This is another excerpt from the Stephen Sondheim 80th Birthday Celebration which was staged (and recorded for broadcast) at Avery Fisher Hall in New York on March 15, 2010. This particular song — "We're Gonna Be Alright" — was, as host David Hyde-Pierce informs us, created for the 1965 Broadway musical Do I Hear a Waltz? Mr. Sondheim famously hated the project, writing lyrics for tunes by Richard Rodgers, who was (reportedly) neither nice nor sober much of the time. As our host notes, these lyrics are a bit "naughtier" than what got on the stage back in '65.
It's performed here by Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie…a happily-wed couple who met in 1996 performing in the off-Broadway play, Trojan Women: A Love Story. Married the following year, they were together until she passed away in 2018 following a three-year battle with ovarian cancer. I saw Ms. Mazzie on the stage a few times and she was utterly dazzling and superb. In this number, you'll see why they were often referred to as "Broadway's Golden Couple"…
