How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
Heartwarming ... There are lots of helpful things you can take from Sondheim, but they don’t map onto 'life lessons' in quite the way the book suggests — but it doesn’t matter. Beyond the headings and the odd memoirish aside, the author largely ignores the premise of the title to quickly and mercifully move on to other things.
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Compelling ... This book is not meant for Sondheim neophytes. Try as Schoch might, any attempt to acquaint the unfamiliar devolves into a dizzying barrage of character names and plot points. For a text ostensibly fixated on Sondheim, a few too many pages veer into indulgent digressions on the shows themselves ... When it comes to musing on Sondheim, from the intellectual to the introspective, Schoch seems to know it all.
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Even if you were not a Sondheim fan on page 1, there’s a good chance by mid-book you’ll be ordering tickets for the next Sondheim show in town.
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