Late Broadway greats Stephen Sondheim and Mary Rodgers have brilliant last words in posthumous books 'Finale,' by D.T. Max, and 'Shy,' by Rodgers and Jesse Green, CharlesMcNulty writes.
, “Sunday in the Park With George” and “Into the Woods” was attempting to write one more landmark show before being feted into the grave.
Son of a prominent New York dress manufacturer father and a designer mother, Sondheim took refuge after his parents’ acrimonious divorce at the Bucks County, Penn., home of Sondheim plays an outsize role in Rodgers’ memoir, which chronicles her prolific romantic entanglements with gay men. The pair even gave it a go under the questionable advice of his psychoanalyst. The love trial ended in mutual frustration, but their bond was indissoluble. Who, after all, could better understand the other?
It would be hard to imagine a better sounding board than Green. He devises a daring, sometimes distracting but ultimately inspired format by saving his commentary for footnotes that contextualize, teasingly contradict and occasionally exculpate Rodgers from her unsparing self-assessments.
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