Passion, The Frogs and Road Show
Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim joins Donald Macleod to focus on three of his stage works - Passion, The Frogs and Road Show.
Concluding our series in which Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim talks to Donald Macleod. In the final programme, Passion, a kind of reversal of the Beauty and the Beast myth, which Sondheim has described as "one long rhapsody . a straightforward, non-ironic love story"; The Frogs, a contemporary take on Aristophanes originally staged in the swimming pool at Yale University (with Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver in the chorus line); and Road Show, a musical about the Mizner brothers which proves the old adage that "musicals aren't written, they're re-written" - it's currently in its fourth incarnation.
Produced by Chris Barstow.
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Stephen Sondheim
Trio
Performer: Donna Murphy (Fosca) Performer: Jere Shea (Giorgio) Performer: Marin Mazzie (Clara) Performer: Paul Gemignani (dir)
- Angel CDQ 7243 5 55251 23.
- 10.
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Stephen Sondheim
Happiness
Performer: Marin Mazzie (Clara) Performer: Jere Shea (Giorgio)
- Angel CDQ 7243 5 55251 23.
- 1.
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Stephen Sondheim
Flashback
Performer: Gregg Edelman (Colonel Ricci) Performer: Donna Murphy (Fosca) Performer: Linda Balgord (Fosca’s Mother) Performer: John Leslie Wolfe (Fosca’s Father) Performer: Matthew Porretta (Ludovic) Performer: Jere Shea (Giorgio) Performer: Juliet Lambert (Ludovic’s Mistress) Performer: Jonathan Tunnick (orchestrations) Performer: Paul Gemignani (dir)
- Angel CDQ 7243 5 55251 23.
- 14.
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Stephen Sondheim
Farewell Letter / No One Has Ever Loved Me
Performer: Marin Mazzie (Clara) Performer: Jere Shea (Giorgio) Performer: Donna Murphy (Fosca)
- Angel CDQ 7243 5 55251 23.
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Stephen Sondheim
The Frogs
Performer: Nathan Lane (Dionysos) Performer: Chorus Performer: Roger Bart (Xanthias)
- PS Classics PS-525.
- 10.
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Stephen Sondheim
Gold!
Performer: Alma Cuervo (Mama Mizner) Performer: Michael Cerveris (Wilson Mizner) Performer: Alexander Gemignani (Addison Mizner) Performer: Company Performer: Mary Mitchell Campbell
- Nonesuch 7559-79824-9.
- 11.
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Stephen Sondheim
You
Performer: Alexander Gemignani (Addison Mizner) Performer: Claybourne Elder (Hollis Bessemer) Performer: Various company members (the Stotesburys, Mrs Trumbauer, the Cosdens, the Wanamakers, Mr Dupont, Mrs Phipps) Performer: Mary Mitchell Campbell
- Nonesuch 7559-79824-9.
- 14.
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Stephen Sondheim
Addison's City
Performer: Claybourne Elder (Hollis Bessemer) Performer: Michael Cerveris (Wilson Mizner) Performer: Alexander Gemignani (Addison Mizner) Performer: Company Performer: Mitchell Campbell
- Nonesuch 7559-79824-9.
- 19.
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Stephen Sondheim
Send in the Clowns
Performer: Stephen Sondheim (pno and vox)
- PS Classics PS-9529.
- 19.
Broadcasts
- Fri 26 Mar 201012:00BBC Radio 3
- Fri 26 Mar 201022:00BBC Radio 3
- Fri 30 Jul 201012:00BBC Radio 3
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