Category: Stephen Sondheim
Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” Is Getting Rave Reviews
Somebody please check on Lady Gaga because the critics are finally shouting A STAR IS BORN and it’s not because they just now got around to watching their screeners from three years ago. They are talking about Rachel Zegler who makes her big-screen debut as Maria in Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner’s remake of West Side Story which in early reviews is being heralded as “phenomenal” and a “triumph,” with outstanding performances by Rachel, Ariana DeBose as Anita and David Alvarez as Bernardo, that Ansel Elgort is also in. Finally, Martin Scorsese can stop asking who he has to blow to get some CINEMA up in this bitch! Turns out it was his old pal Spielberg all along.
The Legendary Stephen Sondheim Has Died
Well, this one has hit me hard. Stephen Sondheim, one of the kings of Broadway and master of musical theater, died this morning at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was 91. There really are no words for a man who knew how to use them more than well.
The Live Stream Of Stephen Sondheim’s 90th Birthday Celebration Concert Was Extra Dramatic Due To Technical Difficulties
Last night’s live stream broadcast of Broadway.com’s Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration gave all the Anne Hathaway types their lives, but it also shaved precious minutes off said lives due to a harrowing period of technical difficulties which can be summed up by the face host Raúl Esparza is making above. If the show hadn’t ultimately given us the cultural high watermark of Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep, and Audra McDonald in their bathrobes getting litty 2 titty while singing The Ladies Who Zoom, I mean Lunch, it might have been a complete disaster.
Stephen Sondheim Took A Tumble At His Home
We’re only a week into the new year, and 2020 is testing us already. The New York Post reports that 89-year-old Stephen Sondheim fell at his home a few days ago. I can’t imagine that was an easy call for the 911 operator to receive. “Stephen Sondheim fell sometime today, send help, he’s hurt!” It must be hard to focus when your ears are being drilled with the alliterative pizazz of a Sondheim lyric.