A Rare Recording of Stephen Sondheim’s 1948 Musical Satire ‘Phinney’s Rainbow’ Was Just Unearthed
BeforeWest Side Story , andCompany , andInto the Woods , and all the other musical that madeStephen Sondheima titan of melodic theater , he wrotePhinney ’s Rainbow . It was , harmonise toSondheim ’s website , “ a satire on college life , ” and therefore contemplative of the circumstance in which Sondheim developed it in 1948 : Massachusetts ’s Williams College , where Sondheim was an 18 - class - old sophomore and atomic number 27 - founder of the freshly coin Cap and Bells drama company ....