Stephen Sondheim: A Life

Jewish Exponent | October 15, 1998 | Copyright

Jewish Exponent
10-15-1998
Stephen Sondheim: A Life

by Meryl Sechrist. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 448 pages, $30.

STEVE COHEN

Stephen Sondheim and his music are all around us. His "Merrily We Roll Along" was revived last month at the Arden Theater; his "Follies" is poised between a successful revival at the Paper Mill Playhouse and a move to a big Broadway house; and a comprehensive biography has just been published.

It's ironic, but this comes at the time of an apparent creative lull, when New York has been without a new Sondheim musical in more than four years. This is Sondheim's longest fallow ...

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