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...women characters cheerily introduce themselves as "the lesbians from next door." But then, only Falsettos, which capped off the Broadway season last week to wide critical acclaim, has music and lyrics by the quirky, quixotic, querulous and unquenchable William Finn. Depending on your ears, Finn is either Stephen Sondheim's natural successor or merely his canniest imitator. (Both are graduates of Williams College, and Sondheim, it is said, thinks the resemblance stops there...
...DENNIS MILLER SHOW (syndicated, weeknights). The former Saturday Night Live newscaster has made a surprisingly smooth transition to the talk-show couch. Miller's esoteric references (from Stephen Sondheim to Herman Melville) are sometimes too self-conscious, but he's hip, intelligent and -- a rarity on TV -- authentically curious...
American Love Songs for Valentine's Day--Soprano Nancy Armstrong, baritone Robert Honeysucker, violinist Daniel Stepner and Laura Jeppesen, viola de gamba, perform Broadway hits by the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Sondheim and others. Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. Friday, Feb. 14, 8 p.m. $15; $12 for students and seniors...
Laurents was offered plenty of advice about ways to improve the show -- from composers Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman and playwright Anthony Shaffer, among others, according to sources close to the producers. It was all rejected. So was the testimony of the public, which walked out in droves. At a performance last week, two elderly women in the front row tottered out about 20 minutes before the end. This writer, seated behind, longed to join them...
...overall structure of the Sondheim cabaret is rather bland. After each song, the house lights dim until the players move in place on stage for the next number. Some variation in the almost 20 transitions would have been welcome...