90 Sondheim Songs
Stephen Sondheim turned 90 two weeks ago and to commemorate the event (and because he’s quarantined at home like all the rest of us), NYU MFA student (and Austin’s nephew) Andrew Moorhead compiled his list of the great lyricist/composer’s top ninety songs. Like all lists like this, it provokes lively discussion about such topics as teenage discoveries; being a great artist and a great teacher; the beauty of starting ridiculous arguments; an argument for the first ten songs from Sweeney Todd; a diatribe against some (well, one) terrible and unnecessary song; uncalled-for aspersions against Andrew’s friend Jordan; reverence both genuine and irreverent; what it’s like being a Sondheim savant; some frankly scandalous opinions that Mr. Sondheim definitely won’t like; and how there isn’t much blue in The Red and the Black. Do you agree? Leave your thoughts in the comments below! (Length 21:57)
STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S TOP 90 SONGS
By Andrew Moorhead (as of April 6, 2020)
- Finishing The Hat
- Color & Light
- Losing My Mind
- Marry Me A Little
- Being Alive
- Could I Leave You?
- Worst Pies in London
- Send In The Clowns
- Another Hundred People
- A Little Priest
- The Miller’s Son
- Joanna/Joanna (Reprise)
- Move On
- Opening Doors
- We Do Not Belong Together
- Not A Day Goes By
- Sunday in The Park With George
- Sunday
- Everyday A Little Death
- Company
- The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
- No One Is Alone
- Pretty Women
- No One Has Ever Loved Me
- Take Me To The World
- Ladies Who Lunch
- Moments in the Woods
- A Weekend In the Country
- Franklin Shepard, Inc
- Beautiful
- Anyone Can Whistle
- My Friends
- Your Fault
- Buddy’s Blues
- Someone In A Tree
- Broadway Baby
- Putting It Together
- I’m Still Here
- Not While I’m Around
- Old Friends
- The Road You Didn’t Take
- Steps of the Palace
- Epiphany
- Getting Married Today
- By The Sea
- Loving You
- Any Moment
- Side by Side by Side/What Would We Do Without You
- You Could Drive a Person Crazy
- I Know Things Now
- Sorry-Grateful
- Waiting for the Girls Upstairs
- Unworthy of Your Love
- You Must Meet My Wife
- Everybody Loves Louis
- You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow
- The Ballad of Booth
- Barcelona
- Everybody Says Don’t
- Into The Woods
- Agony
- Our Time
- Someone Is Waiting
- The Day Off
- Giants in the Sky
- Stay With Me
- Last Midnight
- Children Will Listen
- It’s Hot Up Here
- Children and Art
- God, that’s Good!
- It takes Two
- Now You Know
- The Little Things You Do Together
- The Gun Song
- Lesson #8
- Remember
- In Buddy’s Eyes
- Happiness
- The Glamorous Life
- That Frank
- It Would Have Been Wonderful
- Everybody’s Got the Right
- So Many People
- I Read
- Free
- Good Thing Going
- Now
- Hello, Little Girl
- In Praise of Women
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