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...married to feel the strain of that imposing bond; our lives are filled with couples who hang on to each other, bored but afraid to see what else is out there, trading happiness for security. For everyone who has ever contemplated the pros and cons of connubial bliss, Stephen Sondheim has a musical...
...current Loeb production of Company features a generally strong cast, some imaginative staging and choreography and, like almost all Mainstage shows, some annoying deficiencies. But this show has much more going for it from the start than most, for it features a superb brace of songs by Stephen Sondheim, arguably the premier songwriter of his generation. The cast cannot perform all of the numbers as well as one would like--the score, as in all Sondheim shows, has some difficult harmonies and is perhaps a bit too tough for an amateur cast--but this production is strong enough...
DIED. Cyril Ritchard, 79, Australian-born actor, singer and director best known for his portrayal of Captain Hook in Peter Pan; of a heart attack; in Chicago, where he had been appearing in the musical Side by Side by Sondheim. A courtly, mellifluous-voiced bon vivant, Ritchard began in 1917 as a chorus boy in Sydney, played everything from Restoration comedy to modern farce in Britain, Australia and on Broadway. "I've seen so much illness and suffering," he once said, "why inflict more? My job is to make people grin a bit and see the joke...
...Stephen Sondheim (A Little Night Music, Company) on why he made the decision to become a composer: "Oscar Hammerstein was my teacher from the time I was eleven. He kept urging me to write. I just wanted to be what he was. If he had been a geologist, I would have been a geologist...
...happy. This inauspiciousness yields to an improving humor, however, with "Where Was I When They Passed Out Luck" from Minnie's Boys, a play based on the Marx Brothers. "My City," a throbbingly evil, beautifully choreographed ode to New York City and Stephen Hayes's terrific performance of Stephen Sondheim's "Everybody Says Don't," also succeed in capturing the audience...