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bpdjennamaroney · 2 days

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it’s crazy how there will never be anyone in theater who ever comes close to brushing the undisputed greatness of stephen sondheim. he will always be peerless.

#stephen sondheim

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soupandcats · 2 months

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Fish, pointillist birds, grapple, Sondheim, and frank O’Hara

#illustration #my art #soupandcats #mixed media #oil pastel art #oil pastel #daily planner #daily drawing #hobonich art #hobonichi planner #hobonichi #stephen sondheim #there won’t be trumpets #frank ohara #fish art #fishes #journal #art journal

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emmy-bue · 1 year

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My favorite thing about Sweeney Todd is that Sweeney gets into the killing-and-baking people business because he’s a deeply broken man destroyed by an unjust and corrupt system that cost him his freedom and family and has been driven mad by revenge.

And Mrs Lovett does it because somthin wrong with her <3

#sweeney todd #stephen sondheim #someone pls get me tickets to the revival I’m desperate #yes I know she’s in love with Sweeney but the pies were her idea so she wasn’t just going along with it for him lmao

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fuckyeahgoodomens · 11 months

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The plays Aziraphale loved :)❤

#good omens #michael sheen #aziraphale #music #aziraphale and music #fun fact #michael on aziraphale #angels in america #stephen sondheim #sunday in the park with george

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phierecycled · 1 year

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Stephen Sondheim and Angela Lansbury’s last screen appearance is a scene of them playing Among Us. Sometimes I love this world.

#ITS THE FUNNIEST THING EVER #broadway #musicals #stephen sondheim #sondheim #angela lansbury #glass onion #knives out #knives out glass onion #glass onion: a knives out mystery #among us

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bemusedlybespectacled · 21 days

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Because that other one left out WAY too many formative musicals (at least for anyone older than, like, 20). I'm definitely still leaving out a lot but I made an effort to cover a wider range of musical history.

#musicals #broadway #rogers and hammerstein #stephen sondheim #andrew lloyd webber #polls #personal

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altarwaiting · 3 months

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music and lyrics by stephen sondheim

#stephen sondheim #broadwayedit #musicaledit #musicaltheatreedit #theatreedit #broadway #musicals #musical theatre #a little night music #company musical #sweeney todd #into the woods #sunday in the park with george #assassins musical #follies musical #*#not an exhaustive list of course but shows that were recently revived or I could find good quality clips of lol

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lunarhobbits · 4 months

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so i saw sweeney todd the other day and it's consuming my thoughts

+ bonus meta meme

#sweeney todd #stephen sondheim #josh groban #annaleigh ashford #nellie lovett #benjamin barker #johanna barker #anthony hope #lucy barker #tobias ragg

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ineffable-romantics · 7 months

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The last one was fun to do, but such a sad scene lmao, so here's a bonus one for shits n giggles [source]

#crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens #gomens #gos #spotify #spotify dialogue game #spotify dialogue #spotify playlist game #spotify playlist #but it's a spotify playlist #sound of music #climb every mountain #climb ev'ry mountain #stephen sondheim #eternity

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bestmusicalworldcup · 7 months

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Every article and video about Sondheim ever: Stephen Sondheim's critics disliked his work because it had overly complex and unhummable tunes.

Me before I had listened to any Sondheim musicals: Interesting!

Me when I listened to Sondheim musicals for the first time: Why are are there so many hummable tunes??? Where are all of these unhummable tunes I was promised???

I suspect this is because the standard for what a "hummable tune" is has changed quite a bit since the 70's. It should also be mentioned that I started listening to contemporary musicals long before I began to try out musicals from the Golden Age, and so my idea of a "hummable tune" is probably different from someone primarily versed in the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, or Cole Porter.

#stephen sondheim

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resident-dumb-fuck · 5 months

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every stephen sondheim musical ranked by number of ao3 hits it has

#saturday night #anyone can whistle #the frogs #road show #do i hear a waltz?#pacific overtures #a funny thing happened on the way to the forum #passion #sunday in the park with george #a little night music #follies #gypsy #merrily we roll along #assassins #company #west side story #into the woods #sweeney todd #stephen sondheim

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little-lovett · 8 months

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there is SO much depth and beauty in the stories we hear in sweeney todd. a murderer who was once a doting father, so blind with hatred and anger towards the world that he couldn’t even see his own wife and daughter, staring him right in the face. a woman down on her luck and in love, trying so desperately to make a connection with a deeply broken and disturbed human. an unfortunately innocent and unknowing boy who ended up being the one who could sense the dark truth. a love at first sight that refused to die, even when torn apart by the disgusting perversion of a greedy abuser. sweeney todd is about all of these people, doing absolutely horrible things, all out of some form of love. that’s the beauty of sweeney todd. sweeney killed for a father and husband’s love. lovett baked real people with real lives into pies to maintain a shallow, lustful relationship she impossibly dreamed would bloom into true romance. turpin destroyed an innocent family because he could not contain his ‘love’ for a pretty woman and her daughter. toby slit a throat because his mother figure was all he had, and he loved her, simply and purely, as an innocent child loves a mother. their love is the purest of all in the story.

but my point is — yes, sweeney todd is about a murderer and his accomplice who cannibalizes and sells his victims. but it’s not. sweeney todd is about love. how love is even stronger and more dangerous than the deepest hate. it’s about how love can destroy people. this show is so beautifully, deeply, disgustingly human. and this dark, telling tale is somehow warped into some of the most gorgeous music to ever be written and made hilarious, lovable, and entertaining. musical theatre is truly magic. human nature is love and filth and greed. sweeney todd perfectly embodies both of these ideas.