The latest Stephen Sondheim compilation album immediately courts scrutiny when it announces itself as The Essential Stephen Sondheim. For, as even the most cursory of musical theatre fans know, and as the digital booklet which accompanies the two disk affair explains, Sondheim changed the course of American musical theatre. And he didn't just do it with a handful of songs. From his first work as lyricist on Gypsy to …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:43PM on February 25, 2016