Sondheim (1 Viewer)

[superchuck500]

 

[Madmarsha]

Oh, okay, I just got it. I would say, Hey, I didn't know Stephen Sondheim was still alive, but then I guess that's not true.

 

[Saintman2884]

Isn’t it rich, isn’t it queer
Losing my timing this late in my career
And where are the clowns
Quick send in the clowns
Don’t bother, they’re here

I swear to God, One of These Days I am going to Tear, no..no.. Break You into Little Pieces....sit down, construct myself a tasty, wonderful pair of Swiss Gingerbread men..travel to Switzerland, get myself thrown into same insane asylum or private asylum near Lake Leman in Lausanne like Elliot did, sneak out one night, drop my pants and bark at the cold, Alpine moonlight.


(T.S. Elliot spent some time convalascensing, with the aide of a private Swiss psychiatrist, during a time when he suffered from serious WWI-influenced PTSD, or "battle fatigue" in 1922 in Lake Leman, near Lausanne in modern-day western Switzerland. Lausanne has long gained a reputation for being a bit of an artist's colony of a refuge for centuries of European historians (Edward Gibbon), Romantic-era poets(Shelley and Lord Byron), and European revolutionaries, even 16th century Protestant reformists like Calvin. Italian leftist(and the 19th century's version of Che Guevera, Giuseppe Garibaldi and later Italian Fascist leader(than radical socialist, Benito Mussolini) used Lausanne as a hideout, base of operations, rallying point for new followers for their independence/nationalist movements from the early 19th---mid 20th century.

 

[tenordas]

They disappoint,
They disappear,
They die but they don't...

No more feelings.
Time to shut the door.
Just- no more.

RIP to a great artist.

 

[zeetes]

Oh, okay, I just got it. I would say, Hey, I didn't know Stephen Sondheim was still alive, but then I guess that's not true.

i'm not even sure who it is. i am wayyyy too lazy to google it.

 

[Eeyore]

i'm not even sure who it is. i am wayyyy too lazy to google it.

Dude wrote songs for musicals. Good, depressing stuff like Everything's coming up Rose's, and Send in the Clowns. Sweeney Todd, west Side Story, etc.

 

[Dan in Lafayette]

Fairly certain I watched a football game yesterday that was scripted to this...

It's funny you should mention this. Back in the late 70's, the Saints were really bad. It was after either the '75 (2-12) or '80 season (1-15) that Bob Krieger (WWL, weekend sports) created a masterpiece. It was on Sunday night after the last game of the season. He spliced together all of the Saints' "lowlights" with no wording just Send in the Clowns being sung in the background. I'm pretty sure it was the Judy Collins rendition and not Frank Sinatra version. It was hilarious and extremely well done. The video took up most of the sports segment of the show as the whole song played.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

i'm not even sure who it is. i am wayyyy too lazy to google it.

The Shakespeare of American musicals- and that’s really not too hyperbolic

 

[zeetes]

The Shakespeare of American musicals- and that’s really not too hyperbolic

you lost me at musicals. not too shabby though, since that was kinda far into the description.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

It's funny you should mention this. Back in the late 70's, the Saints were really bad. It was after either the '75 (2-12) or '80 season (1-15) that Bob Krieger (WWL, weekend sports) created a masterpiece. It was on Sunday night after the last game of the season. He spliced together all of the Saints' "lowlights" with no wording just Send in the Clowns being sung in the background. I'm pretty sure it was the Judy Collins rendition and not Frank Sinatra version. It was hilarious and extremely well done. The video took up most of the sports segment of the show as the whole song played.

I dont remember that.. but i do remember, and I’ll never forget- after the last game of the 1983 season where the Rams’ Mike Lansford kicked the field goal to keep the Saints out of what would have been their first ever winning season, and their first ever playoff berth.. i was sitting in the Loge section behind the end zone where the kick was made.. and later that night i was watching the WWL Ch 4 sports (i dont think ’4th Down on Four’ had come into existence yet) and Chris Myers was the sports anchor.. he put together this package of all the Saints highlights and lowlights from that season, set to ‘Just Once’ by James Ingram, which was a hit song around that time.. it was the height of heartbreak for 9 yr old me, and that sequence, with that song, summed it up perfectly.. ive searched U tube periodically over the years but haven’t been able to find it.

 

[LonghornSaint]

It's funny you should mention this. Back in the late 70's, the Saints were really bad. It was after either the '75 (2-12) or '80 season (1-15) that Bob Krieger (WWL, weekend sports) created a masterpiece. It was on Sunday night after the last game of the season. He spliced together all of the Saints' "lowlights" with no wording just Send in the Clowns being sung in the background. I'm pretty sure it was the Judy Collins rendition and not Frank Sinatra version. It was hilarious and extremely well done. The video took up most of the sports segment of the show as the whole song played.

Yep, I remember this, and immediately thought of it after reading the OP.

 

[Bleu Raeder]

I always think Anthony Newley wrote that.

Send In the Clowns - Wikipedia

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