An interview between Sondheim and one of his many musical muses, the exchange is all the more moving a year and a half later.
“I wanted him to know how grateful I was to be able to be in any of his work and how much he has taught me.
“Suffice it to say, we’ve all gone through something,” she said.
Lenk stars as Bobbi in the gender-swapped revival from director Marianne Elliott; LuPone is the magnificently martini-toting Joanne.
It’s evident, too, that in Sondheim’s passing, the themes of the show took on a new meaning for the cast.
Bobby Conte perhaps put it best, saying that he owed his life in theater—his livelihood, period—to Sondheim.
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