The Beauty of Finishing the Hat

Sunday is actually my favorite Sondheim show because I see the most of the most important, obsessive artists and everything that you have to give up. But this song is also about the beauty and the reward of siphoning off some of those other things that people yearn for. It's kind of that sickness that we have, right? It's in us and it has to get out. And I just feel so seen by this song where it's, you have to finish the hat. There's nothing else. That was really impactful when I went to the show andI was like, oh, wow, he's talking about me. He's talking about this experience that I just