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Stephen Sondheim: Finishing the Hat

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Do You Distrust Complexity and Ingenuity in Lyrics?

You've admired the lyrics of de bose heyward for their simplicity, and i wonder, when the lyrics become complicated, do you y your own lyrics, distrust them? I'm not sure what you mean. Well, it ivens first of all, that that is a pastiche number. In the original that's that, that number is a substitution for the number called the story of lucy and jesse. And was written for diana rigg because she was not a dancer, and so the only way to solve that was to write it for a singer. But it's the same thing. It's not the complexity, its f reflection the complexity and the word play

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