10. Later Revues & Here We Are

April 4: The Later Revues (1993-2023) & Here We Are (2023)

The Final Revues:

Related readings in the texts:
- Broadway: The American Musical: none
- Look, I Made a Hat: "Sondheim on Sondheim" (small part of Chapter 6, pp. 332-335)
Class 10 Lyrics This handout includes information about shows and songs to be referenced in class. ALL of the lyrics for the two revues prior to 2011--including cut songs and alternate versions--are in either Finishing the Hat or Look, I Made a Hat. At this point, the handout does not include any lyrics for Here We Are.

Here We Are:

Read "The Final Sondheim" on Vulture (August 28, 2023). Frank Rich interviews David Ives (book writer) and Joe Mantello (director) of Here We Are.
Listen/read to an NPR interview with Ives and Mantello from October 2023. Listening to it ("a 5 min. listen") will provide you with a couple of brief excerpts from the score.
Read Observer article "David Ives On Collaborating With Sondheim On His Final Work, ‘Here We Are’" (12/26/23)

General Preview of the Class:

Playlists:

Putting It Together (1993 Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording--audio only) Cast includes Julie Andrews, Stephen Collins, Christopher Durang, Michael Rupert, & Rachel York.
Putting It Together (videos that comprise a complete performance of the 1999 Broadway production) Cast includes Carol Burnett, George Hearn, John Barrowman, Ruthie Henshall, and Bronson Pinchot.
Sondheim on Sondheim (2010 Original Broadway Cast Recording--audio only) Performances of songs alternate with short narrated sections by Sondheim; in the production, these narrated sections were on film. Cast includes Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams, Tom Wopat, Leslie Kritzer, Norm Lewis, Euan Morton, Erin Mackey, and Matthew Scott.
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends (A few videos about the 2023 London Revue)
Here We Are (A few excerpts from the score of the 2023 musical
Class 10 Videos (not including those in the Here We Are or Old Friends playlists)
Our Top 25 Favorite Sondheim Songs (Results of the class survey of Sondheim's songs after 1981)