re: Is Stephen Sondheim Overrated???
"If anything, far too many critics and audience members do not fully understand his shows and they tend to dismiss them as "boring", or "pretentious." Usually people that don't like his shows are those who want easy tunes, cheap laughs or overblown romanticism - They don't want to have to think about musicals They want everything served in pre-fab bite-sized bits, like a McHappy meal" Ah, the Sondheim snobs. It's not enough to simply admire The Master's works - one has to look down with disda...