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Broadway Puzzler #112
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#25re: Broadway Puzzler #112
Posted: 12/28/04 at 8:54pmHa! I just got up to that part in SS: A Life.
#26re: Broadway Puzzler #112
Posted: 12/28/04 at 8:56pmWell folks, I guess that everyone should all stay away from the book "Stephen Sondheim : A Life" since it seems that Meryle Secrest does not know what she is talking about.
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
#27re: Broadway Puzzler #112
Posted: 12/28/04 at 9:51pm
Martin Gottfried should give up as well because in his book "Sondheim", published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in the chapter called "Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man" (page 12, third paragraph) he writes:
"When he was ten, his father left Foxy for Alicia Babe. The divorce agreement allowed weekly visits, and father and son would often spend those days at the big presentation theaters in Times Square-the Paramount, the Strand, the Capitol, the Roxy, Radio City Music Hall-where stage shows alternated with movies. Herbert also continued taking Stephen to the theater, as he had been doing since the boy's childhood. The first show Sondheim remembers seeing was 'White Horse Inn", with Kitty Carlisle. He also went with his dad to see Rodgers and Hart's "The Boys from Syracuse" and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's "Very Warm for May". There had been the occasional play ("Arsenic and Old Lace", for instance), but musicals were the great love of Herbert Sondheim.
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
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