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(2022春·江苏南通·高二统考期中)I didn’t show an inclination to watch his Broadway musicals, when Stephen Sondheim died on Nov. 26, 2021, at age 91. Something in me instead wanted to see Al Hirschfeld’s drawings of Sondheim’s shows and characters over the decades.
As a boy growing up in the Boston suburbs in the 1970s, Hirschfeld’s images were my first ticket to Broadway, transported by their publication in The Times’s Arts & Leisure section. And they were also how I formed an early bond with my parents, one that stood over time and even into their years with Alzheimer’s (阿尔茨海默病).
“Oklahoma!” was the first musical my parents took me to, in Boston, when I was six. Around that time, I asked them why we got The Times when we didn’t live in New York. They said they still considered themselves New Yorkers and they loved Arts &Leisure and Hirschfeld’s drawings about theater. His drawings were like a lifeline for my parents to New York City over the decades, and they helped open the door for me to Sondheim.
This is how:
I made my way to New York in 1989, as a freshman at N.Y.U., where I met a dorm mate who looked like Hirschfeld’s drawing of LittleRed Riding Hood from Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” Her name was Danielle Ferland. I told my parents about this Hirschfeld-in-the-flesh excitedly by phone. Danielle and other friends introduced me to Sondheim’s music which evoked (唤起) my memories of Hirschfeld’s drawings.
As my parents grew older, it was harder to take them to see shows with me. But in my years as the theater reporter at The Times, they would ask what I was seeing in New York and were happy to hear about Angela Lansbury performing in a 2009 revival (重演) of Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music.” They remembered her characteristic eyes from Hirschfeld’ s drawings.
When I see them next time, I will take my book of Hirschfeld’s drawings to show them and see if they remember these drawings.
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