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💌 enquiries: thesondheimhub@gmail.com
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https://thesondheimhub.substack.com
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Meet our youngest ever guest!
Max Rackenberg played Frank Jr. in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on Broadway. You’ll be able to see him on the big screen when Merrily comes to cinemas next month!
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Max Rackenberg played Frank Jr. in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on Broadway. You’ll be able to see him on the big screen when Merrily comes to cinemas next month!
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
A Conversation with Max Rackenberg
Frank Jr. in Broadway's Merrily We Roll Along
thesondheimhub.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Meet our youngest ever guest!
Max Rackenberg played Frank Jr. in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on Broadway. You’ll be able to see him on the big screen when Merrily comes to cinemas next month!
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Max Rackenberg played Frank Jr. in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on Broadway. You’ll be able to see him on the big screen when Merrily comes to cinemas next month!
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Meet our youngest ever guest!
Max Rackenberg played Frank Jr. in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on Broadway. You’ll be able to see him on the big screen when Merrily comes to cinemas next month!
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Max Rackenberg played Frank Jr. in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on Broadway. You’ll be able to see him on the big screen when Merrily comes to cinemas next month!
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
A Conversation with Max Rackenberg
Frank Jr. in Broadway's Merrily We Roll Along
thesondheimhub.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Meet our youngest ever guest!
Max Rackenberg played Frank Jr. in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on Broadway. You’ll be able to see him on the big screen when Merrily comes to cinemas next month!
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Max Rackenberg played Frank Jr. in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on Broadway. You’ll be able to see him on the big screen when Merrily comes to cinemas next month!
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
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FOR GOOD? 💚🩷
Our Wicked x Sondheim series concludes today with a look at the moral texture of influence in Wicked, Into the Woods, Sunday, and West Side Story.
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/for-good
Our Wicked x Sondheim series concludes today with a look at the moral texture of influence in Wicked, Into the Woods, Sunday, and West Side Story.
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/for-good
For Good?
Sondheim, Wicked, and the moral texture of influence
thesondheimhub.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
FOR GOOD? 💚🩷
Our Wicked x Sondheim series concludes today with a look at the moral texture of influence in Wicked, Into the Woods, Sunday, and West Side Story.
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/for-good
Our Wicked x Sondheim series concludes today with a look at the moral texture of influence in Wicked, Into the Woods, Sunday, and West Side Story.
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/for-good
FOR GOOD? 💚🩷
Our Wicked x Sondheim series concludes today with a look at the moral texture of influence in Wicked, Into the Woods, Sunday, and West Side Story.
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/for-good
Our Wicked x Sondheim series concludes today with a look at the moral texture of influence in Wicked, Into the Woods, Sunday, and West Side Story.
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/for-good
For Good?
Sondheim, Wicked, and the moral texture of influence
thesondheimhub.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
FOR GOOD? 💚🩷
Our Wicked x Sondheim series concludes today with a look at the moral texture of influence in Wicked, Into the Woods, Sunday, and West Side Story.
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/for-good
Our Wicked x Sondheim series concludes today with a look at the moral texture of influence in Wicked, Into the Woods, Sunday, and West Side Story.
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/for-good
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New today! We speak to the brilliant Joel Fram, music director for Maria Friedman’s MERRILY and Marianne Elliott’s COMPANY. 🎈
Joel shares so many great stories of these two landmark productions & working closely with Sondheim:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Joel shares so many great stories of these two landmark productions & working closely with Sondheim:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
A Conversation with Joel Fram
Music director for Maria Friedman's Merrily & Marianne Elliott's Company
thesondheimhub.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
New today! We speak to the brilliant Joel Fram, music director for Maria Friedman’s MERRILY and Marianne Elliott’s COMPANY. 🎈
Joel shares so many great stories of these two landmark productions & working closely with Sondheim:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Joel shares so many great stories of these two landmark productions & working closely with Sondheim:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
New today! We speak to the brilliant Joel Fram, music director for Maria Friedman’s MERRILY and Marianne Elliott’s COMPANY. 🎈
Joel shares so many great stories of these two landmark productions & working closely with Sondheim:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Joel shares so many great stories of these two landmark productions & working closely with Sondheim:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
A Conversation with Joel Fram
Music director for Maria Friedman's Merrily & Marianne Elliott's Company
thesondheimhub.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
New today! We speak to the brilliant Joel Fram, music director for Maria Friedman’s MERRILY and Marianne Elliott’s COMPANY. 🎈
Joel shares so many great stories of these two landmark productions & working closely with Sondheim:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Joel shares so many great stories of these two landmark productions & working closely with Sondheim:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
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New York, 2004. 📸 by Richard Avedon.
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
New York, 2004. 📸 by Richard Avedon.
New York, 2004. 📸 by Richard Avedon.
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
New York, 2004. 📸 by Richard Avedon.
New today!
GLINDA AND THE BALLADEER 💖
Assassins, Wicked, and the acoustics of power:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/glinda-and...
GLINDA AND THE BALLADEER 💖
Assassins, Wicked, and the acoustics of power:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/glinda-and...
Glinda and the Balladeer
Assassins, Wicked, and the acoustics of power
thesondheimhub.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
New today!
GLINDA AND THE BALLADEER 💖
Assassins, Wicked, and the acoustics of power:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/glinda-and...
GLINDA AND THE BALLADEER 💖
Assassins, Wicked, and the acoustics of power:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/glinda-and...
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Gotta read this!!!
New today! Our latest Supplement, which includes an exclusive essay diving deeper into the witches of Into the Woods & Wicked:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/the-witch-...
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/the-witch-...
The Witch Withdraws: Absence as Curse in “Last Midnight” and “No Good Deed”
Why withdrawal, not wickedness, is the real catastrophe.
thesondheimhub.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Gotta read this!!!
New today! Our latest Supplement, which includes an exclusive essay diving deeper into the witches of Into the Woods & Wicked:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/the-witch-...
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/the-witch-...
The Witch Withdraws: Absence as Curse in “Last Midnight” and “No Good Deed”
Why withdrawal, not wickedness, is the real catastrophe.
thesondheimhub.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
New today! Our latest Supplement, which includes an exclusive essay diving deeper into the witches of Into the Woods & Wicked:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/the-witch-...
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/the-witch-...
In January, Pacific Overtures turns 50! To celebrate, we are putting together a feature collecting stories, memories & reflections from performers & audience members alike.
Would you like to contribute? More info here:
forms.gle/ava8mmisqxca...
Would you like to contribute? More info here:
forms.gle/ava8mmisqxca...
Pacific Overtures at 50
In January 2026, Pacific Overtures turns 50. To celebrate, The Sondheim Hub is putting together a feature collecting stories, memories, and reflections from those who have encountered this remarkable ...
forms.gle
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
In January, Pacific Overtures turns 50! To celebrate, we are putting together a feature collecting stories, memories & reflections from performers & audience members alike.
Would you like to contribute? More info here:
forms.gle/ava8mmisqxca...
Would you like to contribute? More info here:
forms.gle/ava8mmisqxca...
“I’m the witch. You’re the world.”
Today, we look at “Last Midnight” and “No Good Deed” as twin moral reckonings:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/witches-ca...
Today, we look at “Last Midnight” and “No Good Deed” as twin moral reckonings:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/witches-ca...
Witches Can Be Right
Last Midnight and No Good Deed as twin moral reckonings
thesondheimhub.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
“I’m the witch. You’re the world.”
Today, we look at “Last Midnight” and “No Good Deed” as twin moral reckonings:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/witches-ca...
Today, we look at “Last Midnight” and “No Good Deed” as twin moral reckonings:
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/witches-ca...
Something Wicked this way comes… 🫧
November 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Something Wicked this way comes… 🫧
Some Sondheim lyric fun for today…
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Some Sondheim lyric fun for today…
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Pinch… Paunch! Pension!
Sondheim’s 60 Minutes interview with Diane Sawyer is endlessly inspiring. And this exchange, about rhymes and reference books, is so delightful.
Sondheim’s 60 Minutes interview with Diane Sawyer is endlessly inspiring. And this exchange, about rhymes and reference books, is so delightful.
October 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Pinch… Paunch! Pension!
Sondheim’s 60 Minutes interview with Diane Sawyer is endlessly inspiring. And this exchange, about rhymes and reference books, is so delightful.
Sondheim’s 60 Minutes interview with Diane Sawyer is endlessly inspiring. And this exchange, about rhymes and reference books, is so delightful.
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Rick Pender spoke with @thesondheimhub.bsky.social to discuss the release of his latest book, “Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.”
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4oD15wl
📚💙#TheatreSky
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4oD15wl
📚💙#TheatreSky
A Conversation with Rick Pender
Author of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: Behind the Bloody Musical Masterpiece and The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia
thesondheimhub.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Rick Pender spoke with @thesondheimhub.bsky.social to discuss the release of his latest book, “Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.”
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4oD15wl
📚💙#TheatreSky
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4oD15wl
📚💙#TheatreSky
As Halloween approaches, it was great to speak to Rick Pender about his new SWEENEY TODD book. 🩸
Rick is a significant chronicler of Sondheim’s work (he’s author of The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia, and was editor of The Sondheim Review).
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Rick is a significant chronicler of Sondheim’s work (he’s author of The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia, and was editor of The Sondheim Review).
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
A Conversation with Rick Pender
Author of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: Behind the Bloody Musical Masterpiece and The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia
thesondheimhub.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
As Halloween approaches, it was great to speak to Rick Pender about his new SWEENEY TODD book. 🩸
Rick is a significant chronicler of Sondheim’s work (he’s author of The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia, and was editor of The Sondheim Review).
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Rick is a significant chronicler of Sondheim’s work (he’s author of The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia, and was editor of The Sondheim Review).
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Sondheim and Bernstein working on West Side Story. Washington, DC, 1957.
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Sondheim and Bernstein working on West Side Story. Washington, DC, 1957.
RUNNING AWAY—LET’S DO IT
Into the Woods and the false freedom of flight
A look at the temptation to flee in “No More,” and how that impulse echoes through centuries of storytelling. “Trouble is, son, the farther you run, the more you feel undefined…” 🏃💨
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/running-aw...
Into the Woods and the false freedom of flight
A look at the temptation to flee in “No More,” and how that impulse echoes through centuries of storytelling. “Trouble is, son, the farther you run, the more you feel undefined…” 🏃💨
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/running-aw...
Running Away—Let's Do It
Into the Woods and the false freedom of flight
thesondheimhub.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
RUNNING AWAY—LET’S DO IT
Into the Woods and the false freedom of flight
A look at the temptation to flee in “No More,” and how that impulse echoes through centuries of storytelling. “Trouble is, son, the farther you run, the more you feel undefined…” 🏃💨
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/running-aw...
Into the Woods and the false freedom of flight
A look at the temptation to flee in “No More,” and how that impulse echoes through centuries of storytelling. “Trouble is, son, the farther you run, the more you feel undefined…” 🏃💨
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/running-aw...
So pleased to be able to share this.
Our conversation with MARK EDEN HOROWITZ, senior music specialist at @librarycongress.bsky.social and author of “Sondheim on Music.”
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Our conversation with MARK EDEN HOROWITZ, senior music specialist at @librarycongress.bsky.social and author of “Sondheim on Music.”
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
A Conversation with Mark Eden Horowitz
It is an honor to welcome Mark Eden Horowitz to The Sondheim Hub.
thesondheimhub.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
So pleased to be able to share this.
Our conversation with MARK EDEN HOROWITZ, senior music specialist at @librarycongress.bsky.social and author of “Sondheim on Music.”
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
Our conversation with MARK EDEN HOROWITZ, senior music specialist at @librarycongress.bsky.social and author of “Sondheim on Music.”
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
We have a very exciting interview coming your way tomorrow… Here’s a rather big clue. 👀
Subscribe (free) to be the first to read it. No account required, just an email address! 👉 thesondheimhub.substack.com
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October 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We have a very exciting interview coming your way tomorrow… Here’s a rather big clue. 👀
Subscribe (free) to be the first to read it. No account required, just an email address! 👉 thesondheimhub.substack.com
Subscribe (free) to be the first to read it. No account required, just an email address! 👉 thesondheimhub.substack.com
GREEN FINCH AND LINNET BIRD:
Johanna’s doctrine of second freedoms
New today, we look at Johanna’s questioning mind in Sweeney Todd — and how Sondheim provides her with a working philosophy for her circumstances. 🦜
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/how-is-it-...
Johanna’s doctrine of second freedoms
New today, we look at Johanna’s questioning mind in Sweeney Todd — and how Sondheim provides her with a working philosophy for her circumstances. 🦜
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/how-is-it-...
How Is It You Sing?
Johanna's doctrine of second freedoms
thesondheimhub.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
GREEN FINCH AND LINNET BIRD:
Johanna’s doctrine of second freedoms
New today, we look at Johanna’s questioning mind in Sweeney Todd — and how Sondheim provides her with a working philosophy for her circumstances. 🦜
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/how-is-it-...
Johanna’s doctrine of second freedoms
New today, we look at Johanna’s questioning mind in Sweeney Todd — and how Sondheim provides her with a working philosophy for her circumstances. 🦜
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/how-is-it-...
Pinch… Paunch! Pension!
Sondheim’s 60 Minutes interview with Diane Sawyer is endlessly inspiring. And this exchange, about rhymes and reference books, is so delightful.
Sondheim’s 60 Minutes interview with Diane Sawyer is endlessly inspiring. And this exchange, about rhymes and reference books, is so delightful.
October 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Pinch… Paunch! Pension!
Sondheim’s 60 Minutes interview with Diane Sawyer is endlessly inspiring. And this exchange, about rhymes and reference books, is so delightful.
Sondheim’s 60 Minutes interview with Diane Sawyer is endlessly inspiring. And this exchange, about rhymes and reference books, is so delightful.
THE LIVES OF A SHOWGIRL:
Follies and the Fate(s) of Ophelia
Sondheim and Swift. Follies and fate. The shimmer of performance and the shadow of collapse. 🪩
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/the-lives-...
Follies and the Fate(s) of Ophelia
Sondheim and Swift. Follies and fate. The shimmer of performance and the shadow of collapse. 🪩
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/the-lives-...
The Lives of a Showgirl
Follies and the fate(s) of Ophelia
thesondheimhub.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
THE LIVES OF A SHOWGIRL:
Follies and the Fate(s) of Ophelia
Sondheim and Swift. Follies and fate. The shimmer of performance and the shadow of collapse. 🪩
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/the-lives-...
Follies and the Fate(s) of Ophelia
Sondheim and Swift. Follies and fate. The shimmer of performance and the shadow of collapse. 🪩
thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/the-lives-...