The Economist (US), September 12th, 1998
Broadway musicals Side by side STEPHEN SONDHEIM: A LIFE. By Meryle Secrest. Knopf; 461 pages; $30. RICHARD RODGERS. By William Hyland. Yale; 384 pages; $30; K19.95 FINALLY, here is a biography of the musical-theatre colossus Stephen Sondheim that is informative and perceptive rather than a plodding "and-then-he-wrote" chronology or fannish piece of unvarnished adulation. Meryle Secrest conducted marathon interviews with the composer-lyricist, as well as with dozens of his friends and collaborators. Mr Sondheim had what seems to have been an archetypal well-off, secular-Jewish upbringing o...
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