"Listen… Yes! That’s the sound of a hit! It’s a hit!" In the original 1981 production of Merrily We Roll Along, these Sondheim lyrics must have echoed hollowly ...
‘Lovable’ is not a word often used in connection with the work of Stephen Sondheim. In fact the prevailing critical view seems to be that entertainment value ...
On the day that I saw the Southwark Playhouse’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s and George Furth’s 1970 musical Company (the theatre’s first musical in its 1...