I know it's purely coincidental, but it feels fortuitous that there have been so many revivals of Stephen Sondheim musicals in Chicago in the wake of Alain Resnais's death. Resnais was an outspoken fan of Sondheim's—he recruited the groundbreaking Broadway composer to write the score for Stavisky... (1974), and it's presumed that he cast Elaine Stritch in Providence (1978) on the basis of seeing her in Sondheim's Company when he lived in New York in the early 1970s.…
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