Music: Stephen Sondheim interview

Music: Stephen Sondheim interview; Sondheim interview (cont'd) SOT- Talks about loneliness of his childhood - was only child / Working with collaborator gives sense of having a brother / When working with director and actors on a show they become a family / If had experienced more of a family life when growing up probably would have become a mathematician / Falling within orbit of Oscar Hammerstein is what made him want to become a songwriter / On criticism that his recent work has been 'cold' / Doesn't think his recent shows have been 'cold' so much as dispassionate and objective - they're anti-sentimental / People don't want musicals to be cerebral / Most people who go to musicals want to go to have a mindless evening