Stephen Sondheim slams Lady Gaga's 'Sound of Music' performance, Oscars producer slams back

[Mast 980]

too bad the world and julia herself (the one who matters)disagrees 

and no i didnt know who he was untill today so get that promo from gaga steve 

 

P.S into the woods is tragic 

​Let me guess, you only watched the movie.

[Der Meister 3,000]

Triple post? Thirsty much?

[Dorothy Gale 7,575]

Not people defending his opinion just because he wrote musicals they liked. 

[Whispering 18,865]

​He was present during the writing and production of the musical.

Link that says he was there the entire time, please. 

Even so, he wasn't there for the production behind the performance at The Oscars. Like the OP stated, he has no idea what the producers of that show and of that tribute were wanting. He wasn't part or the vision and planning for the tribute.

[Spock 20,290]

Link that says he was there the entire time, please. 

Even so, he wasn't there for the production behind the performance at The Oscars. Like the OP stated, he has no idea what the producers of that show and of that tribute were wanting. He wasn't part or the vision and planning for the tribute.

He was being mentored by Oscar Hammerstein at the time the show went into production (he was also his surrogate father) which is wildely known. Also, while he didn't co-write, he had input in some of the lyrics and it is said so in a Sound of Music commentary and in a PBS Broadway documentary hosted by Julie herself

[Yanko 9,860]

​stan 

[Whispering 18,865]

He was being mentored by Oscar Hammerstein at the time the show went into production (he was also his surrogate father) which is wildely known. Also, while he didn't co-write, he had input in some of the lyrics and it is said so in a Sound of Music commentary and in a PBS Broadway documentary hosted by Julie herself

Yes, I know that he was mentored by OH and considered him to be a father figure. 

I've never heard that he had tremendous input into TSOM. That's why I was asking for a link. I would like to see where it said this and if this bit of information is actually true or not. Irregardless of his comments about the tribute performance, (which I'm still going to find as missing the mark and disagree with), I would like to see the information about one of my all-time favorite movies and the music from that movie. 

[Nicole 1,809]

​He was present during the writing and production of the musical.

​I wasn't aware of that, but I still stand by my statement that his opinion means no more than those who weren't involved in the movie. There are countless people who disregard the opinions of notable pop stars (i.e. Madonna), she's just another person after all with her own opinions but we aren't expected to agree or say that her opinion matters because "she's legendary and is an icon in the music industry" are we?

[kevinthesheep 2,947]

​stan 

​nick 

[Cody Draco 2,531]

My theatre teacher used to talk about Sondheim all the time but seriously... someone needs to go to a nursing home.

[Cody Draco 2,531]

Did any of you notice that Nick Jonas said "preach" which is a sassy black woman/lgbt term when used in that way? Nick Jonas is closeted.

[Cody Draco 2,531]

​stan 

​Nick is closeted I think.

[Fiona Apple 13,006]

​Um, no, it's not a technique. Being flat is never a technique. It's called being of-key. It's not rare for Gaga to be off-key, she's always had a problem with starting songs out a little flat. This is not a bad thing, since she knows how to recover from it, it's just a nitpick thing. During the performance, she tended to get pitchy and shouty while belting, and that's pretty much the only thing that took away from the performance. That, and the fact that she constantly changed her tone in order to hit the notes in the upper register (a la Nature Boy). Gaga is not perfect.

​What the fuk lol? You don't even know what off-key means I see. Because Gaga didn't sing even 1 note off key in her oscars performance.. And seriously she wasn't pitchy at all lol... You can say whatever you want tho. 

[Willy Wonka 4]

​What the fuk lol? You don't even know what off-key means I see. Because Gaga didn't sing even 1 note off key in her oscars performance.. And seriously she wasn't pitchy at all lol... You can say whatever you want tho. 

​Mast is probably one of the most musically knowledgable people on this forum.

[Yanko 9,860]

the fact that u guys have to nitpick abflaw in her vocals sais a lot lol