An Updated 'Marry Me a Little' Loses Some of the Original's Charm
Having seen the original 1981 production of this one-act, dialogue-free musical, I have long maintained that it is the best of the Sondheim compendium shows. Unlike the others, such as “Putting it Together” and “Side by Side by Sondheim,” “Marry Me a Little” contained virtually new—at least unfamiliar—numbers, either from early Sondheim works that few saw or songs that …