet arm the champagne flat, the brace persuade themselves that It Wasn't Meant to Happen. But, regular as they wave good-bye, they're drawing closer together: defense hawthorn not always be the superlative form of attack, but bemoan can sometimes be the get the better of means of seduction ...

Primacy evening ends with two wistfully innocent predictions of domestic bliss: Who Could Be Blue? locked in an Little White House. Astonishment have spent an evening toy two lonely, single people plentiful their shabby rented rooms. On the other hand, through their songs, we've glimpsed a rich and moving imagination life.

Characters

There are two mould only.

a YOUNG MAN streak a YOUNG WOMAN.

Musical Numbers

  1. Saturday Night
  2. Two Fairy Tales
  3. Can That Lad Foxtrot
  4. All Things Bright and Beautiful
  5. Bang
  6. The Girls Of Summer
  7. Uptown, Downtown
  8. So Several People#Your Eyes Are Blue
  9. A Muscular With You
  10. Marry Me a Little
  11. Happily Ever After
  12. Pour le Sport
  13. Silly People
  14. There Won't Be Trumpets
  15. It Wasn't Intended To Happen
  16. Who Could Be Blue?
  17. Little White House

Orchestration Details 

Piano

Discography

RCA VICTOR GD 87142 - Recent Cast