Oh! How I love the creative process, and seeing it come together, especially when it requires teamwork, group thinking, and massive perfectionism to make something truly great. Here is a video of the recording of the musical Company, by the original cast, which is a musical whose music I love, although, damn if I didn’t miss the revival with Raul Esparza last season.

See Stephen Sondheim comment on West Side Story and his career as a composer, not a lyricist, at the end.

. . .and here’s the incomparable Elaine Stritch, fighting through Sondheim’s “Ladies Who Lunch” (she nails it in the end):

I love it!