Musicals-101
  • SIX SINGULAR SENSATIONS
    • 1. DAMN YANKEES
    • 2. THE MUSIC MAN
  • BRITISH MUSICALS ON BWAY
    • BRITISH MUSICALS: COURSE INFO
    • 1 .Early Musical Theatre; Gilbert & Sullivan
    • 2. Noël Coward
    • 3. Sandy Wilson & David Heneker
    • 4. Bart; Newley & Bricusse
    • 5. Lloyd Webber I: Joseph & Jesus
    • 6. Lloyd Webber II: Evita
    • 7. Lloyd Webber III: Cats + Song & Dance
    • 8. Lloyd Webber IV: Phantom of the Opera
    • 9. Lloyd Webber V: Sunset Blvd & School of Rock
    • 10. European Pop Operas 1985-99
  • MUSICALS OF STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
    • SCHWARTZ: COURSE INFO
    • 1. Godspell
    • 2. Pippin
    • 3. Magic Show, Baker's Wife, Working
    • 4. Children of Eden; Movie Songs
    • 5. Wicked
  • OFF-BROADWAY CLASSICS
    • COURSE INFORMATION
    • 1. Threepenny Opera
    • 2. The Fantasticks
    • 3. Jacques Brel Is Alive . . .
    • 4. Godspell
    • 5. Little Shop of Horrors
    • 6. Forbidden Broadway
  • BROADWAY'S SILVER AGE, PART 2
    • COURSE INFO
    • 1. Intro; Berlin 1907-27
    • 2. Berlin: Broadway & Hollywood in the 1930s
    • 3. Berlin: Broadway & Hollywood in the 1940s
    • 4. Annie Get Your Gun
    • 5. Berlin on Broadway, 1948-62
    • 6. Porter's Early Life & Shows of 1920s
    • 7. Anything Goes
    • 8. Porter: Broadway & Hollywood, 1930s
    • 9. Porter: Broadway in 1940s; Kiss Me, Kate
    • 10. Porter: Broadway & Hollywood 1950s
    • Berlin & Porter Compilations
  • BROADWAY'S SILVER AGE, PART 1
    • 1. Intro; R&H 1919-27
    • 2. R&H 1928-34
    • 3. R&H Back on Broadway, 1935-37
    • 4. R&H Final works, 1938-43
    • 5. Gershwins: Intro & 1924-27
    • 6. Gershwins: 1928-32
    • 7. Gershwins: 1933-38
    • 8. Gershwins: Porgy & Bess; Ira after George
  • BERNSTEIN ON BROADWAY
    • 1. Fancy Free & On the Town
    • 2. Wonderful Town
    • 3. Candide
    • 4. West Side Story
    • 5. Mass & Other Works
  • HERMAN, BOCK & HARNICK 101
    • 1. Early Herman + Milk and Honey
    • 2. Hello, Dolly + Mame
    • 3. Dear World, Mack & Mabel, The Grand Tour
    • 4. La Cage aux Folles +
    • 5. Fiorello! + Tenderloin
    • 6. She Loves Me
    • 7. Fiddler on the Roof
    • 8. The Apple Tree
    • 9. The Rothschilds
  • PULITZER MUSICALS
    • 1. Of Thee I Sing (1932)
    • 1. Fiorello! (1960)
    • 2. South Pacific (1950)
    • 2. How to Succeed (1962)
    • 3. A Chorus Line (1976)
    • 4. Sunday in the Park with George (1985)
    • 5. Rent (1996)
    • 5. Next to Normal (2010)
    • 6. Hamilton (2016)
    • 6. A Strange Loop (2020)
  • THE WOMEN OF BROADWAY
    • 1. Rida Johnson Young; Dorothy Fields, Part I
    • 2. Dorothy Fields Part II
    • 3. Dorothy Fields Part III
    • 4. Comden & Green Part I
    • 5. Comden & Green Part II
    • 6. Carolyn Leigh
    • 7. Lynn Ahrens
    • 8. Ford & Cryer, Tesori (1)
    • 9. Tesori (2), others
    • 10 Anáis Mitchell
  • LOESSER, LERNER & LOEWE
    • 1. Early Loesser
    • 2. Where's Charley? & Guys and Dolls
    • 3. Guys and Dolls & HCA
    • 4. Most Happy Fella & Greenwillow
    • 5. How to Succeed
    • 6. Loesser Legacy; Brigadoon
    • 7. Paint Your Wagon; My Fair Lady
    • 8. My Fair Lady; Gigi
    • 9. Camelot
    • 10. The Little Prince; Lerner & Lowe Legacy
  • RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN
    • ENCORE! CLASSES >
      • 1. R&H Before 1943
      • 2. Oklahoma!
      • 3. Carousel
      • 4. South Pacific
      • 5. The King and I
      • 6. The Sound of Music
    • FALL 2019 CLASSES >
      • 1. Hammerstein
      • 2. Rodgers (& Hart)
      • 6. Allegro, Me & Juliet, Pipe Dream
      • 8. State Fair, Cinderella, & Flower Drum Song
      • 10. Rodgers Alone & Legacy
  • KANDER & EBB
    • 1. Early Careers & Flora
    • 2. Cabaret
    • 3. Cabaret 2
    • 4. Happy Time, Zorba, 70G70
    • 5. Chicago
    • 6. Chicago 2
    • 7. NYNY, Act, Rink
    • 8. Woman, World, Steel Pier
    • 9. Kiss of Spider Woman & Visit
    • 10. Curtains & The Scottsboro Boys
  • RESOURCES

Submitting Your Top 25 List

Instructions

  • Your course-long assignment, as stated in the syllabus, has been: “By the final class, compile a list of [no more than] 25 Sondheim songs you would include on your own ‘Essential Sondheim’ playlist, album, or revue.” In order for us to easily share our collective appreciation of Sondheim, class member Sue Dennison has designed an online survey where we can easily submit our lists.
  • First, it will help if you write up your list before going online. If you need a refresher, this website has a whole page of lists. 
  • When you’re ready to submit your list, go to this link: https://goo.gl/forms/B5zMKyhWDQlb2v0t1
  • Once there, you will see all of the songs listed, by show, in chronological order, from West Side Story to Road Show.Simply check the box by each song you have chosen. There is space at the end of the survey to write in any songs you may have encountered that are not in the lists. (For example, they may have appeared in a film or have been cut from a show and therefore appear only in CDs of “Unsung Sondheim.”)
  • VERY IMPORTANT: After you have checked all of your boxes, scroll to the very end of the survey and hit the SUBMIT button. You will see a message to the effect that your survey has been received.
  • That link again:  https://goo.gl/forms/B5zMKyhWDQlb2v0t1​
  • So that Sue will have time to tally your results, we’re asking that you submit your survey no later than next Monday, November 19. Since we have no class that day (OLLI Thanksgiving Break), when you wake up on Monday morning, just think “Sondheim Day again!” and submit your list if you haven’t already.
  • I’ll see you again for Class 10 on Monday, November 26, 9:00, JRC. The Class 10 preview page will be up by Friday, November 23, with slide to follow on Sunday afternoon. 
  • I’ve really enjoyed teaching this class. Thank you for your enthusiastic participation! Alan ​
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  • SIX SINGULAR SENSATIONS
    • 1. DAMN YANKEES
    • 2. THE MUSIC MAN
  • BRITISH MUSICALS ON BWAY
    • BRITISH MUSICALS: COURSE INFO
    • 1 .Early Musical Theatre; Gilbert & Sullivan
    • 2. Noël Coward
    • 3. Sandy Wilson & David Heneker
    • 4. Bart; Newley & Bricusse
    • 5. Lloyd Webber I: Joseph & Jesus
    • 6. Lloyd Webber II: Evita
    • 7. Lloyd Webber III: Cats + Song & Dance
    • 8. Lloyd Webber IV: Phantom of the Opera
    • 9. Lloyd Webber V: Sunset Blvd & School of Rock
    • 10. European Pop Operas 1985-99
  • MUSICALS OF STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
    • SCHWARTZ: COURSE INFO
    • 1. Godspell
    • 2. Pippin
    • 3. Magic Show, Baker's Wife, Working
    • 4. Children of Eden; Movie Songs
    • 5. Wicked
  • OFF-BROADWAY CLASSICS
    • COURSE INFORMATION
    • 1. Threepenny Opera
    • 2. The Fantasticks
    • 3. Jacques Brel Is Alive . . .
    • 4. Godspell
    • 5. Little Shop of Horrors
    • 6. Forbidden Broadway
  • BROADWAY'S SILVER AGE, PART 2
    • COURSE INFO
    • 1. Intro; Berlin 1907-27
    • 2. Berlin: Broadway & Hollywood in the 1930s
    • 3. Berlin: Broadway & Hollywood in the 1940s
    • 4. Annie Get Your Gun
    • 5. Berlin on Broadway, 1948-62
    • 6. Porter's Early Life & Shows of 1920s
    • 7. Anything Goes
    • 8. Porter: Broadway & Hollywood, 1930s
    • 9. Porter: Broadway in 1940s; Kiss Me, Kate
    • 10. Porter: Broadway & Hollywood 1950s
    • Berlin & Porter Compilations
  • BROADWAY'S SILVER AGE, PART 1
    • 1. Intro; R&H 1919-27
    • 2. R&H 1928-34
    • 3. R&H Back on Broadway, 1935-37
    • 4. R&H Final works, 1938-43
    • 5. Gershwins: Intro & 1924-27
    • 6. Gershwins: 1928-32
    • 7. Gershwins: 1933-38
    • 8. Gershwins: Porgy & Bess; Ira after George
  • BERNSTEIN ON BROADWAY
    • 1. Fancy Free & On the Town
    • 2. Wonderful Town
    • 3. Candide
    • 4. West Side Story
    • 5. Mass & Other Works
  • HERMAN, BOCK & HARNICK 101
    • 1. Early Herman + Milk and Honey
    • 2. Hello, Dolly + Mame
    • 3. Dear World, Mack & Mabel, The Grand Tour
    • 4. La Cage aux Folles +
    • 5. Fiorello! + Tenderloin
    • 6. She Loves Me
    • 7. Fiddler on the Roof
    • 8. The Apple Tree
    • 9. The Rothschilds
  • PULITZER MUSICALS
    • 1. Of Thee I Sing (1932)
    • 1. Fiorello! (1960)
    • 2. South Pacific (1950)
    • 2. How to Succeed (1962)
    • 3. A Chorus Line (1976)
    • 4. Sunday in the Park with George (1985)
    • 5. Rent (1996)
    • 5. Next to Normal (2010)
    • 6. Hamilton (2016)
    • 6. A Strange Loop (2020)
  • THE WOMEN OF BROADWAY
    • 1. Rida Johnson Young; Dorothy Fields, Part I
    • 2. Dorothy Fields Part II
    • 3. Dorothy Fields Part III
    • 4. Comden & Green Part I
    • 5. Comden & Green Part II
    • 6. Carolyn Leigh
    • 7. Lynn Ahrens
    • 8. Ford & Cryer, Tesori (1)
    • 9. Tesori (2), others
    • 10 Anáis Mitchell
  • LOESSER, LERNER & LOEWE
    • 1. Early Loesser
    • 2. Where's Charley? & Guys and Dolls
    • 3. Guys and Dolls & HCA
    • 4. Most Happy Fella & Greenwillow
    • 5. How to Succeed
    • 6. Loesser Legacy; Brigadoon
    • 7. Paint Your Wagon; My Fair Lady
    • 8. My Fair Lady; Gigi
    • 9. Camelot
    • 10. The Little Prince; Lerner & Lowe Legacy
  • RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN
    • ENCORE! CLASSES >
      • 1. R&H Before 1943
      • 2. Oklahoma!
      • 3. Carousel
      • 4. South Pacific
      • 5. The King and I
      • 6. The Sound of Music
    • FALL 2019 CLASSES >
      • 1. Hammerstein
      • 2. Rodgers (& Hart)
      • 6. Allegro, Me & Juliet, Pipe Dream
      • 8. State Fair, Cinderella, & Flower Drum Song
      • 10. Rodgers Alone & Legacy
  • KANDER & EBB
    • 1. Early Careers & Flora
    • 2. Cabaret
    • 3. Cabaret 2
    • 4. Happy Time, Zorba, 70G70
    • 5. Chicago
    • 6. Chicago 2
    • 7. NYNY, Act, Rink
    • 8. Woman, World, Steel Pier
    • 9. Kiss of Spider Woman & Visit
    • 10. Curtains & The Scottsboro Boys
  • RESOURCES