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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.

Seurat vs Sondheim with Chris Culp

40 mins; June 28, 2023

Maybe Sunday's second act isn't necessary – with Gail Leondar-Wright

38 mins; June 21, 2023

"Giants in the Sky: How Sondheim and Lapine Went Into the Woods" with Ben Rimalower

49 mins; June 14, 2023

Beautiful – Sunday in the Park with George (with Tyler Joseph Ellis)

58 mins; June 07, 2023

We Do Not Belong Together – Sunday in the Park with George (with Christopher Griffith)

46 mins; June 02, 2023

The Goodbye Girl (with Tess Robinson) – Sondheim Adjacent

56 mins; May 30, 2023

Finishing the Hat – Sunday in the Park with George (with Shannon Dohar)

54 mins; May 24, 2023

The One on the Left / The Soldier's Song – Sunday in the Park with George (with Christopher Colley)

89 hours 51 mins; May 17, 2023

Everybody Loves Louis – Sunday in the Park with George (with Matt Koplik)

80 hours 23 mins; May 10, 2023

The Day Off – Sunday in the Park with George (with Will C. White)

63 hours 5 mins; May 03, 2023

The Princess Bride (1987) – Sondheim Adjacent

29 mins; April 30, 2023

Gossip – Sunday in the Park with George (with Adrianna Boris)

43 mins; April 26, 2023

Color and Light – Sunday in the Park with George (with Colm Molloy)

67 hours 42 mins; April 19, 2023

No Life – Sunday in the Park with George (with Kevin Morris)

52 mins; April 12, 2023

Sunday in the Park with George (song) with Philémon Heutte

83 hours 11 mins; April 05, 2023

Sunday in the Park with George – Trailer

1 min; April 03, 2023

Camp (2003) with Aidan White – Sondheim Adjacent

48 mins; March 31, 2023

Threes in A Little Night Music with Steve Bell – Sondheim Revisited

45 mins; March 29, 2023

"I Never Do Anything Twice" with Witti Repartee – Sondheim Revisited

52 mins; March 22, 2023

"Ah, But Underneath" with Shoshana Greenberg – Sondheim Revisited

51 mins; March 15, 2023

"By the Sea" with Jonathan Chisolm – Sondheim Revisited

47 mins; March 08, 2023

"The Ladies Who Lunch" with Isy Abraham-Raveson – Sondheim Revisited

44 mins; March 01, 2023

Spanish Company with Juan Carlos Guízar – Sondheim Adjacent

54 mins; February 28, 2023

Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened (2016) with Luke Crichton

59 mins; February 22, 2023

Four Merrily Recordings (with Jake Nielsen)

59 mins; February 15, 2023

Merrily's Cut Songs (with Edward Crouse)

53 mins; February 08, 2023

The Hills of Tomorrow – Merrily We Roll Along (with Chris Dockum)

56 mins; February 01, 2023

Annie Golden – Sondheim Adjacent

42 mins; January 31, 2023

Our Time – Merrily We Roll Along (with Emily Clark)

50 mins; January 25, 2023

Opening Doors – Merrily We Roll Along (with Tyler Joseph Ellis)

92 hours 30 mins; January 18, 2023

Bobby and Jackie and Jack – Merrily We Roll Along (with Karen Unland)

67 hours 38 mins; January 11, 2023

Good Thing Going – Merrily We Roll Along (with Matt Steele)

65 hours 28 mins; January 04, 2023

Lady Bird (2017) with Sam Herriman – Sondheim Adjacent

62 hours 32 mins; December 30, 2022

The Blob – Merrily We Roll Along (with Erik Stadnik)

66 hours 13 mins; December 28, 2022

It's a Hit! – Merrily We Roll Along (with Michael Price)

59 mins; December 21, 2022

Entr'acte / Gussie's Opening Number – Merrily We Roll Along (with Shannon Dohar)

52 mins; December 14, 2022

Jim Walton

58 mins; December 07, 2022

Ann Morrison

58 mins; November 30, 2022

Ted Chapin on "Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies" – Sondheim Adjacent

41 mins; November 29, 2022

Terry Finn

32 mins; November 23, 2022

Now You Know – Merrily We Roll Along (with Nathan Beary Blustein)

70 hours 8 mins; November 16, 2022

Not a Day Goes By – Merrily We Roll Along (with Christine Chen)

63 hours 45 mins; November 09, 2022

Growing Up – Merrily We Roll Along (with Lucas Rougeux)

64 hours 54 mins; November 02, 2022

Old Friends – Merrily We Roll Along (with Ashley Pribyl)

59 mins; October 26, 2022

Franklin Shepard, Inc – Merrily We Roll Along (with Richard Brown)

60 hours 58 mins; October 19, 2022

Like It Was – Merrily We Roll Along (with Adrianna Boris)

59 mins; October 12, 2022

First to Seventh Transition – Merrily We Roll Along (with Colm Molloy)

67 hours 10 mins; October 05, 2022

Side by Side by Sondheim with Vanessa Paradis, Geoffrey Doig-Marx, and Mardie Millit – Sondheim Adjacent

34 mins; October 03, 2022

Building sets with Mark Murphy – Sondheim Adjacent

44 mins; September 30, 2022

That Frank – Merrily We Roll Along (with Will C. White)

50 mins; September 28, 2022

Rich and Happy – Merrily We Roll Along (with Chris Lewis)

66 hours 9 mins; September 21, 2022

Merrily We Roll Along (song) – with Juan Carlos Guízar

60 hours 58 mins; September 14, 2022

Overture – Merrily We Roll Along & additional backstory (with Eric Matthew Richardson)

86 hours 35 mins; September 07, 2022

Music Analysis of Merrily We Roll Along with Steve Bell – Sondheim Adjacent

55 mins; August 31, 2022

Merrily We Roll Along trailer

1 min; August 31, 2022

"Someone is Waiting" with Diep Tran – Sondheim Revisited

51 mins; August 24, 2022

"In Buddy's Eyes" with Matt Koplik – Sondheim Revisited

68 hours 45 mins; August 17, 2022

"If Momma Was Married" with Luisa Lyons – Sondheim Revisited

52 mins; August 10, 2022

"Could I Leave You" with Jesse McAnally – Sondheim Revisited

64 hours 10 mins; August 03, 2022

Rob Berman, Music Director of Into the Woods – Sondheim Adjacent

41 mins; July 31, 2022

"I'm Still Here" with Emily Clark – Sondheim Revisited

56 mins; July 27, 2022

"A Weekend in the Country" with Marc Bonanni – Sondheim Revisited

56 mins; July 20, 2022

Reds (1981) with Will C. White

54 mins; July 13, 2022

Sweeney Todd (2007) with Luke Crichton

70 hours 36 mins; July 06, 2022

Jeff Harnar's album "I Know Things Now: My Life in Sondheim's Words" – Sondheim Adjacent

40 mins; June 30, 2022

Sweeney Todd all the recordings

30 mins; June 29, 2022

Final Sequence – Sweeney Todd (with Margaret Hall)

79 hours 12 mins; June 22, 2022

Parlor Songs – Sweeney Todd (with Colm Molloy)

45 mins; June 15, 2022

Not While I'm Around – Sweeney Todd (with Matthew Conway)

53 mins; June 08, 2022

By the Sea – Sweeney Todd (with Michael Price)

45 mins; June 01, 2022

How Leonard Bernstein Created the West Side Story Score (with Steve Bell) – Sondheim Adjacent

53 mins; May 31, 2022

Johanna 3 – Sweeney Todd (with Michael Vecchio)

61 hours 9 mins; May 25, 2022

God, That's Good! – Sweeney Todd (with Ashley Pribyl)

74 hours 12 mins; May 18, 2022

Phil Geoffrey Bond "Sondheim Unplugged"

35 mins; May 11, 2022

Joel Fram – Musical Director and Supervisor of Company on Broadway

52 mins; May 04, 2022

Mark Eden Horowitz "The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II" – Sondheim Adjacent

37 mins; April 30, 2022

A Little Priest – Sweeney Todd (with Cindy Liu)

87 hours 35 mins; April 27, 2022

Epiphany – Sweeney Todd (with Shannon Dohar)

50 mins; April 20, 2022

Pretty Women – Sweeney Todd (with Stephanie Lim)

64 hours 47 mins; April 13, 2022

Ladies in Their Sensitivities – Sweeney Todd (with Matt Steele)

54 mins; April 06, 2022

Travis Moser "So Many People: The Sondheim Sessions" – Sondheim Adjacent

36 mins; March 31, 2022

Kiss Me – Sweeney Todd (with Philémon Heutte)

46 mins; March 30, 2022

Wait – Sweeney Todd (with Shane Wilson)

56 mins; March 23, 2022

Johanna 2 – Sweeney Todd (with Will C. White)

50 mins; March 16, 2022

The Contest – Sweeney Todd (with Jonathan Chisolm)

50 mins; March 09, 2022

Pirelli's Miracle Elixir – Sweeney Todd (with Matt Koplik)

77 hours 23 mins; March 02, 2022

Eleri Ward – Sondheim Adjacent

21 mins; February 28, 2022

Johanna 1 – Sweeney Todd (with Matthew Sampson)

40 mins; February 23, 2022

Ah, Miss – Sweeney Todd (with Luke Crichton)

47 mins; February 16, 2022

Green Finch and Linnet Bird – Sweeney Todd (with Christine Chen)

57 mins; February 09, 2022

My Friends – Sweeney Todd (with Thom Sesma)

68 hours 13 mins; February 02, 2022

Tick, Tick... Boom! – Sondheim Adjacent (with Eric Matthew Richardson)

54 mins; January 31, 2022

Poor Thing – Sweeney Todd (with Margaret Hall)

59 mins; January 26, 2022

The Worst Pies in London – Sweeney Todd (with Lucas Rougeux)

66 hours 55 mins; January 19, 2022

The Barber and His Wife – Sweeney Todd (with Karen Unland)

48 mins; January 12, 2022

No Place Like London – Sweeney Todd (with Adrianna Boris)

63 hours 17 mins; January 05, 2022

Leonard Bernstein – Sondheim Adjacent (with William C. White)

40 mins; December 31, 2021

The Ballads of Sweeney Todd (with Taylor Darden)

86 hours 55 mins; December 29, 2021

The Sweeney Todd Backstory

41 mins; December 22, 2021

Sweeney Todd trailer

1 min; December 22, 2021

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