Sound of Musicals: 2. Something’s Coming  19656

Contents

One
from A Chorus Line
• music by Marvin Hamlisch
• words by Edward Kleban
Consider Yourself
from Oliver!
• music by Lionel Bart
• words by Lionel Bart
Something’s Coming
from West Side Story
• music by Leonard Bernstein
• words by Stephen Sondheim
Reviewing the Situation
from Oliver!
• music by Lionel Bart
• words by Lionel Bart
Send In The Clowns
from A Little Night Music
• music by Stephen Sondheim
• words by Stephen Sondheim
Tradition
from Fiddler on the Roof
• music by Jerry Bock
• words by Sheldon Harnick
Being Alive
from Company
• music by Stephen Sondheim
• words by Stephen Sondheim
If I Were A Rich Man
from Fiddler on the Roof
• music by Jerry Bock
• words by Sheldon Harnick
Total items: 8

Topics covered by this tv

1. Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love (music) • 00:52:00 • Baayork Lee: "he composed my personality" => "Four foot ten" motif.
2. Food, Glorious Food (music) • 00:17:40 • original title of this song in early drafts: "Gruel"
3. Consider Yourself (music) • 00:15:00 • Neil Brand: "It's music hall, but it's also pop". On development of Bart's ideas as shown in records at Bart Foundation archives, through three versions, including dialogue transitions into songs: "we're off to seek our fortune" -> "we're going where the going is good" -> final version.
4. Hair (drama) • 00:39:00 • brief mention; broadening of acceptable subject matters
5. A Chorus Line (drama) • 00:50:00 • Following Sondheim/Prince's lead on concept musical. Taped interviews with "gypsies". Baayork Lee interview. Hamlisch and workshops: Lee "he composed my personality".
6. Cool (music) • 00:11:00 • Grover Dale (Snowball) on having to switch between four versions of the choreography for this number. Plus Hal Prince interview.
7. Company (drama) • 00:39:45 • Preamble: Gypsy, Funny Thing - Sondheim (and Prince) sharing an enthusiasm for new challenges. Archive Sondheim interview (from the BBC Levin Interviews). Brand on Company as concept musical.
8. Cabaret (drama) • 00:38:00 • brief mention
9. Fiddler on the Roof (drama) • 00:26:00 • Preamble: "The pressure on immigrants to be American meant that the one story that Broadway's Jews hadn't told was their own". Holocaust. Sheldon Harnick on Jerome Robbins' visit to Poland as a child, and having the opportunity to revive those villages on the stage.
10. West Side Story (drama) • 00:03:00 • Genesis from racial tensions in NYC. Includes interview with Jerome Robbins from BBC Monitor. Interview with Hal Prince about initial playthrough of Bernstein's ideas.
11. West Side Story (drama) • 00:10:30 • interview with Grover Dale, Snowball from the original production. On subject matter/gangs, and Robbins as a terrifying choreographer.
12. West Side Story (drama) • 00:12:50 • Leslie Bricusse on the show's impact on him

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