Volume 47, Number 2 · February 10, 2000
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Broadway
By Brad Leithauser
Stephen Sondheim: A Life
by Meryle Secrest
Knopf, 461 pp., $30.00
Putting It Together 20, 2000
a revue by Stephen Sondheim, directed by Eric D. Schaeffer, by 1999-February at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, November 21
A few years ago I took a trip to the Galápagos Islands and heard the sad tale of Lonesome George. No one knows how old George is, though he's clearly getting on in years. George is a giant tortoise of a subspecies found only on Pinta Island—apparently the last remaining Pinta tortoise on the planet. When he was discovered, back in 1971, scientists hoped that a mate for him might soon be located—and that a pair of these creaky, winsome, deliberative creatures, an armored Adam and Eve, would repopulate the world in their own image. No mate was found.
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