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AUTHOR: STEPHEN SONDHEIM...
...seen a play that I had done and decided that I was his dream director. Bill Finn is a very determined fellow, and so he browbeat me into doing it. He once stood on Stephen Sondheim's doorstep until he came home and forced his way into his house to play his music for him. He went to Williams College and so did Sondheim. So I guess he felt that was all the introduction he needed...
...working with Stephen Sondheim: "We discuss and work on things together. With Woods I developed the concept and the book and then he brought it to another level with his music. Sondheim dosen't write anything until the book is written, then he takes it all from the book. You get raped. But he's very respectful of the writer. More so than most composers out there. For Woods, I wrote monologues for three of the characters from which Sondheim wrote their songs...
Lapine is working with Stephen Sondheim on a combination of two one acts, because, he muses, "I guess I like that form." (Sunday in the Park and Woods originated as one acts as well.) The first act is based on the 19th Century novel, Fosca, by Tanchetti, and the second act is based on a contemporary non-fiction book called Muscle by Sam Fussell. "They're both about beauty and self image," he said. "The first act is about an extremely unattractive, anorexic woman who gets a dashing, handsome man to fall in love with her. And the second...
...really intrigued by muscle and he [Sondheim] was really intrigued by Fosca, so we said, 'Hey, let's just do them together.' To me muscle is a metaphor for the eighties. My generation dropped out, did drugs, became very internal, in the same way that the eighties generation became external, more concerned with the outside than the inside. Usually I write the book, but on Fosca, Steve will be writing a lot as well...