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October 9, 2017

Church had a real good time in GYPSY

INTERVIEW BY BRAD HATHAWAY

See a full gallery of Gypsy photographs here. At age 22, Sandra Church originated the role of Louise in Jule Styne, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim’s Gypsy staged by Jerome Robbins. She retired from the theater in the 1960s to pursue a career in the visual arts. She now lives in California. She sat down […]

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Filed Under: Feature, Interview, Sample Contents Tagged With: Gypsy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Hal Prince, Klugman, Merman, Robbins, Sandra Church, Stephen Sondheim

October 6, 2017

More Stritch: End of Pretend (Chapter Four)

INTERVIEW BY JOHN BELL

In 2014 when I arrived at The Dakota in Detroit for my second-to-last visit with Elaine Stritch, she was sitting up in her bed. Her arms and legs were noticeably thin. Those endless gams of hers had begun to look twig-like. For the first time, she looked frail and vulnerable. As I entered, her hair […]

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Filed Under: Feature, Interview, Sample Contents Tagged With: Elaine Stritch

June 26, 2017

The End of Pretend, Chapter 2

BY JOHN BELL

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series of visits and conversations chronicling the late Elaine Stritch’s final acts. The first appeared in the April/May 2017 print edition of Everything Sondheim. After Elaine’s visit to DeSales University’s campus in January 2009, I sent flowers to her at The Carlyle. She called to thank me. […]

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Filed Under: Feature, Interview, Sample Contents Tagged With: Cafe Carlyle, Elaine Stritch, John Bell, Stephen Sondheim

May 22, 2017

An Inventive “Cast” Party

BY TERRI ROBERTS

Fiasco Theatre Company’s touring production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s cautionary tale of wishes (and witches), Into the Woods, ended its month-long stay in Los Angeles on May 14, 2017, and moved on to Dallas. But before departing LA’s Ahmanson Theatre, the company celebrated its residency in the City of Angels with — what […]

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Filed Under: Feature, Sample Contents Tagged With: Ahmanson Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Fiasco, Into the Woods

May 22, 2017

NY Festival of Song Celebrated Sondheim

BY DIANE NOTTLE

The tributes keep on coming. “Honoring Stephen Sondheim” was the theme of the 2017 New York Festival of Song’s spring gala on April 19, 2017. Leading the cast was Pamela Myers singing “Another Hundred People,” the song she belted into the world as the original Marta in Company. Also on the program: “You Must Meet […]

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Filed Under: Feature, Sample Contents Tagged With: Carnegie Hall, New York Festival of Song, Pamela Myers, Ron Raines

March 28, 2017

“Sondheimas Mixtape” at Joe’s Pub in NYC

REPORT BY DIANE NOTTLE

What would you expect when fans have been known to refer to their favorite composer and lyricist (who wrote a song about it) as God? The Sondheimas Mixtape at the Public Theater in Manhattan on March 20, 2017, was an Advent calendar of treats two nights before Stephen Sondheim’s 87th birthday. A dozen or so soloists, […]

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Filed Under: Feature, Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: Andrei Strizek Singers, Joe's Pub, Sondheimas, Stephen Sondheim

March 23, 2017

Have Your Pie and Eat It, Too

INTERVIEW BY JOSH AUSTIN

  In New York City, the Barrow Street Theatre production of Sweeney Todd (running until at least Dec. 31, 2017) truly extends beyond the normalcy of the fourth wall. More than an immersive experience — cozying theatergoers in Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop next to the Demon Barber himself — the audience gets fed, too. Luckily […]

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Filed Under: Feature, Interview, Sample Contents Tagged With: Bill Buckhurst, Harrington's Pie and Mash, pie and mash, Simon Kenny, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, Tooting Arts Club

February 19, 2017

A Work of Art: Sunday in the Park at Boston’s Huntington Theater

BY DIANE NOTTLE

Color and light, tension and harmony. These design elements should be fundamental to any stage production, but perhaps none more than Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George. In Peter DuBois’s production at the Huntington Theater in Boston (Sept. 9-Oct. 16, 2016), the designers addressed another of the show’s themes: making an artist’s vision […]

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Filed Under: Feature, Premium Tagged With: Christopher Akerlind, Derek McLane, Huntington Theater, Peter DuBois, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George

February 19, 2017

Boris Aronson: Vision and Execution

BY CHRISTOPHER WEIMER

In an extraordinary six-year period, Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince brought four landmark musicals to Broadway: Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973) and Pacific Overtures (1976). All four iconic productions of these remarkably disparate shows featured scenic designs by the same man: Boris Aronson. A son of the Grand Rabbi of Kiev, […]

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Filed Under: Feature, Premium Tagged With: A Little Night Music, Boris Aronson, cabaret, Company, Follies, Hal Prince, Pacific Overtures, Stephen Sondheim

October 4, 2016

Gift That Keeps On Giving: Jim Walton talks about Merrily’s original production

INTERVIEW BY BOB NEU

  At the age of 25, Jim Walton originated the role of Franklin Shepard in Merrily We Roll Along on Broadway. Walton talks about the highs and lows of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that came his way after being a New York actor for only two years. Walton has gone on to appear in any number […]

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Filed Under: Feature, Interview, Premium Tagged With: Best Worse Thing, documentary, Hal Prince, Jim Walton, Lonny Price, Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim

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