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...anyone who grew up on those old musicals and wants to hear them all again, while sitting in cozy dark corners, or laughing at round tables and having a good time. In this atmosphere a talented group of six singers will be belting everything from Cole Porter to Sondheim, with many spotlighted solos being crooned in between, against a white hot light. By the time the cast sings its way through its first show, the audience may not quite conclude that "life is a cabaret," but of the cabaret itself they will say "that's entertainment" at the very least...
...much wrong with the Eliot House version of A Little Night Music that tighter direction and a few good voices could not fix. This is not to say that the acting is good; some of it is terrible. But by far the best thing about this musical is Stephen Sondheim's marvelously sophisticated and tuneful score, and to stage a production which fails to do justice to it is more than foolish. It is a dramatic crime...
...weakness of the voices--notably those in the chorus, which appears on stage with annoying regularity to remind the leads of the power of memory. Nor is the Hugh Wheeler book, based on Ingmar Bergman's enchanting movie Smiles of a Summer's Night, in a class with Sondheim's score. But, in the end, the chief culprit is again Sanek's weak direction, which fails either to paint the frustrations of mismatched love or to create the mood of enchantment which resolves them. In the first case, we hear Fredrik singing while Anne mumbles to herself by her dressing...
...Stephen Sondheim is the master jewel cutter of the modern U.S. musical theater. His lyrics are iridescent triumphs of wit and precision; his compositions are faceted with prismatic brilliance. In Side by Side by Sondheim four Britons have performed a lavish labor of love in tribute...
...Sondheim's pearls are strung together so as to link his guiding themes. He turns obsessively to the tensions and tenacity of marriage, its tidal lure and its shipwreck debris. Almost at the moment that his songs brighten with the delights of love, they darken with the pain of love's transience and loss. Sondheim's inner beat is the tempo of Manhattan and Broadway. His scores are minidramas. His people are night people, thirsting for fame and applause and always vulnerable to the morning-after of the defeated quest. Some of Sondheim's songs...