Sondheim wrote the song specifically for the actress Glynis Johns, who created the role of Desirée on Broadway.

Sondheim wrote the lyrics and music over a two-day period during rehearsals for the play's Broadway debut, specifically for the actress Glynis Johns, who created the role of Desirée.

Eager to work with both Laurents and Sondheim, Angela Lansbury accepted the lead role as Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper, despite her strong misgivings about the script and her ability to handle the score.

( 1965 ), for which he had written the lyrics to Richard Rodgers's music, Sondheim decided that he would henceforth work only on projects where he could write both the music and lyrics himself.

" Babbitt and Sondheim were both fascinated with mathematics and together they studied songs by various composers, especially Jerome Kern.

In 1954, Sondheim wrote both music and lyrics for Saturday Night, which was never produced on Broadway and was shelved until a 1997 production at London's Bridewell Theatre.

Eventually Sondheim wrote both the music and lyrics for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

After the completion of Do I Hear a Waltz, Sondheim has devoted himself to both composing and writing lyrics for a series of varied and adventurous musicals, beginning with the innovative " concept musical " Company in 1970.

Side By Side By Sondheim ( 1976 ), Marry Me A Little ( 1980 ), You're Gonna Love Tomorrow ( 1983 ) Putting It Together ( 1993 ), and Sondheim on Sondheim ( 2010 ) are anthologies or revues of Sondheim's work as composer and lyricist, featuring both songs performed and cut from productions.

In an interview with Frank Rich, Sondheim said that " the outsider feeling – somebody who people want to both kiss and kill – occurred quite early in my life.

Sondheim teaches both dramatic and lyric performers several important elements for an accurate rendition:

Similarly, Sondheim insists that performers separately enunciate both " t "' s in line, " There ought to be clowns.

Six years later he won both the Tony and a Drama Desk Award for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in the Stephen Sondheim musical.

They went to dinner, and after twenty minutes, Sondheim asked them what they thought of the show: they both were silent.

Nevertheless, in 1977, he wrote of Sondheim " I needn't tell you that Stephen Sondheim is, both musically and lyrically, the most sophisticated composer now working for the Broadway theater.

Otherwise, the award has gone to the composer and lyricist for their combined contributions, except for 1971 when the two awards were split ( although Stephen Sondheim won both, for Company ).

" both found their way into the Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim song, " Gee, Officer Krupke!

His concert engagements in 2007 included Good Thing Going, a celebration of the music of Stephen Sondheim at Cadogan Hall, and The Best of Broadway ; two concerts at The Royal Albert Hall, both with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

" Sondheim teaches that the former should be steeped in self-loathing, while the latter should emphasize regret.

Fredrik explains to Desirée that he is now married to the young woman, whom he loves, but who is still a virgin and refuses to have sex with him.

Fredrik explains to Desirée that he has been swept off the ground and is " in the air " in love with his beautiful, young wife, and apologizes for having misled her.

In an appendix to a later edition of the book ( 1996 ), Dawkins explains how his experiences with computer models led him to a greater appreciation of the role of embryological constraints on natural selection.

As McNamara explains, it is a process of examining the experiences of his long and controversial period as the United States Secretary of Defense, as well as other periods of his personal and public life.

Kahneman explains that, when we are asked to reflect on experiences, memory biases like the Peak-End effect ( e. g. we mostly remember the dramatic parts of a vacation, and how it was at the end ) play a large role.

When pressed, Graham explains that he interviews women about their sexual experiences and fantasies, on videotape.

He explains core beliefs are formed over lifelong experiences ; we “ feel ” these beliefs to be true.

The prisoner, explains Socrates, is like a human being making mental images from the sense data that he experiences.

At the end, when leaders from Diaspar travel to Lys, in Against the Fall of Night they are apparently able simply to master their fears, whereas in The City and the Stars powerful psychology is necessary, and Alvin's tutor Jeserac experiences a " saga " in which Yarlan Zey explains how Diaspar was founded and releases him from his fears.

The preface of this book explains the scientific aspects of inner experiences of Surat Shabd Yogis.

The book explains how the human subconscious interprets events or cues and how past experiences can lead people to make informed decisions very rapidly, using examples like the Getty kouros and psychologist John Gottman's research on the likelihood of divorce in married couples.

Most of his early experiences are with male companions ; he himself explains this by saying the women in previous centuries simply were not as interesting as men.

The being explains that it has been devoted to exploring and exulting in the variety of experiences of the universe, and invites Lindsay to join it.

The absence of these structures explains, in part, the behaviors Piaget had previously described as egocentric and animistic, for example an inability to comprehend that another individual may have different emotional responses to similar experiences.

She also explains a new notion defined as “ service design ’ that expresses that current products are no longer isolated elements, but a network of different experiences and combinations, such as the case of the iPod and iTunes online music store.

For Chodorow, the contrast between the dyadic and triadic first love experiences explains the social construction of gender roles, the universal degradation of women in culture, cross-cultural patterns in male behavior, and marital strain in the West after Second Wave feminism.

The document explains the benefits of using SEA in development co-operation and sets out key steps for its application, based on recent experiences.

Scott explains the name of the album as " experiences yet to be undergone in order to balance past actions ", a reference to the tenet of karma in Hinduism.

She explains because of Fred's past memories she cannot bear to witness their grief in addition to Wesley's, which she experiences as a physical pain.

As a result, both Chiang and Ch ' en Chieh-ju became sterile, which explains why he had only one child, by his first wife.

Carmilla flees and the General explains to Laura that Carmilla is also Millarca, both anagrams for the original name of the vampire Countess Mircalla Karnstein.

The Aufhebung conserves the thesis and the antithesis and transcends them both ( Aufheben — this contradiction explains the difficulties of Hegel's thought ).

Trace decay theory explains memories that are stored in both short term and long term memory system.

Also deleted was a scene after the meeting in which the prime minister explains to his aides how he was able to reach a consensus with both sides.

* A common explanation using Bernoulli's principle asserts that the air must traverse both the top and bottom in the same amount of time and that this explains the increased speed on the ( longer ) top side of the wing.

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the only element of romance lay in the backstory of the Tin Woodman and his love Nimmie Amee, which explains his condition and does not otherwise affect the tale, and that of Gayelette and the enchantment of the Winged Monkeys ; the only other stories with such elements were The Scarecrow of Oz and Tik-Tok of Oz, both based on dramatizations, which Baum regarded warily until his readers accepted them.

Intended as a didactic text, the manuscript functions as a manual that documents and explains how and why one plays games ranging from pure, intellectual strategy ( chess ), to games of pure chance ( dice ), to games that incorporate both elements ( backgammon ).

There are many similarities-both in overall functionality and in the division of functionality into the three component chips-between the OCS chipset and the much earlier and simpler chipset of the Atari 8-bit family of home computers, consisting of the ANTIC, GTIA and POKEY chips ; both chipsets were conceptually designed by Jay Miner, which explains the similarity.

That is, it is the lack of need which explains both the lack of counting ability and the lack of corresponding vocabulary.

" They are both tied to the Law of Fives, he explains, because 2 + 3

As Plotinus explains in both places and elsewhere V. 6. 3, it is impossible for the One to be Being or a self-aware Creator God.

This explains why dreams have both characteristics of continuity ( within a dream ) and sudden changes ( between two dreams ).

Although Willetts proposes the operational and campaigning NGOs as a tool to differentiate the main activities of these organizations, he also explains that a single NGO may often be engaged in both activities.

Estragon suggests that they hang themselves, but since they are concerned that they might not both die, they decide to do nothing: " It's safer ", explains Estragon.

In this essay, Wells explains how then-current encyclopedias failed to adapt to both the growing increase in recorded knowledge and the expansion of people requiring information that was accurate and readily accessible.

Starting as young men, the two separately meet their female lovers, meet each other, and lose both their lovers in the same night, which explains both their friendship and the arrested adolescence of their lifestyles.

He explains in the film that he watched his wife and two daughters, 12-year-old Violette and 10-year-old Pauline ( both green-eyed ), being burned in the ship that carried them by the British, which explains his hatred for them.

He explains in detail on how to examine a corpse both before and after burial.

" This interpretation explains how Nysa could have been re-interpreted from a meaning of " tree " to the name of a mountain: the axis mundi of Indo-European mythology is represented both as a world-tree and as a world-mountain.

As Diana Fuss ( 1991 ) explains, " the problem of course with the inside / outside rhetoric ... is that such polemics disguise the fact that most of us are both inside and outside at the same time.

In addition Diana Fuss ( 1991 ) explains, " the problem of course with the inside / outside rhetoric ... is that such polemics disguise the fact that most of us are both inside and outside at the same time.