Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was honored with an online birthday concert full of his songs but delayed by technical difficulties.
Ivo van Hove opens his video-enhanced, Jerome Robbins-less “West Side Story,” a bombardment of sight and sound. It’s bracing, vital and sublime.Sutton Foster was the first to sing, picking “There Won’t Be Trumpets,” and her young daughter, Emily, wished Sondheim a happy birthday at the end. Christine Baranski, Audra McDonald and Meryl Streep each downed glasses of booze to team up for a raucous “The Ladies Who Lunch.
Neil Patrick Harris sang “The Witch’s Rap” and thanked Sondheim: “He made me love theater, he made me love music, he made me love rhythm,” he said. Harris’ children also played a role in the performance, bowing at the end. Jason Alexander of “Seinfeld” fame told of being challenged by the composer, while Annaleigh Ashford and Gyllenhaal reunited for a song from their 2017 Broadway partnership, the Sondheim revival of “Sunday in the Park with George.”
There was a duet from Beanie Feldstein and Ben Platt, who sang “It Takes Two.” Victor Garber recalled raptly hearing “Johanna” from “Sweeney Todd” for the first time. In a video from a field with his dog, Mandy Patinkin said of Sondheim: “He simply turns my darkness into light.”There was an intimate vibe to the event, with many musicians and singers dressed in T-shirts, minimal makeup and in front of simple backdrops.
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