Sondheim completist #goals
In my review of 42nd Street Moon's production of Saturday Night, I noted that the show would appeal to Sondheim completists. So then, of course, I had to tally up the Sondheim shows I've seen* and calculate how close I am to completist status. I'm 2/3 of the way there!
✅Saturday Night (42nd Street Moon, 2018)
✅West Side Story (2x: Lakeridge High School and a dinner theater in SoCal, both circa 2000. I also wrote program notes for Portland Center Stage's 2006 production, but did not get to see it.)
✅Gypsy (Portland Center Stage, 2001)
✅A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (The Catlin Gabel School, 2005)
❌Anyone Can Whistle (but who ever produces this?)
❌Do I Hear a Waltz (ditto)
✅Company (2x: Vassar College, 2005-ish; San Francisco Playhouse, 2015)
❌Follies (I really want to see this one live)
✅A Little Night Music (American Conservatory Theater, 2015)
✅The Frogs (Lincoln Center Theater, 2004)
❌Pacific Overtures (another rarity, though we have the Asian-American talent in the Bay Area to do it justice)
✅Sweeney Todd (Broadway, 2006)
✅Merrily We Roll Along (Vassar College, 2008)
✅Sunday in the Park with George (Broadway, 2017)
✅Into The Woods (2x: Jesuit High School, 2000; then I acted in it at Vassar in 2006)
✅Assassins (2x: Artists Repertory Theater, 2008; Shotgun Players, 2012)
❌Passion (but Custom Made Theatre is doing it in 2019!)
❌Road Show (missed the Theatre Rhino production in 2014, evidently)
*Counting live productions only, using Sondheim's books Finishing the Hat and Look, I Made a Hat as a reference for what he considers his canonical stage works.