The Jet-Propelled Couch was an unproduced musical based on a 1954 book by Robert Mitchell Lindner, The Fifty-Minute Hour. Lindner was a psychiatrist, and the book was a series of case histories. The book became a TV play written by Stanley Roberts, which was broadcast on Playhouse 90 in 1957. Sondheim wanted to turn it into a two-act stage musical and wrote three songs for it. The project never took off. Later, Sondheim reused one of the songs in his score for Stavisky.
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“Assassins is about how society interprets the American Dream, marginalizes outsiders and rewrites and sanitizes its collective history. "Something Just Broke" is a major distraction and plays like an afterthought, shoe horned simply to appease. The song breaks the dramatic fluidity and obstructs the overall pacing and climactic arc which derails the very intent and momentum that makes this work so compelling...”
- Mark Bakalor
“I found [the Sondheim Celebration's Company] to be completely delightful. Almost all of the numbers excited and energized me, and most of the scenes were about as pitch-perfect as you can get. I just sat there with a big smile on my face the whole show.
Which is not to say that it is perfect...”
- popcornonmyknees
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