Peter O'Brien

Well, that's the original, and Steve Sondheim would say his favourite.

It's Glynis Johns, and she has a tiny voice, and she couldn't sustain a note, so he deliberately wrote a song where there's one note per syllable.

And he wrote it in an evening, because they needed a song at that part of the show.

I don't like it because I suppose it's a kind of intellectual gatekeeping.

It's the one Sondheim song that everyone knows, so I kind of can't bear it.

Isn't that awful that I'm admitting that?

That's

Probably the truth of it.

I love the show.

It's all written to waltz time, and a lot of it would be kind of based on kind of early 20th century composers.

I think it's wonderful.

But I understand that people run screaming from musical theatre, particularly men.

Like, you always see pained men in theatres whose wives have dragged them to musicals.

And you know the gay men because the gay men keep the programmes and they're not asleep.

I mean, it's...

That's a terrible generalisation, but it's kind of true.

But I unapologetically love a musical.

Yeah.

Yeah, I do.

Absolutely.