Stephen Sondheim. THR (I love the Meryl Streep “don’t f–k it up” story). Variety.
I am not the person who should be writing this. I am hoping that the person who should be writing this will send me something I can use here.
But what little I know about musical theater, I know because Mike the Musicologist introduced me to it…by playing me lots of Sondheim’s work.
NYT interview conducted last Sunday. It sounds like he was in full possession of his facilities until the end, and didn’t have any more complaints than the average 91 year old would.
MtM sent me this last night. I confess, I haven’t watched all of it yet (it is over two hours). But: this is the complete original production of “Pacific Overtures“, recorded on June 9, 1976 for broadcast in Japan.
“Pacific is, I think, the least appreciated of Sondheim’s shows, and is probably his most brilliant one.”
I often say, when people die, that the world is a smaller, colder, lesser place. I mean that: there are people whose contributions are so great or important or enlightening or just so much damn fun that, when they die, they leave a hole in the world. Richard Feynman. Ricky Jay. Stephen Sondheim.