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Anatomy of a Song (1976)
TV Movie | 28 min | Documentary, Music

Anatomy of a Song (1976)

TV Movie | 28 min | Documentary, Music

Stephen Sondheim, composer-lyricist; John Weidman, writer; and Frank Rich, theater critic, in a close study of how one Broadway musical song came to be: "Someone in a Tree" from "Pacific Overtures". Members of the Broadway cast join ...See moreStephen Sondheim, composer-lyricist; John Weidman, writer; and Frank Rich, theater critic, in a close study of how one Broadway musical song came to be: "Someone in a Tree" from "Pacific Overtures". Members of the Broadway cast join Sondheim in a performance of the number. Filmed in Sondheim's apartment in New York City. Members of the cast of "Pacific Overtures": Mako, James Dybas, Geddie Watanabe, Mark Hsu Syers. "It's my favorite song of anything I've written," Sondheim said. He demonstrates how he created the song, how the music tracks the libretto, gaining complexity and tension as the text becomes more urgent, how the song becomes a study of perceiving details in a seamless world. Written by Stephan Chodorov, writer See less

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
James Dybas Self Self See fewer	Private Benjamin (1980)
Mako Self Self See fewer	Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Frank Rich Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Succession (2018)
Stephen Sondheim Self Self See fewer	Dick Tracy (1990)
Mark Syers Self - actor (as Mark Hsu Syers) Self - actor (as Mark Hsu Syers) See fewer	Pacific Overtures (1976)
Gedde Watanabe Self Self See fewer	Sixteen Candles (1984)
John Weidman Self Self See fewer	Sesame Street (1969)