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Twilight for Sondheim?(Review) (book review)
American Theatre, December, 2000 by Vogel, Scott
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Two new books scrutinize and burnish the composer's critical reputation "I DON'T WANT TO SPEND THE NEXT six months being iconized," declared Stephen Sondheim in a New York Times interview earlier this year, just a few weeks before his 70th birthday, in the first of several nationwide tributes to his oeuvre.
Still, given the composer's meager output these days, what are his acolytes to do? It's been years since they've had a new Sondheim show to mull and puzzle over. Who can blame them for engaging in a little amateur iconography on the side, just to keep their minds ...
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