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Colin Fleming

Colin Fleming has written for The Nation, Smithsonian, Film Comment, and Art in America.

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The Quiet Sideman

Tenor saxist ‘Chu’ Berry emerged from the pack at the end of his short life

by Colin Fleming | Saturday, December 01, 2007

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Good Thing Going

by Wendy Smith

Stephen Sondheim, that giant of musical theater, died on November 26. In our Autumn 2007 issue, Wendy Smith celebrated Sondheim’s already enormous legacy, spanning his 1957 Broadway debut (West Side Story) to gutsy later works like Assassins (1990). Sondheim remained a force in the Theater District despite its increasingly commercialized landscape, and “as long as musical theater exists,” Smith wrote, “his entire repertory will continue to be fruitfully restaged and reexamined.”

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