Each contestant performs one Sondheim song and one new song.

The three Sondheim songs are the highlights of the film.

One of those loaded looks and then one of those long "Mmmmms," which is the equivalent of bitter Sondheim songs.

It is a treat to hear Sondheim songs, pure and complicated, at the source, in contrast to all those tributary revues that contrive their own inane contexts.

Since her Michael's Pub presentation, some of Miss Wilson's Sondheim songs have gained in shading and interpretation.

Two songs were dropped from the show, and two new Sondheim songs were added.

She's also thinking of making an album of cowboy songs and one of Sondheim songs.

In her new show of Sondheim songs her dramatic instincts match her singing in subtlety, taste and insight.

That's why a singer who successfully puts over a Sondheim song seems like a wise, empathetic oracle.

The fast-paced show often blended together two or more Sondheim songs into seriocomic medleys with dancers.