Taking a creative journey with Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim showed me the beauty, terror and exquisite pain of being alive, writes Sonya Suares.

What did Stephen Sondheim mean to me? This is an attempt to bring order to the chaos.

I am 26 and we are performing Merrily We Roll Along (1981) for our final production at drama school. ‘How will it all unfold for us?’, we can’t help but wonder.

Some roads are soft
And some are bumpy
Some roads you really fly
Some rides are rough
And leave you jumpy
Why make it tough
By getting grumpy?
Plenty of roads to try

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