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"No, you poor people - You don't deserve a good king like me": Salieri, Sondheim, Sheila, Last, At Last, The Last Of
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"No, you poor people - You don't deserve a good king like me": Salieri, Sondheim, Sheila, Last, At Last, The Last Of

spoilers for The Last of Sheila

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Daniel Lavery
Nov 30, 2021
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I was sorry to hear Stephen Sondheim died this weekend. Sondheim was, oddly enough, the subject of the first-ever issue of the Chatner (née Shatner Chatner) back in 2017, before I had come around on the subject and was still struggling to balance a desire to get into Sondheim with a reflexive hostility for Into The Woods:

I should like Sondheim. All the …

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