March 9, 2022

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Just a Moment in the Woods

When I was 15, I fell in love with a boy and a man. The first introduced me to the second;Ben, more confident in my talents than I was, dragged me along to audition for a schoolproduction of Merrily We Roll Along. While he got a main role and I got into the chorus, weboth got our first taste of Stephen Sondheim. When artists die, perhaps it’s not the personthemselves that we mourn – who we haven’t met, didn’t know...