Continuing my travels backwards though time I cannot have a Broadway week without highlighting Stephen Sondheim. Sondheim might well be the greatest American composer/lyricist of musicals. He started his career learning from Oscar Hammerstein and went on two write some of the best known songs of music theater.
Rather than say much, I am embedding 6 youtubes some from the original casts.
Enjoy!
Getting Married Today from Company
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bujg9erFH48]
Being Alive from Company
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8kYfPoHyos]
Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f5lJee0A8g]
Putting it Together from Sunday in the Park with George
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozm7Zqeg4Ko]
Agony from Into the Woods
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc_GEhu6oCY]
Children will Listen from Into the Woods
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hh3l39Ifwg]