Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George
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Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George
he felt crowded by all the gays on the scene, for, besides Sondheim and Laurents, the director, John Dexter, was gay, and Dexter’s assistant, Wakefield Poole, was gay. And the doctor called in to cure the show’s ailments in Boston, our old friend Herbert Ross, was gay-friendly. Rodgers definitely was not, though he had collaborated for over twenty
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Ben Kenney, who was playing guitar with us before he decamped for Incubus, was there with me,
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“Musicals…are often put together at the last moment by many gifted people operating in a creative panic.” - Humphrey Burton, in his biography of Leonard Bernstein
For every tic issued I squelched dozens, or so it felt—my body was an overwound watchspring, effortlessly driving one set of hands double-time while feeling it could as easily animate an entire mansion of stopped clocks, or a vast factory mechanism, a production line like the one in Modern Times, which we watched that year in the basement of the Br
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