'A Minster's Wife' is Musicalized at Lincoln Center.
“A Minster’s Wife,” now playing at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater, is part Sondheim, part sermon and part chamber musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's Candida, this melodic version has you admiring its execution but wishing for at least a comic or upbeat reprieve from this darkened expose into marital strife. Even Sondheim gives us the needed break. Socialist minister Rev. James …