Rhymes, Heartbreaks and Frogs

All this week, Donald Macleod is reflecting back on an interview he did with Stephen Sondheim in 2010 and updating the story of how Sondheim revolutionised the world of Musical Theatre.

Sondheim was a master of rhyme and was often within arm’s reach of a copy of Roget’s Thesaurus or Clement Wood’s rhyming dictionary. He never had a long-running, block-busting musical like Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera or Miss Saigon, but his self-imposed remit was to experiment and push the boundaries, and never to do the same thing twice.

Gypsy: Together Wherever We Go
Imelda Staunton, Peter Davison, Lara Pulver

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - A Little Priest
Josh Groban, Annaleigh Ashford

Follies: You're Gonna Love Tomorrow / Love Will See Us Through (Medley)
Fred Haig, Zizi Strallen, Alex Young, Adam Rhys-Charles

Follies: Buddy's Blues
Peter Forbes, Emily Langham, Aimee Hodnett

Follies: Losing My Mind
Imelda Staunton

A Little Night Music: Overture
A Little Night Music Orchestra. Conductor, Harold Hastings

A Little Night Music: Now / Later / Soon
Len Cariou, Mark Lambert, Victoria Mallory
A Little Night Music Orchestra. Conductor, Harold Hastings
The Frogs: Prologos: Invocation and Instructions to the Audience
David Gaines, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Nathan Lane
The American Theatre Orchestra and Chorus

The Frogs: Traveling Music
David Gaines, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Nathan Lane
The American Theatre Orchestra and Chorus

The Frogs: Parodos: The Frogs
David Gaines, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Nathan Lane
The American Theatre Orchestra and Chorus

Producer: Rosie Boulton