Royal Exchange, ManchesterSome ponderous writing fails to thwart a compelling vision of Stephen Sondheim's interlacing fairytalesLines that rhyme are fine " for a time. But, after a bit, the fit of the rhyme to the line starts to feel forced, as if the dynamics of the dialogue and action are being held in check by the verse. This is not to say that Stephen Sondheim's 1986 musical interlacing of a handful of fairytale…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:28AM on January 10, 2016