Broadway sent in the A-team for “Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration,” an online salute to Stephen Sondheim that had theater lovers across America in full “…
belting out some of the greatest songs ever written in bathrooms or in front of sewn-together tablecloths to a captive audience, it may go down in history as a weirdly blessed quirk of good timing.
Oddly, perhaps, “West Side Story” was one of just a handful of Sondheim shows that none of the performers touched — maybe because they were under orders to have that firepower kept in reserve for the Spielberg remake, but more likely because it’s the rare show that he only wrote lyrics and not music for.
After host Raul Esparza’s farewell speech and brief a cappella snippet of “Our Time” from “Merrily We Roll Along,” there was a brief credit sequence that listed 97 singers — about 60 more than the audience had already seen. How to account for the big discrepancy? That became apparent with a post-credits rendition of “I’m Still Here” that had dozens of mostly lesser-known current Broadway performers getting in a few lines, four or so at a time, Zoom-style.
“Into the Woods” seemed tied with “Sunday in the Park” as a favorite source of material.
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