So very proud to see him in his parents' home.He sang when I requested him to sing his own composed wonderful song. What a nice composer/singer with a very soft heart who took care of his parents(my employer).I wish I could see and hear him sing again in chorus with his parents...Miss you guys...
I went to a phenomenal tribute concert this week where so many phenomenal performers sang great song after great song. Halfway through, Stephen himself comes out and performs this one and I have been thinking about it for almost three solid days.
Why are we comparing Webber and Schwartz. They are two complete different individuals who have both wonderful music and shows! Don't compare people just because they are in the same category (Shows). Just enjoy their music! :)
Stephen Schwartz is about to be crowned King of Broadway along with Lin Manuel Miranda at the next Tony's. which means Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice will retire.
It was back in the mid 2000s at an evening with Stephen Schwartz at the Kennedy Center in DC. This is one of the most amazing songs written for a Broadway Musical. It perfectly encapsulates the man motivations of the lead character.
I've met Stephen schwartz in the town where I live, and he is just fantastic. Kind, considerate, and passionate about his work and such a cool guy to talk to. Super happy I stumbled across this lol
if you listen carefully both Wicked and Pippin, you will hear very similar Schwartz musical cues.. Same kind of horns and piano.. its wonderful.. the sounds of certain horns and strings makes my heart flutter..
Yup -- there's musical phrases in "Corner of the Sky" that turn up in "The Wizard and I," and phrases in "Just No Time At All" that turn up in "Popular" -- those come to mind immediately, and I'm sure there's more.
Can't stop from crying watching this. This song was so hugely influential in my adolescence. Made me want to be a singer and actress. Mirrored completely what I felt as a thirteen year old girl with my whole life ahead of me.
I remember the first time I heard Steve sings this song--38 years ago! What a thrill it was to discover this wonderful video and hear him sing it again, just as heartfelt and beautiful and filled with hope and optimism now as then.
Jesus, he is so amazingly talented it makes me sad. Pippin, Godspell, Wicked - three of my favorite shows. There was a cruise a year or so ago where you could meet him. I was so tempted, but it was US$5k. I live in HK now and I keep praying I meet him on the street one day. A man can dream.
I took the train into the city from Long Island with my brother to see this play in the mid '70s, it was one of the first times doing that without my parents. Such a great time and this song is the one I remember the most.
Wow, he changed the lyrics of the second and third verse from the version of this song that *I* have published in "The Glory of Broadway: Songs of Joy and Inspiration" (Warner Bros. Publications, 1997) as well as from the Cast Recording--and, I must say that I approve. They are MUCH better, IMO!
You all know that he was black balled on broadway for 20 years in 1973 by some malicious people (including other famous composers jealous of him). Just shows you can't keep a talented man down.
So happy I'll be seeing him at his alma mater, CMU on Sunday!!!!! (Also this marks the second Broadway Stephen I've been blessed to be in the same room with, the other being Sondheim. So that's exciting.)
He composed and wrote lyrics for "Wicked". The book was written by Gregory Maguire, and it's called "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West".
I met him at a performance of Seance on a Wet Afternoon (at NYC Opera). Unfortunately, I hadn't seen Wicked or Pippin yet and I didn't really know he was. If I had met him now, I'd probably cry. :')
Did anybody know that Schwartz was 86ed off B'way after Pippin for many years. Apparently he had a falling out with Fosse or another powerful giant and they kept him off the big white way--can you believe it????
Not true. His musicals "The Magic Show" and "Working" premiered on Broadway the same decade as "Pippin"; in fact "The Magic Show" was up and running the very next year. He didn't get along very well with Fosse during production of "Pippin", that's true, but there was no conspiracy to keep him off Broadway - just a combination of Stephen not enjoying how professional Broadway theatre operated and his later work struggling to find commercial success.
@@MANHATTANBEEFMAN barely registers? I don't know about that, since he definitely has found success and a loyal fanbase. And if we're talking about "complexity" of music, Schwartz is considered one of the hardest MT composers to play by many accompanists. If you don't like him, fine. But you blindly stating that people who like his work have never heard of Stephen Sondheim is just false. They're both great to many people. Don't act like people are uneducated for liking someone's work.
I had the great pleasure of doing the Ben Vereen role of Leading Player in a touring company of Pippin. John Cygan played the role of Pippin and was brilliant. His rendition of this song was my favorite part of the show (aside from my singing and dancing Glory). Thank You Steven for a great song and a lasting memory.
