You Must Meet My Wife and Life by Peter Filichia

By Peter Filichia It's been 38 years now since A Little Night Music opened and Fredrik told Desiree, "You must meet my wife." Indeed we did, in one of Stephen Sondheim's most fetching waltzes. "My happiest mistake, the ache of my life," he sang, giving us a rhyme we might well have seen coming. Oh, not all lyricists who use the word "wife" hook it with "life." Alan Jay Lerner deserves a great credit for avoiding w…

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