Photo Coverage: Jeremy Jordan, Kate Baldwin & More Sing Sondheim at LYRICS & LYRICISTS
By: Stephen Sorokoff Jan. 12, 2015
Lyrics & Lyricists gets going on the opening show of its 45th season with "A Good Thing Going: The Stephen Sondheimand Harold Prince Collaboration" continuing tonight, January 12. Artistic director David Loud, himself a frequent Sondheim collaborator, explores the 1970-1981 partnership behind the groundbreaking musicals Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along - with cast members Kate Baldwin, Heidi Blickenstaff, Liz Callaway, James Clow, Jason Danieley, and Jeremy Jordan. Check out photos from the special concert event below!
David Loud notes that when creating an evening of Sondheim material, "the list of extraordinary songs that one wants to include is so long that no matter what, you're going to leave out something great. When Side by Side by Sondheim - the first full-length Sondheim revue - played on Broadway in 1977, he hadn't yet written Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park With George, Into the Woods or Passion." So Loud decided to focus on the shows that Sondheim wrote in collaboration with director and producer Harold Prince. "It was a remarkable partnership. I can't think of another one like it. And the six shows they created together don't live comfortably in existing styles; they create new styles, new forms, new genres, even. Sondheim was somehow able to continually reinvent himself as a composer, depending on what was required for each particular project, and Prince was interested in doing things that had never been done before in musical theatre. Together, these artists redefined what a musical can be."
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Photo Credit: Stephen Sorokoff
Kate Baldwin, Jason Danieley, Liz Callaway, Jeremy Jordan, James Clow, Heidi Blickenstaff
Kate Baldwin, Jason Danieley, Liz Callaway, Jeremy Jordan, James Clow, Heidi Blickenstaff
David Loud, artistic director, Music Director, writer & host
Kate Baldwin, Jason Danieley, Liz Callaway
Kate Baldwin, Jason Danieley, Heidi Blickenstaff, Jeremy Jordan, Liz Callaway
Kate Baldwin, Jason Danieley, Liz Callaway, Jeremy Jordan, James Clow, Heidi Blickenstaff
A Good Thing Going
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