{"id":83938,"date":"2021-11-28T23:34:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T07:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=83938"},"modified":"2021-11-28T23:34:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T07:34:29","slug":"side-by-side-by-sondheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/11\/28\/side-by-side-by-sondheim\/","title":{"rendered":"Side By Side By Sondheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cThe obvious one would be <strong>A Little Night Music<\/strong>.&nbsp; I know I could do that<br \/>\nrole very well now that I\u2019ve gotten to this stage in my life,<br \/>\nand you know it\u2019s a beautiful song in there.&nbsp; It\u2019s perfection.<\/em><em>\u201d <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2013 <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Sarah Brightman <\/strong>reveals what might tempt her to return to the musical stage.&nbsp;<br \/>\nYes, the former <strong>Mrs. Andrew Lloyd Webber <\/strong>longs to do a show by <strong>Stephen Sondheim<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I first met <strong>Stephen Sondheim <\/strong>at a crowded event in NYC.&nbsp; I knew it was going to be one of those brief encounters \u2013 we\u2019d be introduced, he\u2019d say hi and keep walking.&nbsp; But that also meant I\u2019d have 10 seconds to make an impression.&nbsp; He said it was nice to meet me.&nbsp; I said, \u201cI just saw <strong>Dorothy Lamour <\/strong>in <strong><em>Side by Side by Sondheim<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d&nbsp; That stopped him dead in his tracks.&nbsp; He looked intrigued.&nbsp; \u201cReally?&nbsp; Where?\u201d&nbsp; \u201cA dinner theatre in Anaheim.\u201d&nbsp; He smiled.&nbsp; \u201cHow was it?\u201d&nbsp; I had the perfect retort: \u201cHow do you think?\u201d&nbsp; Sondheim let out a guffaw.&nbsp; He still walked away, but I got a laugh \u2013 and getting a laugh out of Stephen Sondheim was good enough for me.&nbsp; Rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe obvious one would be A Little Night Music.&nbsp; I know I could do that role very well now that I\u2019ve gotten to this stage in my life, and you know it\u2019s a beautiful song in there.&nbsp; It\u2019s perfection.\u201d &nbsp; \u2013 Sarah Brightman reveals what might tempt her to return to the musical stage.&nbsp; Yes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83948,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83938\/revisions\/83948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}