Six By Sondheim
October 23, 2021 5:49 AM   Subscribe

Stephen Sondheim's seven decade career has long invited examination. One of the best I've seen is the documentary Six By Sondheim [1h26m] which examines his work through six songs: Something's Coming, Opening Doors, Send In The Clowns, I'm Still Here, Being Alive, and Sunday. Worth a watch for the new or the experienced.
posted by hippybear (4 comments total) 16 users marked this as a favorite
 
On writing (about 23:10) "its fun, of course I mean it's agonizing fun".

And he had to look up "perspicacious" ... when he was 13.
posted by sammyo at 7:53 AM on October 23, 2021


Delightful. What a kind man.
posted by dbmcd at 10:22 AM on October 23, 2021


It is not the most awesome Sondheim post this weekend. I'm on my first trip in about two years and didn't get a big write up done. This is a pretty great film, however.
posted by hippybear at 11:40 AM on October 23, 2021 [5 favorites]


One of the most remarkable things about the documentary (and about its subject) are several sequences that piece together what amount to lengthy and fully coherent Sondheim monologues from a variety of different recorded interviews that are separated by decades. He has been thinking so deeply, and speaking so eloquently, about certain things for most of his long life that it feels like one long conversation. A great documentary. (And his appearance during "Opening Doors" is one of best cameos ever.)
posted by How the runs scored at 1:59 PM on October 23, 2021 [3 favorites]


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