'Loiter?' Sondheim rolls the word around his tongue. 'Well, "goitre" is the obvious one.' He laughs. 'But it's a hard word to place. There are certain rhymes where you need the exact situation. I once wanted to rhyme "opposite" and "poppa sit", and I had a situation where a woman is seating her family at a table, so "poppa sit opposite" made perfect senseCheap Arizona Diamondbacks Hats. And I thought, God, that's so lucky, because what other situation could I use that in?
Affixed to the bench was a sign that read, somewhat paradoxically, no loitering. What could Sondheim make of that?
In my bag I was carrying a copy of Sondheim's new book, Finishing the Hat, a compendium of the lyrics from his first musical, Saturday Night (1954), to Merrily We Roll Along (1981), along with his commentaries and observations. (The book is only volume one; he is working on volume two.) As Sondheim acknowledges in his introduction, cheap Baltimore Orioles Hats a book of song lyrics is a contradiction in terms: 'Theatre lyrics are not written to be read but to be sung.' But Sondheim's lyrics stand apart from the music, like playlets in themselves, unparalleled in their wit, erudition and ingenuity.
He is, by universal acknowledgement, the man who revolutionised American musical theatre, and the last survivor of a form that is all but extinct, swept away in the deluge of 'jukebox musicals', overblown crowd-pleasers and 'theme-park' spectacles that now dominate the Broadway stage.
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