Julia McKenzie, the English actress and singer who has appeared in innumerable Sondheim shows, describes his songs as both the most challenging and the most rewarding that any performer could hope to sing. 'He demands a lot of you, but it is the best experience you could have in a musical. You don't have to make buttons and bows over things as you do in some musicals;Wholesale NBA hats he just gives you everything. His songs even put your body into the right physical state.'
When I ask him to elaborate on a critique of his lyrics he goes about it with almost masochistic relish. 'Verbosity. Glibness. Repeating the same idea or notion in a disguised version within a lyric is something I can sometimes get away with, but it is getting away with it. Maybe a fussiness. That is to say too much detail and not enough muscle – Cheap F1 hatswriting superficially about an idea instead of coming to grips with it. I truly believe I'm aware of my weaknesses and I fight against them, but of course I don't succeed in overcoming them all the time.'
It should also be added that he is just as hard on himself. Writing of Maria from West Side Story ('Say it loud and there's music playing/Say it soft and it's almost like praying'), he laments the 'overall wetness of the lyric – a wetness, I regret to say,Wholesale F1 hats which persists throughout all the romantic lyrics in the show, but which appealed to my collaborators and which may very well have contributed to the score's popularity.'
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