The Shed, New York
The legendary composer and lyricist’s take on two surrealist Luis Buñuel movies is a patchy satire
With much anticipation, Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, Here We Are, is making its debut after Sondheim’s death in 2021. Enjoyable and necessary as further evidence of Sondheim’s breadth, the full work feels severed from its radical origins and potential.
The blended musical adaptation is based on two surrealist films from the Spanish-Mexican director Luis Buñuel: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel,both films providing a scathing critique of the upper crust.
