Watch Maria Friedman Talk Directing Merrily We Roll Along and Missing Stephen Sondheim
When Maria Friedman was a young girl, she caught the first London production of the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd at the Drury Lane Theatre. "I was pushed up in a rocket," she told Broadway.com Managing Editor Beth Stevens on The Broadway Show. "I felt a G-force of emotion." Many years later, Friedman became both a close friend of Sondheim's and one of the foremost interpreters of his work, beginning with pl…