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Culture A.J. Jacobs on Jews, puzzles and how Sondheim changed American crosswords forever
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Culture Never have I ever missed Stephen Sondheim more than I do today
The night that Stephen Sondheim died, I went out for drinks with a new friend. We played “Never Have I Ever,” a game I hadn’t even thought of since college, and I very slowly nursed a cocktail called, romantically, the Hundred-Year-Old Dream. We stayed out for hours. Sondheim was a master of human connection. He…
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Culture The last and greatest gift Stephen Sondheim gave us
The thing about Stephen Sondheim is that there is almost nothing meaningful to write about him, because he captured what was remarkable about himself better than anyone else ever could. In his lyrics and his music, Sondheim, the musical theater genius who died Friday at the age of 91, gave voice to an extraordinary spirit….
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Culture Stephen Sondheim wrote the soundtrack to all our lives
It’s a cliché to say that an artist has written the soundtrack of your life. When you think about it, every artist we grew up with — even the ones we despise — writes that soundtrack. But when I think about Stephen Sondheim, that cliché is actually true. Every key moment of my life, I…
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The Schmooze On Stephen Sondheim’s birthday, 856 words to make you fall in love with one of the greatest artists of all time
Today is the birthday of Stephen Sondheim, perhaps the musical theater’s greatest composer and lyricist who has ever lived. Sondheim is responsible for the lyrics of the Broadway musicals “Gypsy” and “West Side Story,” and the music and lyrics of “Sweeney Todd,” “Into The Woods,” “Sunday In The Park With George,” “A Funny Thing Happened…
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Culture In Stephen Sondheim’s birthday concert, notes of a better, more human Broadway
Streaming live on YouTube, the concert started late, then stopped abruptly, started, stopped, then abruptly disappeared. All in all, the star-studded, highly hyped “Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration” finally got rolling an hour and 15 minutes after it was supposed to. In the meantime, would-be viewers anxious to watch Broadway…
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Culture How John Mulaney Spoofed Sondheim For ‘Documentary Now!’
John Mulaney understands the Jewish soul. In the latest episode of IFC’s “Documentary Now!” the Irish Catholic-raised actor-comedian reinforces the Yiddishkeit promise of Broadway’s “Oh Hello!”, which he created with Nick Kroll, and the bawdy adolescent Jewishness of his role as Andrew Glouberman in another Kroll collaboration, “Big Mouth,” by donning sideburns to play a…
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