ICYMI: The Final Sondheim, Riverdale's finale explained, and TV we can't wait to see this fall

Also, the lesbian incel comedy America has been waiting for [vulture logo](   [The Final Sondheim]( [The Final Sondheim]( In June 1982, Stephen Sondheim, still reeling from the flameout of the original Broadway production of Merrily We Roll Along seven months earlier, had his first meeting with the Off Broadway playwright and director James Lapine. The future collaborators soon were comparing their tastes not just in plays but in movies, Sondheim’s greatest cultural passion after music. Lapine had recently seen and liked The Exterminating Angel, the 1962 classic by the Spanish Mexican director Luis Buñuel. Sondheim was a fan of Buñuel’s 1972 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. This meeting inspired a torrent of riffing, and a week later Lapine brought Sondheim the first five pages of what would become Sunday in the Park With George. This fall, Here We Are, Sondheim’s musical adaptation of both Discreet Charm and Exterminating Angel, written with the playwright David Ives, will have its premiere — more than four decades after Lapine floated the notion of a Buñuel musical, a decade after Sondheim and Ives started serious work on it, and nearly two years after Sondheim’s death late Thanksgiving Night in 2021. [READ THE FULL STORY]( [Labor Day Sale]( [Labor Day Sale]( More from Vulture [Riverdale’s Series Finale Explained to the Best of Human Ability]( [Yes, Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead were in a quad. Yes, the last two episodes were great TV.]( [Riverdale’s Series Finale Explained to the Best of Human Ability](   [37 TV Shows We Can’t Wait to See This Fall]( [The final stretch of 2023 is looking just as captivating as the months preceding it.]( [37 TV Shows We Can’t Wait to See This Fall](   [The Late-Night Dudes Are Doing a Daytime Pod]( [Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and the Jimmys are podcasting to raise funds for their writing staffs.]( [The Late-Night Dudes Are Doing a Daytime Pod](   [The Strange, Hidden Story of Harley Quinn]( [The character was on her way to becoming DC Comics’ most successful villain well before she was stealing scenes in Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey.]( [Black Mirror Series-Finale Recap: Red Mirror](   [Finally, the Lesbian Incel Comedy America Has Been Waiting For]( [How NYU friends Edebiri, Sennott, and Seligman made Bottoms — and won over Hollywood along the way.]( [Finally, the Lesbian Incel Comedy America Has Been Waiting For](   [Vulture]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. View this email in your browser.]( Opt out of marketing emails [here](. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com [unsubscribe](param=daily) | [privacy notice]( Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023. All rights reserved.