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Careful the Spell You Cast: How Stephen Sondheim Extended the Range of the American Musical Romance_Gift_Guide cut off from the worldStephen Sondheim is one of the bestknown and mostloved musical theatre composers, but also one of the most misunderstood, often being labelled as 'distant' or 'cynical'. Careful the Spell You Cast instead argues that Sondheim firmly belongs to the Broadway aspirational tradition, in that many of his characters are defined by their dreams: to abandon one's dream (as Ben does in Follies, Frank does in Merrily We Roll Along, and Addison does in Road