I came across a clip from a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 2005, to celebrate Sondheim’s 75th birthday. It showed a choir of high school children, some 200 strong, singing Our Time, the closing anthem from Merrily We Roll Along. The student who had posted the clip – one of the choir – had captioned it, simply, as 'the best day of my life’.Wholesale DC shoes hats Sondheim, it transpired, was in the audience, 'standing offstage, stage right’, another member of the choir wrote, 'crying the whole time.’
'I think that’s the reason this TV show Glee is such a hit,’ Sondheim says. 'Putting on a show is absolutely a microcosm of what we wish the world would be. It’s people of varying talents, varying intelligences, getting together and making something that wasn’t there before. And that is the most wonderful thing.’
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