'I wasn’t unhappy,’ he says. 'My parents weren’t around much, but I assumed everybody’s family was the same. I didn’t know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West wholesale Boston Red Sox Hats and they had a nanny to take care of them.’
Sondheim’s father, Herbert, was a wealthy dress manufacturer; his mother, Foxy, a designer in her husband’s firm. An only child, Sondheim grew up in a large apartment on Central Park in an atmosphere that combined luxury and solitude in equal measure.
He composed a new song for another birthday gala this year in New York: discount Boston Red Sox Hats 'God!/I mean the man’s a/God!/Wrote the score to/Sweeney Todd!/With a nod/to De Sade./Well, he's odd./Well, he’s God!’
'Oh, that,’ Sondheim says, relaxing into the sofa with a wry smile. 'Well, that’s not something you’d ever take seriously.’
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