Collaborators and Original Production
The composer and writer duo worked on shows together such as West Side Story, Gypsy, and Anyone Can Whistle.
Who is Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents?
Open resistance to an established government or ruler.
What is rebellion?
In Sondheim’s songwriting, he is well known for his complex musical song structures and his complicated, catchy, perfectly rhymed _____
What are lyrics?
A musical that includes characters licking a large rock and having water spew out of it as a major plot device.
What is Anyone Can Whistle?
The year Anyone Can Whistle, Hello Dolly!, and Funny Girl opened on Broadway.
What is 1964?
The characteristic attitude of mind or way of thinking of a person or group.
What is mentality?
Anyone Can Whistle and Into the Woods share this storytelling device, an in-script storyteller explaining the plot as it goes along.
What is a Narrator?
This show had only 12 previews and nine performances before it closed— what would we call this?
What is a flop?
The classic Broadway theatre in which Anyone Can Whistle opened.
What is the Majestic Theatre?
Changes something from its original use or meaning to one that is immoral, and/or dishonest.
What is corruption?
Anyone Can Whistle, like most Sondheim musicals, sneaks in this classic trope of two people having strong feelings for each other that “shouldn’t” be together due to their current romantic commitments.
What is love affairs?
Both Anyone Can Whistle and the Scottish play could be considered this.
What is a cursed show?
Anyone Can Whistle provided the stage debut of this famous theater performer.
Who is Angela Lansbury?
A certain species and their intrinsic ability to relate, empathize, and establish trust with one another.
What is human connection?
Most male musical writers have a terrible time writing for this gender but Sondheim, characteristically, doesn’t.
What is women?
"It has a smug and flippant tone." "It overtly mocks the audience." “Anyone can whistle, but sadly no one can sing." These are ___.
What are bad reviews?
Anyone Can Whistle was nominated for this Tony Award category.
What is Best Choreography?
The belief that we should always strive for our highest ideals.
What is idealism?
Sondheim has written musicals about frogs, cannibalistic pies, a miracle cure water spout, and many more... characteristically, his musicals have an ______ nature.
What is absurdist?
These well-known songs have become cabaret favorites despite the unknown plot and script of Anyone Can Whistle.
What are "There Won't Be Trumpets" and "Everybody Says Don't"?