I’d thought that an erudite treatise on Sondheim’s oeuvre might cheer me. Revisiting the music certainly did. Listening to a stack of brilliant original cast recordings is a reason for joy, and listening to familiar ones with a deeper appreciation of context, even more so. But McLaughlin contorts meaning to find connecting threads that strain..
An ambitious dissertation that does not convince.
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