In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want

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I tend to cherish my original cast recordings of Sondheim shows – although here he was purely the lyricist, with Jule Styne writing the score and Arthur Laurents the book – but this is one occasion where the revival outstrips its predecessor. Angela Lansbury was so forceful as Momma Rose in 1973 that you felt the character would have been a Broadway star. But Jonathan Kent’s 2014 Chichester production made total dramatic sense. Imelda Staunton was the eternal bustling showbiz wannabe, even popping up on stage during her daughter’s big audition. Yet when it came to the solo numbers that end each act, Staunton unforgettably suggested a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. A lot to celebrate … (from left) Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Bernadette Peters, David Hyde Pierce, Elaine Stritch, Donna Murphy and Marin Mazzie at the Avery Fisher Hall concert to mark Sondheim’s 80th birthday. Photograph: Richard Termine/AP 8. Birthday Concerts, 2010

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Zola’s mother says, “Life is just a TV show, and we’re all characters in it.” If your life was a TV show, what kind of show would you want it to be? In the style of Stuntboy, in the Meantime, write and illustrate a story that imagines one of your experiences as an episode of your own TV show. This is, arguably, the one truly necessary book on musical theatre. It not only contains all Sondheim’s lyrics from Saturday Night to Merrily We Roll Along (a succeeding volume brings us up to date). It is, above all, a study of the craft of lyric writing: it argues that the three great principles are Content Dictates Form, Less is More and God Is in the Details and goes on to show where Sondheim himself and his fellow lyricists have succeeded and failed. If Sondheim is often harsh on others (Alan Jay Lerner is “a chameleon of one colour”, Noel Coward is “too darn chilly”) he is even harsher on himself. But the book is proof that Sondheim was throughout his life a restless perfectionist whose gnawing dissatisfaction was the source of great and enduring art. There are some great bits in towards the end but you've got to wade through quite a bit of unreliable drug-fuelled narration before that.

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Our relationships and the people in them are the tools God uses to give us a soul lift. God, the creator of our life, wants you to elevate the way you view yourself and treat yourself, and ultimately the way you treat others and allow them to treat you. Why do you think Herbert Singletary was looking sad the first time Portico met him? Why do you think Herbert responded to Portico’s kindness by pushing him and calling him names when Portico was being nice to him? Stuntboy, in the Meantime features numerous charts that provide instructions for how to do different things. What are your areas of expertise? Create a graphic chart that teaches others how to do something new and share it with your class. Explain the difference between a hero and a superhero. Who are some of Portico’s heroes? Who do you know that you consider a hero? Explain why you think they are heroic. If you could choose, would you rather be a superhero or a regular hero?

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Look up the definition of community. Which part of the definition do you think describes the community that is created by the residents of Skylight Gardens? Give examples of specific ways that they demonstrate that they care and look out for each other. I’m on record as dubbing this, in 1980, “one of the two (My Fair Lady being the other) durable works of popular musical theatre written in my lifetime.” I should have added West Side Story but I stand by what I said since I’ve seen the show over the years work in countless spaces, big and small. From that first piercing industrial whistle, we are gripped by a revenge-drama that mixes rage at social injustice with romantic tenderness. All Sondheim’s emotional complexity is there – Hal Prince’s wife once said there was a touch of Sweeney in Sondheim himself – and his brilliant score has echoes of Britten, Copland and Stravinsky. Wherever it is staged, we still attend the tale of Sweeney Todd. The residents of Skylight Gardens have created a community where everyone knows and cares about one another. When a school creates this type of community, we call it “school spirit,” and some schools even have a student government organization and/or a spirit club to help build community. Think about the things that create community for the residents of Skylight Gardens, and develop a plan inspired by the book to create more school spirit. Accept the fact that in a relationship the only person you are dealing with is yourself. Your partner does nothing more than reveal your stuff to you.

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Marina is dead, Felix is a suspect. But he also an addict - big time - and spends the majority of his life out of his head. So he could have done it, but he suspects not, he sort of has an alibi. He is our narrator and, as you can expect from a man of his "highs" the story is somewhat confusing in places. He also enlists several of his friends and associates to assist him in his endeavours to discover the real murderer as he believes that the Police don't really care. This was a funny wee detective story with a very absurd and unexpected protagonist. There’s lots of humour throughout, as you would expect from Frankie Boyle, but I enjoyed the layers of dark conspiracy that made up the mystery that Felix sets out to uncover. Portico Reeves’s superpower is making sure all the other superheroes—like his parents and two best friends—stay super. And safe. Super safe. And he does this all in secret. No one in his civilian life knows he’s actually…Stuntboy! WS Gilbert was said to have been inspired to write The Mikado by going to a Japanese exhibition in South Kensington. Sondheim had a similar revelation when encountering a threefold Japanese screen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The bold idea of making a musical out of the collision of American and Japanese culture had originated with John Weidman. But Sondheim claimed that the spectacle of a luxuriant tree dominating an otherwise white triptych taught him the cardinal lesson that, in art, less is more. The result is one of the most revolutionary musicals ever. I’d recommend both the original cast recording and that by English National Opera as well a visual record of Hal Prince’s Kabuki-influenced Broadway production.

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Many of the items that Portico’s parents fight over have a symbolic value (in other words, they are connected to a memory or idea that makes them important to the owner). Discuss why each item that they fight over is important to both of them. Think about an object you own that has a symbolic value to you and write an essay that describes the object using sensory details and explains why it is important to you.

The main twist was learning about Felix's history, and I wish we'd heard a bit more about this story, perhaps in conversation with Jane? I would have liked more time to learn about him and his past in depth. The same goes for Jane and Amy - I feel that their characters were rushed off the scene to wrap things up, and so this is why I'm giving 4 stars. Try reading some of Stuntboy, in the Meantime out loud. What do you notice about the way the text sounds? Jason Reynolds uses figurative language when he writes, which you may recognize from reading poetry. Look for examples of internal rhyme, alliteration, similes, and metaphors. Divide your class into teams and search for other examples of poetic language in the book to see who can identify the most examples. Throw in a very poignant and touching ending and you will have a read like no other that will bring out all the emotions in you. Describe Zola and Portico’s friendship. In your opinion, what makes them such good friends? How do they demonstrate that they care about each other? Choose a moment in the book when you think their friendship is particularly strong, and explain why you chose it. What do you think is the most important characteristic to look for in a friend? When Portico’s parents fight over him, how does it make him feel? What does it mean to say that someone feels “torn” or “torn apart”? Have you ever felt this way? What helps Portico feel better? What helped you?