I would so love, more than anything, to meet Stephen Sondheim. I don't mean just meet - but rather have a lunch or dinner so that we could hang out and talk for a spell. Of course, that's not going to happen I think he is 88 or 89 and so many people have wanted to get to him through the years. I cringe when I see a celebrity RIP, praying that it is not him. His lyrics and the skill he demonstrated in so many works leaves me in awe. I think he surpasses Gilbert & Sullivan by miles. Just one very small example:
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd,
His face was strange and his eye was odd
He shaved the faces of gentlemen
Who never thereafter were heard from again
Did Sweeney, Did Sweeney Todd
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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