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  1. nathan arizona
    May 31, 2018,

    Didn’t predict it but glad to see it. Sondheim plus the great Madeline Kahn. Nobody better than Sondheim at undercutting sentimentality. Don’t play it at your daughter’s wedding. Well, maybe just after.

  2. Alby
    May 31, 2018,

    “Nobody better than Sondheim at undercutting sentimentality. ”

    Undercutting sentimentality in musical theater. Isn’t that like undercutting form and color in painting?

  4. Alby
    May 31, 2018,

    Seurat still used color and form. Would that Sondheim employed narrative and melody.

  5. nathan arizona
    May 31, 2018,

    “He’s for a jig or tale of bawdry, or he sleeps.” The Bard. Imagine the Bard with a smiley face.

  6. Alby
    May 31, 2018,

    I never said that of Sondheim, whose biography should be titled “Rebel Without a Tune.”

    But I would use Polonius’ statement as my response to Shakespeare in general: “This is too long.”

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