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We publish a new Sondheim essay & interview each week, free to all. 200+ pieces to date. You’d be so welcome to join our community! (You get a crossword as a welcome gift, too.)
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Today, we’re so proud to publish this personal account by Grammy-nominated record producer Didier C. Deutsch, detailing his more than three decades working on Sondheim’s recordings. It’s an intimate & illuminating portrait of art, ethics, and friendship.
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Raise your hand if you’re seeing MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on the big screen this weekend!
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New today, we speak to ELSBETH showrunner, screenwriter & playwright Jonathan Tolins!
We discuss his Merrily-infused season opener and much more…
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
New today, we speak to ELSBETH showrunner, screenwriter & playwright Jonathan Tolins!
We discuss his Merrily-infused season opener and much more…
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
New today, a Sondheimian guide to musical meter.
You do not need to be a music theory whizz to read this! This guide takes you through simple & compound meters step by step, and digs into some more fun territory (hemiola! cross-rhythm!) along the way.
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/sondheim-a...
Hey, o⃥l⃥d⃥ new friends! 👋
We publish a new Sondheim essay & interview each week, free to all. 200+ pieces to date. You’d be so welcome to join our community! (You get a crossword as a welcome gift, too.)
No account required - just an email address. 💌
thesondheimhub.substack.com
As we pass
Through arrangements of shadows
Toward the verticals of trees
Forever.
sometimes people like a stream that
leave you meets a boulder
🤝
halfway through the wood
New today! A piece on benediction & binding oath in MERRILY and WICKED
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Sondheim wrote “a great deal” of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at Christo’s Steak House.
“When the cocoon is self-created, the surroundings matter not at all.”
Meet our youngest ever guest!
Max Rackenberg played Frank Jr. in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on Broadway. You’ll be able to see him on the big screen when Merrily comes to cinemas next month!
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Meet our youngest ever guest!
Max Rackenberg played Frank Jr. in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on Broadway. You’ll be able to see him on the big screen when Merrily comes to cinemas next month!
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
FOR GOOD? 💚🩷
Our Wicked x Sondheim series concludes today with a look at the moral texture of influence in Wicked, Into the Woods, Sunday, and West Side Story.
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/for-good
FOR GOOD? 💚🩷
Our Wicked x Sondheim series concludes today with a look at the moral texture of influence in Wicked, Into the Woods, Sunday, and West Side Story.
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/for-good
New today! We speak to the brilliant Joel Fram, music director for Maria Friedman’s MERRILY and Marianne Elliott’s COMPANY. 🎈
Joel shares so many great stories of these two landmark productions & working closely with Sondheim:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
New today! We speak to the brilliant Joel Fram, music director for Maria Friedman’s MERRILY and Marianne Elliott’s COMPANY. 🎈
Joel shares so many great stories of these two landmark productions & working closely with Sondheim:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
New York, 2004. 📸 by Richard Avedon.
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New York, 2004. 📸 by Richard Avedon.
11.11.2025 23:31 — 👍 46 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1Thank you so much! 💚💖
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New today!
GLINDA AND THE BALLADEER 💖
Assassins, Wicked, and the acoustics of power:
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Gotta read this!!!
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New today! Our latest Supplement, which includes an exclusive essay diving deeper into the witches of Into the Woods & Wicked:
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In January, Pacific Overtures turns 50! To celebrate, we are putting together a feature collecting stories, memories & reflections from performers & audience members alike.
Would you like to contribute? More info here:
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“I’m the witch. You’re the world.”
Today, we look at “Last Midnight” and “No Good Deed” as twin moral reckonings:
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Something Wicked this way comes… 🫧
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Some Sondheim lyric fun for today…
31.10.2025 14:01 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Pinch… Paunch! Pension!
Sondheim’s 60 Minutes interview with Diane Sawyer is endlessly inspiring. And this exchange, about rhymes and reference books, is so delightful.
Rick Pender spoke with @thesondheimhub.bsky.social to discuss the release of his latest book, “Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.”
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4oD15wl
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As Halloween approaches, it was great to speak to Rick Pender about his new SWEENEY TODD book. 🩸
Rick is a significant chronicler of Sondheim’s work (he’s author of The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia, and was editor of The Sondheim Review).
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