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Putting It Together

This is a podcast about Stephen Sondheim's entire body of work show by show and song by song. Each week Kyle Marshall invites an expert to discuss a Sondheim song in-depth. Together they discover the humour, how the songs inform character, and any hidden meanings. Most importantly they try to understand the man behind the music, the Shakespeare of our time, as best they can.

Anyone Can Whistle: A Sondheim Journey with Laurent Ziliani

31 mins; March 22, 2026

Saturday Night with Christine Chen

31 mins; February 01, 2026

Saturday Night with Eric Henwood-Greer

33 mins; January 31, 2026

Wicked: For Good and Blue Moon – Sondheim Adjacent

23 mins; November 30, 2025

An update about the podcast and me

24 mins; November 02, 2025

Sweeney Todd: Behind the Bloody Musical Masterpiece with Rick Pender

37 mins; October 02, 2025

Dainty June and Her Farmboys with Christine Chen

43 mins; September 19, 2025

Gypsy: 2024 Broadway Cast Recording with Music Director Andy Einhorn

45 mins; August 28, 2025

Out of Myself – Songs of Peter Foley (with Kate Chisholm)

46 mins; August 13, 2025

Finale – Passion (with Matt Koplik)

89 hours 32 mins; July 07, 2025

Loving You – Passion (with Dimitris Dimopoulos)

59 mins; June 25, 2025

No One Has Ever Loved Me – Passion (with Mike Meaney)

52 mins; June 19, 2025

Farewell Letter – Passion (with Charlotte LeMay)

56 mins; June 04, 2025

Soldier's Gossip 2 / Transition 4 / Forty Days – Passion (with Alex Asp)

50 mins; May 16, 2025

Sunrise Letter / Is This What You Call Love? – Passion (with Tyler Joseph Ellis)

70 hours 4 mins; May 08, 2025

Sondheim in Portuguese with Gustavo Brunetti – Sondheim Adjacent

46 mins; April 30, 2025

Soldier's Gossip 1 / Flashback – Passion (with Shannon Migliore)

80 hours 22 mins; April 24, 2025

I Wish I Could Forget You – Passion (with Jim Cullen)

57 mins; April 16, 2025

Transition 2 / Trio (Fifth Letter) / Transition 3 – Passion (with Will C. White)

43 mins; April 02, 2025

Garden Sequence – Passion (with Anne Slovin)

81 hours 49 mins; March 27, 2025

Liaisons II: All Things Bright and Beautiful album with Anthony de Mare

40 mins; March 22, 2025

I Read and Transition 1 – Passion (with Eric Henwood-Greer)

63 hours 49 mins; March 20, 2025

First, Second, Third, and Fourth Letter – Passion (with Brian Holcomb)

48 mins; March 13, 2025

Happiness – Passion (with Christine Chen)

60 hours 50 mins; March 06, 2025

Ari Axelrod on " "A Place for Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway" – Sondheim Adjacent

40 mins; February 28, 2025

Passione d'amore with Joel DeCandio

43 mins; February 26, 2025

Fosca – the novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti (with Michael Vecchio)

46 mins; February 18, 2025

Sondheim Database with Alex Asp

25 mins; January 19, 2025

Another thought on Unworthy of Your Love with Gail Leondar-Wright

24 mins; December 22, 2024

Assassins Finale with Margaret Hall

51 mins; December 04, 2024

Something Just Broke – Assassins (with Micah Mooney)

50 mins; November 06, 2024

Another National Anthem – Assassins (with Charlotte LeMay)

66 hours 45 mins; October 30, 2024

Samuel Byck monologue – Assassins (with Reid Orphan)

46 mins; October 23, 2024

The Ballad of Guiteau – Assassins (with Shannon Migliore)

70 hours 58 mins; October 17, 2024

Unworthy of Your Love – Assassins (with Chris Brown)

51 mins; October 09, 2024

The Ballad of Czolgosz – Assassins (with Alex Asp)

56 mins; October 03, 2024

Sondheim at the Piano with Joel DeCandio – Sondheim Adjacent

37 mins; September 30, 2024

The Gun Song – Assassins (with David Kincannon)

59 mins; September 25, 2024

How I Saved Roosevelt – Assassins (with Steve Bell)

53 mins; September 18, 2024

The Ballad of Booth – Assassins (with Eric Matthew Richardson)

87 hours 31 mins; September 11, 2024

Everybody's Got the Right – Assassins (with Isaac Bartels)

63 hours 49 mins; September 04, 2024

Assassins trailer

1 min; September 02, 2024

Dick Tracy (the movie) with Josh Shelton

83 hours 37 mins; July 17, 2024

Back in Business – Dick Tracy (with Christine Chen)

52 mins; July 10, 2024

What Can You Lose – Dick Tracy (with Lucas Rougeux)

49 mins; July 03, 2024

Dissonant Tonality with Micah Mooney – Sondheim Adjacent

46 mins; June 30, 2024

Sooner or Later – Dick Tracy (with Witti Repartee)

58 mins; June 26, 2024

Live Alone and Like It – Dick Tracy (with Alex Asp)

35 mins; June 19, 2024

More – Dick Tracy (with Cooper Williams)

56 mins; June 12, 2024

Dick Tracy trailer

1 min; June 10, 2024

Here We Are listen along – Sondheim Adjacent

28 mins; May 31, 2024

Into the Woods (the movie) with Luke Crichton

68 hours 14 mins; May 01, 2024

All the Into the Woods Cast Recordings with Chris Brown

80 hours 22 mins; April 24, 2024

Children Will Listen and Finale – Into the Woods (with Ben Malone)

65 hours 5 mins; April 10, 2024

No One is Alone – Into the Woods (with Charlotte LeMay)

50 mins; April 03, 2024

Pennies From Heaven (movie) with Will C. White – Sondheim Adjacent

36 mins; March 31, 2024

No More – Into the Woods (with Ryan Mardesich)

47 mins; March 27, 2024

Witch's Lament – Into the Woods (with Shoshana Greenberg)

56 mins; March 20, 2024

Your Fault / Last Midnight – Into the Woods (with Matt Koplik)

104 hours 53 mins; March 13, 2024

Any Moment / Moments in the Woods – Into the Woods (with Jim Cullen)

59 mins; March 06, 2024

Life With Mikey – Sondheim Adjacent

23 mins; February 29, 2024

So Happy – Into the Woods (with Tommy Iafrate)

56 mins; February 28, 2024

The Bean Theme with Steve Bell

42 mins; February 21, 2024

Evening Primrose with Mario Mendez

46 mins; February 14, 2024

Two Sundays with James Pinneri

35 mins; February 07, 2024

Ever After – Into the Woods (with Durra Leung)

59 mins; January 31, 2024

Harmony (with Alex Asp) – Sondheim Adjacent

35 mins; January 30, 2024

On the Steps of the Palace – Into the Woods (with Tara Hutchison)

47 mins; January 24, 2024

The Mexican Sweeney Todd (with Sixto Montesinos)

32 mins; January 17, 2024

Stay With Me – Into the Woods (with Lucas Rougeux)

62 hours 50 mins; January 10, 2024

The 10 Best Sondheim Songs – 1976 to 1985 (Sondheim Adjacent)

20 mins; December 31, 2023

It Takes Two – Into the Woods (with Will C. White)

45 mins; December 20, 2023

Agony – Into the Woods (with Tyler Joseph Ellis)

70 hours 48 mins; December 13, 2023

Giants in the Sky – Into the Woods (with Erik Stadnik)

64 hours 13 mins; December 06, 2023

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels OBC with Jonathan Chisolm – Sondheim Adjacent

63 hours 11 mins; November 30, 2023

First and Second Midnight – Into the Woods (with Sam Herriman)

55 mins; November 29, 2023

A Very Nice Prince – Into the Woods (with Christine Chen)

74 hours 10 mins; November 22, 2023

I Know Things Now – Into the Woods (with Shannon Dohar)

52 mins; November 15, 2023

Our Little World – Into the Woods (with Matt Steele)

50 mins; November 08, 2023

I Guess This Is Goodbye / Maybe They're Magic – Into the Woods (with Nathan Beary Blustein)

63 hours 36 mins; November 01, 2023

Hello, Little Girl – Into the Woods (with Isy Abraham-Raveson)

56 mins; October 25, 2023

Here We Are first thoughts with Will C. White and Colm Molloy – Sondheim Adjacent

60 hours 25 mins; October 20, 2023

Cinderella at the Grave – Into the Woods (with James Pinneri)

42 mins; October 18, 2023

Alex Lacamoire talks producing the Sweeney Todd album

42 mins; October 13, 2023

Prologue – Into the Woods (with Kevin Quillinan)

125 hours 29 mins; October 11, 2023

Podcast Meetup this Saturday

1 min; October 10, 2023

The Fairy Tales of Into the Woods

51 mins; October 04, 2023

Into the Woods – Trailer

58 secs; October 02, 2023

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert – Sondheim Adjacent

40 mins; September 30, 2023

The Wild Party with Matt Koplik – Sondheim Adjacent

82 hours 24 mins; August 30, 2023

All the Sunday in the Park recordings with Durra Leung

58 mins; August 23, 2023

Sunday – Sunday in the Park with George (with Charlie LeMay)

78 hours 53 mins; August 16, 2023

Move On – Sunday in the Park with George (with Shoshana Greenberg)

64 hours 34 mins; August 09, 2023

Lesson #8 – Sunday in the Park with George (with Jake Nielsen)

55 mins; August 02, 2023

"Encounter at Farpoint" Star Trek: The Next Generation with Ryan Mardesich – Sondheim Adjacent

50 mins; July 31, 2023

Children and Art – Sunday in the Park with George (with Tara Hutchison)

48 mins; July 26, 2023

Putting It Together – Sunday in the Park with George (with Derek Cousineau)

79 hours 47 mins; July 19, 2023

Chromolume #7 – Sunday in the Park with George (with Lucas Rougeux)

60 hours 0 mins; July 12, 2023

It's Hot Up Here – Sunday in the Park with George (with Christine Chen)

72 hours 7 mins; July 05, 2023

Impromptu (1991) with Christopher Lewis – Sondheim Adjacent

46 mins; June 30, 2023

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