Mr. Sondheim's iridescent harmonies have never come across so lucidly, and the fact that everybody in the cast sings exceptionally well (something that can never be taken for granted in Sondheim revivals) is continually gratifying.
"When I play something that she recognizes, she just joins right in and sings, and she's ... in my mind, she's back in that little family group, and she's hearing her dad, " Bodenbender says.