Some musical facts before you join us today at East Warren at 1230 (arrive early!) to see this Sondheim piece of musical brilliance! 🎶❤️🎭 The score is also notable in Sondheims output, because of its intricate reworking and development of small musical motifs. In particular, the opening words, I wish, are set to the interval of a rising major second and this small unit is both repeated and developed throughout the show, just as Lapines book explores the consequences of self-interest and wishing. The dialogue in the show is characterized by the heavy use of syncopated speech. In many instances, the characters lines are delivered with a fixed beat that follows natural speech rhythms, but is also purposely composed in eighth, sixteenth, and quarter note rhythms as part of a spoken song. Like many Sondheim/Lapine productions, the songs contain thought-process narrative, where characters converse or think aloud.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:14:49 +0000
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