SEX AND THE CITY

So I've spent the weekend here in Palm Springs where it is 110 degrees in the shade but it has been great --- relaxing poolside while chugging through magazines flagging sections so I can pitch starting tomorrow morning. Saw Sex and The City last night, it was nice to see the girls again and I found a lot of parallels to some classic musicals of Stephen Sondheim including "GYPSY", "COMPANY", and "INTO THE WOODS". My observation started with the fact that there were characters named Rose and Louise in the story (the two main characters in "GYPSY". Then I was listening to the music from "INTO THE WOODS" and realized that the lyrics to the songs were telling almost the same story but the "THE CITY" had been replaced by "THE WOODS" they both have heartbreak, love, loss, sense of self understanding and a nice happy ending where anything that didn't kill you can make you stronger. Samantha, Carrie or Miranda could have sang the song the song "ANY MOMENT" and it would have made total sense. (see below for lyrics). Charlotte's daughter's obsession with Cinderalla also speaks to "INTO THE WOODS" but it could be argued that the whole Carrie Bradshaw tale is a modern day Cinderalla, she found her prince and the glass slipper happens to a Manolo Bhlanik but thats a whole other post in itself. The entire storyline of "COMPANY" also translates very well with CARRIE being Bobby and Samantha being the Carol Channing character (not sure of the name) who was open about and understood the fact that she loved herself more than anything else in the world and had the ability to be both a campy and vampy spitfire with one line zingers that can make anyone blush.


Back to the pool. More later.
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1. Wife: This is ridiculous
2. What am I doing here?
3. I'm in the wrong story!
4. Wait, one moment please, sir! We can't do this.. you have a princess.
5. CP: That's true.
6. Wife: And I have a.. a baker.
7. CP: Of course, you're right. How foolish!
8. Foolishness can happen in the woods..
9. Once again, please.
10. Let your hesitations be hushed.
11. Any moment, big or small
12. Is a moment after all.
13. Seize the moment; skies may fall
14. Any moment. [kisses her, deeply]
15. Wife: No nononono.. this is not right.
16. CP: Right and wrong don't matter in the woods,
17. Only feelings..
18. Let us meet the moment unblushed.
19. Life is often so unpleasant,
20. You must know that, as a peasant.
21. Best to take a moment present
22. As a present, for the moment.
23. [After]
24. I must leave you.
25. Wife: Why?
26. CP: The giant..
27. Wife: Oh, yes, the giant. Will we find each other in the woods again?
28. CP: This was just a moment in the woods..
29. Our moment.
30. Shimmering and lovely and sad.
31. Leave the moment, just be glad
32. For the moment that we had.
33. Every moment is of moment
34. When you're in the woods..

1. Was that me? Was that him?
2. Did a prince really kiss me,
3. And kiss me.. and kiss me..
4. And did I kiss him back?
5. Was it wrong? Am I mad?
6. Was that all? Does he miss me?
7. Was he suddenly getting bored with me?
8. Wake up! Stop dreaming,
9. Stop prancing about the woods.
10. It's not beseeming.
11. What is it about the woods?
12. Back to life, back to sense, back to child, back to husband.
13. No one lives in the woods!
14. There are vows, there are ties,
15. There are needs, there are standards,
16. There are shouldn't and shoulds.
17. Why not both instead?
18. There's the answer, if you're clever.
19. Have a child for warmth, and a baker for bread,
20. And a prince, for.. whatever..
21. Never! It's these woods!
22. Face the facts, find the boy, join the group, stop the giant--
23. Just get out of these woods.
24. Was that me? Yes it was. Was that him? No it wasn't..
25. Just a trick of the woods!
26. Just a moment,
27. One peculiar passing moment.
28. Must it all be either less or more,
29. Either plain or grand?
30. Is it always 'or'?
31. Is it never 'and'?
32. That's what woods are for:
33. For those moments in the woods...
34. Oh, if life were made of moments,
35. Even now and then a bad one--!
36. But if life were only moments,
37. Then you'd never know you had one.
38. First a witch, then a child, then a Prince, then a moment--
39. Who can live in the woods?
40. And to get what you wish, only just for a moment--
41. These are dangerous woods..
42. Let the moment go..
43. Don't forget it for a moment, though.
44. Just remembering you had an 'and,' when you're back to 'or,'
45. Makes the 'or' mean more than is did before.
46. Now I understand--
47. And it's time to leave the woods.