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If you’ve been following me the last three Tuesdays, then you know I’ve been dealing with the new (and excellent) two-CD retrospective The Essential Stephen Sondheim that Masterworks Broadway recently issued. As I stated last week, the powers-that-be did a fine job in culling two-and-a-half-dozen Sondheim cuts from cast albums and other sources. Still, I […]

As I mentioned two Tuesdays ago, I can only imagine the anguish of those Sony executives who chose the thirty selections for the new two-CD retrospective The Essential Stephen Sondheim. True, the job had to be done, but how could they possibly choose so few and ignore so many others? I’m not saying that the […]

When Stephen Sondheim was growing up, “eighty-six” was a popular expression that meant “to throw out or get rid of.” Well, although Stephen Sondheim recently turned eighty-six, we here at Masterworks Broadway certainly aren’t interested in throwing out any of his work. But we ARE throwing some Sondheim your way in a nice two-disc collection […]

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall after the Masterworks Broadway powers-that-be decided, “Yeah, let’s put out a compilation called The Essential Stephen Sondheim.” Yes, doing such would be a nice way of celebrating Mr. Stephen Sondheim’s 86th birthday. But saying that there would be an album called The Essential Stephen Sondheim was the […]

There are very few musicals that become so illustrious that they are soon referred to and recognized by their initials alone. ACL is one and POTO is another, but long before they came on the scene, there was MFL: My Fair Lady. (Get the new vinyl pressing here). Although the Soothsayer in Julius Caesar warned […]