The Sondheim Lyrics Chain

[Leighton]

Judge Turpin has an "excellent" late on in Sweeney - during the final sequence ("Excellent, my friend!") - but no idea if it's notated

[Chris L]

Judge Turpin has an "excellent" late on in Sweeney - during the final sequence ("Excellent, my friend!") - but no idea if it's notated

Anybody have the sheet music? @Bobster, maybe? I'm awfully tempted to declare this a bunny and go back to guy.

[Bookman George]

Thanks, Chris. I will wait for the next installment of the saga, and play accordingly.

[valmont]

Judge Turpin has an "excellent" late on in Sweeney - during the final sequence ("Excellent, my friend!") - but no idea if it's notated

Anybody have the sheet music? @Bobster, maybe? I'm awfully tempted to declare this a bunny and go back to guy.

I have the vocal score, and unfortunately "Excellent, my friend" is not notated.

[Chris L]

We have a bunny!

guy

[AmyG]

Don't be shy
Meet a guy
Pull up a chair
The air is humming
And something great is coming

[Chris L]

And soon we're humming along —
Hmmm-Hmmm-Hmmm —
And that's called writing a song

[AmyG]

I've added a bunny emoticon. Seems like it might come in handy.

writing

[Bobster]

Giorgio...
Giorgio...

I am writing to you, my angel,
Though not long since you've been gone
With a most unhappy heart.

Because, in truth, as time goes on,
I think of nothing else but you
And us.

Oh, my love, my sweet,
You've changed,
I've watched you change,
You're not the man I thought I knew.

[Leighton]

You're not the man who started
And much more open-hearted
Than I knew you to be.

It takes two
I thought one was enough

[wittyandbright]

I just joined last week and found the words people picked to be pretty obvious with several matches jumping to mind quickly. I was trying to throw a challenge out there. I was surprised to see a picture of the score to Pacific Overtures as evidence that "Excellent" wasn't in the score to that show. I was happy to see that overruled, but then I was called a "bunny." I assure you "Excellent" is in a Sondheim score. I checked several sources - copies of music and recordings. In fact, it is in the same song twice.

I assumed this was a forum of devoted Sondheim fans with extensive knowledge of his lyrics.

Good luck. I'm looking for higher ground

Not a bunny

[KathyB]

I just joined last week and found the words people picked to be pretty obvious with several matches jumping to mind quickly. I was trying to throw a challenge out there. I was surprised to see a picture of the score to Pacific Overtures as evidence that "Excellent" wasn't in the score to that show. I was happy to see that overruled, but then I was called a "bunny." I assure you "Excellent" is in a Sondheim score. I checked several sources - copies of music and recordings. In fact, it is in the same song twice.

If the only other place a word can be found is in the same song, then that, unfortunately, doesn't count. In the rules of this game, you can't answer a song with the same song.

We are Sondheim fans with extensive knowledge of his lyrics; however, many of us (at least me) don't have our razor-sharp brains working quickly at hand at all times, so are likely to play more common words that we know are out there somewhere because we're at work and don't have the chance to look it up (or some other comparable excuse).

We may also pick words with several obvious matches because we like the surprise of not knowing where the next lyric is going to be from.

Welcome to the Cookie Jar, wittyandbright. Don't let us scare you off.

[wittyandbright]

I read the rules. I'm not referencing twice Pacific Overtures, but it is in a song from another musical and in THAT song "Excellent" is mentioned twice.

You had a good thing going....going... gone

[KathyB]

I read the rules. I'm not referencing twice Pacific Overtures, but it is in a song from another musical and in THAT song "Excellent" is mentioned twice.

You had a good thing going....going... gone

Well, then I am an idiot for not finding it. My brain is not working well these days.  had the resources, but unfortunately not the desire to go through the lyrics books, and that is due entirely to my current frame of mind.  I'm sorry for not being the type of player you want. I just know I have a bad habit of playing words that I think are out there somewhere, but turn out not to be, so I tend to "play it safe" instead. I still wish you'd stick around.

[AmyG]

Edit: I just posted to say excellent was not a bunny but the song I thought it was in, "Two Fairytales" has "excellence" which doesn't work. It still might exist somewhere but I have not found it yet.