{"id":5183,"date":"2010-07-31T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T18:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2010-07-31T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T18:43:31","slug":"sweeney-todd-music-behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/sweeney-todd-music-behind-the-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweeney Todd Music &#8211; Behind the Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lm9fxAMdhjM<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I prefer actors that can sing rather than singers that can act&#8221; &#8211; I thought that was a great quote from Stephen Sondheim in this video behind the scenes on the music for the movie version of the musical &#8220;Sweeney Todd&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In another interview I read today with Stephen Sondheim he said although most musicals now are rock\/pop or jukebox style &#8211; he said the same rules apply to creating musical theater: You create what you like and then just hope that others like it too. He says to try and second guess current trends or what audiences will like is pointless. I would say that in the world of pure art this is true. Although most of us work in arenas where budgets and projects dictate expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Unless of course we are brave enough to venture out and create our own visions \u00a0unhampered by monetary expectations. That is a tough decision for an artist, and a very fun one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lm9fxAMdhjM &#8220;I prefer actors that can sing rather than singers that can act&#8221; &#8211; I thought that was a great quote from Stephen Sondheim in this video behind the scenes on the music for the movie version of the musical &#8220;Sweeney Todd&#8221;. In another interview I read today with Stephen Sondheim he said although most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1lB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}