Beginning our series of Guardian writers' favourite musicals, Lyn Gardner describes why she loves Stephen Sondheim's 1971 'pas de deux of regret'"Without music, life would be a mistake," suggested Friedrich Nietzsche. Without the musical, theatre wouldn't be a mistake, but it would be a pale shadow. There are few theatre forms " apart perhaps from pantomime and theatre made for children " that are dismissed with quit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AM on September 6, 2017