Friday, May 5, 2017


I see a lot of people got these typed notes before the internet, which I've assumed were typed by his assistant, but there's been speculation that he typed them himself.  I liked that he would give a reason not coming to a show.  Also I liked the line "flying to California for my sins." :)















The review by Jesse Green today in the Times of the well-received off-Broadway PACIFIC OVERTURES discussed why this new production cut the song "Chrysanthemum Tea," and that Mr. Sondheim considered it in many ways a "Jewish mother" song.

Looking back at fall 2010, when I did, with my neighbor Sheree Sano,  a political-minded 

"Chrysanthemum Tea Party Overtures"

Please pass the link around if you like this parody moment from the past, which was YouTube'd in fall 2010 with an OK from Mr. Sondheim and his publisher.