Lady Gaga will be introducing two songs from the score of Stephen Sondheim and David Ives' new musical in development at the 2015 Tony Awards. The untitled musical is based on a pair films by Spanish director Luis Buñuel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and The Exterminating Angel (1962).
Sondheim was recently quoted in a Times of London interview, calling Lady Gaga's Academy Awards performance of a medley of songs from The Sound of Music "a travesty," noting that "she had no relationship to what she was singing."
"Yeah, I was running at the mouth a little during that interview," the 85-year-old musical theatre legend explained. "Like I said in Sondheim On Sondheim I drink while I'm writing lyrics and I had just spent a full day trying to come up with an internal rhyme for 'bourgeoisie.' I'm not in my 30s anymore. Brilliance like 'personable/coercin' a bull' doesn't just pop out after one chardonnay these days."
It was Sondheim's partner, Jeff Romley, a huge Gaga fan, who arranged for a meeting between the two at Bar Centrale.
