| One question I would have dearly loved to ask Sondheim - was he poking fun at himself (in context of his feelings about the "I Feel Pretty" lyric) when he wrote "Come Play Wiz Me" in Anyone Can Whistle only 7 years later? In that song, he has Fay disguised as a French woman (whose French is only passable) who at one point comes up with the lyric "I like your, 'ow you say, imperturbable perspicacity." Later, Hapgood responds to that with "I like your, how you say, unmistakable authenticity." I HAVE to think that in the back of his head, Sondheim was slyly looking back at "I Feel Pretty." |
