Little Dream
Susan Egan * Track #9 On Sondheim at the Movies
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Album Sondheim at the Movies
- #1Back in Business
Alet Oury Taylor
- #2Dawn
Jolie Jenkins, Bryan Batt, Danny Burstein & James Hindman
- #3The Glamorous Life
Cassidy Ladden
- #4What Can You Lose?
Guy Haines
- #5More
Jennifer Simard
- #6Stavisky Suite One
Brad Ellis (USA)
- #7Sand
Christiane Noll
- #8It Takes All Kinds
Bryan Batt, Danny Burstein, Robert Randle, Jim Ryan, Kevin Pariseau & Alec Timerman
- #9Little Dream
Susan Egan
- #10Stavisky Suite Two
Brad Ellis (USA)
- #11Sooner Or Later
Jane Krakowski
- #12Stavisky Suite Three
Brad Ellis (USA)
- #13If You Can Find Me, I’m Here
Gary Beach
- #14
I RememberLiz Callaway
- #15When
Liz Callaway & Gary Beach
- #16Take Me to the World
Liz Callaway & Gary Beach
- #17Goodbye For Now
Tom Fay
Little Dream by Susan Egan
Performed by
Susan EganProduced by
Bruce KimmelWrited by
Stephen SondheimAbout
This song was written for the 1996 film The Birdcage as a number for Albert (Nathan Lane) to sing in his drag show. The song wound up being heard only briefly in the film as Albert tries to rehearse with a gum-chewing dancer, but it is performed in full on the soundtrack album.
Little Dream Lyrics
[STARINA]
What is this dream
I see?
Why does it seem
So real to me?
What if this dream
Turns out to be
More than a dream?
Come, little dream
And play
Don't be afraid
Don't fade away
Quick, little dream
Before you're gone
You are the dream
And I the dreamer
Each night anew
Tell me, my dream
Are you a dreamer, too?
And of who?
And if you are my dream
Come true
Why do I feel
Unreal
With you?
Are you my dream
Or am I yours instead?
Either way
Little dream
Supreme
I say
"Full steam
Ahead!"
You are the dream
And I the dreamer
Each night anew
Tell me, my dream
Are you a dreamer, too?
And of who?
And if you are my dream
Come true
Why do I feel
Unreal
With you?
Are you my dream
Or am I yours instead?
Either way
Little dream
Supreme
I say
"Full steam
Ahead!"
Little Dream Q&A
Who wrote Little Dream's ?
Little Dream was written by Stephen Sondheim.
Who produced Little Dream's ?
Little Dream was produced by Bruce Kimmel.
What did Susan Egan say about "Little Dream"?
In Look, I Made a Hat, Sondheim writes:
I thought [“It Takes All Kinds”] was appropriate and clever, [“Little Dream”] funny, but Mike [Nichols] decided not to use the first and only half the lyric of the second. His rejection did not affect our friendship, however. It was just a movie. The theater...