Maria Friedman: 'Sondheim was a kind man, but God, he could be very direct'
The musical theatre star on her new tribute show to Stephen Sondheim, her unconventional upbringing, and her happiest song… Maria Friedman, 61, is a singer, actor and director who has a natural musicality (her parents were classical musicians) and knows how to get inside a song and make it her own " and ours " with emotional precision. An eight-time Olivier nominee (she has won the prize three times), she is known …