Sondheim told him that he particularly liked the double meaning in the lyrics. Rob was like “…what?” (from the Playbill article linked by Unhookthestars, elsewhere in this thread)
Rob [McClure] was like "...what?," and so, I think, would be just about anybody. All I'm saying is that if Sondheim really hoped/wanted/expected some large percentage of the audience to "subconsciously" hear in his lyric an alternative homonym for "woods" so far out of any ordinary usage as to be virtually nonexistent, and whose meaning no one seems quite able to nail down, and all this while processing the actual lyric as actually written (which already gives an audience more than enough to think about), well, he was kidding himself. Or perhaps he was kidding Rob McClure a bit. ; ) |
