1 week from today! Ann Morrison, MERRILY’s original Mary, joins us live on Zoom for a very special Q&A. 1 hour of your questions! Tuesday, October 20. 7pm Eastern. Join us here: tickettailor.com/events/thes…

I asked James Lapine this week about his working relationship with Stephen Sondheim, and what it means to see their work together still flourishing: “I always feel like he’s sitting next to me. When he used to sit next to me at a show, he touched me sometimes when something was bad, or when something was good. He kind of grabbed me in those moments. We’re very different people. I’m very understated, and he was very passionate. I don’t know how else to put it. Not that I’m not passionate… But he was voluble, I would say. It really is a marriage when you collaborate, particularly when it’s just two people. I think we were successful because we came from such different worlds. Twenty years’ difference in age. And Steve was always very brilliant and — how can I put it — methodical. And I’m a throw-up person. I just throw up and then I clean up my mess. So we were a good combo because I was more improvisational, and I think we pulled each other together in the middle, if that makes sense. We met in a central place, and we each had the things that we did well that maybe the other one didn’t. But I still feel like he’s sitting next to me. He’s sitting with me today.”

“I always feel like he’s sitting next to me.” This week, it is an honor to welcome JAMES LAPINE to The Sondheim Hub. Ahead of Into the Woods returning to the West End, we discussed how the show has changed for him over the years, the freedom he gives other artists to make it their own, and the continuing presence of Stephen Sondheim in his life… Read our full conversation below:

New today, our interview with Co-Artistic Director of @TheRSC Daniel Evans. On his years of Sondheim experience, finding is own George in SUNDAY, and directing Jonathan Groff in AS YOU LIKE IT. Full conversation below…

Something special for you today. An extended conversation with SWEENEY TODD’s original barber, and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC’s original Fredrik, Len Cariou. Link below 👇

“I was someone in a tree.” We have a real treat for you today: our interview with James Dybas, the original “someone” in a tree. 50 years after PACIFIC OVERTURES, James reflects on the extraordinary show he is forever part of: thesondheimhub.com/p/a-conve…

“I am not hiding behind my canvas. I am living in it.” The real Georges Seurat WAS living in his canvas, hidden from view for more than a century. The vase of flowers below was once Seurat himself, at his easel. It would have been his only self-portrait. He painted over it.

“I can’t talk about it without crying.” Sondheim speaking about the painting at the heart of Sunday in the Park with George:

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