Title: Great, Wonderful, Fabulous *but* .....
Review: Immediately before beginning this book, I read Stephen Sondheim : A Life by Meryle Secrest. (I recommend Secrest's biography). The two books together are powerful. It is will help to have an interest and some knowledge of musical harmony and piano, as I myself happen to have. Reading this book may well be as close as most of us will ever come to what it must have been like for Sondheim, when he was 16, to spend an afternoon with Hammerstein being taught the essentials of writing a musical comedy. Sondheim has always been generous with his time and energy to help up and coming musical comedy composers...Sondheim helped this book's author by providing comments and insites concerning the manuscript. Sondheim has never forgotten how greatful he was, when he was starting out, to be helped by many other people who helped him for unselfish reasons.
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