Musicals, theatre history, tea and biscuits
Technically it’s a Sunday. I see that. But here we have part 2 of Just Another Love Story – and we move into the 1980s and the AIDs crisis in New York. If it all goes a bit wobbly on mobile devices – you can download it here sondheim comic 2.
So it’s not Saturday, but it was Saturday when I started this and then time seriously passed by… but hopefully this may make up for it…
(for some reason it’s being a bit weird on mobile devices… so you can download it here sondheim comic)
So in last week’s Saturday Sondheim: I looked at the idea of knowing things, and what the cost of that is for the characters who learn things but pretty much always have to deal with the ambivalence that leads to. This week – I want to go slightly further into the nerdy academic looking glass of how Sondheim sometimes messes with time. If you thought you were not going to get a Doctor Who reference here then I’m sorry, I’m so so sorry.
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to explore some of the key themes in Sondheim songs and address the ways in which Sondheim returns to certain ideas or dramatic plot points. It might help to know that I’m primarily a dramatist, so I’m going to be looking at the work in that way first rather than the music. This week we’re looking at five songs from Into the Woods, Company, Merrily We Roll Along, Passion and Follies.
Sarah Whitfield 