When singing Sondheim, “a performer need not choose between a vocalist’s technical concerns and an actor’s psychological ones, because he entwined the two so closely,” Tavi Gevinson writes.
scared. He knew that those who have something to defend are typically the most verbose, and he mapped their delusions with unprecedented precision. In his book “Finishing the Hat,” Sondheim wrote critically of the “I want” song—a musical-theatre staple that “expresses the defining desire of the protagonist.” But he didn’t reject the “I want” song so much as transform it, allowing characters’ desires to come with caveats and second-guessing.
“Unworthy of Your Love” is inspired by soft-rock ballads of the nineteen-seventies—almost every assassin gets a pastiche song in the style of music from her era. As such, the number is often deceptively described as a pop song, and therefore simple, and therefore not Sondheimesque.
In “On the Steps of the Palace,” from “Into the Woods,” an unsettled key lets Cinderella flounder over what to do about the prince who loves her without really knowing her. The repetitive yet ever-changing “Someone in a Tree,” from “Pacific Overtures,” features two witnesses reconstructing a historic event through partial memories.
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