New York -- Shall we start with the distant past? Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" was one of the composing giant's few flops. And when it opened on Broadway in 1981, even he knew it.
"The theatergoers who didn't leave at intermission did a lot of squirming, and with reason: they felt cheated," Sondheim writes in "Finishing the Hat," the second volume of his collected lyrics and commentary.
Now fast-forward to the happy present: New York City Center has dug up a revised version for a short run that started Thursday as part of its Encore! series. No one left at intermission. Sondheim was spotted bashfully sprinting out of the auditorium as the actors bowed for their standing ovation, a smile on his face.
Writing events backward in time is a lot harder than it seems – a fact that Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics and music, and book writer...
"The theatergoers who didn't leave at intermission did a lot of squirming, and with reason: they felt cheated," Sondheim writes in "Finishing the Hat," the second volume of his collected lyrics and commentary.
Now fast-forward to the happy present: New York City Center has dug up a revised version for a short run that started Thursday as part of its Encore! series. No one left at intermission. Sondheim was spotted bashfully sprinting out of the auditorium as the actors bowed for their standing ovation, a smile on his face.
Writing events backward in time is a lot harder than it seems – a fact that Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics and music, and book writer...
- 2/9/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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