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...greatest complaint leveled against the greatest composer of musical theater is inaccessibility. Critics label Stephen Sondheim??s works as cold and unemotional, without music or story harmonious enough to produce a genuine connection with an audience. This claim has extended particularly to Sunday in the Park with George, Sondheim??s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical that, through no small coincidence (but with much irony), investigates an artist who struggles with connection. Sunday is admittedly a challenging piece; it is filled with discordant rhythms and features little attempt at a plot. When well executed, though, it remains perhaps...
...worry about how I look, or how to smile. During the interview, I just turn into a big ear. I’m very well-suited to the invisibility of radio.” Especially with reticent guests—Gross cited the example of her own idol, Stephen Sondheim??the radio allows time to find the appropriate questions, and allows Gross, as she put it best, “to be in the environment of who they...
...Jonathan he displayed such vocal power and genuine vulnerability, that there was no way I could pull my eyes off of him. Esparza is a theatrical force to be reckoned with and I’m sure he will captivate in this fall’s Broadway premiere of Sondheim??s Assassins, where he will play the would-be FDR assassin Zangara...
Some may think that the brilliant book of Burt Shevlove and Larry Gelbart, along with Stephen Sondheim??s charming music and witty lyrics, guarantee any director a success when staging A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum...
...hours of, if not blood, then certainly toil, sweat and tears. The performance is a large-scale endeavor that requires that all the details be in place, so that the ultimate “big picture” is as powerful as it can be. Furthermore, not only is Sondheim??s music notoriously difficult for performers to master, but the audience may come in with pre-formed expectations from the widely distributed video of the original Broadway production. Innovation, then, is essential, lest the production sink into the pit of slavish imitation. The Loeb Mainstage is a cavernous...