| The Sondheim revues work as well as they do because so often the songs are inherently dramatic, almost playlets in their own right. |
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| After so many hits, the law of averages demanded a clinker from the Kennedy Center's Sondheim Celebration, and got it with A Little Night Music. |
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| Louise covered my tracks and I got a hug from Sondheim, which in my book is one up on a French kiss from Mozart. |
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| What we have here is a stunning musical idea with superior vintage Sondheim songs, all in search of a book. |
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| I would have been very sorry indeed to have missed the latest reincarnation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies. |
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| They sang a variety of songs from Abba to Sondheim, from old classics to brand new numbers. |
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| Her phrasing and performance of the lyrics here, not just by Sondheim but also by some of the seminal rhymesters of the stage is remarkable. |
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| She never conveys the emotional pull Sondheim exerts on some of us. |
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| The cannibalism is, in typical Sondheim fashion, a cheeky metaphor for the dog-eat-dog capitalism of the day. |
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| Hailed as a prodigy in the US, critics have frothed over her ability to switch from elegant jazz to rap to complex satirical songs worthy of Sondheim. |
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| I made sure to have James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim involved throughout the whole process. |
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| The scene begins chaotically, as Sondheim interrupts the recording and tells Dean Jones to try again. |
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| Lapine, who directed it, could do no better than admire his own good work by showing the rhapsodic performance in Six by Sondheim. |
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| But Sondheim is renowned for saying if it's in a musical theatre, it's a musical theatre piece. |
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| At the same time, Stephen Sondheim found success with some of his musicals, as mentioned above. |
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| The book was adapted by Arthur Laurents, with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by newcomer Stephen Sondheim. |
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| The most famous musical theatre adaptation is West Side Story with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. |
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| At its most basic, this is thunderingly enjoyable Victorian melodrama. But as always in Sondheim, there is a marvellous intelligence and wit at work. |
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| On 31 July, again at the Proms, he performed in a concert from the Royal Albert Hall celebrating the works of Stephen Sondheim, in his 80th birthday year. |
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