Staged Right: 1984 Tony Awards ("Sunday in the Park..." & "La Cage aux Folles")

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  • Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
  • This episode talks about the careers of Jerry Herman & Stephen Sondheim, the creation of their musicals "La Cage aux Folles" and "Sunday in the Park with George", as well as the dramatic lead up to the 1984 Tony's and Jerry Herman's speech which would be talked about for years.
    NOTES AND CORRECTIONS:
    - at 23:46, I incorrectly cite ‘Finishing the Hat’ for the Bernadette Peters quote when I meant to cite ‘Putting it Together’.

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  • @MinaF99
    @MinaF99 Год назад +61

    You deserve so much more attention. This is both incredibly educational and entertaining! You’re doing amazing work for this platform

    • @StagedRight
      @StagedRight  Год назад +4

      Very kind. Thank you. Xo

    • @elinstar6034
      @elinstar6034 3 месяца назад

      Just now found this content, and agree with you completely 😊

  • @hanschristianbrando5588
    @hanschristianbrando5588 Год назад +13

    "Sunday in the Park" was everything a Broadway musical should be--witty, intelligent, moving, tuneful, challenging, absorbing, rewarding, expertly staged and performed--except fun. "La Cage" was fun.

    • @averageellingtonenjoyer
      @averageellingtonenjoyer 7 месяцев назад +2

      You didn’t think it was fun? Personally I really enjoyed Dot’s numbers but I also understand how it wouldn’t be considered fun. Plus I have a soft spot for Sondheim

  • @stephenr3910
    @stephenr3910 Год назад +7

    I watched this when it was on in 1984. I remember Jerry Herman's speech because our community theater groups had done "Mame" and "Hello, Dolly" the year before.

  • @stevehinnenkamp5625
    @stevehinnenkamp5625 Год назад +7

    Magnificent narrative, telling a story, complex yet compelling how a show may finally arrive for a run on Broadway. A wonderful document with great insights.

  • @TheRavendearest
    @TheRavendearest Год назад +9

    Thank you from the bottom of my heart for mentioning the affect of AIDS on life at the time. The fear, the hate, the bigotry that the Queer community once more encountered that set back our fight for equal rights for years along with the loss of so many beautiful, talented, wonderful men.

    • @elinstar6034
      @elinstar6034 3 месяца назад

      So much talent and creativity buried in that decade, people not directly involved may have no idea 😢

  • @tomshea8382
    @tomshea8382 Год назад +3

    This is really good work. Absolutely none of the smarm that so many of these pages have.
    I have always thought Sunday was the superior show by a mile, but then I had the privilege to work on La Cage in Chicago last year. And brothers and sisters, seeing what the results of that production meant to my queer friends who saw it, many middle-aged like me (although I'm cishet) and having "been through it," the show really resonated in a new way for me.

  • @bradgriffith1283
    @bradgriffith1283 Год назад +5

    Well done - they both came out when I was in high school, and both important in different ways, though I'll always remember where I was watching that PBS broadcast of Sunday for the first time. Respectful note from someone who watched the Tonys in the 80s with friends on tape throughout the year as a pastime - Tony Straiges is pronounced "stray'-juz" Like stages with an r.

  • @alexmg3648
    @alexmg3648 Год назад +11

    I would love to see footage of Christine Baranski in Sunday

  • @blahdeblaaah9445
    @blahdeblaaah9445 Год назад +7

    Thank you for this researched, organized, thought out, fact filled video. I listened to the whole thing while gardening and loved every minute. Congratulations on awesome work.

  • @drewtaylor8437
    @drewtaylor8437 Год назад +3

    Well done, thorough and straightforward! Great video! As an actor in New York for 40 years, and having had the honor to be in the room with both men!
    Each different and unique as are their musicals!

  • @richiejohnson
    @richiejohnson Год назад +2

    Just found your channel ! Every episode is full of great photos and clips, and the players are deeply researched and explained.
    You make me feel like I'm still part of the city I left so many years ago.

  • @LEGOSTOBRICKS
    @LEGOSTOBRICKS Год назад +11

    This is such a well made and well researched video. Major props!!!

  • @jeffsanders3453
    @jeffsanders3453 Год назад +9

    Another amazing video. I don’t remember how I came across your channel but so happy I did because I have enjoyed all your detailed analysis.

  • @Jivansings
    @Jivansings Год назад +1

    Oh this was a treat. To borrow from my old friend Stephen, Staged Right your good, you’re really good.

  • @mjmatousek
    @mjmatousek Год назад +5

    I love this channel! Thank you for making these videos. I'd love to see a video highlighting Lea Salonga. I don't think she's appreciated enough by Western audiences.

  • @benjaminsagan5861
    @benjaminsagan5861 Год назад +11

    As someone who occasionally traded letters with Sondheim and once very nearly, if accidentally, trampled Jerry Herman to death, this video is remarkable.
    Fun side note! In her show "At Liberty" Elaine Stritch confesses to be being "nuts about Fritz Holt" -- but I never knew why until now. Good God, he was stunning.

  • @stephenr3910
    @stephenr3910 Год назад +25

    I don't think there needs to be a rivalry. Sondheim and Herman were trying to do different things in their niches. For Herman, success was that the audience left humming the songs. Sondheim was trying to explore new horizons with musicals. There's room for both.

    • @TimSimms7
      @TimSimms7 Год назад

      There absolutely needs to be a rivalry… if you want clicks. 😟

    • @MondoMiami
      @MondoMiami Год назад

      Sondheim was a pretentious gasbag.

    • @rixx46
      @rixx46 10 месяцев назад +1

      I think it definitely was a shot against Sondheim . He even has a song about writing “humble melodies” in merrily we roll along.

    • @msalicekeys
      @msalicekeys 4 месяца назад

      Coming from the Sunday at the Park with George dvd commentary..ya it was a registered blow for certain. James Lapine says at one point, "Its brilliant, Steve. Who says your music isn't hummable?", in an almost healing way.
      Jerry was bitter that he didn't have success and glory of Steve, and lashed at him, in public on a huge night. Petty. And he was gonna say that win or lose; the kind of thought bitter, perceived-slighted people have loaded in the chamber at all times.

  • @farfle
    @farfle Год назад +7

    OMG, that ending really did have me laughing out loud! Thank you for another brilliant episode. I love what you do!

  • @loferx
    @loferx Год назад +3

    Everyone having to audition except Angela Lansbury fits my vision of musical theatre very well.

  • @kc-lp6wg
    @kc-lp6wg Год назад +2

    Watching!! There was even a COC ad at the start! Kisses and hugs to you, can't wait to watch and learn something (l always do).

  • @patrickgomes2213
    @patrickgomes2213 Год назад +3

    This is wonderfully nuanced. Jerry Herman was both right and wrong at the same time about traditional musicals being dead on Broadway. La Cage is no more a traditional musical any more than SITP isn't a traditional musical. The story telling is vastly different. And - I know you say it out loud - the two composers shouldn't be compared.

  • @Neratzoula
    @Neratzoula 7 месяцев назад

    Just found your channel. You are amazing!!

  • @Melissa-tw2gp
    @Melissa-tw2gp Год назад

    I adore both of these shows, and I’m so glad both artists saw success so I could enjoy their work.

  • @shannon2711
    @shannon2711 Год назад +2

    Nicely done!

  • @rixx46
    @rixx46 Год назад

    Thanks so much for this insightful entertaining video on two great shows.
    My wife and I saw the original cast of SUNDAY -- our first BW musical (we are from Canada) we found it's narrative challenging - particularly the tone shift in the 2nd act, given the first act told a complete/closed story. I continue to love it and FINISHING THE HAT still moves me every time I hear it. It's not insignificant that Sondheim entitled his two volume lyric memoirs, FINISHING THE HAT and LOOK I MADE A HAT. A must-have for any Sondheim freak (like me!) In 2021, Lapine published a great book ( PUTTING IT TOGETHER...) about the creation of this masterwork.
    Sad fact about Jerry Herman, according to Harvey Fierstein's excellent autobiography, Jerry Herman was paranoid about anyone learning that he too contracted HIV/AIDS in 1985, although it was not related to his cause of death at 89 last year.

  • @victordunson719
    @victordunson719 Год назад +3

    Even though Sondheim is a GENIUS doesn’t mean you’re going to win everything 🤷🏽‍♂️

  • @mikkibaker6907
    @mikkibaker6907 Год назад +5

    The first revival of La Cage was far superior to the original. They didn't "chicken out" and hide cis women in the Cagelles and the choreography was an order of magnitude better, winning the Tony for Choreography! Rather than worry about touchy audiences, they went for it and were rewarded with the Best Revival Tony.

    • @joeburinskas8672
      @joeburinskas8672 Год назад +2

      What do you mean hide CIS women. I saw the original and it was pretty obvious who were men and who were women.

  • @peterbreughel4440
    @peterbreughel4440 3 месяца назад

    The good thing about being old fashioned is that you can't go out of fashion. 'La Cage aux Folles' will always work on Broadway because it is a well crafted crowd pleaser.

  • @Autostade67
    @Autostade67 10 месяцев назад +1

    I read somewhere Herman claimed he wasn't referring directly to Sondheim, and for what its worth, despite being a Sondheim connoisseur with only a nominal taste for some of Herman's work, I can believe it...but it was interpreted as such, which is odd because Sondheim moved so fully into the chromaticism and formal freedom of 'Sunday' as a reaction to the failure of 'Merrily We Roll Along', which, if we're talking 'simple' hummable songs threw down an intimidating gauntlet that said, "see, I can do this too, in spades , and what's more I can do it backward AND deconstruct it as I go." Funnily enough 'Look Over There' from La Cage! is as close to Sondheim as Herman ever got...it's a bit uncanny.
    But let's face it, despite its Pulitzer Prize, It's still surprising that 'Sunday' ever made it to Broadway - and a show like that now - impossible.

  • @fadhilramadhani1847
    @fadhilramadhani1847 Год назад +2

    Ain't nobody know a song from La Cage now tho

  • @itsjohn2000
    @itsjohn2000 2 месяца назад

    Be sure to read Jerry Herman's memoir 'Showtune', where he recalls the bad reviews he received for Dear World, Mack & Mabel and Grand Tour and quotes how a few critics said his style of music no longer had a place on Broadway and his time had passed. Within that context, his 1984 Tony's speech made complete sense - he had proved his music still was relevant. It was not about Sondheim at all.

  • @alexiacaceda1421
    @alexiacaceda1421 10 месяцев назад

    Sunday is my musical rn so this wil be very interesting

  • @Jude74
    @Jude74 10 месяцев назад

    I remember that season for some reason. I was 10. 🤨

  • @benjaminsagan5861
    @benjaminsagan5861 Год назад +2

    Also: You got the lyric wrong! It's "gay as a daisy in May, *_a cliche_* coming true"...

    • @benjaminsagan5861
      @benjaminsagan5861 Год назад

      Also: I know what you can get on Broadway for $40: Drug-resistant gonorrhea.

    • @benjaminsagan5861
      @benjaminsagan5861 Год назад

      Final thought: Because you dismiss La Cage as being somewhat asexual, it's worth noting that it's actually *extremely* and even *disturbingly* sexual at one point, if obliquely. The long-running joke about Herman is that all of his scores contain a song that's ostensibly about the plot but actually about fisting. In Mame, it's "Open a New Window"; in Dolly, it's "I Put My Hand In". .... In La Cage, it's "With You On My Arm".
      It's there, but it's coded.

    • @guystudios
      @guystudios Год назад

      @@benjaminsagan5861 what’s fisting

    • @lakrids-pibe
      @lakrids-pibe 10 месяцев назад

      @@guystudios It's when you clench your fist and shake it high because you're angry at the weather. Like an old foolish man.

  • @ScoBroCity
    @ScoBroCity Год назад

    It’s worth noting, in ‘83 $1.00 had the purchasing power of $3.00 in today’s market. Average ticket prices hung around $40.00 as mentioned in the video at that time. Effectively what would be $120.00 to us. Idk if thats average or not…

    • @StagedRight
      @StagedRight  Год назад

      I get what you’re saying. But $40 is the top price in 1984 = $120 today. My partner and I were looking at tickets for ‘Six’ on Broadway last week and the back row of their balcony is $140. People in the orchestra are paying closer to $300. I remember paying $120 USD to see ‘Follies’ on Broadway in 2012. And in September, I paid $192.50 CAD for my ‘Sweeney’ tix I’m seeing next month. It just seems like a different world now.

  • @theatrebear
    @theatrebear Год назад +2

    $40 in 1984 = $112.67 today :)

    • @StagedRight
      @StagedRight  Год назад +2

      I paid $192 CA for ‘Sweeney’ tickets in the mezzanine. But cool.

    • @theatrebear
      @theatrebear Год назад

      @@StagedRight oh yes. I think the costs are a lot higher nowadays.

    • @joeburinskas8672
      @joeburinskas8672 Год назад +1

      Probably more. There's a reason why Broadway doesn't reach a large audience

  • @waddlesdpuffin
    @waddlesdpuffin Год назад +1

    Great stuff but Gene Barry played Bat Masterson on Bat Masterson and Amos Burke on Burke’s Law and then Amos Burke Secret Agent

    • @StagedRight
      @StagedRight  Год назад

      Another subscriber/viewer pointed it out. Sorry for the mistake.

  • @95KIPPIE
    @95KIPPIE 6 месяцев назад

    Broadway died when Ethel Merman quit performing!

  • @AF-zo4vu
    @AF-zo4vu Год назад +1

    Do the 64s when funny girl won absolutely nothing over hello dolly

    • @StagedRight
      @StagedRight  Год назад +4

      With love, I’ve done my time talking about Funny Girl on this channel. Thanks for watching! Xo

    • @AF-zo4vu
      @AF-zo4vu Год назад

      lol 😂 thank you !

    • @joeburinskas8672
      @joeburinskas8672 Год назад

      Funny Girl is a one-woman show, not great and if you don't have a stellar Fanny, it stinks. Think Beanie

  • @cpbfox
    @cpbfox Год назад +5

    OK, I must admit bias since Jerry Herman was directly involved in my engagement to my wife, but Sondheim writes weak second acts. Herman knows how to put together a whole show. I know it's anathema to disparage Sondheim, but I thought the second act of "Sunday in the Park..." sucked. I noticed nothing about the second act of this show was mentioned in this video. Herman adapted arguably the best French comedy for an American audience. He deserved the Tony.

    • @joeburinskas8672
      @joeburinskas8672 Год назад +3

      Disparage away. His books are the weak part of most of his musicals.

  • @freemangriffin4953
    @freemangriffin4953 6 месяцев назад

    Sunday was the better show.

  • @marcuspd7502
    @marcuspd7502 Год назад +3

    Comparing Sondheim to Herman is like comparing Einstein to a rock.

  • @95KIPPIE
    @95KIPPIE 6 месяцев назад

    Sondheim was a complete and total jerk!!! He didn’t respect anyone, his nose was so far up in the air! Arrogance at its greatest

  • @antonmarino6568
    @antonmarino6568 Год назад

    Is all.of Broadway gay?

  • @emmasmit2073
    @emmasmit2073 Год назад +16

    Best possible conclusion! They are both great shows that do wildly different things and pushed wildly different envelopes at the time! MORE OF THAT PLEASE!

  • @troygaspard6732
    @troygaspard6732 Год назад +11

    Having seen the La Cage shortly after it won, I was happy for Jerry and Harvey. But it is Sunday In The Park With George, that brings me to tears everytime I see a production over the past decades.

  • @bongolong
    @bongolong Год назад +7

    "La Cage aux Folles" is a curious show... In the 80s I was doing a production of the show (drummer/percussionist in the pit) and when my (very conservative) dad asked about it. I told him he probably wouldn't like it (for obvious reasons) but he came anyway and loved it! The themes of love and family are what this show is about and it still a favorite of mine.

  • @alejandromorales9516
    @alejandromorales9516 Год назад +16

    Sondheim himself was completely not pressed by Herman's dig at the Tonys as per Lapine's book about Sunday. La Cage has a wonderful score, but Sunday in the Park with George is sacred text to me. I don't think I'm alone in that. I also think Sondheim more than Herman will probably remain relevant to younger musical theater makers for a couple more generations. What people saw as "unmelodic" then lands a lot more on contemporary ears that have been schooled in pop music that is much more rhythmic and verbal than ever. It struck me while seeing the recent revival of Into the Woods how so many of the songs feel incredibly fresh in a post hip-hop and certainly post-Hamilton age. Still, to Herman's credit, his scores are such fun and he was well deserving of his success. His dig at Sunday feels not only petty now, but highly insecure.

    • @joeburinskas8672
      @joeburinskas8672 Год назад +2

      It wasnt a dig at Sondheim but the NY Press that did not like LA Cage. Sunday is a terrible book, pretentious and cliche.

  • @johnv7060
    @johnv7060 Год назад +12

    I wouldn’t exactly call “Children and Art” or “Lesson No. 8” slight since the entire show is in those songs, but this is a great little doc about, among many things, the end of one writing career and the third act of another. And thanks for putting the pre-Stonewall attitude of Laurents in context. He was, in his own way, a pioneering gay writer, and because of his complex relationship to his sexuality and the difficult times he lived in, I think a better one than Fierstein. His contribution to La Cage seems undervalued today. (Even though I still think La Cage, with the exception of three songs, is- to use your word- slight.) I could go on…

  • @louyou5667
    @louyou5667 Год назад +9

    Thank you so much for another amazing, interesting and educating video. There is so much history to discover. You and wait in the wings are doing the lords work 🖤

  • @Gaby-bx3cv
    @Gaby-bx3cv Год назад +12

    an amazing video and wonderfully edited. i gasped learning about Laurents giving McClaine notes at the end jfc

    • @StagedRight
      @StagedRight  Год назад

      It’s wild. Thanks for watching!

  • @whitneyryangarrity5265
    @whitneyryangarrity5265 Год назад +6

    I lean towards Sunday, but most likely because I saw it twice on B'way - once in previews (it was such a different show, as noted here) and then after its opening. I never saw La Cage. My only connection was taking a Musical Theatre class along side John Weiner, who had played the son for the entire 3 1/2 year run and was looking for other songs to sing besides "Ann on My Arm" :)

  • @TomJudson
    @TomJudson Год назад +7

    Very interesting material extremely well presented! Thank you!

  • @peteradaniel
    @peteradaniel Год назад +11

    Here in London Sondheim reigns king. He’s so admired by everyone it’s hard to even acknowledge any other musical theatre composer of the last century. The BBC proms even did an evening devoted to his works, something that would never happen to Jerry Herman.

    • @StagedRight
      @StagedRight  Год назад +5

      That Proms performance of ‘Sunday’ rips me up every time I hear it ❤️

    • @guystudios
      @guystudios Год назад +5

      Sad that Herman’s no so appreciated over there 😢

    • @jandreidrn
      @jandreidrn Год назад +1

      Though the John Wilson Orchestra in Proms 2012 did perform Jerry Herman's select songs from Mame, Mack & Mabel and that previous year, John Wilson performed select songs from Hello Dolly!

    • @MondoMiami
      @MondoMiami Год назад

      Overrated gasbag. Same old tricks in every show that wow the wannabe intellectual set.

    • @paillette2010
      @paillette2010 10 месяцев назад +1

      Which is funny because you all sing along at the proms like it's sunday evening at that pub. And the songs are so singable.

  • @PaganVegas
    @PaganVegas Год назад +4

    It was never a real competition. Both were great men of the theater. But there’s no doubt the Sondheim was the superior craftsman. He easily wrote a Herman-esque style song when the situation called for it (“Beautiful Girls”). Jerry could not have written a Sondheim song even if he wanted to. Fortunately, he didn’t want to. He just kept writing beautiful Jerry Herman songs.
    We all won.

    • @StagedRight
      @StagedRight  Год назад +2

      I like this take. Xo

    • @jandreidrn
      @jandreidrn Год назад +1

      Though some would point out that Jerry Herman came the closest to matching Sondheim's brilliance with rhyming with "Just Leave Everything to Me" in the "Hello Dolly" film.

    • @terrymbridges
      @terrymbridges Год назад

      Jerry Herman addressed this on Theater Talk. Michael Riedel asked him about the Tony moment point-blank, and Jerry said it wasn’t a dig at Sondheim at all. (Meryl Seacrest said SS very much thought it was a dig in her biography of him.) Herman said he considered himself a songwriter and Sondheim a genius, and said he liked Sunday very much. Gracious backtracking? I do remember reading an anecdote of JH watching Angela Lansbury win an award (was it the Tony for Gypsy?) and when she thanked SS and didn’t mention him, he flew into a rage. Maybe it’s apocryphal…

  • @glamhausslevin4940
    @glamhausslevin4940 Год назад +4

    Oh my heart 😭😭😭 I worked backstage at the original London production at the Palladium. The happiest show ever. George Hearn, as well as his outstanding talent was the loveliest, most humble man. The late Denis Quilley was an amazing Georges, and the huge affection between the two leading men was a joy to behold. This show forever in my heart. Thank you for posting.

  • @Philippadrinkstea
    @Philippadrinkstea Год назад +2

    It blows my mind how expensive tickets are on Broadway - I saw Hamilton here in the west end for a whole £40 when it was still in it's first year...

  • @rixx46
    @rixx46 10 месяцев назад +1

    Watching this with my wife let us to seeing our very first Broadway musical on Broadway. Sunday in the Park was amazing.

  • @Autostade67
    @Autostade67 10 месяцев назад +1

    "Lesson No. 8" is NOT a slight song.

  • @prestuvius
    @prestuvius Год назад +2

    I love when no mention of inflation is made when talking about money in 1984. "I don't know WHAT you can get on Broadway today for $40!"

    • @prestuvius
      @prestuvius Год назад +1

      That's $113 in today's money, FYI.

    • @StagedRight
      @StagedRight  Год назад +3

      $113 US today is just under the ‘average’ price of a ticket on Broadway these days. I paid $192 CA (more than $113 US) for a mezzanine ticket for Sweeney in the spring. (I’m very excited about the show, btw, though of course that doesn’t include what I’ll have to pay for flights and accommodations.) That supposedly represents mid-tier pricing. They were selling orchestra tickets for around $250-$400 when they went on sale in the fall and I can only imagine resellers are boosting that price up. While inflation is absolutely a valid point, I’m not addressing that. (Some viewers who come across my stuff love to knit-pick over my choice of words in these videos to either a. create conflict that isn’t there, or b. feel like they can one-up me. To that, I say good for them. I hope they I made their day.) Broadway is expensive and a large portion of people are being phased out of being able to afford to come and see shows. I often wonder exactly who was buying tickets to see the recent Music Man or even say Hamilton in its first few years. Certainly not the ‘average ticket buyer.’

    • @prestuvius
      @prestuvius Год назад

      @@StagedRight Okay imagine talking about the price of a Broadway show in 1958 and trying to compare it to the price of a ticket today. Kinda pointless unless you put it in context.

  • @evans54
    @evans54 Год назад +2

    Bat Masterson and Burkes Law are 2 different shows

  • @FRADAVE01
    @FRADAVE01 7 месяцев назад

    I won the first bet of my adult life in 1984, when La Cage won the Tony. I was a callow youth of 24, and preferred Jerry Herman's style, while my bestie loved Sunday is the Park! He was dead within the year. I would give anything to be able to tell him that it's a draw! 😢

  • @Autostade67
    @Autostade67 10 месяцев назад

    You can have real drag artists and Albin and George ripping each other's clothes off all you want - 'La Cage' is still an extraordinarily conservative musical - and I don't mean politically (in regards to the low grade protestations of evangelical moralists): there's nothing risky about it - that's why it succeeded then and that's why revivals succeed now....in fact it's so orthodox that there's something a bit retrograde about it - and about much of drag - today; offering a predictable master text for a queer culture that has otherwise stalled, that is incapable of a new, radical vision of itself. Be careful what you wish for: legitimacy has engendered banality, and with that, a vast and unintriguing culture of the archival... so it seems a moot put to jump on Laurents and the 1983 production for being quasi closeted; we are all quasi-closeted now, but not in hiding our gayness, but by letting it eclipse everything else.

  • @lakrids-pibe
    @lakrids-pibe 10 месяцев назад

    Oh by the way, Shirley, I saw your show and I have a few notes... ahem...

  • @diamondsmusic6413
    @diamondsmusic6413 Год назад

    Really enjoyed this video. However, my god- all the commercials 6 or 7!!!!! Really stopped the rhythm and flow of the video and took me out of the experience.

  • @edcomedian357
    @edcomedian357 9 месяцев назад

    Beautifully done Thanks

  • @Dschildkret
    @Dschildkret Год назад

    Excellent informative entertaining series. Keep going.

  • @MADHAUSMARKALLAN
    @MADHAUSMARKALLAN Год назад

    I was living in Boston as a young dancer in the spring of 1983. The studio where I was working out of had an alum visiting who was in the tryouts of La Cage. After class, he pulled out his pumps and showed us some of the steps. He had great legs I didn’t really understand what was going on, but I moved to New York the next month and then the next year both La Cage and Sunday in the Park had opened and I was broke, broke, broke. I moved to Europe and got to see La Cage in the autumn of 1985. At theater des westens. It was incredible. As well as this wonderful documentary. What did surprised me was that you didn’t mention Strange Loop at all. It won the Pulitzer and was highly innovative. Thanks so much.

  • @hillerymcdonald2303
    @hillerymcdonald2303 Год назад

    My goodness you are brilliant. Thank you SO much for your incredible work!!

  • @jayhartbarger2793
    @jayhartbarger2793 Год назад

    Mack/Mabel which I saw in L.A. and Dear World are my fav productions of his.

  • @jld4444444444
    @jld4444444444 Год назад

    I would of paid to watch this!! Love your work!!

  • @martinfreeman6491
    @martinfreeman6491 Год назад +3

    Sunday Was Fab so was La Cage. But Sunday should have won

  • @BonnerDoemling
    @BonnerDoemling 6 месяцев назад

    Stephen should have taken Jerry outside after the ceremony for a Broadway Brodown

  • @oscarlover100
    @oscarlover100 Год назад +6

    La Cage aux Folles was more deserving- Sunday has a terrible story and it's music can be a bit grating even with a lot of amazing moments.

    • @guystudios
      @guystudios Год назад +2

      Agreed, La Cage is delightful

    • @marcuspd7502
      @marcuspd7502 Год назад +1

      You have terrible taste.

    • @joeburinskas8672
      @joeburinskas8672 Год назад +1

      Sondheim musicals often border on pretension. No heart at all.

    • @marcuspd7502
      @marcuspd7502 Год назад +5

      @@joeburinskas8672 Like what, Sweeney Todd? Not all musicals have to be bursting with joy. That’s not the purpose of art. My experience has been that people who label something as “pretentious” usually do so, because they simply don’t understand the point of it.