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re: FINALE(Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim}
Posted by: chrismpls 09:29 pm EST 12/24/22
In reply to: re: FINALE(Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim} - comedywest 08:54 pm EST 12/24/22

There were aspects of it I liked, and I get that he attempts to excuse himself by saying he's presenting a non-expert's take on Sondheim, but showing up for an interview with him having not read his two volumes of (semi)autobiography or, apparently, even being aware of them is ridiculous.
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re: FINALE(Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim}
Posted by: jjhbb340 10:13 am EST 12/25/22
In reply to: re: FINALE(Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim} - chrismpls 09:29 pm EST 12/24/22

I'm with you-really disappointed in a book I was looking so forward to. I thought a writer for the New Yorker would have done his research on this dream assignment. Really seemed kind of insulting-you could learn more from a Wiki posting.
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re: FINALE(Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim}
Posted by: comedywest 09:52 pm EST 12/24/22
In reply to: re: FINALE(Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim} - chrismpls 09:29 pm EST 12/24/22

That was bad. Especially not being aware of them. I haven't read them cover to cover, but I dip into them and read a show at a time, or go from one critique of a lyricist to another.
But if i was writing a profile on him, I'd read as much as I could.

At least he didn't bluff. If he did, Sondheim would have chewed him up.
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