On breakups: Dumping exes and expectations
In a perverse way, I think I was excited for my first break up. I grew up on a cultural diet of Elle Woods...
‘To help us survive’: On Stephen Sondheim
'I didn’t know how to articulate this at the time, but watching West Side Story I encountered for the first time a quality I’ve come to look for in great musical theatre: the distillation of complex emotion into song in a rounded yet deceptively simple manner. Here was a prime example of showtunes’ unique ability to bring human feeling to a higher plane.'
