Broadway's Most Wanted by Tom Shea

Author:Tom Shea [Shea, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Reference, Trivia
ISBN: 9781612340333
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Amazon: 1574885960
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Published: 2004-09-29T07:00:00+00:00

8. “SEND IN THE CLOWNS” (FROM A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC)

Stephen Sondheim’s one and only hit song (by himself, that is— West Side Story and Gypsy have done him just fine, thank you) wasn’t yet a smash when A Little Night Music won six Tony Awards in 1973. It took pop singer Judy Collins (and her musical director, Jonathan Tunick, also Sondheim’s orchestrator) to make it truly famous.

On her 1975 hit album, Judith, Collins delivered a simple, piano-accompanied version of “Send in the Clowns,” preserving the undercurrent of regret and sadness inherent in the song (while somewhat obscuring the nocturne setting of the piece). Collins’s version won Sondheim the Grammy Award for “Song of the Year” for 1975, and gave the song an entry into the popular consciousness it never would have received through the superb but somewhat rarified Night Music.

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