Smith, Alexis, 189–91, 194
Smith, Sheila, 189
“Soliloquy,” 42–43
“Some Enchanted Evening,” 88, 131
“Someone in a Tree,” 202–4, 207
“Someone Will Teach You,” 41n
“Something Coming,” 59
“Somewhere,” 144
Sondheim, Stephen, 6, 24, 29–30,
49–50, 76, 97, 132, 210; criticism
of West Side Story, 56n; on mis-
writing “I Feel Pretty,” 55–56; on
the puzzle of “Someone in a
Tree,” 204, 204n; sense of rhyme
of, 173; and set changes, 159; use
of the narrator in his musicals,
154–55, 155n
Sondheim’s Broadway Musicals(Ban-
field), 104n1, 163n
song: marches, and the advent of
American song, 28n; repetition in,
31–32, 31n; and syncopations of
repetition, 192–93. See alsopopu-
lar ( pop) songs
Sousa, John Philip, 28n
South Pacific, 22, 83, 88, 159; melo-
drama in, 131–32; underscoring
in, 130–32, 131n
Sprechstimme, 132n
Steyn, Mark, 82
Stolz, Robert, 13
Strauss, Johann, 13
Streisand, Barbra 109
Street Scene(1947), 22n, 81, 180;
Anna’s aria from, 70–71
“Sue Me,” 69
Sullivan, Arthur Seymour, 13
Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La
Grande Jatte(Seurat), 161
“Sunday in the Park,”163
Sunday in the Park with George, 119,
210; character of Seurat in,
162–63; source of, 161–64; and
West Side Story, 163–64
Sunset Boulevard, 156
“Surrey with the Fringe on Top,
The,” 107; as an integrated song,
33–40; listener reaction to, 37–38;
verse-chorus structure of, 34–35,
34–35n5
Swain, Joseph P., 20n, 66, 67
Sweeney Todd(1979), 8–9, 14, 70,
103; recognition scene in, 170–71;
and the singer-actors as orchestra
members, 148; turning-point
episode of, 171–73
Sweet Adeline(1929), 133n, 192
Swing Time, 176
“S’Wonderful,” 157–58, 198“Take Back Your Mink,” 113
“Te adoro, Anton,” 55
Tesori, Jeanine, 210
“This Is New,” 120
“This Was a Real Nice Clambake,” 82
“This Was a Real Nice Hayride,” 82
Thompson, Fred, 15
Three Penny Opera, 200
“Tomorrow Belongs to Me,” 94, 154
“Tonight,” 56–58, 59, 63, 69, 72,
107, 143n12, 198
Top Hat, 176
Tristan und Isolde, 3, 4, 63
Tunick, Jonathan, 97
Twelfth Night, 110–11Under the Clock(1893), 11
Undergrounds of the Phantom of the
Opera(Hogle), 167n
Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical
Narrative in the Nineteenth Century
(Abbate), 104n1Van Druten, John, 23
vaudeville, 179
Very Warm for May(1939), 146Wagner, Richard, 3, 4–5, 5n9, 143;
and use of the orchestra, 127–28,
128n