This tune is from the “balcony scene/tonight” from West Side Story, for anyone who isn’t aware. Jonathan Larson used music from two different musicals that were composed by Stephen Sondheim and changed the lyrics. Sondheim wrote the lyrics to West Side Story in collaboration with Leonard Bernstein, which is the musical with the song “The Balcony Scene/Tonight;” the balcony part of the scene has the song “Maria” in the intro. It’s a different tempo but same music. “Sunday” is a song in Sunday in the Park with George, again with different lyrics.
@@spaghettimeatballswow thats why Miranda directed the movie version as a love letter to Sondheim - it was originally Larsons love letter to Sondheim and Larson inspired Miranda.
@@Theordoreqaz a keyboard is essentially an electric piano. Um you do realize that Raul Esparza is playing different characters (Bobby in Company, Jon here in this show,) and not performing as himself? When Esparza played “Bobby,” his character was saying he can only play the piano. In the 2006 REVIVAL of Company, all the actors who appeared in the various parts were “playing” instruments. But the reality was none of them could really play instruments because of very strict union rules. Random fact: The Broadway Musicians Union has very strict rules about which musical instruments and players are on each show. Musicians who aren’t used in rock musicals (a clarinet player as an example,) still are sent to the show and need to show up ready to perform with an instrument that won’t be used. To be paid they must come dressed to perform, by the call for the orchestra, with their instrument and sign in. Even then, the musicians who won’t be performing can’t leave until after the second act has started or they can lose the job of just showing up to a theater and hanging out. The union ensures they are paid for not performing if they follow the rules that I detailed above.
