the Sondheim of the quick, witty, sardonic, love-seeking and sex-driven city that he recorded and worked in through his long life.” Accompanied by her music director, Tedd Firth, and four other ...
Moreover, the revelations Schoch suggests that Sondheim offers are pedestrian: “How to love” for his musical “Passion”; “How to let the darkness in” for“Assassins”; and “How to ...
For many of these musical purists, Stephen Sondheim, who died in 2021 aged 91, was their pope. A lifelong wisecracking New Yorker, Sondheim inherited the musical theatre tradition from his mentor ...
Sondheim’s stunning debut came writing the ... remains a famous lamentation about bad timing when it comes to love. “Isn’t it rich?” sings the character Desiree. “Are we a pair?
Sondheim and Elliott collaborated to update Company, bringing Bobbie's array of friends and lovers into the 21st century: Paul is waiting patiently for his fiancée Jamie to get over his frantic ...