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Stephen Sondheim showed me the beauty, terror and exquisite pain of being alive

  • Written by: Sonya Suares, Guest Lecturer, WAAPA, Edith Cowan University
Stephen Sondheim showed me the beauty, terror and exquisite pain of being aliveNick Simpson-Deeks, Vidya Makan and company in the Watch This production of Sunday in the Park With George, 2019. Watch This/Jodie Hutchinson, Author provided

What did Stephen Sondheim mean to me? This is an attempt to bring order to the chaos.

My first encounter with his work is a re-run of the 1962 film adaptation of West Side Story (1957). I am...

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