![]() ![]() In The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre, Scott Miller excerpts his chapter about Sondheim’s The Frog from his new book He Never Did Anything Twice: Deconstructing Stephen Sondheim: “When Nathan Lane rewrote The Frogs and turned it into a musical comedy in 2004, he didn’t understand that, as interesting as it may be, it’s not a musical in any conventional sense it’s ritual. I ‘ve sort of turned into a Broadway historian anyway, pretending that the Golden Age is still with us, that Comden and Green are still wordsmithing in a booth at Katz’s, and that Stephen and Lenny and Lerner and Bock were still talking shop and modulations (whilst sipping martinis, and smoking Camels in shiny suits).” ![]() ![]() The photograph of Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein circa 1965 comes courtesy of the theater blog by Kim Corcoran, who laments that she hasn’t gotten to see most of the shows nominated for Tonys this year, “So I’ll have next to NO KNOWLEDGE tuning in. …Ah well. Much here attests to theater bloggers attachment to the past…even as we look ahead - most notably Onstage Blog’s Ashley Griffin to the threat of Artificial Intelligence, but also Ken Davenport to his producing of “Harmony” on Broadway, and others to the season’s theater awards, which simultaneously look backwards (savoring the evanescent moments onstage) and forwards (who will win.) Deep dives into specific Sondheim shows bookend the theater blog roundup below, which also features an old radio broadcast and a comparison of Huck Finn to Hamlet. ![]()
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