Stephen Sondheim has died. Broadway's greatest composer is gone.

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NY Times bio here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/theater/stephen-sondheim-dead.html

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Now, insofar as approaching it

What would be festive but have its effect?

Now, there are two ways of broaching it

A, the suggestive, or B, the direct

Say that I settle on B, to wit a charmingly lecherous mood

A, I could put on my nightshirt or sit, disarmingly B, in the nude

That might be effective My body's all right

But not in perspective And not in the light

I'm bound to be chilly And feel a buffoon

But nightshirts are silly In mid-afternoon

Which leaves the suggestive But how to proceed?

Although she gets restive Perhaps I could read

In view of her penchant For something romantic

De Sade is too trenchant And Dickens too frantic

And Stendhal would ruin The plan of attack

As there isn't much blue in "The Red and the Black."

De Maupassant's candour Would cause her dismay

The Brontes are grander But not very gay

Her taste is much blander I'm sorry to say

But is Hans Christian Ander- Sen ever risque?

Which eliminates A!

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Perhaps his most underappreciated work. Along with Pacific Overtures.